The New York Giants have an NFC East best 6-3 record, but their MVP quarterback has been struggling. Against Pittsburgh last Sunday, the 4th quarter magician managed a feeble three series, each three-and-out, as the Steelers came from behind to win.

Eli Manning

Manning is the Giants’ guy who was busy making his own regular-season MVP case last month. The guy who has two touchdown passes and four interceptions in his last four games, and who has no touchdown passes and two interceptions in his past two. The guy whose quarterback rating has plummeted from 87.4 against San Francisco, to 78.9 against Washington, to 58.4 against Dallas, to 41.1 against Pittsburgh.

New York Giants need Eli Manning back to his best – ESPN New York.

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As I said last season, when they made that impressive late-season run from Wild Card to Superbowl champions, the New York Giants are the new cardiac kids of the NFL. In 2012, they’re at it again already. Even Tiki Barber agrees!

Has this become so routine now? Are we to the point where we just expect Manning to do something like complete 8-of-13 passes for 243 yards and two touchdowns in the fourth quarter? Manning had one of the 10 highest yardage passing games in the history of the league Sunday, finishing the game with 510 yards of which his team needed every single one to complete its comeback victory over Tampa Bay. But it was his fourth-quarter brilliance that once again brings into focus what Manning means to the Giants. Which is absolutely everything.

Typical, incredible, invaluable Eli Manning | NFC East Blog.

It’s 2012 now, and this is G-Men 2.0, which means nothing means anything until the fourth quarter, whether it’s a single game or the season as a whole. NFL teams are usually defined by their head coach, and Tom Coughlin has proven to be a great one. But this team belongs to Eli. A bad call, an injury bug, a ridiculous loss to the Dallas Cowboys or three interceptions in 30 minutes, it doesn’t matter. The feeling is the same: Just wait for the fourth quarter.

It’s probably maddening to Giants fans, who must spend two and half hours cursing or biting their nails before the real game begins. But if they look at Manning, they’ll see a ho-hum calmness that should give them comfort. Eli reminds me of the quiet kid you never should have messed with.

Tiki’s Take: Giant new persona dominates Big Blue | USATODAY.com.

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For a defending SuperBowl champion and a team that retained nearly all of its key position players from 2011, the New York Giants get no respect. We’ll see tonight in the opening game of the 2012 season. I’ve been waiting all summer for Wednesday night!

W2W4: Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants | ESPN Dallas.

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What constitutes an “elite” NFL quarterback? Sports Illustrated’s panel, led by Peter King, doesn’t have a clear answer, but Tom Brady and Eli Manning are the two QBs still alive who can claim the label.

Via NFL | SI.com.

Of course, this seems to assume that only an elite QB deserves, or can, win the SuperBowl. I think Jim McMahon (Bears 1985), Mark Rypien and Doug Williams (Redskins 1987 and 1992), Jeff Hostetler (Giants 1990), Trent Dilfer (Ravens 2000) and Brad Johnson (Tampa Bay 2002) prove otherwise.
 

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The Green Bay Packers had not lost a home playoff game at Lambeau Field ever, until 2003. From its opening in 1957 until they fell 27–7 to the Atlanta Falcons during the 2002 NFL season playoffs, the Packers reigned supreme at home. Now the New York Giants have done it, again, and Eli Manning stands as the only NFL quarterback to have won two post-season games on the Frozen Tundra. Well done!

The Wisconsin media called this the most disheartening playoff loss in Green Bay history.

Given the expectations for the reigning Super Bowl champion Packers, who had won 21 of their previous 22 games, their 37-20 defeat against the New York Giants will go down as the most disheartening playoff game in franchise history. The Packers had everything going in their favor. They were healthy, confident, well-rested and playing at home, where they hadn’t lost in more than a year. They also boasted the most potent offense in team history and the best quarterback in the NFL. They took all that momentum and promptly laid a giant egg in front of 72,080 stunned spectators and a national television audience.

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The official NFL RedZone Recap video for Week 15. Enjoy!
 

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Last night’s NFL game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys was an unexpected thriller. The Giants scored 15 points in the final 3:14 only to have Jason Pierre-Paul cap the comeback with a block of a potential game-tying field goal with one second left. The Giants erased a 12-point deficit and moved into first place in the NFC East. New York Giants Stun Dallas Cowboys with Fourth-Quarter Rally, Move Into Tie for NFC East Lead. Unexpected because New York had lost four straight games and went into the new Texas Stadium (where they have not yet lost) with their season on the line. Hardly unexpected in the way the team, and its first-round QB, played, though. Video highlights.

A game that featured 71 total points, nearly 1,000 yards of offense and enough defensive breakdowns to last a season came down to one kick. Well . . . make that two kicks.

Eli Manning, Giants Put Cowboys On Ice | Audibles.

Eli Manning is having a sensational year. Six come-from-behind, 4th quarter comeback victories. Best QB rating and most TD passes in the 4th quarter (14), tying the all-time record held jointly by legendary Johnny Unitas and brother Peyton. He’s on fire and, in many ways, is a one-man team, dealing with the loss of a viable running game, the offseason trade of a favorite tight end and repeated injuries to key receivers.

Aaron Rodgers is having the season of a lifetime. Drew Brees is chasing records like it’s going out of style. Tim Tebow is, well, Tim Tebow. But in this so-called Year of the Quarterback, the one story everyone seems to be missing is the incredible fourth quarter play of New York Giants QB Eli Manning. In a 37-34 comeback win over the Dallas Cowboys, Manning led his team to two fourth quarter touchdowns in the final 3:14 of the game. It was Manning’s sixth fourth quarter comeback of the season.

Eli Manning Continues to Be Clutch in 4th quarter | CBS News.

Without Eli, the G-Men would be nowhere. Deon Sanders likes to preach on The NFL Network that he “believes in Eli.” As a Giants fan and one a bit concerned that Big Blue may not have the character this season to make a strong playoff run, I certainly hope he’s right. If you can survive the constant heart attacks, watching the 2011 Giants is a treat, to say the least. If only the games were ALL 4th quarters!
 

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Thirty years ago, the original “Kardiac Kids” were the 1980 Cleveland Browns (led by QB Brian Sipe), who had a penchant for having games decided in the final moments. Those kids finished 11-5, capturing their first division title since 1971. This year’s edition of the New York Giants are a well-deserved successor.

The New Cardiac Kids lost Sunday, the second consecutive game with more than 14 points scored in the final minutes. This time, the Giants’ porous secondary gave up a go-ahead touchdown to Seattle’s backup QB — who had appeared in all but six NFL games over his entire career — after the D stopped playing on an apparent offsides call. Seahawks’ Understudies Star on New York Stage | S.F. Chronicle. While that probably is just the revenge of the football gods for a fluke play from week two in which the Giants picked up a loose ball left on the ground by the Philadelphia Eagles, returning it for a TD, it required yet another 90-yard drive by Eli Manning. Ending in the fatal pick 6 shown above, the drive was nothing to write home about.

My dad's lament applies today -- GD Giants! They're the cardiac kids of NFL 2011. http://ht.ly/6RVFS

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Glenn Manishin

Momma, don’t let your boys grow up to be Giants’ fans!
 

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Well this bites. I’m a Washington Redskins season ticket holder (although really a New York Giants fan), and have put up with several years of watching the almost-inept Jason Campbell pretend to be a NFL-caliber quarterback.  Now we’ll have to sit there as Donovan McNabb tries his hand as the most unstable position in all of sports, Redskins QB. Redskins Acquire Quarterback Donovan McNabb from Philadelphia Eagles [washingtonpost.com].

Another bonehead move from Redskins owned Daniel Snyder. Bring in aging stars, give them millions of dollars and hope they ferment.  But losers are losers. Donovan is no superman for sure. All that booing in Philly over the last decade is moving 100 miles down I95 to Washington this fall.

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With yesterday’s come from behind win by the Washington Redskins at Philadelphia, all the NFL buzz seems to be about the Skins. That’s certainly true here in DC. But commentators are forgetting the New York Giants, defending champions, undefeated and having soundly beaten Washington in week 1. Yesterday the G-Men, absent suspended Plaxico Burress, buried Seattle coming off a bye week. Giants 4-0 and at the Top of the Heap [NYTimes.com]. The 44-6 score was the Giants’ largest in the regular season since a 62-10 victory against Philadelphia in 1972. And it is the first time the Giants have started 4-0 since 1990, when they began 10-0 and won the SuperBowl. So for all those Resdkins fanatics here in the nation’s capital, cool it, you guys still have a long, long way to go.

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