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The Patriots are on a 10 game win streak, having beaten the Broncos and then the Ravens in their two post season games. The Broncos were no match and went down 42-10. The Ravens were a much tougher battle, but they came up short on a missed field goal that would have tied the game. The Patriots prevailed with a 23-20 victory that moved them on to Super Bowl 46. The last game the Patriots can remember losing was way back on Nov 6, 2011, but it was to the Giants 24-20.
The Giants are on a 5 game win streak, including their 3 post season wins over the Falcons 24-2, the Packers 37-20, and the 49ers, 20-17. That last game was their toughest to win as the 49ers tied things up with a field goal in the fourth quarter. Neither team scored after that and the game went into overtime with the new rules being explained. After three possessions, the Giants special teams unit made their second big play of the game causing a turnover that led to the ensuing field goal to propel the Giants into Super Bowl 46.

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fixing Feb 5 Patriots release WR Tiquan Underwood the night before the Super Bowl. A mere 24 hours before the Super Bowl, the Patriots made their final transaction in a year full of them. In one of the coldest moves ever, the Patriots released WR Tiquan Underwood and promoted DE Alex Silvestro.

Tom Brady faces rematch with Giants' 'ghost' pressure in Super Bowl XLVI. It happened three seconds after the snap, on the first play of the third quarter in the Giants' game against the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Mass., 12 weeks ago Sunday. Tom Brady flinched. For no apparent reason.

Do the Giants still have Tom Brady's number or not? And does Eli have theirs? Talk about all the rest of it, the Patriots' no-huddle and the Giants' pass rush, Victor Cruz and Wes Welker and Eli Manning and what he has done in the fourth quarter this season, talk about Bill Belichick and Tom Coughlin and whether you think the Giants' five-game winning streak somehow trumps the Patriots' 10-game winning streak. Knock yourself out.

By every right, by every conventional measure, the Giants were a dead team walking on Dec. 13, coming out of MetLife Stadium. There was no way imaginable they could be playing Sunday inside Lucas Oil Stadium for a Super Bowl title. Yet they are. Nobody comes back from four straight defeats.

In this wide-open, pass-happy era, Bill Belichick has somehow managed to turn second-year tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez into matchup nightmares.Gronkowski and Hernandez combined for 169 receptions for 2,237 yards and 25 touchdowns this season. They accounted for 43% of Brady's 39 touchdowns and 42% of his 5,235 yards.

You know all about the new paradigm at tight end (see: Gronkowski, Rob and Hernandez, Aaron), but quietly, the slot receiver has also grown in importance. Victor Cruz and Wes Welker both went undrafted, but the league now views quality slot targets as commodities.

Instead of using defensive linemen as rushers in practice, coach Bill Belichick had much lighter players - mostly linebackers - attack the unit from all angles. They won't replicate the size of the Giants players, such as the 6-foot-3, 255-pound Osi Umenyiora. So they focused on the speed. Offensive line coach Dante Scarnecchia said, "They're undersized, but we just have them going as fast as they can go, just giving us the fastest tempo they can give us. That's been a huge help."

Four years ago, the Giants created a lifetime of memories by preventing the Patriots from completing their undefeated season with one of the greatest upsets in Super Bowl history. It also created a forever bond between the players. They achieved the ultimate together. There are 15 Giants remaining who played in Super Bowl XLII who will play Sunday night in Super Bowl XLVII against New England at Lucas Oil Stadium. Linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka would make it the Sweet 16, but he suffered a broken leg late in the 2007 season and didn't play in the Super Bowl. He will play Sunday night.

To see a team go from crisis to champions, from fire-the-coach to plan-the-parade, is unusual. To see a team do it twice, in a span of four years, might be unprecedented. Enjoy it. Cherish it. And don't let the win-or-else mentality drain the joy from the experience.

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Feb 4 Osi Umenyiora cares little about sacking the quarterback. Instead, he aims for the elusive strip sack. It is a tricky move, one that teammates admire and opposing offensive lineman fear. And in his nine years in the NFL, Osi Umenyiora has made it his signature move.

Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw wasn't expected to practice Friday and he did not, sitting out the team's final full workout before Super Bowl XLVI against the Patriots on Sunday. Tom Coughlin said Bradshaw's right foot "was a little sore" but the coach did not seem concerned.

The Patriots have sworn up and down this past week and a half that avenging the Super Bowl XLII loss to the Giants is not a factor in Sunday's rematch. Rodney Harrison, who was a safety on that New England team and is now an analyst for NBC, says they're lying. "It's crap," Harrison said.

Super Bowl XLVI: Inside the matchups as the NY Giants battle the New England Patriots. Eli Manning has the edge against the Pats' defense. Manning loves to attack a defense piecemeal as he reads his way to his last checkdown. No one has been better throwing under duress this season.

The Giants' much-maligned defense, which has had six outstanding weeks after a season of misery, has to figure out a way to shut down the second-ranked offense in the league. They have to stop Brady, contain the slippery Wes Welker, and figure out some way to simultaneously cover New England's two big, fast and powerful tight ends, Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez.

Do the Giants have another David Tyree in the wings this Super Bowl? The surprise star for the Giants in this Super Bowl does not have to catch a desperation pass up against his helmet to be the next David Tyree. But wouldn't it be perfect if he did?

Rookies at Super Bowl? Preposterous. For almost two weeks now, Tyler Sash has tried to stay out of David Diehl's way. Because every time Diehl, the veteran offensive lineman, catches sight of Sash, the rookie safety, he shakes his head, frowns and mutters something: "You lucky rookies. Your first year in, and you're in the Super Bowl? How is this fair?"

Special teams' Giant Three share a special bond. These were the three men whose final work sent the Giants to Sunday's Super Bowl date with the Patriots, when Zak DeOssie's snap, Steve Weatherford's hold and Lawrence Tynes' clutch overtime kick earned the Giants the NFC title.

Eli Manning is in his second Super Bowl with a chance to mark himself as the greatest quarterback in Giants history. Pressure? Where some run away from it, Manning has spent his life leaping headlong into the cauldron.
If he wins on Sunday, if Eli Manning pulls off another fourth-quarter comeback or merely beats the Patriots, his two Super Bowl titles will land him on a pedestal reserved only for New York's greatest sports icons.
10 things to know about Eli Manning. Behind the laid-back exterior, he's a driven, confident, karaoke-singing prankster. Manning is low-key when he's standing in front of a podium at a news conference, but when he's holding a microphone and the music starts blaring from a computerized sound machine, he's an entirely different animal.

Ben Kiwanuka now can joke about the motorcycle accident that nearly killed him in May 2010, while riding with his brother, Giants linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka. Mathias called his mother. "Mom, there's been an accident," he said. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

Josh Ballard may have gotten the better looks (he has modeled) in the constant rivalry with brother Jake. But the Giants tight end edged out his twin in most athletic competitions as they were growing up.

Ridgewood Giants fans gear up for big game. Super Bowl fever has struck the village, and based on the various forms of football paraphernalia spotted throughout town during the past week, there's no questioning which team has Ridgewood's support.

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Bill Parcells - He lives in Florida now. He has race horses over at Aqueduct. He has a summer home up in gentrified, pastoral Saratoga, N.Y. But make no mistake about it, you can take the boy-grown-older out of New Jersey, but you can't take New Jersey out of the man.
Shaun O'Hara looked very much like a man with faraway eyes. Who could blame him? O'Hara is on the outside looking in at the Giants. That's his reality. So is life without a game he still loves.

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Feb 3 The crowd surrounded the riser and table just waiting to see if Osi Umenyiora actually would attend this time. After all, the Giants' defensive end skipped the media session Wednesday. But he did show today and described his absence as an "honest mistake." Giants coach Tom Coughlin was not pleased with the small distraction his absence created just a few days before Super Bowl XLVI.

Tom Brady was sacked five times and coughed away a fumble the last time these teams met in a Super Bowl four years ago. The battle against the Patriots offense will be fought, and possibly won, with a heavy dose of trickery. Not only will the Giants mix up their sets and vary their points of pressure, they'll try to cross up Brady's bodyguards with moves known as "games" or "stunts."

Jason Pierre-Paul has been saying all week Tom Brady is human. Like any quarterback, he can be rattled when pressured. Turns out, the same applies sometimes when a defender is nowhere near him. The Giants' Pro Bowl defensive end told reporters today Brady was flinching in the pocket despite none of the Giants' pass rushers being around him in the teams' Week 9 matchup.
Pierre-Paul said he understands that if the Giants do not get pressure on Brady it could be a long day Sunday. "I put it on us. I put it on the D-line to go out there and perform well. We have to perform well and get to Tom Brady quick. We just have to play all-out and give it all we've got. We can't feel sorry for ourselves."

Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewell called Antrel Rolle into his office for a meeting at some point during the regular season - Fewell estimated it to be in November, though neither could remember exactly when. Fewell said he's seen a change in Rolle since that meeting, which became another step in Rolle's steady evolution from disgruntled newcomer to Tom Coughlin enthusiast over the course of a year.

Can Jacobs come up big for Giants? Because we have all seen what Brandon Jacobs can be when he's at his best, it is uniquely disappointing when he is not. At 6-foot-4 and 265 pounds, Jacobs is supposed to be a terror with the ball in his hands -- an unstoppable, line-shredding force that defenders fear to tackle. Too often over the last couple of seasons, for one reason or another, he has failed to perform that way consistently.

There's Eli Manning the quarterback and Eli Manning the offensive coordinator. Giants coach Tom Coughlin pointed to Manning's routine of having a meeting with the receivers after every Friday practice as one of the reason his quarterback has improved and has the team a win away from another championship. The improvement of Manning and the receiving trio of Hakeem Nicks, Victor Cruz and Manningham has been evident.

Giants receivers click on and off the field. Because of the presence and playmaking ability of their wide receivers, the Giants have rewritten their playbook during a record-setting season in which the franchise has moved within one victory - against the Patriots on Sunday night - of its fourth Vince Lombardi Trophy.

The Giants have 13 players on injured reserve, lost for the season - not including Sage Rosenfels and Brandon Stokley, who were placed on IR then released, or Chad Jones, who is on the non-football injury list. The players on injured reserve will join the team in Indianapolis. The Giants didn't lose just numbers. They lost talent - and a lot of it. Terrell Thomas, arguably their top cornerback. Jonathan Goff, the starting middle linebacker. Receiver Domenik Hixon. Starting left tackle Will Beatty.

Giants general manager Jerry Reese said he has no problem with a confident team heading into Super Bowl Sunday. So far this week, Chris Canty has talked about a parade in New York while Jason Pierre-Paul said that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is not "God."

Now, after constant criticism for making unpopular moves during the offseason, general manager Jerry Reese is back on the media and fans' good side, one win away from winning his second Super Bowl in five seasons. "Everybody has different ways of doing things. We had a good nucleus of guys coming back and we just felt like we needed to make the best football moves.
Reese had more influence constructing this roster than he did the team that won Super Bowl XLII. More than 10 rookies contributed to the Giants' title run that season, but the majority of the team was put together by Reese's predecessor, Ernie Accorsi. All but nine members of the current 53-man roster were acquired under Reese's watch.

Giants' long snapper Zak DeOssie, who grew up in the Boston area and whose father, Steve, played with New England, remembers the first time he met Larry Izzo, the Patriots former special teams ace and current Giants special teams assistant coach. These days, it's the 37-year old Izzo, who began his career with Miami before going to New England and then finishing with the Jets, who is taking care of DeOssie and the rest of the Giants' special teams players..

Madonna won't reveal what she'll have in store for the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, but she did close her news conference on Thursday by showing off some of her moves. Her Victor Cruz-inspired moves. Forget about "Vogue," the Queen of Pop actually did her own version of Cruz's salsa touchdown celebration dance, showing off her "True Blue" colors.
Madonna clearly understands her role in the big game. On Thursday, she went about demoralizing the New England Patriots at a press conference before about 1,000 people, most of whom should never be called journalists. First, she said she'd rather date Eli Manning than Tom Brady, though that decision was perhaps more a matter of geographical convenience than hunk-iness.

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Plaxico Burress once again is picking the Giants to win the Super Bowl. And sounds very much like he misses his old quarterback and old team. "I think they're gonna go out and play Giant football," Burress told The Post.

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Feb 2 Video game maker EA Sports did its official Madden NFL 12 Super Bowl simulation, which has correctly predicted winners in six of the last eight Super Bowls, and the Giants beat the Patriots, 27-24 on a Lawrence Tynes field goal with time expiring. Before you woo-hoo too loudly, note that one of the Super Bowls the Madden simulation failed to get right was Super Bowl XLII.

Osi Umenyiora was a no-show during the Giants' media availability on Wednesday morning and was fined $20,000 by the NFL. "I misunderstood the schedule," Umenyiora explained in a statement released by the team. "It won't happen again, and I will be at tomorrow's media session and available after the game. I apologize for any inconvenience my absence this morning may have caused."

Is Domenik Hixon bitter? Not in the least. Is he snakebit? On the contrary, the Giants' receiver is grateful for everything he has, even if he'll be a mere spectator Sunday in Indianapolis. Is he perplexed by this absurd twist of fate? That's another matter. This is a team guy. But let's be frank: If he gets out of Week 2 without a scratch, he remains Eli Manning's No. 3 target behind Mario Manningham and Hakeem Nicks -- if not climbing the charts with a bullet. Which also means, one may surmise, that we may never have become acquainted with the new star of this show, Victor Cruz.

The Giants were looking good on Tuesday in their Media Day uniforms, gleaming beneath the harsh camera lights in Indianapolis. And they'll be looking even better on Sunday, when they don their familiar red, white and blue uniforms with the once-in-a-lifetime Super Bowl XLVI patch sewn onto the jersey. The Giants' victory over the San Francisco 49ers at muddy Candlestick Park on Jan. 22 launched Big Blue into its fifth Super Bowl - and a jubilant squad brought their dirty laundry with them on the flight home. Barry Barone picked it up at MetLife Stadium the next day.

Kevin Gilbride said that despite Tom Coughlin's desire for balance, Manning needed to step up in order to move the football. "If Tom had the perfect world we'd run it 30, we'd throw it 30 and we'd win 14-12," Gilbride said."Sometimes it doesn't play out that way and sometimes you have to recognize that what are people doing defensively? Where's are best chance of moving the ball? And if we have to run it 50 times, that's fine with me, but if we have to throw it 50, whatever we gotta do."

The Giants are in great shape with Tom Coughlin and, as it turns out, he is in great shape with a staff that churns out game plans, develops players and staunchly believes in his ability to make it all work. "You respect him for the way he approaches this thing and how hard he works," Mike Pope, the wizened tight ends coach, said. "He's the model for all of us. Nobody's going to spend more hours there than he does, nobody's going to look at more film than he does."

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Feb 1 Rob Gronkowski's entrance through the tunnel of the stadium didn't quell the chatter, as he appeared without a walking boot. He said that he got rid of it on Monday and seemed to make the walk across the field to his podium without any visible discomfort. Still, like head coach Bill Belichick, he is referring to his status as "day-to-day."

Eli Manning is relaxed at Super Bowl media circus second time around. There were 34 television cameras and one man with a giant fuzzy hat and a dragon puppet awaiting Eli Manning, and you knew where this was headed. He was here to discuss the year of the dragon, feeling the great vibrations and finding the divine beast.
Tom Brady is a tough guy, dimpled face and all, and yet he will walk into Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday as the second-toughest quarterback in the house. Eli Manning has him on that one. Brady has more talent, more touchdowns, more rings, more charisma, more endorsements, more square feet of living space, more just about everything. Manning has more nerve in the face of a raging pass rush.

Brandon Jacobs and Osi Umenyiora talked about whether this could be their final game as Giants. Not a bad way to go out if that's the case. Both have one year remaining on their contracts, but the Giants have a roster bonus to pay Jacobs and Osi will be looking for a raise again soon. Jacobs also talked about his good friend Plaxico Burress and how Plax's heart remains Blue.
Jacobs restructured his contract prior to this season, so the Giants could re-sign fellow running back Ahmad Bradshaw. Jacobs is owed a $500,000 roster bonus in March and $4 million in salary for 2012, which could cause the Giants to let him go. He also has upset fans and management at times with off-field comments and on-field antics.

Giants linemen Chris Snee and David Diehl sat side-by-side at their podiums at Super Bowl Media Day. Former teammate, center Shaun O'Hara, was sitting at his New Jersey home. The Giants cut O'Hara and guard Rich Seubert. Snee said, "Times like this you remember going through this experience with them four years ago, and how much it's killing them not to be here. It's tough. "I wish they could experience this with us, but I know that they are fully behind us and hopefully we will pull this one out."

Perry Fewell thinks that if the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, St. Louis Rams, Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders, Indianapolis Colts or Miami Dolphins called, he would not have interviewed in order to stay focused on the defense through this playoff stretch. Perry Fewell's defense has been one of the stingiest unit's in the NFL since Week 16.

It's a good bet that at some point, perhaps on Friday, Manning will get some elite advice on how to handle Bill Belichick's defensive schemes from his big brother. Peyton told reporters after the Giants won the NFC Championship Game in San Francisco that the two broke down the Niners' secondary to the exact look San Francisco gave on a 17-yard touchdown pass by Manning in the fourth quarter.
Eli Manning was the "Mad Bomber" of the NFL this season. Tom Brady and Ryan Fitzpatrick? Not so much. Manning's ability to make plays downfield has to be a huge worry for the New England Patriots this week as they prepare to defend the New York Giants' quarterback in Super Bowl XLVI. Manning threw a greater percentage of his passes downfield than any QB in the league this year, according to statistics on ESPN.com.

Antrel Rolle is playing in his second Super Bowl, this one with the Giants, and the safety plans on winning this time. "We're going to win this thing," Rolle said at Media Day today at Lucas Oil Stadium. "We're going to win this thing for a lot of good reasons." But later asked if he guaranteed a win, Rolle balked at the suggestion.

Giants safety Deon Grant has been around for 12 years, so when it comes to sizing up a situation, he pretty much goes with his gut instinct. That's exactly what happened the last two seasons when Grant, who had been released by Seattle where he spent his entire time there as a starter, chose the Giants not once, but twice.

Minute by minute, the Giants knew where they had to be yesterday, what time they had to be there and what to expect as they embarked on their improbable road trip, leaving home for a date with the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI and perhaps destiny. It was a quiet getaway. No, there was no pep rally for the Giants, unlike the grand sendoff for the Patriots on Sunday, when 25,000 or so fans at Gillette Stadium were treated to appreciative and bold words from their beloved quarterback Tom Brady.

Once the loudest man in the room with his own crew of paid cameramen and associates in tow, wide receiver Chad Ochocinco stands quietly now. Gone was the man who once sent Pepto-Bismol to opponents in anticipation of the indigestion he'd give them. Gone was the man who gave up his Christian name, legally changing it to the Spanish words for "eight" and "five" - the numbers on the back of his jersey.
During the nearly hour-long session, Ochocinco provided hardly a whiff of his old look-at-me ways. After 10 years of commanding the spotlight and losing games in Cincinnati, the social media mogul had to pull off one of his most difficult changes. Ochocinco had to use the words "I" and "me" much more sparingly in order to co-exist with Belichick in New England. He had to learn, he says, throwing in an obscenity, to shut up.

Before the season started, the Super Bowl was the furthest thing from the mind of Giants fans. And their owner. The Giants watched Kevin Boss sign with the Raiders, Steve Smith sign with the Eagles, and Plaxico Burress spurn a Giants return to sign with the Jets. Giants owner John Mara admits to being frustrated as the offseason unfolded.

Ann Mara, matriarch of the New York Giants, upgraded her Super Bowl XLVI status from probable to definite Monday when she said the broken shoulder she suffered in a fall last week won't keep her from the big game. "If I had to crawl to Indianapolis I'd be there," Mara told ESPNNewYork.com by phone. "I have no intention of staying home. I'll be ready to go on the plane on Thursday."

The Giants' organization is filled with football-savvy people, all of whom seem to agree on one thing: they knew the team's wide receivers were talented, knew they had potential and knew they could be dangerous this season, but never imagined the receivers would end up with the gaudy statistics they ultimately compiled. "No," quarterback Eli Manning said. "Nope," General Manager Jerry Reese said. "Not at all," the offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride said."

Devin Thomas is a Giants wide receiver and special teams stalwart. He is the man who pounced on two fumbles a week ago in San Francisco, and who therefore helped propel the Giants to this Sunday's Super Bowl rematch with the Patriots. Over nine years and at least a dozen sittings under a needle in a tattoo chair (Thomas said the tattoo parlor "is a great place for just hanging out too"), the 25-year old has had bits of his story inked on his body.

Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick are destined to have one of the most intriguing and intertwined relationships two coaches have ever had in the NFL. As young assistants, they joined forces to help the Giants win Super Bowl XXV. In 1995, Coughlin's expansion Jacksonville Jaguars won four games - including two over the Cleveland Browns, who were in their final season under Belichick and in Cleveland. Twelve years later, Coughlin was head coach when the Giants defeated the three-time Super Bowl-winning Belichick and his undefeated Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.

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