'Kudos & Wet Willies,' 8-1 edition

is also not good for another reason … injury. He could have got killed on that play.

Big win by Big Blue. I also thought going into this game that the Giants would more likely lose than win, but they not only hung on but dominated most facets of the game. Hopefully the lose handling of the ball was just a case of playing during the first really cold temps.

I’m jealous I had to get up at 5. I think with some work on form all Giants skill players could become good hurdlers…….Boss seems to have it down! Seriously I thought Jacobs head was going to come rolling away on that play.
 BIG EXTRA EXTRA KUDOS TO THE BEST OFFENSIVE LINE IN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!
(one’s not enough)
 They’re not the biggest although not small either, these guys held off one of the most ferocious defenses in football quite admirably. They deserve kudos every week in my book. I honestly though this could be a game where the run would be stuffed and then they’d T-off on Eli. This group has to be the best Giants O-Line ever!

had eleven carries before the two-minute warning in the fourth quarter. ELEVEN.

that’s like Phil Jackson keeping Kobe on the bench for 3 1/2 quarters. you have to give the ball to your star (and no, i don’t mean McNabb). with the way that Westbrook has shredded the Giants over the years, i am absolutely baffled that he only got 16 touches. totally inexcusable. look at me ranting like an Eagles’ fan. i just hate inept coaching. hate it.

this Baltimore game will be a great test for this rushing offense. if they get anywhere in the 125-150 range, they should win easily.

I told Ed this week that I did not expect the Giants to win this week. But I also told him that the Giants have a tendency to win when I don’t expect them to. (Pittsburgh).

Do you guys realize the Giants have only lost 2 games on the road in 2 years, and have only lost once since last Christmas? Including the playoffs, the Giants are 12-1 in the 2008 calendar year.

I like Kevin Gilbride, I don’t think you can understate the job he has done at finding an offense that Eli Manning can prosper in, but man oh Manischewitz, I swear sometimes he calls plays like he is playing Madden 09. Giants were running all over the Eagles last night, and some of those passing calls were head-scratchers.

Brandon, Ahmad, Derrick, ok, watch me closely now…..Hold the ball up HERE. Last night I dubbed it the “Tiki Tuck”, and they all need to learn it. Playoff fortunes can turn on a single fumble.

Every week we get just a little further away from the “Shockey Days”, don’t we? Kevin Boss has a chance to be a pretty special player for the Giants. Seeing Drew Brees reaming Shockey on the sidelines last night warmed my heart.

Over 600 comments in the live thread last night, great job by everybody!

That was a great win for the Giants. I have the Giants at the top of my Power Rankings, just above the undefeated Titans (would be a good game right about now). I am the Ravens blogger and will post a Q&A on the side FanPost this week so we can trade questions, comments and perhaps even a little harmless trash. We have a small but vocal group of following on Baltimore Beatdown (www.BaltimoreBeatdown.com), so feel free to stop by, join and post, as long as you keep it clean and no name calling, personal attacks, etc. (like the Cleveland fans!).

As far as the game, the Ravens defense hasn’t allowed a 100 yard rusher for 28 games in a row. While I don’t expect even Jacobs to get there, he is the best back we will have faced all season. Your team is real tough on both sides of the ball, but we have won four in a row and our offense has averaged over 30 points in that span. So don’t take us lightly as we’re coming up there to go to war. Good luck! (sort of)

It hurt so bad because the players on the field for the Eagles appeared to be doing their part to win the game, but the coaching staff seemed to be doing everything it could to lose it for them. The giants have a heck of a running game, and I have to admit that losing Tiki may have been the best thing that ever happened to the giants. While we were holding the giants to 3 yards or so up the middle, we’re still getting killed on the edges, but I digress.

That was a great game, but a game that the Eagles “could” have won. I won’t say should have, but could have. And that’s the worst part. We have a team with no running game that runs at the worst times, when we should be running a Patriots-style offense that passes the ball on every down because our receivers are our strong suit. But it was a good game nonetheless.

As an Eagles fan, I just wanted to jump on and say I fully agree with your wet willie to Andy Reid, hopefully he’ll give the offensive calling back to Morninwheg.

No doubt that poor excuse for a coach of ours was a big reason we lost. Some other folks are saying there were bad calls from the refs. The only bad calls I saw werent from the refs, it was from the coaching staff. Anyways, the reason the Eagles lost was Jacobs and the other beasts from the backfield, plain and simple. You guys got some monsters there. Giants deserved to win this game hands down. And with a running game like that I dont see how anyone is going to stop them. I have to ask though. I didnt see the Browns game, how did the Giants loose that one? They seem almost indestructible.

I’m glad I found the BBV…and you guys!
Mike & Mike threw their own kudos this morning, especially Golic saying the sign of a great team was making mistakes, but still finding a way to win! They’re showing our Gmen some love!

"I think it was a statement game for the division, because we let everyone know we went through one time and beat everybody pretty handily," said wide receiver Amani Toomer, noting the Giants’ earlier victories over Washington and Dallas. "We’re a team to be reckoned with. We want to win this NFC East. We didn’t get a chance to do that last year. Hopefully, we can do it this year."

"(Manning) wanted the challenge and upstairs backed it up," Coughlin said. "From upstairs, they were saying his foot might have been on the line, but he wasn’t over it. With the naked eye I wasn’t sure. I was back behind the play. Eli was pretty sure."

"I didn’t know for sure," Manning said. "I just know that rule where your entire body has to be across the line of scrimmage. If you have one toe on the line of scrimmage, then it’s a legal pass. So I thought it was worth the risk (to challenge the call). I knew I was going to be close to the line of scrimmage. But I know that rule where it may look like you’re across the line of scrimmage. But if your foot is behind that line, then it’s a legal pass."

I was hoping after the TD that we could say Plax was back, but he got awfully quiet

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Buying a Chase Blackburn jersey

I won’t be able to see the boys “live” until the last home game of the season when I come home for Christmas, but I think I’m going to have to add a Jacobs jersey, and maybe a Ward jersey, to my collection. My Toomer jersey, though worn proud, needs a little rest! ;-)
I like using the word “arsenal” for our O-line!

If The Beast is too big for the tiki tuck..
as for my #27 jersey.. i’ll have to wait until he gets paid, but I may get a jersey of his no matter who he plays for because i’ve been a fan of his since my (and his) days in Carbondale, Illinois.. home of the Salukis