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Team records have never meant much to the Giants, which is why Sunday’s game against the 0-11 Browns looms so dangerous.
It’s not like they haven’t lost to stumblebums before. They need only look back to 2014 to remember that feeling. For a franchise that has at times seemed overly generous to underdogs, their 25-24 Week 12 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars proved a low point of the Tom Coughlin era.
Never mind that the Giants were on their way to the first of two consecutive 6-10 seasons, the latter of which would end Coughlin’s 12-year head coaching reign.