Eli has yet to win on the road, and while the Niners should be an excellent opportunity to break that streak I’m still too much of an experienced Giants fan to treat any road game as anything but a nail-biter.
The Philly/Washington game next week will be really interesting to watch. The Giants exposed some holes in the Skins’ game, but the Eagles looked absolutely godawful for almost the entire first half yesterday. They didn’t do themselves any favors in the last quarter either. Right now I call it a toss-up.
Picks for next week: Phil over Wash, NYG also a win.
I expected a loss yesterday. Still say Eagles take division (5 of 6 division games yet to be played) & finish at 11-5 or 12-4. The team simply always has a better second half of the season and I think that they’re over the hump of their toughest series of games.
Dear sweet bouncing Jesus on an atomic-powered pogo stock, that Giants game was a thing of almost unfathomable beauty.
I gotta give major kudos to Gibbs. Nine out of ten coaches would have settled for a field goal in the 4th, just to avoid the shutout. Doing so would’ve been tantamount to saying to his players “Well guys, you’re getting your asses handed to you. Let’s at least not have a shutout on my resume when we slink back home”. Instead, he challenged his team to go out there an try and make it a game. Yeah, they failed to do so, but I respect the hell out of Gibbs for having the balls to go for it.
Now let’s just not have a repeat of the last time the Giants built a fat lead in San Fran <koff2002NFCWildCardGamekoff>.
So were you in the stadium, or did you watch on TV?
I’m thinkin’, I knew I should have paid you to stay away!
Can’t believe how totally lifeless and worthless the Redskins looked. After scoring big in that pick-up game against SF a week earlier, playing against a real team again seemed to come as a shock to them.
I know you already corrected this, but I just wanted to point out how truly sad it is how versed I am in the NFL rules, in particular how they apply to the divisions and tiebreakers. Before even finishing your explanatory sentence, I was already thinking “that’s wrong…you eliminate all but one team from a division in a three-way tie between teams of multiple divisions.” heh.
Anyway, about the games. First off, does anyone know how old Kate Mara is? Cause I’m head over heels for her, and I’d hate for that to be an illegal longing. That face! That voice! In a Giants jersey!!! I almost passed out from from all the blood rushing out of my head. Me likey.
Quite frankly, as a football fan, the game itself sucked. I’ll take a game like the Broncos last week over these ridiculous blowouts any day of the week, and twice on Sundays. Same could be said for the Cowboys and Eagles games as well.
If I may be so bold, thank god the Mara media frenzy is over. Enough already! You’ll never meet a bigger fan of the guy than I am, (How many rants have I launched into regarding the class of the Giants ownership? Far too many.), but jesus fucking christ give it a rest already. The man would probably have hated all the attention, and the ubiquity of the coverage was annoying even to me by Thursday. Anyway, that said, much love to a Wellington Mara, a great man.
I’m pumped for the game in San Fran next week. We have a settle to score with them; they beat us twice in 2002, if you recall. Not only that embarassing Wildcard collapse, but also in the inaugural Thursday night season opener. I believe the playoff debacle was the last time we played them, and it will be good to return to the scene of the crime for some payback.
Eli looked like he’d only had 14 career starts out there against Washington, which was ideal timing for rookie inaccuracy, IMO. We know Eli doesn’t struggle on the road, as evidenced by his 4th quarter heroics in Dallas and his quality play in San Diego. The common thread in those two losses was the defense. Hopefully the road woes won’t be in evidence for the game next week, but I can’t imagine a cross country trip with the 3 hour time change will help matters any.
I’m looking for Strahan to get at least two sacks in both of the next two games. San Fran goes without saying, and Strahan has always owned the Vikes; his best two games of the last two years were both in Minnesota, IIRC. The only wildcard is that he piled up his sacks against Pep. With Daunte out, I’m not entirely sure what to expect.
So it looks like Sean Taylor has a few kinks to work out. I ask the Redskins fans to comment on how he’s been playing, as I’ve only watched that one game. Is he normally good against the run? I noticed Plaxico took him out of multiple plays, and Plax doesn’t strike me as the best run blocking WR in the world. (Though certainly not the worst, either.) Also, it was fun watching Tiki stiff-arm Taylor out of the way like he was a ragdoll. (Though in Sean’s defense, he hopped right back up and made the tackle.)
Should I attribute Sunday’s success on the ground to the Giants’ good play, or should I discount the performance because Taylor is known to be weak against the run? Oh yeah, and what’s up with Arrington? Wow.
Finally, I hated to see all the injuries to the Redskins that game. Most of them weren’t game-ending, but there were so damned many that I truly felt bad. Nobody knows about injuries more than a Giants fan of the last two seasons. They suck balls.
I just checked, and the first google hit for her name was her imdb page. She’s been in a few actual movies, and has appeared on Nip/Tuck multiple times. I only saw the first few episodes and then gave up, but not before I’d already seen Kate. As best I can figure, she’s the son’s lesbo girlfriend who we saw making out with another chick in one of the early scenes.
I haven’t paid close enough attention to know how good Sean Taylor is vs. the run, but I know the team as a whole has been sucking ass against it. Washington currently has the 8th worst rushing D in the league (though it has the #1 passing D.) The only reason we lost to Denver in week 4 was because we gave up two monster TD runs to Tatum Bell, and obviously the Giants ran all over us on Sunday.
That game was hideous, and the resulting blowout was definitely a combination of good effort from the Giants and no effort at all from the Redskins. I hope I don’t see slop like that anytime soon. I actually left the bar and stopped watching at the half because they looked so bad in the first two quarters that I was 90% confident they wouldn’t turn it around in the 2nd half.
Re: Sean Taylor vs. the run – big hitter, very poor technique and discipline. Physically he’s the perfect safety, and there’s really no reason that he shouldn’t be a difference maker against the run and the pass, but he’s batshit insane so you’ll see him taken advantage of, like when he took that extra step into the hole and let Barber have the corner on the first play of Sunday’s game. If he ever decides he wants to, he’ll be the guy that every other safety that comes after him is compared to. Freaking Miami lunatics.
By the way, TO is rumored to be close to declaring himself out of the next two games.
Heh, I don’t think T.O. much likes getting tackled by our boy, Roy Williams.
Broadcast of the Cowboy’s game was pre-empted last week by our local game. Bummer, what with that happening the week before their bye. Two straight week w/o. We were stuck with the Bronco/Eagle game which capped off a really sorry viewin… no… actually last week was quite enjoyable!
Call me crazy, but IMO the 3 hometeam underdogs with the best chance to win outright are the Jets, Packers and 49ers.
I really really hope the last one doesn’t end up coming true, but I would not at all be surprised to see the Giants lose outright. I’d be positively stunned if the Giants covered; this is exactly the kind of game the G-Men historically lose. (Like losing to the expansion Texans in 2002, for example. The Texans went 2-2 against the NFC East in their first year of existence!
The Giants (6-2) pulled off a shaky win against the 49ers.
So far (halftime), the Eagles are not imploding in the face of the TO debacle, but are probably relieved that he’s suspended and perhaps on his way out the door.
