Giants’ defensive masterpieces keeping unrealistic playoff dreams alive

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The Giants stepped up in class Monday night and didnt notice.

Didnt give a damn, in fact.

The result in an electric, scintillating finish that glowed Giants 24, Packers 22 on the MetLife Stadium scoreboards lighting up the Meadowlands night now allows their once-wary fans to dream, even if for just a little bit.

The Giants, left for dead on the side of a Texas road after a 49-17 thrashing at Dallas last month, are riding a three-game winning streak and are 5-8, remarkably one game out of a playoff spot at the moment.

Playoffs?

Unrealistic?

Probably. But still, not dead yet.

Most Giants fans are understandably blind drunk from the euphoria that surrounds the storybook Tommy DeVito tale, 3-1 as their starter straight from practice squad emergency duty and now a legitimate NFL playing career.

Giants__defensive_masterpieces_keeping_unrealistic_playoff_dreams_alive 4Adoree’ Jackson said it’s on the Giants to “control the narrative and change it.” Getty ImagesBut dont forget the Giants defense.

Giants__defensive_masterpieces_keeping_unrealistic_playoff_dreams_alive 4Wink Martindale’s Giants defense limited Jordan Love on Monday. Bill Kostroun for the NY Post4Brian Daboll celebrates after the Giants’ last-second field goal sealed their victory. Bill Kostroun for the NY PostWe go as our defense goes, guard Justin Pugh said. Our defense was unbelievable. Turnovers. Big stops. You name it they did it and we put them in some bad spots. This is a team right here. This is a team and were fighting every week.

Martindales defense forced two Green Bay turnovers. Kayvon Thibodeaux ripped the ball out of the arms of Packers quarterback Jordan Love. Jason Pinnock picked off a Love pass. Rookie cornerback Deonte Banks batted away a Love pass to Samori Toure in the end zone in the fourth quarter with the Giants clinging to a 21-13 lead, forcing a Packers field goal with 5:30 remaining.

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And now look what weve got: Giants games of consequence in December.

That was a notion that seemed unthinkable after that blowout loss to the Cowboys, who nearly swallowed DeVito whole.

After Dallas, Detroit, San Francisco and Tampa Bay, the four NFC division leaders, you have Philadelphia at 10-3 and Minnesota at 7-6 as the first two of three wild-card entrants.

Then come five teams at 6-7 the Packers, Falcons, Rams, Seahawks and Saints, who the Giants play Sunday in New Orleans.

The Giants, without their starting quarterback Daniel Jones (out for the season with a knee injury) and his backup Tyrod Taylor (who just returned from a rib injury), the Giants have climbed into the in the hunt playoff graphic they keep putting on the TV screen.

One game out, Thibodeaux said. Weve got to keep doing this.

A win in the Big Easy Sunday and who knows where that leads them.

It makes you wonder what might have been had it not been for Taylors brain freeze at the end of the first half in Buffalo, where the Giants lost 14-9, and if Graham Gano makes one of a no-brained makeable field goal against the Jets in a 13-10 overtime loss.

Giants__defensive_masterpieces_keeping_unrealistic_playoff_dreams_alive 4Kayvon Thibodeaux had eight tackles and a half-sack for the Giants in their victory against the Packers. Bill Kostroun for the NY PostOf course, you cant, but reverse those two results and the Giants arent just in the hunt, theyre a playoff team right now.

Sure, DeVito has been a remarkable find, but that defense. The Giants have forced 11 turnovers in the past three games, including nine interceptions.

Were just playing with great anticipation and great execution, linebacker Bobby Okereke said.

Okereke called the run of forced turnovers huge and contagious.

Guys are doing a great job flying to the ball, stripping the ball, getting picks, applying with great awareness and anticipation, he said. Winks just been a mastermind to our success on defense this whole season. Right now, were playing very confident and with a lot of anticipation, a lot of situational awareness and thats a testament to Wink and how he prepares us.

Thibodeaux put it this way when asked about Martindale: If this was Madden, Ill play Madden just like Wink calls the game.

The Packers who entered the game on a three-game winning streak, a 6-6 record and in the thick of the NFC wild-card playoff race figured to provide a bit more resistance than the Commanders (4-9) and Patriots (3-10), the previous two Giants victims.

Love was drawing some comparisons to his famous predecessor, Aaron Rodgers. The Packers entered the night as a 6-point favorite and limped out beat up by the Giants defense.

Suddenly, all that damage control on the part of Daboll and Martindale about their supposed rift seemed to have evaporated Monday into the chill of the Meadowlands night.

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