"It may be hard to realize or say it but I don't think the Giants are far off," he said. "We won 11 games the year before, played a lot of teams tough this year with injuries and losing guys. It was one of those years we lost a lot of tight games or games getting down to the fourth quarter and we just couldn't quite compete just because we lost too many guys or just lost some heart-breakers ... I don't think it's far off once you get some guys back."