Giants begin installing game plan

[truebluefan]

The last time Eli Manning played the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, he remembers seeing wrinkles and schemes he had not seen from the Patriots before that moment.

So as Manning prepares for the Patriots in the Super Bowl rematch, the New York Giants quarterback is expecting the unexpected from Bill Belichick's defense.

"Any time you play the Patriots, you always assume they might have something new for you," Manning said. "The last time we played them, they showed a lot of different looks, some different schemes on defense, things that they have not shown before. When we played them in the Super Bowl four years ago, they had some new things for that game."

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[RaiderKaty]

It's funny but all this talk about what happened 4 years ago in Super Bowl 42 I don't think either of these 2 teams are as good as they were then. The Patriots certainly aren't as good, particularly defensively or offensively. The Giants will need to play a lot better than they did against the Niners if they are going to win.