It did not take Rashad Jennings long to come up with an answer and when he did, he needed only one word to make his point.
“Never,’’ Jennings said Wednesday inside a Giants locker room brimming with a sense of opportunity.
Never before has Jennings entered the home stretch of an NFL season in first place. He never has played for a team that had control of its playoff fate this late, with November about to expire. At this time last year, the Giants were an afterthought, five games into a seven-game losing streak, irrelevant at 3-7.