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Evan & Tiki

Cinco de Lunch-Oh:The Five Greatest Giants Days Since Super Bowl 46

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.6945 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Shaun unveils his full Cinco de Lunch countdown, ranking the five most exciting Giants days since Super Bowl XLVI and explaining why today stands above them all. The list revisits moments Giants fans almost forget, like clinching a playoff spot on New Year’s Day 2023 and the unexpected thrill of beating the Vikings in the 2022 playoffs, even knowing how quickly things unraveled afterward. The conversation then jumps to recent hope. Draft night optimism with Abdul Carter and Jaxson Dart, followed by Dart’s prime time statement game against the Eagles, is framed as a turning point fans will look back on as the night he truly arrived. At the top of the list is today. John Harbaugh becoming the head coach of the New York Giants is declared the most exciting Giants day since 2012, regardless of what he says at the podium. The segment also addresses fair concerns about Harbaugh’s late game decisions in Baltimore, with comparisons to Andy Reid and why elite coaches can evolve after a long run in one place. As dignitaries arrive and the building buzz grows, Shaun makes it clear why this moment feels different. For Giants fans, the shelf life starts now, and the optimism is real.

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Here we go. I'm here to give you the five greatest moments in New York Giants' recent history

0:06.2

since Super Bowl 46. I guess the way I title this was the five most exciting days in Giants history since Super Bowl 46. Here we go.

0:14.1

Number five. New Year's Day, 2023, clinching a playoff spot at home versus the Indianapolis Colts and the home crowd get no experience it. You forget that happened. That was a fun day at MetLife Stadium. And you do forget that one. It gets lost a little bit. Even if you didn't think that team was sustainable, you thought I got the coach, I got the GM, we're moving in the right direction, and they did win a playoff game, but since then, I couldn't have written a worse script. Yep, and the fans got the GM. We're moving in the right direction, and they did win a playoff game. But since then, I couldn't have written a worst script. And the fans got to experience that one. All right, here we go. Number four. I know it's looked at, like, sort of with a negative tinge, but you think about the last that kid. It's beating the Vikings in the playoff game. Like, that has to exist. 2020. Yeah, 22. to people now will make well that was the worst thing that ever happened to this organization you cherish those days

0:58.0

yeah the playoff game. Like, that has to exist. 2020. Yeah, 22. People now will make the, well, that was the worst thing that ever happened to this organization.

0:56.8

You cherish those days. Yeah, you do. And you look back on retrospect and realize that it was just kind of some iron pyrite. But it was, that moment felt like, man. That was a fun day. It was a fun, great day. Fun day. I tell you, as a non-giant fan, I loved it.

1:11.2

I thought it was awesome.

1:12.2

Like, to advance to the divisional rounds.

1:13.8

Because it was so unexpected. It was completely unexpected. And we think about the dark place we're in now in terms of the way the Giants and Jets have played over the last decade. Think about where we were in 2022 or January of 23. We're in that same place. So the excitement of, wow, there's going to be a football game on divisional weekend.

1:31.1

And it involves a New York local football team.

1:33.7

It felt foreign.

1:34.7

All right.

1:35.0

Here we go.

1:35.7

Number three.

1:37.7

Number three is this past April.

1:39.3

The night the Giants took Abdul quarter third overall and traded back up for Jackson

1:43.5

Dart and they walked

1:44.5

out of there with hope and promise of two first round picks, one being the quarterback and unlike

1:49.5

Daniel Jones, waited to take the quarterback, taking the better player third overall. That was an

1:54.3

exciting night for Giant fans. I don't think there's any question. I think with drafts, there's

1:58.4

always that unknown, but I remember coming in the next day. I was banished for the first, like, half hour of the show. But I remember eventually coming in, it was one of those days where universally everyone was fired up, which is not common with the draft, because it's such a debatable thing. But yes, Abdul Carter into, here's my quarterback Jackson Dart, even though you don't know, because they're rookies, and we know how you feel about rookies. Hate them. There was an excitement kind of universally. Correct? Here we go. Number two. It's Jackson Dart beating the Eagles in prime time on Thursday night at home. I'm sorry, that night forever stamped ourselves as Jackson Dart lovers. That was the moment he truly arrived. And that was a freaking Eagles. And that was a beatdown, too. It was a beatdown, and it happened in the most unexpected time. We all sat there after a Yankee elimination going, here comes another eagle crushing. And I know the season went to crap after it. But I truly think we're going to look back at that night. It's like a landmark Jackson Dart arrived night. Was that that the last win before? Yes. Before the last two. Yes. The Denver game is right after. Yes, correct. I believe for you, and for Big Mac guys who were Giants, Yankees fans, I think the Yankee lost the night before it impacted it. I agree. You guys were in such a bad place. no that's a good point after being eliminated that you almost needed that pick me up uh no doubt and here

3:08.7

we go number one and the number one most such a bad place. No, that's a good point. After being eliminated that you almost needed that. It's pick me up.

3:07.9

No doubt.

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