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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The best thing about the early part of the NFL season is how quickly teams can change. Take the New York Giants as an example. Just a week ago, Tom Coughlins team was winless in its opening two games. Eli Manning was looking over the hill and uncomfortable in the new West Coast offence. The much-hyped defence had not recorded a turnover and there were visions of another 0-6 start and a third straight year out of the playoffs. Guess what? The Giants (2-2) have not only turned things around in the past five days with wins over Houston and Washington a€” a 45-14 decision on Thursday night a€” they are rolling. Manning is looking like a Super Bowl MVP again. Second-year tight end Larry Donnell has emerged as one of the biggest surprises in the league. The defence has had nine takeaways in the two wins as the defensive line has made life miserable for opposing quarterbacks. The turnaround has many jumping on the Giants bandwagon and Coughlin telling his players to relax. His message is simple. They are not as bad as they looked in losses to Detroit and Arizona and they are not as good as they looked lately. They are a .500 team. We have to continue that attitude about having that chip on our shoulder and having a lot to prove, Coughlin said Friday as his players prepared for a long weekend off. ... I do know this, that if we want to accomplish what we would like to, the improvement meter has to go up weekly. After being limited to 28 points in the first two games, Manning and company have gotten new co-ordinator Ben McAdoos offence in high gear, averaging 434 yards and 37.5 points the past two games. Manning has completed 49 of 67 passes for 535 yards, six touchdowns and an interception that wasnt his fault. The running game has produced 347 yards and Donnell has emerged a playmaker, leading the team with 25 catches for 236 yards and four touchdowns, three in the first half on Thursday night. No one likes to start 0-2, but two wins in a couple of days, four days, feels good, said Manning, who is hitting almost 67 per cent of his passes this season. Donnell has come out of nowhere to be his favourite target. The former Grambling State product has used his athleticism to become a hard matchup for opponents. He works his butt off, said safety Quintin Demps, who replaced Stevie Brown in the starting lineup and had an interception. He deserves it. Eli did a good job putting the balls where they had to be. He deserves it. Hes a good player and hes only going to get better. The defence has been outstanding, taking the ball away nine times, with seven setting up drives that started in the opposition territory. In the past two games, New York has started 10 drives inside its opponents territory, while neither the Texans nor Redskins started a drive in Giants territory in those games. We have always known the potential that has been on this team and with the leaders we have, cornerback Prince Amukamara said. I am just glad that no one kept their head down and everyone just kept with it when we were 0-2. I know it is easy to get down on yourself when you lose games, but we knew the games we lost, the other team made plays, but we definitely were our own worst enemy with the penalties and assignment busts. We knew that if we eliminated all those things wed have a great chance to win ball games. The Giants wont play again until they face the Atlanta Falcons on Oct. 5 at MetLife Stadium. The schedule through Thanksgiving is tough with Philadelphia, Dallas, Indianapolis, Seattle and San Francisco on tap. I think that we all knew this thing was going to click at some point and we were taking steps as the early part of the season went on, the first two games went on, said receiver Victor Cruz, who has had 100-yard receiving games the past two games. You could see the progression in our offence and it was just a matter of when it was going to happen. We kicked up right at the right time in order for us to keep our goals in task and continue to head in the right direction. Hakeem Olajuwon Rockets Jersey . The moves were the first punitive steps taken by the Dolphins since a report on the NFLs investigation of the case was released last week. Investigators found that guard Richie Incognito and two teammates engaged in persistent harassment directed at tackle Jonathan Martin, another offensive lineman and an assistant trainer. 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Odorizzi (3-7) retired his first 10 batters before Jose Altuves one-out infield single in the fourth that went off the pitchers foot. The right-hander, who went 7 1/3 innings, won for just the second time in his last 14 starts. "Tough luck," Odorizzi said of Altuves hit. "It was coming too fast." Only one runner reached second base against Odorizzi, who walked two. Brad Boxberger and Kirby Yates completed the one-hitter. "Thats the kind of game were capable of, absolutely," Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said. "We finally got the hits when we needed them and the pitching was outstanding. Jake was really good." The Rays are 7-18 in their last 25 games. They have nine shutouts this year. Jake Buchanan (0-1) gave up five runs, eight hits and three walks over 4 1/3 innings in his major league debut. He had his contract purchased from Triple-A Oklahoma City to fill in for Brad Peacock, who was scratched from his scheduled start after having food poisoning earlier in the week. "It was pretty exciting to get out there and pitch in a big league game," Buchanan said. "I tried to settle in and battle and did the best I could." Kevin Kiermaier had an RBI double and James Loney hit a run-scoring single as the Rays took a 2-0 lead in the first. Buchanan avoided furtherr damage by getting an inning-ending grounder from Yunel Escobar with the bases loaded.dddddddddddd Tampa Bay had a three-run fifth to take a 5-0 lead. Brandon Guyer drove in a run with single before Matt Joyce had an RBI double that ended Buchanans day. Ryan Hanigan added a run-scoring double against Jerome Williams. Loney had a two-run single in a three-run eighth that extended the Rays lead to 8-0. Altuve went 1 for 3 with a walk, and has 12 hits in his last 21 at-bats. It was the ninth time this season, and second in three days, that Houston was shut out. "Thats the nature of baseball," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "You cant let a bad today ruin a great tomorrow. We come back (Sunday) and have an opportunity to get a split in a four-game series on the road, which is always good." NOTES: The teams wore retro 1970s uniforms on "Turn Back the Clock Day." Maddon remains a fan of the Astros rainbow uniforms that they wore Saturday. "They nailed it," Maddon said. "I do dig the uniforms." ... Houston C Jason Castro was the DH one day after taking a foul ball off his knee. He is expected to get Sunday off, ... To make room on the roster for Buchanan, RHP Paul Clemens was optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City and RHP Jose Cisnero (sore right elbow) was transferred from the 15- to the 60-day DL. ... Houston RHP Anthony Bass (right intercostal strain) will start a minor league rehab assignment Sunday with Single-A Quad Cities. ... Astros LHP Dallas Keuchel (8-4) and Rays LHP Erik Bedard (3-5) are Sundays scheduled starters. ' ' '