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Why didn't the 2012 Giants 'earn the right to win'?

Giants head coach Tom Coughlin, center, looks on

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The title of Tom Coughlin’s new book is “Earn the Right to Win,” and while he insists that it is “not a football book,” it was sparked by the success of the 2011 team that stuck to his guiding principles and strategies and wound up winning a Super Bowl.

So the question that has to be asked, then, is: Why didn’t the 2012 Giants earn the right to win it all? Why were they left out of the playoffs,...

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