Still not sure what to make of the Giants. I don’t think they’re that good. And I think it’s fairly remarkable that Eli Manning and Tom Coughlin will have been to the playoffs three years in a row.

I mean, they looked so awful calling those two premature second-half timeouts, one in the third quarter, when Manning saw something he didn’t like. Then the one early in the fourth, when they came back from the timeout and lost the ball immediately, before it even got to Manning’s hands. They turn it over too much, way too much. And they look like they can’t get the ball to Plaxico Burress.

They were resilient and opportunistic, and they came up with big plays when they needed to have them, and the final score might make you forget all the pockmarks. Plus some of those can be forgiven because of the dreadful conditions.

Anyway, I’m wondering what the Giants do next week, with the Patriots going for 16-0. I mean, you can’t sit all 22 starters. But you definitely don’t want anybody getting dinged up or worse, and the game really doesn’t matter. I’m interested to see how much it matters to the Pats, too. I imagine they’ll try to fly to a nice lead and coast, ideally, resting guys late in the game.

I also wonder what we should make of 16-0 if it happens, or if we need to wait until it gets to 17-0 (Miami’s NFL record) and 18-0 before it truly is a big deal. I wonder what the pressure will be like on the Patriots to enter the playoffs undefeated, and what it will be like as they advance, and what ultimately it will weigh by the Super Bowl, if they get there.

To tell you the truth, they would probably be better off going into the postseason 15-1 and ticked off. But I’m sure they want that 0 at the end of their record and they’re going to try to get it, and if the Giants are in it at the end, they will have Brady throwing to Moss with all the starters in the game.