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It’s been five days since the New York Giants rode into Seattle and physically manhandled the Seahawks, walking away with a stunning upset victory.
After the game, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll was a stammering mess who would not rationalize what had just happened. Safety Jamal Adams was furious and quarterback Russell Wilson could do little more than tip his cap.
But Seattle cornerback Shaquill Griffin does not share that same respect for the Giants. Rather, he views them as an inferior team who had no business beating the Seahawks, instead blaming his coaches and teammates for taking a weak team too lightly.
Ultimately, Griffin says, the Giants got lucky that Seattle overlooked them.
“I just feel like we let that game kind of get the best of us, and we came in taking a team lightly,” Griffin said, via ESPN. “That’s just being totally honest. In this league, you can lose to anybody. It don’t matter who it is. It don’t matter if they lost every single game. You can lose to anybody in this league if you don’t play right. And I feel like we took that game lightly, and I feel like the focus point now is just refocusing, treating every team the same, treating it like a championship game like we continue to preach about.
“Understand that that team was not supposed to beat us. Let’s just be totally honest. They was not supposed to win that game, and we had to live with that. That’s a taste in our mouths that no one never wants.”
If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas.
The Giants went into Seattle with Colt McCoy under center and did away with the coulda, woulda shoulda Seahawks in dominant fashion. If they learn their lesson from that, so be it. If not, maybe the Giants will get to teach them that lesson a second time somewhere down the line.
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