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What did Tom Coughlin learn about the Giants Monday night? Nothing good. 'We've been averaging four penalties ...

... a game, and now we jump to nine. The lesson is pay attention. Pay specific attention to the way in which games are lost in this league if you’re sloppy with your penalties, if you turn the ball over, you don’t give yourself much of a chance to win. It’s a constant message about stopping the ball and running the ball. Those are factors, of course, in the game. Scoring in the green zone. Stopping the opponent, just one of three in the red zone and we did a nice job of that particularly early, but there’s many lessons that we’ll preach that will carry over, but they’re not unusual. They’re the same lessons we preach all the time. That’s why the penalties, quite frankly, not only were they greatly disappointing, they were so shocking to me because they’re out of character with how we’ve been playing. Number one penalty team in the NFC East is Washington. We played Washington, we’re the least penalized, they’re the most. We have nine, they have four." #NYG