For the New York Giants, their season is officially over. It ended with a crushing and somewhat embarrassing loss to the Green Bay Packers in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs.
Perhaps part of the reason Big Blue got raked over the coals in Lambeau Field was because they had already begun looking ahead to a third matchup with the Dallas Cowboys.
Earlier this week, guard Justin Pugh alluded to exactly that when he proclaimed the Cowboys lucked out by not having to face the Giants for a third time.
“They’re lucky that we didn’t go beat the Green Bay Packers,” Pugh told the New York Daily News. “If we were going to come to Dallas, we were going to beat them [the Cowboys] a third time.”
Ultimately, the Cowboys are still playing and so are the Packers. Meanwhile, the Giants got booted after Pugh’s first playoff game and it now boils down to the team they hate against the team that ended their season in the divisional round.
“I actually can’t really say that because we didn’t take care of our business,” Pugh said. “I hope the Packers beat them.”
Losing is a bitter pill to swallow, and while Big Blue undoubtedly believes they could have swarmed Dallas and come away with yet another victory in Jurrah World, that’s nothing more than a fantasy world now. The Giants are done for the year and those dreaded Cowboys play on.