What the Giants have going for them
lt's time for the Giants offense to pay back a Giants defense that has carried the team all season. Everyone applauds the fact that Kerry Collins was 17-29 for 341 yards and 3 TDs last week.
They forget that the week before that he threw for 298 yards, and one TD. That's an average of just over 319 yards per game. Kerry Collins and the Giants receiving group might just be for real.
Not to leave out any facts, but Kerry also had 3 INTs in that losing effort against the Cards. That could be dismissed as it was his first game after weeks of bench sitting, and he also had no benefit from the running game in that start.
With Joe Mongomery in there last week against the Jets, with the running game blazing, there were 0 INTs.
Montgomery carried the ball 38 times for 111 yards, and his ability to gain yards forced the Jets to respect the running game, and made it easier for Collins to throw downfield.

What the Giants have going against them
Aside from all that good stuff we mentioned about the Bills earlier, the Giants secondary is banged up real bad without Jason Sehorn, with Phillippi Sparks as probable, and Shaun Williams returning off an injury.
If you ever had a desire to play football, can run fast, and can hit, get yourself out to the stadium for a tryout. As a joke, I posted "11 Man Rush against the Bills!" on the Giant Insider Message board.
"With all the Giants regular secondary coverage players out or injured, they might as well rush everybody with arms waving to surround Flutie and crush the pocket down.
It may look stupid but if Flutie gets passes off this week, we have nobody to bring down the Bills receivers anyway."

What the Giants will have, is Emmanuel McDaniel, fresh off the scout team, and Jeremy Lincoln against Eric Moulds and Andre Reed.
The Bills also have Thurman Thomas back for the first time since the opening game of the season. Even if he plays for only part of the game, that has to be a big emotional lift for them.
Of course, there is also the matter of Bills QB Doug Flutie. Linebacker Jessie Armstead and defensive end Michael Strahan will both be playing hurt against the elusive Flutie.

Some What Ifs.
What if - Fassel had decided to let Sean Payton call all the games this season after seeing what a good job he did calling against Minnesota in that preseason game?
What if - Sean Payton called all the games Kent Graham played in?
What if - Kerry Collins was awarded the starting position at the start of the season?
What if - Gary Brown fell off his bicycle at an early age, decided never to ride a motorcycle, and was healthy for the 1999 season?
What if - The Giants win all the rest of the games to finish 10-6?

Why so surprised?
Why is everyone so surprised that when Jim Fassel handed the play calling over to Sean Payton things worked better? Don't you all have jobs?
Doesn't everyone know that the less you let the boss do for himself, the better off everyone is?
After scoring the most points they have ever scored with Jim Fassel as the head coach, the Giants have decided that Payton, will call the plays from now on.
Coach Fassel will be an advisor and an overall strategist.
Meanwhile, a modest Payton referring to last week said, "The reason we had 41 points is because everyone did their job, and we didn't turn the ball over."

Notes
Giants QB Kerry Collins has passed for 639 yards and 4 TDs in the last 2 games.

Bills QB Doug Flutie has TD pass in 10 consecutive games.

Giants Head Coach Jim Fassel is 8-0 in December.

Bills are 3-0 against the Giants since the Super Bowl XXV loss in 1991.

Bills have won the last 10 games vs. NFC East teams.

Bills defense is ranked 3rd in the league against the rush, 2nd against the pass and 2nd overall.

Last week -
Giants allowed the Jets only 15 yards rushing.
The only day worse was a 5 yard day against the Bills in 1966.

Jets had given up a total of only 44 points in their previous 4 games before facing the Giants, and gave up 41 points to them.

Strahan had 2 tackles and no sacks even though Jets QB Ray Lucas was throwing 48 times.

Next week
The Giants play at St Louis on Sunday Dec 19, at 1 PM.
The Bills play at Arizona on Sunday Dec 19, at 8 PM.

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1999 NFC EAST - Week 13
Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA	Home	Away	AFC	NFC	DIV	Streak
Washington	7	5	0	.583	347	320	4-2	3-3	1-1	6-4	4-3	L1
Arizona	6	6	0	.500	183	237	4-3	2-3	0-3	6-3	5-2	W4
Dallas	6	6	0	.500	261	195	5-0	1-6	1-2	5-4	3-3	L1
NY Giants	6	6	0	.500	235	250	4-3	2-3	1-2	5-4	3-4	W1
Philadelphia	3	10	0	.231	200	297	2-4	1-6	0-3	3-7	2-5	L3