Reasons to feel better about the Giants' humiliating playoff loss:
1) There's only a 1 in 15 chance they'll face the Panthers in the first round of the NFC playoffs next year.
2) Eli Manning can't really be that bad, can he? And playoff experience is not overrated.
3) Tiki Barber's 2,390 all-purpose-yards season was not a flash in the pan.
4) Antonio Pierce and Carlos Emmons will be back. Which means we'll never see another Kevin Lewis missed tackle.
5) Plaxico Burress isn't as bad as people like Troy Aikman made him out to be yesterday.
6) Ernie Accorsi is a very good general manager. Something will be done about the Giants' awful secondary.
7) We're just one season closer to a new stadium.
8) No more parking lot traffic jams and long trips home from the netherregions of New Jersey.
9) Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora will give offensive line coaches nightmares in the offseason.
10) Tim Lewis is staying as defensive coordinator. (Just a hunch.)
11) The Super Bowl is overrated. It's becoming harder and harder each year to watch the game with all the ancillary crap (media buildup, stupid commercials, really lame halftime acts) that comes with it. Besides, did anyone out there really want to go to Detroit this year?
12) Will Allen will be gone.
13) Thank God they're not the Jets.