Buildup to the new most highly anticipated game in NFL History

The hype, the made-up storylines, and all of the time being dedicated to this game makes it feel like the week leading up to the Superbowl minus the obnoxious press day.

Most media people are split down the middle on whether the Giants should rest their starters. If you're a former player, your on the side of them playing the whole game to win. If you're not from the player side, you either want them to rest the players outright or play the starters for a half to see if they can stay close enough to make it a possibility.

It's pretty obvious how this is going to turn out isn't it?

1st quarter:
Patriots defense focuses SOLELY on Brandon Jacobs and lets Keanu Manning stare vacantly off into space to attempt an ill-advised pass. Jacobs gets stuffed. Manning gets stuffed and thats about it.

Patriots get the ball, immediately air it out and miss. Then dink, dunk, and run until they get to the redzone and bring in vrabel for the touchdown catch.

Patriots score again on a INT return for a TD.

2nd quarter:

Patriots stop the Giants on 3 and out.

Giants get a sack of Tom Brady..half the crowd goes wild.

The following play, Welker catches a 7 yard pass and runs for an additional 25. Wind taken out of sails.

The next three plays are all 10+ yards of passes and a run for 15. Brady to Moss for the TD.

21-0 7:52 left in the 2nd quarter.

Plaxico Burress, Amani Toomer, Michael Strahan, Osi, Keanu, thank you for playing, enjoy the bench.

Second half:

Brady gets the ball on the Patriots 25. 8 of 8 passes later and another scoring touchdown, Brady locks up the passer rating record and leaves for the day. Moss is the only question mark here.

Brady throwing 2 TD is a lock. The Patriots scoring more than 5 points to get the scoring record is a lock. Moss catching two TD is not a lock. That is the only thing the Giants have any control over. And it's only a little control.

Patriots win 35-7 (late garbage time TD by a Giants player I've never heard of)

Here's the thing the media people aren't talking about because it's not as juicy and no other game on the schedule looks really meaningful.

Even if you put the starters in the for the whole game, the Giants have very little shot to actually win. When Baltimore, Philly, and NYJ played the Patriots tough, it was their Super Bowl, because they were already out of the playoff picture and had nothing else to play for, which was motivation enough for the game. But the Giants have been 1 and done in the playoffs the last two years and don't want that to happen again against a Bucs team that has been game planning for them since Sunday. On top of that, the Giants defense is good, but gave up an average of 31+ points in the only three games they played against playoff teams this year (Cowboys, Cowboys, and Packers). The offense is banged up and then think: Belichick vs. Eli Manning.

And that's enough reason to know that no matter how RestGate plays out, the Giants have already lost.

One more thing, if Tom Coughlin said from the beginning that we was going to sit his players after the 1st quarter no matter what, he would be crucified right now, with all of the former players turned commentators leading the charge. This game has no significance outside of stats.

But, Tony Stupid Flanders Dungy is already on record saying his starters will sit in a game where a loss by them heavily impacts the AFC Wild Card. Would anyone dare criticize him? Of course not.

Now let's play some foobow...