Breida and James played on the San Francisco 49ers team that lost to Kansas City in Super Bowl LIV three years ago. They each take the same approach as Gano.
“I just tell them, ‘It’s football,'” Breida said. “It’s the playoffs, but don’t treat the game any differently. It’s football at the end of the day. Don’t make it any bigger than what it is. People are going to be like, ‘Oh, it’s a playoff game.’ Yeah, it’s a playoff game. We know if we lose, we go home. But just go play football.”
“If you think about it like, ‘If we win this game, we advance. If we lose this game, we don’t,’ you’re going to put more pressure on yourself,” James said. “You’re going to mess up. You’re going to overthink too much. So, you’ve got to treat it like a game.”
Feliciano made his postseason debut with Oakland in 2016 and was in the playoffs each of the previous three seasons with Buffalo. He has talked “a little” to the younger players about what to expect.
“But honestly, it’s the same thing,” Felicinao said. “It’s another football game. It is a regular game, besides the fact that you go home if you lose. When you mess up in a regular game, it’s not the same as doing it here. As a competitor, you never want to lose. So, it’s the same mindset.”
Some of the other key Giants with postseason experience are cornerback Adoree’ Jackson (six games), right guard Mark Glowinski (five), linebacker Jihad Ward (three) and defensive lineman Justin Ellis (three). Linebacker Landon Collins is the only player on the current roster who played in the Giants’ last postseason game six years ago in a wild card loss to the Packers in Green Bay.
The Giants lost to the Vikings three weeks ago in Minneapolis, but Ellis had a warning for his less experienced teammates who think this game will be similar.
“I was telling those guys that it’s not going to be that same team we went against a few weeks ago,” he said. “It’s not going to be the same, so you want to study and make sure you get familiar with them. The intensity is going to go up because it’s do or die.
“They will come at the ball way faster, way harder. It’s just so much more intense. You just have to get on it. You have to be ready right from the start, so we won’t get behind. You don’t want to get caught off guard and try to play catch up the rest of the game. You’ve got to come out there knowing that it’s either win or go home. And everybody should have that mindset: ‘We’ve got to win today or go home.'”
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