The New York Giants weren’t supposed to be in the playoffs. The first year of Brian Daboll’s tenure as head coach was supposed to be the start of a rebuild — 17 games to assess who goes and who stays from the failed Joe Judge/Dave Gettleman regimes.
Instead, the Giants went 9-7-1 and made it to the postseason anyway. They upset the Minnesota Vikings on the road in the Wild Card round. Then they looked like a team that wasn’t supposed to be in the playoffs seven days later.
