They can go back to the chip on their shoulder, Us against the World Giants that won lthem the Super Bowl last year. Now there will be a big panthers bandwagon and the giants will be pissed. I think this team along with the injuries got high on their own fumes.

and ignore the rumors that I was measuring your office and looking at new furniture.

I don’t even know where to begin on the game, so I won’t.

I will say this, and I don’t want to hear any of that “oh you’re all gloom and doom” crap:

If the Giants don’t figure this out, and quick, Carolina is going to steamroll them. I watched them yesterday, they look like the Giants of a month ago.

The Giants are in dire need of an upgrade at Linebacker, at all 3 positions. What the Giants have there now is a guy that has become an average middle LB, and then a whole bunch of “4th linebackers”.

John Madden should just go work for the Cowboys, it’s disgusting to hear him gush over that team all the time.

I live in New Hampshire & we got hit really hard too. Fortunately I live right on the coast & it wasn’t quite as bad here. I didn’t even lose power at all actually, but my friends & fiance’s family both live more inland and still do not have power. They might not have power until late this week. So we’ve had a packed house as friends & family have been staying over for days to ride it out.

I think the major problems lie with the offense. When Jacobs gets back & they can get back to what they do best … running the ball & play action passing, then we might be ok. I don’t think the offense will get to the level of a few weeks ago without Plax, but it can still win.

The defense is just flat tired right now. If the offense can get back to what they were doing, then the D will be ok. We’ve had issues at LB for a few years now, so there is not the reason. Sure we miss Osi, but we haven’t really been getting great pressure on good offensive lines all season with the front 4. We’ve had to blitz a lot this year to get pressure (again on good O-lines). This D will be ok I think. I’m putting the onus on the offense to get back to controlling the game.

But is it time for the G-Men to work on a single-wing/Wildcat Doodad?

Is Tuck on the inside with Tollefson on the outside.. I haven’t watched any tape to further my conjecture just by what i’ve seen, but it doesn’t work now because guys just double team tuck because we don’t have osi or strahan for other teams to worry about.. Tollefson can be blocked one on one easily by a solid left tackle.

at this point our draft needs IMO
1.LB
1a. Big WR
3. 3 Technique Defensive Tackle
4. O-Line
5. Tight End (Eli needs a real Hot target)

I mean, a problem, maybe, but hardly the biggest one. If the game is close and the Cowboys aren’t pounding the ball for the entire fourth quarter, I don’t think they look like as much of an issue. The problem is that there just isn’t enough talent on offense when you remove the two best players at two important skill positions from the mix. Perhaps some of us were a little too quick to say that this team wouldn’t miss Burress and Hixon would be just as effective?

I would agree the Giants loss has a lot to do with Plax, but does anyone think it could be a mental thing, 2 game hangover as a result of all the attention? The Giants have played fine with out him quite often. Its way too soon to hit the panic button.

What we are not talking about here is that its 2 games the Giants lost knowing they were in the playoffs. They choose to rest BJ last night. Im sure he could have played. The team did not have the sense of urgency the cowboys did. Thats understandable, but I do not want to see anyone get hurt over it.

Now if the Giants dont get home field – is that really a bad thing? Last year they won all their playoff games on the road. The meadowlands is a crappy place to play in December/Jan, as we saw against Philly Eli is useless in the cold/wind and this is not really a team that hangs its hat on cold weather ala Buffalo or GB.

I mean, we’re missing two top skills players. Jacobs and Plax are both one of kind physical specimens. It’s stupid to think we could just keep going like nothing happened. Ward doesn’t look the same to me. He’s missing that burst, which I’d imagine is because he’s run down. This has gotta be the most he’s ever played in his whole career. And sweet merciful crap is Boothe terrible. He makes me long for Bob Whitfield. It’s not bad enough he have to watch him get beat, and then watch his fat ass jiggle in slow motion on the replay. Excuse me while I throw up.

And to tell the truth, I think relying on Jacobs to come back and suddenly make the offense what it was is unrealistic. He’s good – yes – but his absence is being used as an excuse for the crappy line play the last two games.

Plus Eli was holding the ball way too long last night. Dallas was killing us with screen passes – we should have tried to do the same to them.

particularly by the offense. Obviously, it’s very worrying. Hopefully once Jacobs comes back things will get back to normal, but I think it’s pretty obvious that we all underrated how important Plax was to this offense. Hixon has looked flat out bad the last 2 weeks, dropping should be TD’s in back-to-back games. And I think Ward may be costing himself a lot of money in Jacob’s absence – he just hasn’t looked like an every down back.

I agree with Jrs about the linebackers, but fact is there’s nothing we can do about it right now, and I don’t even want to think about the draft yet. The Giants are still NFC East Champs. They need Jacobs to come back, the line to get its act in gear, and they need to go out and beat Carolina next week, to ensure a bye (and home-field, but to me the bye is more important. I just don’t want it to come down to having to beat the Vikings on the road to get the bye).

Sorry but much of the blame falls directly on his shoulders.

Look, the D kept the Giants in the game long enough to win it, so I can’t pile it on them. I know that they did give up some big plays and I know that they were unable to deliver any knockout blows (ie no turnovers).

But seriously, this is on Gilbride. As far as him looking for something that would work, I think it was obvious to EVERYONE that on a night where the T’s were getting utterly ABUSED by Dallas’ D – you HAVE TO (HAVE TO!!) figure out a way to protect your QB and open up the offense.

Watching a game like that makes me wonder if Gilbride knows that he is allowed to make in-game adjustments. I wonder if he is aware that when Dallas’ D is generating major MAJOR pressure on your QB and that you are only down by ONE SCORE (I’m referring to the 4th when the GMen were down 14-8) that you don’t have to go to a 7-step drop and allow Dallas to BLOW UP your QB.

What makes this all the more infuriating is the way Garret made in-game adjustments. Garret saw how challenging running the ball would be. Garret saw how much Romo was getting beat up. So what did Garret do? Did he have Romo take 7-step drops? Nope. He adjusted. He called some slip screens. Quick dump-offs. Anything to stem the pressure and the beating. And you know what? It worked. Gilbride should look at the clinic Garret put on last night and watch it over and over. Gilbride’s inflexibility is simply infuriating. Watching this team struggle is so frustrating because I can’t help but think about how much more powerful they would be with a competant play-caller.

When Al Michaels was describing how Coughlin was kicking himself for not going to the no huddle against Philly? Then they proceeded to not use it against Dallas?

Rain expected, temps in the 30’s at gametime

While I am normally jealous of Giants season ticket holders, Sunday night will not be one of those occasions if that is an accurate forecast.

Your description of his reaction to the front 4 not getting pressure reminds me a lot of his mentor… That’s the Jim Johnson way. If the front 4 can’t get there, he sends the house every play and certainly does leave the team vulnerable.

Utility crews work feverishly to restore power to Big Blue View Headquarters in Upstate NY

Yeah the 2 kickers did well. That’s about all the real positives. Injuries have finally caught up with the offense although hopefully all are back for Carolina.