The Giants laid the blueprint...

Actually there was no blue print for what the Giants did. This was a unique situation when 3 DEs started on the line.... Justin Tuck was a DE, and they transformed him into an unstoppable DT. I know all this, cause Strahan talked about it in one of his interviews after the game. They did something very unique with Tuck, and that might be a blue print for us, in having C Grant a slow DE, who could do miracles as a DT, just as Justin Tuck did. And the play of J Tuck was the difference in the game, when the Pats had no answer for him.
You don't watch much football if you think the Giants are bringing this to the NFL. The Saints did this quite a bit under Haslett with Darren Howard, Will Smith and Charles Grant. This is big-time old stuff.