Funny we were ..4-12 the year before drafting Eli?
playoff ready..?
more like... REBUILDING...
the entire Giant's secondary has been rebuilt since then
and also remember when Kurt Warner was ON the Giants? We couldn't protect him for shit.. same with Eli when he came in the 2nd half of that season when Kurt went down. Our O-Line was EMBARRASING for the early parts of 2000's. O-Line has since been totally rebuilt.
Eli basically had Tiki Barber, and he had a young front 7 anchored by Mike Strahan.
Oh, and not to mention: we were injured from 04 even till this year. Strahan missed a year I believe Eli's 1st or 2nd year... Shockey...Toomer missed a year last year...it seems every year he's been here one of our mainstay players always goes out for the season.
Eli won this Superbowl just as much as the Defense and Special Teams and the rest of the Offense did. What a great win it was.
And Swamp.. as for next year? We got Derrick Ward and Jeremy Shockey coming back, both of whom can be traded for talent. Also, we've got the young LB, the beast Kiwanuka who went down. That dude's someone I'm looking for to step up BIG TIme next year. Plaxico will have a HEALTHY leg next year.. ELi will be playing with CONFIDENCE.. we'll be playing better at home.. It'll be a struggle as it always is in the NFC and especially the NFC East.. but I think the Giants are more than capable of going back to the playoffs.
BTW.. who caught Eli on Letterman? Classic shit!!
And Strahan on Conan.. LOL