Be afraid. Be very afraid

I'm in Atlanta, which means instead of getting the battle atop the NFC I got the battle atop the NFC South.

Granted, it was a good game. I didn't watch or anything, but it was important and all that. but I would have liked to have seen the defending Super Bowl champs against the Greatest Show on Retractable Turf (I would love to say that's my line but...)

So I didn't see the win, didn't see Eli throw for three touchdowns with no picks and complete passes to at least 6 different receivers (None of which were named Plaxican't Burress, who's decision to take his kid to school or whatever it was has fucked up my fantasy team to no end).

I didn't see the Giants prove they could win without Brandon Jacobs in the backfield, but Ward's 60+ yards on 15+ carries shows that two heads are better than one.

I didn't see the defensive line get to Warner only once (J. Tuck, a Man with a capital M), but I did notice the stats and how they shut down the Cardinals' run game. Warner did throw for 300 yards or something like that, but it's like Spagnolo did against the Eagles a couple of weeks ago. Look back on that game and as great as McNabb looked, the mission was to shut down Westbrook and that's what they did.

I didn't see Manning and company fail to score after a long kickoff return by Dom Hixon. I didn't see Corey Webster and Aaron Ross get beaten by one of, if not the best receiving corp in the league, but I did see that Kenny Phillips led the team with seven tackles, which means GM Jerry Reese still knows what's he's doing even on a no-brainer pick like that.

I might not see next week's game against Washington, the first of three NFC East games in a row, but here's the catch. What I haven't seen is the same thing that the rest of the NFL hasn't seen.

The Giants, as a team, play a complete game.

Think about it. Then think about the fact that Tom Coughlin and the coaching crew were going to say something like that anyway, that this team has few stars and plenty of reasons to play with chips on their shoulders, that after running the table on the road last year they're perfect at home in a season where it looks like they might stay there for January.

If I was another team in the NFL, and I don't give two shits or a fuck who you are, I would take head to the title of this post and know the defending champs are hungry and will only get better next year with the return of Osi...