There we have it. The first one of the season.
“Every man just looking in the mirror and doing the things they say they wanted to do,” linebacker Alec Ogletree said after the Giants did what they do best.
The “look ourselves in the mirror” quotes are, as they say, the tip of the iceberg when it comes to signaling when a season has taken on water and is about to sink. Teams go through stages of grief in times like this, ranging from optimism to denial to introspection and finally resignation. The Giants in Week 6 of their season are 1-5 and firmly entrenched in the introspection stage.