FOXBORO -- The NFL dropped its hammer on the Giants Tuesday with all the might of one of Santa's little helpers.
The league announced that the Giants organization was fined $150,000 and coach Ben McAdoo was fined $50,000 for using two-way radios to communicate plays during the team's Week 14 game against the Cowboys. Five plays in the game had been called with the walkie-talkie setup, the league determined.
The Giants' fourth-round choice in next year's draft will be moved to the end of the round (after any compensatory picks in that round), but will drop no more than 12 selections from where the Giants finished in the draft order in that round.
Patriots Insider Tom E. Curran wrote a column you should read about the sense of entitlement exhibited by the Giants in back-to-back weeks: Against the Steelers in Week 13, they stuck needles in Steelers footballs on the sidelines; a week later they thought for some reason that it was OK to use a two-way radio when the coach-to-quarterback communication system went down.
And now they've been punished. With the equivalent of a slap on the wrist.