Monday Morning QB ranks the teams 1-32, Giants are #6

Peter King just released his post draft rankings on his best teams in the NFL. I know, I know. The Super Bowl winners are still getting no respect from analysts. The Giants are ranked sixth by King, with the Patriots, Colts, Jaguars, Cowboys, and Chargers ahead of the Giants.

King on the Giants:

This is a team that caught fire at the right time and rode the wave to a title. Was it the best team in football in 2007? For the last two games of the year, yes. For the rest of the season, not even close. But the last two games of the season are the biggest. Funny how a season progresses: In Weeks 9-14, the Giants went 3-3, losing three times by double digits and winning by six, five and three points. Then, ka-boom.

Moving forward, the Giants will be fortunate if Michael Strahan plays. I think he’ll retire because he always said he was playing for a ring, and now he’s got it, and a cushy Fox job awaits. But the Giants will still be able to kill the passer if he does because Mathias Kiwanuka will be back healthy.

Eli Manning had a charmed postseason, but he’s got to be more accurate than 56.1 percent for the Giants to be better than 14th in scoring offense, which they were a year ago. The encouraging thing about Manning is that the day after the Super Bowl, he was already talking about the things he needed to do to get better. Smart, because he knows he has to be more consistent to be a top quarterback. This should be a maturing offensive team and a threatening team on D.

I don’t really like King’s analysis at all. First of all, his information is wrong. The Giants were 3-2 from week 9-14. Week nine was the Giants bye week. You’re thinking of weeks 10-15, King. Those three losses came to the NFC East division champion Cowboys, the second wild card team in the Redskins, and a very talented Vikings team.

If you really want to talk about teams that struggled, why not the Cowboys? They lost three of their last four games, yet King doesn’t mention that once…

Why not bash the Chargers, too, since they lost three of their first four games of the season? Did they just get lucky too? Yeah, I don’t think so.

It also irked me how King said the Giants were only the best team in the NFL for only the last two games of the season. This team played with so much energy and spirit during the playoffs and during most of the season. At least recognize their accomplishments.