Rams vs. Giants LIVE UPDATES: Monday Night Football Week 2

New York Giants (0-1)
vs.
St. Louis Rams (0-1)
8:30 PM EST
MetLife Stadium
East Rutherford, NJ

Context doesn't much matter if you believe that cliche proffered by NFL players and coaches that they just "take it one game at a time."

But if you don't think that these men in pads are robots then both teams should take the field tonight in the swamps of Jersey with a dash of desperation. Both the Rams and the Giants dropped their opening games this season and it's no secret that the road to the postseason from an 0-2 start is rarely traveled.

Of course, one of the few teams to drop their first two contests and go on to win the Super Bowl was the 2007 New York football Giants. Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo was the Giants' defensive coordinator during that '07 run and was brought to the Gateway City to lead the Rams back to prominence.

With quarterback Sam Bradford under center, the Rams look to be a team on the upswing. An 0-2 start to the season might merely suggest that the slope of their learning curve isn't as steep as everyone had predicted. The G-Men, on the other hand, would seem to be moving in the opposite direction. Eli Manning remains as mercurial as ever, and certainly looks to have many productive years ahead of him, but the rest of the roster is unsettled. Decimated by injuries and free-agency losses, this team seems balanced on a razor's edge between contending and middling.

Now, the long-term futures of these two teams have little to do with tonight's game, which is why the Giants are favored by nearly a touchdown at home.

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