"Two big fourth-down stops had accomplished the job, had won this wild-card playoff game Sunday against Atlanta, 24-2. Those defensive stands, those stuffs in the shadow of their own goalposts, had given the Giants good reason to believe they might be better than most everyone thought, and that this really could be 2007 all over again.

Sixty minutes on the game clock ticked by at MetLife Stadium, and the Giant defense yielded not a single point. When the defensive line was asked to rise, it grew huge. And there in the locker room, Jason Pierre-Paul stood amid a group of reporters and predicted more of the same next Sunday in Green Bay, where the Packer offense will present a whole different package of problems."