Hakeem Nicks

To help cope with the dire straits in which the G-Men find themselves, we distract one another with talk about Thanksgiving, Tiger Woods, and steroids.

In the premiere episode of The NYGMen Podcast, we reel after an excruciating loss to the Eagles, ruminate over the Giants' hobbled secondary, and get psyched about rising star Hakeem Nicks.

Eli Manning just had two bad games in a row: What if he goes in the other direction from "pretty good" to "average," and not the step forward to "excellent" that we're all banking on?

The game was a blueprint of how a quarterback with questionable accuracy can still be excellent.