Morning Coffee! Giants Win, Can Jets Do The Same?

Good morning, New York sports fans! It's a great Monday if you are a New York Giants fan, and a nervous one if you are a New York Jets fan.

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• The Giants did what they were supposed to do, and needed to do, Sunday. They manhandled the Washington Redskins, 31-7, to improve to 8-4 and stay right in the thick of a very competitive NFC playoff picture. The Giants can't afford any slip-ups the rest of the way.
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• The Jets meet the Patriots tonight in an eagerly anticipated matchup of 9-2 AFC East powerhouses. The game is in New England and it's been a billion years or so since Tom Brady and the Patriots have lost a regular-season game at home. Let's see if this one matches the intensity and quality of Sunday's Pittsburgh-Baltimore game.
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• The Baseball Winter Meetings begin today. Let's see what the New York Yankees and New York Mets come home with at the end of the week.
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• The New Jersey Nets showed Sunday that they are no match for the NBA's big boys, as they were crushed by the Boston Celtics, 100-75.
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• UConn will face No. 7 Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. Let's hope the unranked Huskies don't embarrass the Big East in their first BCS bowl game.
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