Reuters

Giants coach Tom Coughlin usually plays things close to the vest, but he allowed himself to get a little boastful after punching a ticket to the NFC Championship Game with a big upset at Green Bay.

Coughlin said after the game that he loves the position his team is now in, with a game at San Francisco Sunday and a trip to the Super Bowl on the line.

“I think we’re a dangerous team,” Coughlin said. “I like where we are.”

Of course, not everything about the win over the Packers made Coughlin happy. Coughlin wasn’t too hard on the officials after the game, but he clearly wasn’t pleased with a bogus roughing the passer call on Osi Umenyiora for hitting Aaron Rodgers in the head when he had done no such thing. And Coughlin challenged what should have been a Greg Jennings fumble only to have referee Bill Leavy inexplicably let the Packers keep the ball, and between that and a huge call that went against the Giants in the regular season against the Packers, Coughlin said he doesn’t know what he has to do to get a replay review to go his way.

“We must be what, 0-for-100 by now?” Coughlin said.

Officiating went against the Giants on Sunday, but just about everything else went for them. Coughlin is right: If they keep playing that way, the Giants are dangerous.