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Giants' bandwagon is getting crowded

Lots of great reaction stuff from all over the place in the wake of the New York Giants' 35-24 dismantling of the Dallas Cowboys Sunday.

Let's look around and see what is being written and said.

  • Steve Serby of the New York Post must read Big Blue View. He also wrote this morning that Sunday's game wasn't a fair fight.

This is the way bullies do it when the guy on the other side is a 98-pound weakling. This is the way bullies do it when a cowboy shows up to a gunfight with a water pistol. This is the way bullies do it when the other guy shows up with a gaping wound and they smell blood.

Bully for the Big Blue Bullies.

Now that the Giants have disposed of the Cowboys, who were inept in their third game without Tony Romo, they can start to focus on the much bigger issue: repeating in Tampa. The Cowboys must get on a run to make it as a wild card, then hope they can duplicate what the Giants did and become road warriors in the playoffs.

The Giants have demonstrated they have not fallen into the Super Bowl championship trap of coming back the next season with a lack of fire. The best they've done in the season after their three previous Super Bowl seasons was 8-8.

"To hold that trophy up, it makes you want to go back more than it did before you got there," said defensive end Justin Tuck, who picked up 2-1/2 sacks against the ghastly combination of Brad Johnson and Brooks Bollinger. "You didn't know what it felt like. Now you know what it feels like, you want to feel it again."

But repeating usually happens only once a decade. "It doesn't have anything to do with us," Tuck said. "Didn't New England go back and do it again? So why can't we do the same?"

The 35-14 spanking the New York Giants gave Dallas on Sunday reinforced what we already knew.

The Giants (7-1) appear well en route to defending their Super Bowl title and — sorry, Tennessee — have emerged as the best all-around team at the season's midway point.

"They're every bit the team we thought they were," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said after the game in his team's locker room. "They treated us like they were world champions and we were in a different league."

Like the XFL.

I think it amazes me, watching the best size-speed back in football, Brandon Jacobs, that he's getting only 16 rushes a game for the best team in football, the Giants. Imagine what he'd do with 25 carries. But then I see what Derrick Ward is doing with Jacobs collectively, and I understand. Through eight games, they've combined for 203 carries for 1,117 yards for 5.5 yards a pop. That's a winning formula.

  • Tom Coughlin, of course, found something to be unhappy about even after his team hammered the Cowboys. Here is the full transcript of his press conference.

The only thing that is the real negative for me right now is the turnovers.  The turnovers kind of take the heart right out of the game so to speak.  The timing of those things were very bad and we haven’t been doing that, so it is something we do have to improve upon.

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I think he is missing the boat on Jacobs. I don’t believe he would be as effective over the course of a season with 25 carries.

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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Nov 3, 2008 11:31 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

I agree 100%.

The way he runs, the punishment he gives and receives mean he’d be worn down by the end of the year if not injured then or earlier. I don’t think he has had an injury-free season.

by george cronin on Nov 3, 2008 11:41 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

did anyone hear Troy

saying during the game what an advantage it was the Barber could now carry the full load? From what I saw, he had no one spelling him was severely gassed by the end of the game.

by queler on Nov 3, 2008 12:23 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Yeah

If you trade what a lot of people are saying re: Jacobs not getting it enough transfer it to Barber who dishes out as much as he takes and is getting all the carries. Thats the best example. There’s only so much one man can do.

We're only gonna score 17 points?

by big blue wrecking crew on Nov 3, 2008 12:34 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

He looked gassed

On his first carry, LOL

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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Nov 3, 2008 12:25 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Coughlins right though...

Those turnovers couldve been disastrous had the D not been dominating the Cowboys offense…Eli still struggles with that and it could very well haunt the team in the coming weeks.

Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.

by bren on Nov 3, 2008 4:43 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

the first three quarters were ugly on offense

But I was encouraged in the 4th when it was apparent that the giants were running away with the game to see Gilbride run a few experimental play calls. There is no better place to practice a new formation or no huddle play than in a real live game and it’s a lot easier to watch when the game is on the line. These things will pay huge dividends come playoff time.

by NYcON on Nov 3, 2008 5:03 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

who was it last week who said

(after the Steelers game) they should fast-forward to the 4th quarter because that’s where Eli plays his best? I want to say Amani, but I don’t think it was him.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

by LI-cowgirl on Nov 6, 2008 2:44 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

whoops!

I mean when the game is NOT on the line

by NYcON on Nov 3, 2008 5:03 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

also

I hope the skins loose tonight so when the cowboys go the DC they find a team who will play hard because the sense or urgency.

by Bajaserge on Nov 3, 2008 6:46 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

But we beat the 'boys...

…..and good, just savor it, for those of us who survived the “wilderness years”, after all the pre-season hubbub touting of dallas, this is more satisfying than a playoff win.

http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files//2008/11/victory.jpg

by The Pale Scot on Nov 3, 2008 7:19 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

except that

all we ever get from the Cowgirl fans is that we were lucky or, they have so many injured players – plus, they are without Homo. I’m tired of hearing that! We have guys out too – may not be the same, but Osi is a big deal!!

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

by LI-cowgirl on Nov 6, 2008 2:49 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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