The Giants nearly ruined their Super Bowl reunion with the Patriots next Sunday by playing down to the sorry level of the winless Dolphins, who continue to Suck For Luck.  There was the typical postgame buzz that you always find in the winning locker room. The idea each week is to survive and move on, even if it’s against the winless Dolphins, who can’t get out of their own way, even if the Giants were so lethargic and disinterested that their loyal fans were booing after Miami scored TDs on its first two possessions and the receivers were making Eli Manning work too hard by dropping at least four of his passes.  “We came in here wanting to be 5-2 and we are 5-2,” Tom Coughlin said. PHOTOS: GIANTS COME BACK ON LOWLY MIAMI DOLPHINS  That’s about the only good that comes out of the 20-17 victory Sunday.  Now they get Tom Brady and the Patriots in Foxborough.  Brady has won 31 straight regular-season home games - the last one he lost was to Chad Pennington and the Jets in 2006 (Brady was injured when the Jets beat New England in 2008) - but if the Giants play like they did against the Dolphins, they are going to get blown out. Especially with the Patriots likely to be cranky after losing in Pittsburgh Sunday.  Coughlin should make sure he shows his players lots of tape of the Giants’ 17-14 victory in Super Bowl XLII. Although only 14 Giants who were on the active roster for the Super Bowl played Sunday, the formula must be the same: The pass rushers have to get in Brady’s face and knock him around. That’s what Michael Strahan, Osi Umenyiora and Justin Tuck did in the Super Bowl and that’s what Tuck, Umenyiora and Jason Pierre-Paul must do next Sunday.  Brady was sacked five times in the Super Bowl and lost a fumble. Tuck said after Sunday’s game that the Giants had Brady rattled.  “Yeah, I think so,” Tuck said. “I think we did probably the best job of getting to him as far as any team has probably done in his career. That’s what it’s going to take next week because everyone knows how good Brady is. Everybody knows if you allow him to sit back there, he’s going to throw for 500 on you.”  No doubt Brady was rattled in the Super Bowl, Tuck said, but it wasn’t like he was ducking and chucking. “I think Brady is one of the tougher quarterbacks we have ever faced,” Tuck said. “We hit him a lot in that game. He kept standing in there.”  That game was a long time ago, but it’s sure to be a big topic in both locker rooms this week. “That’s years ago now,” guard Chris Snee said. “We’re looking to just go up there and play. They are a different football team. We are a different football team. I don’t think anyone is going to reminisce about it.”  Of course, it has no impact on what will happen, other than the Giants developing a blueprint for the rest of the NFL on how to beat Brady. Even the great ones don’t like pressure.  With the tough six-game stretch that starts next week, the Giants are not going to be staying in first place in the NFC East when they come up for air if they don’t play on a different level than they did against Miami. “Clearly, we have to play better,” Snee said.  In the next six games, the Giants must stop Brady, Aaron Rogers and Drew Brees, the three best quarterbacks in the NFL, and also deal with Michael Vick and Tony Romo. They also have to play the 49ers, who have lost just once. Coughlin didn t want to think about it.  Let s just enjoy this one first, he said. One game at a time.  The Giants fell behind the Dolphins 14-3 and although they waited until 5:58 was left in the game to score the game-winner on Victor Cruz s 25-yard touchdown catch - their first lead of the game - the only mystery was how the Dolphins were going to find a way to lose another one, not if they were going to lose. The Giants pass rush picked up four of its five sacks on the Dolphins final two possessions after Cruz s catch.  The Giants talked up the Dolphins last week and they had nice things to say about them after the game. Tuck even called them a talented football team. Maybe the Giants were just trying to rationalize waiting to turn it on and put them away.  That s not going to work over the next six weeks. Coughlin is not going to go for it on fourth-and-9 from the Miami 34 on the first possession of the game against teams like the Patriots. It didn t work when Manning threw incomplete and then the Dolphins went 66 yards the other way for their first TD. He won t be giving a relatively short field to Brady. He will punt in that spot and try to make him drive 90 yards instead of 66.  Obviously, we can play better, Tuck said. We are just going to continue to mosey along and hopefully we can continue to get some wins. Our schedule gets tough with a big game up in New England next week. We'll see where we are real soon."  They will be in Foxborough, where Tuck and Umenyiora need to have a nostalgic Super Bowl reunion and meet right in Brady's face.
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