Many teams were better than the Giants earlier in the season. Once a team makes it into the playoffs, however, it's a whole new ballgame.

The Giants were the best team in January and February, when it really counted. Everyone else either lost so many regular season games that they failed to start the playoffs, or they lost to the Giants, or they lost to a team that either lost to the Giants or lost to some team that lost to the Pats or to the Giants. Got that?

Like it or not, the teams left standing to play against each other in the final game of any single-elimination tournament ARE the teams that belong there. You might like some other team, and even wish that they had performed to their perceived potential, but your team lost whereas the eventual champion did nothing but won.