By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY- Let’s cut right to it: there is an air of uneasiness and uncertainty surrounding the New York Giants this season. Las Vegas odds-makers have them at 100-1 to win Super Bowl LIV- the same as their MetLife Stadium roommates, the New York Jets. For whatever reason, the…
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NEW YORK GIANTS: Beyond Eli Manning and the 5 Stages of Grief
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- In her book On Death and Dying (1969), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified a model to explain, what she calls, the Five Stages of Grief. Although Eli Manning, the person, is alive and well, the model is directly applicable to his career as the starting quarterback of the New York…
Week 5 Keys to Victory: NEW YORK GIANTS @ Carolina Panthers
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.– Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday afternoon: 86 degrees with scattered thunderstorms and 74% humidity. Hardly “football weather” for October 7th, but here we are. The Carolina Panthers (2-1), coming off a bye-week, will be refreshed to take on the desperate-for-a-win New York Giants (1-3). NEW YORK GIANTS…
2018: The Year of “Renaissance Manning”?
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- Since 2004, Eli Manning, with one of the punniest names in New York sports media history, has many monikers: “Super Manning”, “Eli-te”, “Easy Eli”, even “E-Lie”. I have a new nickname for the longest tenured starting quarterback in Giants history: “Renaissance Manning”. While Il Rinascimento, the Italian…
New York Giants: Most Iconic Catch in Team History?
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to rumble! New York Giants fans, it is time to settle this once and for all- which player had the iconic catch in team history: Odell Beckham, Jr. or David Tyree? 2014: In the first corner, wearing a blue jersey…
2017 NFC Wild Card: New York Giants at Green Bay Packers
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan – Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, NJ- For the third time in nine years, the New York Giants’ road to the Super Bowl will run through Green Bay, Wisconsin. Big Blue Nation is hoping history can repeat itself, as they defeated the Green Bay Packers, at Lambeau Field, in January of 2008 and of 2012….
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