Giants receiver Plaxico Burress will surrender to the New York City police on Monday morning and will be charged with criminal possession of a handgun, according to his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman.

The Jets are just beginning to become a team that expects to win. It is an emotional corner that the Super Bowl champion Giants already have already turned.

It is unclear how the receiver’s self-inflicted injury will affect his return to the lineup, or what type of disciplinary action could be taken by the Giants or the N.F.L.

The ensemble cast of Giants is breaking the usual professional sports assumptions, if not the laws of common sense.

Scoring is at a historic high as more and more teams embrace the short passing game. Whatever happened to the idea that defenses win championships?