No one was buying that the Giants took the field Sunday night so depressed and disheartened after they were officially eliminated from the playoffs less than 24 hours earlier that their performance suffered to the tune of a 49-17 beatdown at the hands of the Vikings.
And, to their credit, the Giants weren’t selling it.
“You can’t base how we play on something else happening,’’ center Weston Richburg said. “That shouldn’t play any role in how we play. I mean, last year we played the last however many games for no reason, really.