It’s just one game, just the next game. It is not a rivalry game, not the game that can make or break a Giants’ season suddenly on the brink.
Yeah, right. Except Hakeem Nicks knows it’s not true. The veteran wide receiver has seen a game against the Jets push his Giants on to great things before. And as he surveyed a surprisingly boisterous locker room late last week, he couldn’t help musing how one big December week could instantly change a team’s fortunes.
“The situation is the same,” Nicks told the Daily News, recalling the Giants’ victory over the Jets in 2011.