If Mike Kafka is going to earn the full-time — I won’t say “permament” because nothing is permanent in the NFL — he needs to win some games over the next seven weeks. More importantly, perhaps, he will need to show Giants’ ownership that he can lead a full team while setting standards and demonstrating that he can and will hold players to them.

Among the things that got Brian Daboll fired, an inability to hold players accountable was perhaps at the root of everything. The Giants have seemed like a say what you want, do what you want, play with whatever level of effort or non-effort you want without real consequences group for the last couple of years.

Kafka has seven games to make a dent in, or reverse, that impression entirely.

Fortunately, setting and maintaining expectations seems to

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