Today's the day. The trial begins as the Bernie Madoff trustee is going after Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz. From the very beginning I always felt that Mets fortunes were tied to the Madoff scandal. How could they not be?

In this Week 5 Review and Week 6 Preview, we discuss Greg's most recent article on the Giants' receiving corps, locker room reporting etiquette, and how self-righteous and annoying Tony Dungy is.

This game represents the Giants' third game against a decent offense this year. After getting gashed by the Cowboys and the Saints, they're hoping the third time is a charm.

The Giants can't possibly play as poorly as they have the previous three weeks - or can they? After all, this makes the third straight week that we've invoked that logic.

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

Sunday was the perfect storm: The Giants played exceptionally poorly, the Saints played exceptionally well, and most momentum seemed to go the Saints' way.

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 Giants team that we've been watching for the past two months is not a Super Bowl caliber team or anything close. But neither were the 2007 Giants at this point. We're still in it.

More than anything, the Raiders of this era are characterized by mental errors; indeed, such boneheaded plays helped the Giants to take a 28-0 lead one minute into the second quarter.

How much of this was the Giants excellence, and how much the Bucs' ineptitude? This question has no answer, but don't forget that Tampa had averaged more than 20 points before this game.

ARLINGTON, Texas — Lawrence Tynes sent home the largest regular-season crowd in NFL history muttering about what might've been. Tynes kicked a 3...