An army of championship-starved Giants fans filled with real hope and real belief, fantasized about the team that John Harbaugh wasted no time lifting up from Rock Bottom by the bootstraps, a big, bad army of gung-ho soldiers built to bully unsuspecting visitors across 60 bone-crunching minutes.

A team that will earn the right to win.

A team that can finish.

A team that would earn the right, Harbaugh told us back in May, to kick the Cowboys’ ass.