the wings are in the fryer

A bit of good news for the Giants: RB Brandon Jacobs, who was listed as questionable for today’s game with a knee injury, is expected to play, according to someone familiar with his status who requested anonymity. That is, of course, barring any setbacks in warm-ups.

MG

With everything else going on, no separate post for ’Greek’s’ picks today. Here they are.

Denver (8) at NY Jets
San Francisco at Buffalo (-7)
New Orleans at Tampa Bay (-4)
Carolina (3) at Green Bay
NY Giants at Washington (3.5)
Miami at St. Louis (9)
Baltimore at Cincinnati (7)
Indianapolis (-4.5) at Cleveland
Atlanta (5.5) at San Diego
Pittsburgh (1) at New England
Kansas City (3) at Oakland
Chicago (3.5) at Minnesota
Jacksonville (3) at Houston

from NJ.com:

LANDOVER, Md. – Giants president and CEO John Mara and GM Jerry Reese held a brief session with reporters in the press box here at FedEx Field a few minutes ago in which Mara expressed regret the team is dealing with the Plaxico Burress situation.

“I’m disappointed this happened and that any of our guys would put themselves in this kind of situation,” Mara said. “Or first concern is for Plaxico’s health and well-being. We were very relieved to find out he is okay. But yeah, I’m disappointed.”

Reese seemed disappointed he hasn’t yet had a chance to talk to Burress.

“I reached out to him. I did not get a return phone call,” Reese said. “So I haven’t spoken to him yet.”

Giants WR Plaxico Burress will surrender to authorities when requested — without a warrant — and will address his legal issues as early as tomorrow, according to the lawyer who will be representing him, Benjamin Brafman.

Ok, enough about him.

Hixon or Moss?

“are we ready?” you say “aaaoooo!”

when I say “who are we?” you say “the last place New Orleans Saints!”

God, give me a break, so sick of the Saints

is AP, he should’ve know better, hopefully no sanctions will be applied to him

That extra point was hilarious.

I guess you can say the Giants are ready to play.

Toomer ran right PAST HIM! I didn’t know he had the jets!

Hixon looks great, and Eli was fitting those balls in their real tight that drive. And the Redskins are doing there best Notre Dame impression so far (2 straight 3 and outs)

that’s what happens when you blitz big…

Next, Alford will have to try a direct snap to Feagles .

Is on F*ing fire. He’s on the $$ today; even in these conditions. I love it.

Hix looks great. You better believe Reese is going to say to Plax, “do you really think we need this BS, plax?”

that’s not looking good. I hope he is ok…

Pretty soon teams will stop this ‘make Eli try to beat us’ stuff.

Toomer is looking great too, and the Redskins shot themselves in the foot with the penalty (too easy to make a Plax joke there, but I couldn’t think of a better way to phrase it)

Bummer, that’s when it hurts to settle for a FG instead of a TD.
Good drive though. Skins tightened up in the green zone

The minute we cut him the Cowgirls or Redskins will sign him and we will have to game plan against his ass twice a year. Keep this mind.

OK, I am officially tired of the ripping of Gilbride now. We have had a direct snap, a beautiful screen to Boss and another imaginative screen to Ward. The guy keeps adding stuff to this offense all the time.

did Eli threw another long pass?

But are the Giants sending another “big” message" to the rest of the NFL saying, NOTHING CAN AFFECT US!!! AND WE WILL WIN GAMES NO MATTER WHAT

never misses. I love me some old kickers

the guy just keeps on making kicks.

I’m kinda surprised the Redskins have only had 1 leading rusher since 1933, and it wasn’t even Riggins. I always thought of them as a power-rush type team, so that seems strange.

Oh, and great sack!

If Portis is hurt and out for the rest of the game, my fantasy team will finish with a combined 6 points from my running backs this week, and I need a win to make the playoffs. I was hoping Portis could get a junk time TD or something, after the Giants put the game away!

clean pick taken away by a ticky-tack penalty that happened 10 yards back

against Webster. And it costs the Giants a touchdown.

Uhhmmm…….why isn’t Hixon returning kicks??

Toomer is looking rejuvenated. And with that, Eli’s over 200 yards passing, with 7 minutes left in the first half.

where’s the hands to the face penalty??

this is ridiculous

he had solid possession of the ball all through that roll, even if the ball did graze the ground.

What the heck was he doing?

we dominated this half and are only gonna be winning by 3 if he hits this.

Jacobs should have been in on the 1st play.

Great drive. Clutch play by Eli. Glad they didn’t have to settle for 3. Yadda Yadda Yadda.

after that INT – lol!

that Hixon did so well there, I think of Patrick Clayton missing that easy huge gain for the Cowgirls in the playoffs last year. Ah, the memories.

Giants are in control, but they should still have more than 20 points.

looking good.

Saying that Plax speaking in the 3rd person was shirking the responsibility.

PS: Plax will be charged with criminal possession of a handgun. Grrrrrrrrrrreat.

Taylor may not have been the greatest of guys, but he didn’t deserve what he got, and certainly didn’t bring it upon himself with an act of gross stupidity and recklessness.

because this drive is going to serve no real purpose. Just like week one against the Giants, when Kiwi got that cheap-hit put on him on tone of the last plays of the game. And now Campbell gets destroyed by Tuck…just bad all around.

i love when the Giants beat them in their backyard.

Great game. Another great response to adversity from a very special team.

Should be an interesting week ahead.

it wasn’t the crispest game (they should have won about 35-0), but I’ll take it. 11-1 for the first time ever, not too shabby. I’m going to the game next week (even though I have a final the next day…eek). Last time I went to a Giants-Eagles game, they set a record for most sacks in a game. Hopefully this time they’ll tie a record for most consecutive wins against teams with winning records.

now the Giants are thinking about putting him on injured reserve, according to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen.