. >> michele: tom coughlin told me at halftime he said to you guys in the locker room we want to go out and regain the respect of the football unit. >> right. >> michele: how did you accomplish that tonight? >> it was important. all heart and all hustle. we had a week off and greneeded regroup. we came out and played like that today. >> michele: congratulations. >> bob? >> michele, thanks. both teams 7-4. difference is that is good for a two-game lead over the cowboys and redskins for the giants. in the nfc east. 7-4 puts the packers a game back of the bears in the nfc north. let's switch to manhattan and tony dungy. your reaction to tonight's game. >> bob, giants fans have to be breathing easier tonight as tom coughlin told you in our pregame show he had two objectives. number one to get eli manning playing the way he is capable of playing and, two, to get victor cruz back involved. they were able to do that tonight. eli had time. he was able to get victor going and when their offense scores points, it just makes their defense that much more effective. all of those sacks tonight really

they have a career record under tom coughlin of 14-21 in the month of november.o they always look really bad going into the stretch run of the year. yet tom coughlin's a disciple of bill parcells, and bill parcells always said the nfl soap is a marathon and not a sprint. and he always seems to prime them for that last month. the proof is in the pudding. so i think one would have to be a fool or a sports writer for "the nation" magazine to ever count out the new york giants. >> so let's talk about a guy that i could not have been more wrong about. i'm not a big fan of pac-10 quarterbacks coming to the nfl because there have been so many failures, andrew luck has proven me wrong. that guy is having a great season. >> unbelievable. he's third in the nfl in third-down passing. and that is unheard of. >> wow. >> for a rookie. and think about all the great quarterbac quarterbacks, the mannings, the bradys, third in third-down passing is a rookie andrew luck, second-generation quarterback, his father, oliver luck, played for the old houston oilers. the thing about andre