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Article on Tickets for the Giants-Buccaneers Playoff Game: To Get a Ticket: Florida or Bust by Mike Garafolo of The Star-Ledger
Article on the Giants and the Playoffs:
- For Once, Giants Feeling Good Entering Playoffs by Arthur Staple of Newsday
- Time for Giants to Buc Trend by Gary Myers of The Daily News
Article on Ex-Giant WR Ike Hilliard: Hilliard Truly Ikes It in Tampa by Paul Schwartz of The New York Post
Notes and Quotes: Buccaneers’ QB Jeff Garcia on playing the Giants: "I’ve always enjoyed playing against the Giants. It’s always been a fun game for me. I’ve played them many times throughout my years and had positive results."
The Giants finished the season with 77 penalties, their lowest total ever in a 16-game season. The previous low was 79 penalties in 1984. The 77 penalties were the NFL’s sixth-lowest total. In 2005, the Giants set franchise records with 143 penalties for 1,115 yards.
The Giants scored 373 points this season, the fifth-highest total in franchise history. The 1963 team set the franchise record with 448 points, followed by the 2005 Giants (422), 1985 Giants (399), and 1962 Giants (398). The 1962 and 1963 teams played 14-game schedules.
The Giants scored more than 30 points six times this season. That is their highest total of 30-point games since 1963.
The Giants’ 321 first downs in 2007 were the fourth-highest total in team history. The 1985 Giants hold the franchise record with 356 first downs, followed by 1986 Giants (324) and 2002 Giants (323).
HB Brandon Jacobs rushed for 1,009 yards this season, the sixth year in a row the Giants have had a 1,000-yard rusher. The San Diego Chargers are the only other NFL team with a 1,000-yard rusher each season since 2002.
The Giants finished the season ranked fourth in the NFL in rushing yardage with 134.3 yards a game. That is their highest ranking since 1993.
Defensively, the Giants ranked seventh in total defense, allowing 305.0 yards a game. It is their highest ranking since 2002, when they were ninth.
The Giants were eighth in the NFL in rushing defense, allowing 97.7 yards per game. That was their highest ranking and lowest yardage allowed since 2001.
The Giants led the NFL with 53 quarterback sacks. It was the Giants’ highest total since 1998, when they had 54 sacks, which was the last time they led the league.
DE Osi Umenyiora had a team-high 13.0 sacks, the fourth consecutive season he had sole possession of the team’s sack leadership. He is the first Giant to do that since Lawrence Taylor led the Giants in sacks five years in a row from 1986-1990.
For the second year in a row, a Giants’ place kicker made 23-of-27 field goal attempts – Jay Feely in 2006 and Lawrence Tynes in 2007.
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