Here We Go Again: Giants Are the Only Team That Can Beat Tom Brady’s Patriots

I was standing right in front of Tom Brady at Super Bowl XLII when he was told of a prediction made by then-Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, who said the high-scoring Patriots would score just 17 points.

The prediction seemed outrageous at the time. The Patriots were annihilating teams that season, scoring 36.8 points per game. Brady and Randy Moss towered over the sport like superhuman beings, destroying every defense in their path.

I still remember Brady’s face. He was almost insulted at what Burress said. He smirked and verbally backhanded Burress.

“We’re only gonna score 17 points?” Brady responded. “Ha, ha, ha. OK. Is Plax playing defense?”

Ha, ha, ha.

Burress would be right. More than right. The Giants would win 17-14. They had the Patriots’ number. It seems the Giants always have the Patriots’ number.

It would happen again in another Super Bowl. The Giants beat New England in Super Bowl XLVI, and I remember another intense scene, this time after the game. Like a few others, I saw Brady’s wife, Gisele Bundchen, while she was waiting for an elevator, angry as hell over the number of drops Patriots receivers had in the game. The moment was also caught on video. 

“My husband cannot f–king throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time,” she said. “I can’t believe they dropped the ball so many times.”

Fast forward to now. The Patriots, like in both of those past Super Bowl years, look unbeatable. And here are the Giants, again looking low-key. They’re not backing in by any means, but they’re under the radar, almost cloaked.

Would it surprise anyone if these two teams met in the Super Bowl again? And would it shock anyone if the Giants won again?

Victor Cruz was asked about that possibility, and what he says is true, possibly prophetic.

“They don’t want to see us,” Cruz told Seth Walder of the New York Daily News. “I’m sure if you ask them, [they’d say] they’d play anybody, they don’t care. I’m sure they don’t want to see us. That’s for sure.”

Cruz, one of three Giants left from the Super Bowl XLVI team, is right. The Giants are the only team that can beat the Patriots this year. 

If you are a Patriots lover, the fact the Giants are lurking again should scare you. If you are a Patriots hater, the fact the Giants are lurking again should encourage you.

There have been so many remarkable, professional and talented Patriots teams in the Super Bowl. Yet of them all, this one, maybe, just maybe, could be the best. That’s because this defense is as fast and vicious as the …

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