There are some rare circumstances where a team significantly outplays its opponent but loses due to dumb luck and and an errant bounce. But the Giants have been manhandled by every opponent this season. I’m not sure it’s possible to find a single event that, when reversed, changes any of their losses to a win. And certainly not this last game.
The NFC East is atrocious. One the one hand I should be happy that the Eagles actually have a chance to win the division; but on the other, the team can’t truly compete and I don’t want them to accidentally back into a better record because they have to play the rest of these clowns another 5 times.
I used to be a huge Redskins fan back in the 1970’s and 1980’s, into the early 1990’s until I moved into the Cincinnati area. WTF happened to the NFC East? It used to be THE premier division in football, particularly with the success of the Cowboys, Giants and Skins in that same period (sorry Eagles). What happened? Douche-tastic owners (Snyder, Jones)? I mean, the Giants were damn good for a few seasons not long ago and won two Superbowls but even they have fallen off.
The Giants outplayed the Cowboys so badly that even after five turnovers, the Giants had the ball down by only 6 with around 2 minutes left in the game. When you take away the ball 5 times, you’re doing something very wrong if your opponent has the ball and a chance to win. “Manhandling” them is not a term that springs to mind.
They played the Broncos tough up to halftime, and then fell off a cliff for the next 6 straight quarters.
The division is just so terrible – 1 combined win against the rest of the league – that the Giants still have a shot, as pathetic as that is.
I’m not sure what the answer is, but he actually fumbled twice in the first game, though the first didn’t go in the books, can’t remember why, may have been a penalty or something. After being spoiled by Green-Ellis who didn’t fumble for four years, I’d guess Belichick has no tolerance for 2 in a single game.
Yeah, sorry. I should have logged in instead of doing yard work, cooking dinner, playing with the kids, reading to the youngest, getting them in bed, and reading. Next time I’ll make sure I am available for you to act like a Steeler fan for.
Congratulations on the win.
Gio Bernard stat line: 10 carries, 50 yards; 4 catches, 49 yards, 99 yards total, 1 TD.
Johnathon Franklin stat line: 13 carries, 103 yards; 3 catches 23 yards, 126 total yards, 1 TD.
Still, the idea that they “beat themselves” against the Broncos is ridiculous. Even if the Broncos don’t sustain their scoring pace of the first two weeks, they still have a solid team that has a good chance of beating any other team in the league on any given day.
To sincerely believe the Broncos weren’t primarily response for the Giants loss in that game is to live in an alternate reality (which I know describes many sports fans).
Sorry, I was a little tipsy with jubilation and adult beverages…I acted obnoxiously and I apologize.
Anyway, that Franklin/Gio comparison isn’t exactly fair because Franklin was the only RB the Packers had left and was used exclusively while Bernard has to share carries with BJGE. I’m not sure that Bernard will ever have the durability to be a feature back in the NFL (and really, there are very few of those left anyway) but he sure is a nice weapon to have. He’s got three touchdowns in the last two games. Not bad for a little rookie.
ETA: “acted like a Steeler fan”? That’s a low blow, man!
The 49ers look pretty incompetent, especially on offense. It’s not really Kaepernick by himself, though. The receivers can’t get open, and the run game has was totally abandoned. On their lone TD drive, they gashed the Colts for multiple long runs, but after that? A bunch of cutesy crap and ugly looking pass plays.
The defense looked entirely ordinary. They left guys wide open, couldn’t get any pressure, and missed tackles. They still did enough to keep the team in the game, down only six points until late.
With the exception of the killer fumble, Franklin had a better day than Bernard. If you want to separate opportunities, Franklin still had a higher yards per touch than Bernard.
I have almost the exact same feelings about Franklin. I don’t think Franklin will ever be a every down back, but he’s a nice little weapon to add, especially as a compliment to a bruiser like Lacy or Starks.
Not bad at all. But I’m not sure I’m ready to declare him rookie of the year yet.
I think I’ve been clear that I want Kaepernick to fail, and I have enjoyed the past two games. But I can’t get around how good he looked against the Packers and how bad he looked the other two games. I’m guessing it’s a combination of growing pains, defenses having more tape and better game plans for him, and a depleted Packer’s secondary, but I have no idea what to make of the guy.
That’s a particularly ignorant comment given that Miami has given up major yardage to both the Colts and Falcons and both games were won by offensive drives by Ryan Tannehill, who outplayed both Luck and Ryan.
Well, yes, it is, I have not really been following the Dolphins. I just chanced to look at his stats, they look pretty bad as far as sacks, rushes and rushing yards. OTOH, “Matty Ice” is supposed to be pretty good, he seems to be getting frosted of late.
(Oh, and Gary the Snail is actually kind of an intellectual creature, in his way.)
That’s like saying, “The Redskins didn’t get manhandled by the Eagles, they were in the game at the end!” You can take comfort in semantics if you’d like, but forcing six turnovers and leading by three scores late in the third quarter strikes me as manhandling your opponent. Dallas’ win probability hit 80% with 12:42 left in the third and never fell under 66%, even late in the game when the Giants had fought their way back in garbage time against prevent defenses (without a starting corner who got hurt in the game) and an injured opposing QB. But yeah, the Giants outplayed the Cowboys pretty badly in that game.
“Ridiculous” is being kind. Trying to shoehorn that sentiment into the 2013 Giants is pathetic. The Giants got beat by the Cowboys, facerolled by the Broncos and then had their shit pushed in by the lowly Panthers.