Giants locked in battle to keep their positivity as predictable losses pile up

Hey, did you see what the Saints did to the Cowboys? Smacked them around, in Dallas.Scored 44 points.

Did not see that coming. Check out the Vikings.They upset the 49ers and are now 2-0 with Sam Darnold at quarterback.

Didn’t figure that would be the case.Take a look at the AFC North.How can it be that the Ravens and Bengals are both 0-2? The Ravens lost, in Baltimore, to the Raiders? Weren’t the Raiders supposed to be lousy? There are these sorts of conversations and wonderments and factoids of disbelief practically every week in the NFL, which might as well stand for No Football Logic.

There are games and scores and results that come across the television or our phones every weekend — or on Thursday or Monday nights — where you do a double take and say or think to yourself: Really? And then there are the Giants. The season is in its early stages and the Giants are doing what is expected of them.If you were out all day or purposely staying off social media or refraining from news sites and then you just could not resist and asked your buddy, “Tell me, what did the Giants do today?” and you got the response, “They scored three touchdowns and they did not give up a touchdown but, yeah, they lost,” your reaction would have been … what? It would not have been, “Can’t believe it.” If you have been keeping up with all this and paying attention, your retort might be, “OK, tell me how.

Give me the sordid details.” And then you would have been regaled on the kicking hijinks and the absence of anyone trusted to attempt extra points and field goals and the imperfect 7-for-7 defensive-series-to-field-goals-allowed ratio that wove together to produce Commanders 21, Giants 18. You would have been disappointed or uninspired or plain old disgusted.But you would not have been shocked. There is a danger here.

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