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Why Are the Giants and Jets Still Considered Underdogs?

“Bookmakers aren’t yet sold on the teams, despite winning records and solid upsets. Their distrust comes down to close games and weak schedules.”

The article itself talks about the past of the Giants and the Jets history of winning/losing and what it means for fans this season. Most of the article is talking about the current season statistics for the two teams and how unimpressive it is.

The Lead: “It’s an exciting year to be a fan of New York metropolitan area pro football teams. The Jets and the Giants, long afterthoughts or even laughingstocks in the N.F.L., are riding high.”

This lead would indicate to the reader that the person who wrote this is going to talk about the team’s successes so far. However, this is not the case. Most of the middle of the article is talking about how poor the Giants’ and Jet’s stats are this year.

I didn’t really care for this part of the article (and that’s not because I’m a Giants fan… okay, maybe slightly) because of this. It doesn’t really make sense to start the article with hyping the teams up and then going to say these stats, in my opinion.

I did enjoy the end of the article, although. I like the way the author concluded everything by saying while a playoff is unrealistic (true) the Giants and Jets have still had an enormous amount of success thus far.