Thomas Coughlin coach of my beloved New York Football Giants says he’s gonna play the starters. Could it possibly be a strategy? He may actually be doing this just to trick Bill Belichick into playing his starters. That way he doesn’t play any of his starters at the last minute. BAM!! Coughie throws in the JV squad and because they’re so excited to play they pull out all the stops. Belichick is stunned at the starving mob that has now taken the field. They’re taunting Tom Brady and a wily wide receiver has purposely kicked Rodney Harrison in the head after an incomplete pass. Lorenzen tells the guys in the huddle that he wants to do that play from Necessary Roughness. Suddenly, on the 1^st series of the 3^rd Quarter the Giants throw an out pattern to Hedgecock who catches and is forced out of bounds by Bruschci right into Bill (Road kill) Belichick. Coughlin smiles knowingly on the sidelines and shakes hands with Eli who is wearing his lounge-like red, white, and blue sweatpants and matching jacket.

But then again that’s not reality. The reality is you have a historic game and a playoff spot. Do you attempt to make history now? Or Hope you win every game in the playoffs to make it to the equally historic Super Bowl?  I say make history now and risk it. For the Giants as far as the playoffs go sometimes they’re hunger comes into question. Either way you cut it after this game they’re gonna get that hunger back win or lose. Play all your starters because the playoffs start on Saturday for us. You’re playing the (statistically) best team in football. If the O-line opens up a “Strahan Gap” and Jacobs busts out for an excellent day then they know they can do it to the best team. If Eli is lying on the ground after missing another incomplete pass admiring Junior Seau’s testicle musk it’ll intoxicate him with a fire unmatched by any cheerleader that’s been down there in a more intimate setting. Either way it’ll be a good thing I think. And in case everything goes to shit and there’s a Boobie Miles type scenario I won’t gripe and tell people that Coughlin’s a dummy from hypocratic soap box. Oh and also a homeless man once told me “Go big or Go home.” Isn’t that what football is all about?