Giants clinch third place in NFC East!
Rueben Randle, right, celebrates his touchdown with tight end Brandon Myers during the first half of a game against the Green Bay Packers at MetLife Stadium. (Nov. 17, 2013) Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
Here’s some good news for Giants fans: Things can’t get worse! At least not in terms of the NFC East standings!
According to the Giants and the Elias Sports Bureau, the Giants will finish in third place in the division no matter what happens in the season’s final two weeks. It may have gone unrecognized at the time on Sunday, but here's the math from the team’s weekly notes:
“If they win their last two games and Dallas loses two, each team would finish 7-9, but the Cowboys would get second place because they twice beat the Giants. If the Giants lose twice and Washington wins its final two, they’ll each be 5-11. In that scenario, they would have split their season series and finished with identical 2-4 division records. The Giants would get third place based on a superior conference mark (4-8 vs. 3-9).”
So at least one of Tom Coughlin’s streaks remains in tact. The Giants have never finished in last place with him as the head coach. Their last time in the basement was 2003, the final year under Jim Fassel when they went 4-12.
In 10 seasons with the Giants, Coughlin has three division titles, three second-place finishes and now four third place finishes.
