1.   Only Sam Garnes, the rookie safety, is new among Giants starters from the group that Nolan coached last year.

2.   Spying, or the suspicion of spying, is not new among National Football League coaches.

3.   Tagging fish to determine how fast they grow and where they travel is nothing new among professional biologists.

4.   But there was nothing new among the rumbling hardware on the ground or in the sky.