Had the New York Giants stayed the course, they would’ve met the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII. Not the Arizona Cardinals. And Giants starting running back Brandon Jacobs thinks in that hypothetical, the Steelers aren’t celebrating at the end of the game. Joining former Steelers CB Bryant McFadden on the latest All Things Covered podcast, Jacobs talked a little smack and was confident his Giants team, if given the chance, would’ve won.
“Yup. We would’ve beat y’all in the Super Bowl,” Jacobs told McFadden. “We [were] the No. 1 seed. There’s no way the Arizona Cardinals coming from Arizona, playing in 30-degree, 20-degree weather to win an NFC Championship Game.