Some losses are better than others. There was a different feel to the Giants’ most recent late-game blown lead and the feeling is here that they will take a great deal out of the 27-26 loss to the Patriots and use it to help win games down the stretch.
“We just played against the Super Bowl champion and you played to the very end,’’ coach Tom Coughlin said. “We had our chances to win and we didn’t win. So clean up a few things and let’s go.’’
The Giants learned they actually can get in the same area code of the opposing quarterback then put him on his back.