I don’t think Ahmad Bradshaw is getting his starting job back…
And this week…
What an ass whippin’.
Giants do best when everyone picks against them.
I kinda dug the intro song to TNF. Never saw it before, and my only knowledge of Cee Lo Green is a vaguely negative opinion due to him being a karaoke judge, but I liked it.
Good job on the Panthers rushing to snap the ball after that long pass down the middle early in the game, on either their first or second possession. Clearly not a catch but it was ruled one, but the Panthers snapped the ball like 15 seconds later to avoid the replay. Nice move, well done.
Bush league to kick that last field goal. Coughlin would normally run the ball or take a knee in that situation; not sure why he kicked it tonight. Maybe still butthurt over last week and taking it out on the NFC South in general?
The refs weren’t terrible, which was nice. Not specifically about any calls – some bad ones crept in but not a huge deal – but rather on the pace of the game.
Go Giants!
(Oh yeah, and Barden: I told ya so!)
I don’t think there was anything wrong with the FG (other than the fact that I’m up against Tynes in two fantasy leagues this week). They might have scored if he went for it, and then he’d really get shit on.
Yeah, at the time they lined up for the FG I thought it was a little much. Bush league is a good descriptor. There were 3:17 left in the game, and the score was 33-7 before the FG. Just take a knee, David Carr.
In Coughlin’s tenure as the Giants head coach they normally take a knee or run the ball in that spot. It’s happened before; I’ve seen them kneel down on 4th down deep in opponent territory in blowouts before under Coughlin.
I’ve actually argued on these boards that kicking the field goal or throwing for a touchdown in that situation is bush league, citing the Giants not doing that as evidence that classy teams don’t.
(I seem to recall a controversy over a similar situation involving Brett Favre and maybe the Cowboys, possibly when Favre was a Viking.)
They normally take a knee on fourth down?
Agreed that the classy thing to do is to take a knee there, but if any team in the league has an excuse for not doing that this week, it’s…well, Dallas, but after them it’s the Giants. Think of it as Coughlin’s fuck-you-by-proxy.
In my quioxotic quest to pretend anyone I know (here or in meatspace) gives a damn about the AFC West, I’ll point out that the Chargers-Falcons game ought to be pretty exciting. As a Bolts fan I was glad to watch Atlanta take down Peyton last week, but none too happy to see their success rate with trap coverages in the first quarter…especially when Norv was showing so much promise at sacking up and letting Rivers do his thing before they’re down by 12 in the 4th. (Okay, maybe that wasn’t “sacking up” so much as “feeling the white-hot fire underneath his ass,” but same result and that’s way too many metaphors about Norv’s body parts anyhow.)
My fears are quelled somewhat by the return of Mathews and the night-and-day improvement in pass pressure by the defense, but the Falcons are still the first competent team SD are facing this year, so here’s hoping they don’t shatter my early optimism. CHARGERS CHARGE!
Ellis Dee – Remember the song “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley? That’s Cee-Lo.
Huge game for my Saints this week. At 0-2, I think only about 12% of teams with a similar start have made the playoffs. If they fall to 0-3, they can pretty much forget about it, according to one column I read today.
Hoping the defense can get its act together and actually stop somebody for a change. The offensive line hasn’t been giving Brees the amount of time he’s used to having, but he’s still able to put some points on the board.
Yep.
Before the two minute warning? I don’t ever recall that. And the Panthers still had all their timeouts. I was remembering last years late game embarrassment to the Iggles around that time.
Before the two minute warning? I don’t ever recall that. And the Panthers still had all their timeouts. I was remembering last years late game embarrassment to the Iggles around that time.
I’m really concerned about the Eagles/Cardinals game. Every sign points to the Eagles looking past this game, fresh off their emotional win over Baltimore, and looking ahead to the Giants next week. The Eagles also always, always drop at least one game per season to an inferior opponent on the road. Add in that the Eagles lost to these Cardinals at home last year (in one of the many games they led in the fourth quarter, but really didn’t play well at all that day) and it looks like an inevitable disaster.
A few things temper my anxiety, though. This Eagles team seems to finally be playing a defensive scheme that makes sense and, while the volume of praise they have received makes me skeptical, the results are indicating this defense is legit. I find it hard to imagine how Arizona scores much with Kolb behind probably the worst O-Line in the NFL.
I’d feel more confident if I knew what to expect from the Eagles offense. Minus Maclin, Kelce, and starting LT Dunlap, I foresee the same struggle to score for Philly. Considering that Vick has been dreadful (being generous) and the Arizona defense is really capable in their own right, this is going to be a very low scoring game. I have a sinking feeling a special teams/defensive TD (probably both) and the replacement refs being swayed by the home crowd will make the difference.
So almost all of New York gets the Broncos game, except Albany, which is getting the Steelers. What is up with that? I want to watch the Broncos, damn it.
I’d be concerned if I were an Eagles fan too, both for the reasons you state here plus the fact that the Cardinals are playing pretty well and that Kolb is going against this old team.
I’m loving this new Giants dynamic. I’ve been a Giants fan since the dismal, never contending early 70s. All the great defensive teams under Parcels and grew up with a Dad that had actually been at the sneaker Bowl game in the early 50s. Until Eli, I never felt like the Giants could come from behind with a big deficit. If it was a small deficit the D might make something magic happen, but never the O.
Last week when they entered the half miserably and down so much, I probably would have turned off the game before Eli. But last week I had that strange feeling. “Eli can still bring them back.” And then he did. This week, it looked bad with the injuries. But I know Eli can and will throw to everyone and before the 1st quarter was over he had already put up 10 points and hit 7 different receivers.
I love this new Giants, it is so weird for me, but I am enjoying it.
Now I hope the Cards win today.
Root for the Bengals today too! It’s weird playing the NFC East this season, and the way our schedule is made up, the Bengals play the Manning brothers in back to back games at home.