What Giants Said After Beating Falcons A collection of quotations from the Giants after their playoff victory over the Falcons. More are available at Giants.com. BRANDON JACOBS What are you doing different now? Paying attention to coaches in meetings. [Laughter] No, I'm joking. We always pay attention. How would you rate your quarterback as a rusher? I would give him a 10 because he got a first down and he keeps the chains moving and that's the number one quality out of a running back that you want to see. Did he look awkward? You know he did look a little awkward with the slow strides but he got it done. JUSTIN TUCK What do you remember from the 2007 playoff game in Green Bay? Cold. I remember that. Coach Coughlin's face. What else? I remember us winning and that's the most important thing. Hopefully we can go back there and do it again. That's a talented football team. Describe the defense's effort. Probably our best effort so far this year. I think the last three weeks - do or die games for us - we really came out and put things together, but it still feels like we can play better and we probably will have to next week going up to Green Bay. JASON PIERRE PAUL (talking about the Green Bay game) We are going to go out there and give all our effort and we are going to walk away with a win. Are you sure you guys are going to win it? We should. No? How sure of it? We're sure (laughs). I'll see you guys later. HAKEEM NICKS What made you do the dirty bird? Antrel Rolle told me to do it. ELI MANNING Coming into this game, did you anticipate Atlanta trying to take Victor Cruz out of the game? I think we are going to run our offense. We are not trying to force things to a certain guy. If they want to try to take away Victor, that is fine. That is why we have Hakeem Nicks and Mario Manningham. These guys are playmakers. We feel good about whatever the coverage is, whatever your plan is, we are going to have an answer. Running the ball always makes things easy and better and opens things up and slows down the pass rush. If we can continue to do that, that's great. Again, we feel good and I feel good back there saying, "Hey, I'm just reading the coverage, I'm going through my progressions and whoever my read is telling me to throw the ball to, that's where I'm going to try to go." TOM COUGHLIN Opening Remarks I think today we played outstanding defense and that set the tone for everything else that happened in the game. It was wonderful to see it and it has happened over the last two or three weeks of the season. If we can continue to play defense like that, we can make ourselves heard in this tournament. The two fourth down stops were outstanding; the second half we got going on offense and started rushing the ball. I think Brandon Jacobs set the tone physically. The punter did a nice job today and our coverage teams were good although we had some penalties on punt return, which will drive you nuts, but overall we played hard all the way through. Everybody gave it a great effort. It didn't show up until the second half offensively. They are a good football team or they wouldn't be here. We were very pleased to have an opportunity to play at home in front of our fans, it was great to have a home playoff game and have our fans involved as much as they were. Our players greatly appreciate that. How big were those stops when it was third or fourth and short? The two fourth down stops were just outstanding and both were in the shadow of the goal line as well. That really inspired everybody, to be honest with you. Those plays that our defense made really inspired everybody. Why was it so important to stick with the run? Balance, you have to have balance and we were able to do that. I was surprised myself when I looked at the stats. Extra point It's easy to forget, but at one point against the Jets in Week 16, the Giants were trailing and were at their one-yard line shortly before halftime, with a Win Probability of 30 percent. A loss probably would have ended their season. Then Victor Cruz happened.