Giants to Face Buccaneers at 1PM on Sunday: The Giants will play the Buccaneers on the road in Tampa Bay in the first round of the playoffs on Sunday at 1:00PM. The game will be nationally televised on FOX.
December 30, 2007 New York Giants Injury Report: OC Shaun O’Hara and LB Kawika Mitchell’s have injuries to medial collateral knee ligaments. “The MRIs are today (Sunday), so we will see,” said Head Coach Tom Coughlin. “Both actually feel better today. We need to check the MRIs to see how aggressive we can be.”
CB Sam Madison has an abdominal strain. “He was sore but was talking pretty positive so we will see,” said Coughlin.
The news with S Craig Dahl was worse. He has injured his anterior cruciate ligament and is out for the remainder of the season.
Coughlin said he hoped that HB Ahmad Bradshaw (calf) and CB Kevin Dockery (hip flexor) would be able to return this week. “I hope so,” said Coughlin. “I don’t know a whole lot more about that. In passing quickly through downstairs and visiting with (Vice President of Medical Services) Ronnie (Barnes) for a minute, he thought that Ahmad was getting stronger, feeling better, and he had the same comment about Dockery. We will just have to see.”
Coughlin was asked if he had an update on WR Sinorice Moss (back). “No, just that progress is being made and we will see,” responded Coughlin.
Giants 2008 Opponents Set: The Giants will face the following teams during the 2008 regular season:
Home Games:
- Dallas Cowboys
- Philadelphia Eagles
- Washington Redskins
- San Francisco 49ers
- Seattle Seahawks
- Carolina Panthers
- Baltimore Ravens
- Cincinnati Bengals
Away Games:
- Dallas Cowboys
- Philadelphia Eagles
- Washington Redskins
- Arizona Cardinals
- St. Louis Rams
- Minnesota Vikings
- Cleveland Browns
- Pittsburgh Steelers
Articles on the Giants-Patriots Game: Strahan: Good Effort Not Enough by Mike Vaccaro of The New York Post
Article on QB Eli Manning: Eli Must Pass Playoff Test by Gary Myers of The New York Daily News
Notes: Based on national ratings, an average of 34.5 million viewers tuned into the Giants-Patriots, ranking as the most watched show of the current television season. The game was also the most-watched NFL regular-season game since Thanksgiving 1995 when the Chiefs played the Cowboys.
DE Michael Strahan ended the season a half-sack short of Lawrence Taylor’s unofficial career record of 142. Strahan has been shut out of the sack department in the last four games. FOXSports reports that Strahan will decide sometime in March whether he will retire or not.
For the first time since 1934, the Giants made the playoffs after starting 0-2.