Giants vs. Lions, Open Thread

by Ed Valentine on Aug 7, 2008 12:00 PM EDT in Events Comment 27 comments

New York Giants at Detroit Lions

When: Tonight, 7 p.m.

Where: Ford Field, Detroit, MI

Network: WNBC Channel 4

Sirius Channel: Lions Feed Ch.126 Giants Feed Ch.127

Radio: WFAN -AM 660

Here is your first game day open thread of the 2008 season. The Giants, or at least whatever players the Giants have available, meet the Detroit Lions tonight in their first exhibition game.

A note about the thread. If you want to follow along during the game, keep your browser open to the comments throughout. The comments will 'auto-refresh' as they are posted, making it seem like a live blog.

We will see how this works out. I might still use some third-party live-blogging software during the season, but keeping your browser open to the comments during the game provides a pretty close facsimile.

Giants.com has comments from several players on the first exhibition game.
NorthJersey.com says the game provides a big opportunity for bit players.

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I'm excited for some football

even if it is fake and basically meaningless.

by cjmulrain on Aug 7, 2008 2:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Ahhh

Football season is (for the most part) back!

"We're only going to score 17 points?" ~ Tom Brady

by mwilli on Aug 7, 2008 4:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Where's Bob Papa?

I suppose that with his new NFL Network duties, Bob’s going to miss some Giant games. I hope only a few. I’ll miss his play-by-play.

by nygiants2001 on Aug 7, 2008 5:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Papa

Is probably doing Olympics work

Giants fan from the womb to the tomb

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Aug 7, 2008 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can't wait to

get a look at the rookies. Lets see how our new saftey can hit. Ditto the linebackers. Hows Tollefson progressing? How about Tank Daniels, he had the special teams strip that put us ahead in the Tampa playoff game. If the F word comes up I’m gonna puke though ,and I’m not refering to his Highnesses’ new set of Commandments.

We're only gonna score 17 points?

by big blue wrecking crew on Aug 7, 2008 5:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

yea

I’ve been looking forward to this game for a few days b/c I hope it will be a bit of a retrospective on last season in addition to seeing the new players and whatnot, but if it turns into a Favre lovefest, I may have to turn it off.

by cjmulrain on Aug 7, 2008 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

How much more fun

will the Giants/Jets pre season game be now??? Blitz Favre!

by myteamrivals on Aug 7, 2008 6:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

so

anybody here?

Giants fan from the womb to the tomb

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Aug 7, 2008 7:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

hey

jrs, i’m here, but not really concentrating on it. not expecting a big rush of in-game comments tonight.

by Ed Valentine on Aug 7, 2008 7:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Season's over

Lions just scored, Giants are finished, LOL

Giants fan from the womb to the tomb

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Aug 7, 2008 7:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

well there were some guys in here about a half hour ago

guess they went to watch the game

Giants fan from the womb to the tomb

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Aug 7, 2008 7:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Listening to football on the radio

Sucks

Giants fan from the womb to the tomb

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Aug 7, 2008 7:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

yikes

Haven’t seen this Eli since the Minnesota game. I was kinda hoping never to see him again. Oh well, at least this game doesn’t count for anything.

by cjmulrain on Aug 7, 2008 7:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Feagles puts one down at the 9

He’s ready for the season

Giants fan from the womb to the tomb

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Aug 7, 2008 7:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Kiwi

will be a monster.

by Ed Valentine on Aug 7, 2008 7:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

all I care about in preseason

Is that no one gets hurt. I hate the 4 preseason game thing. Think about it, the Giants played 24 football games last season

Giants fan from the womb to the tomb

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Aug 7, 2008 7:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Agreed

I am interested in seeing some of the kids, too.

by Ed Valentine on Aug 7, 2008 7:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

All I can see is Gameday on NFL.com

Does Ward look like he has overcome his injury?

by TerraByte on Aug 7, 2008 7:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Ward

is running hard.

by Ed Valentine on Aug 7, 2008 7:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Terrabyte

You can listen to the game on wfan.com

Friggin Tynes

Giants fan from the womb to the tomb

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Aug 7, 2008 7:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

SWEET!

by TerraByte on Aug 7, 2008 7:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I guess

everybody went away at halftime.

by Ed Valentine on Aug 7, 2008 9:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

My net connection went down

Any surprises?

by TerraByte on Aug 7, 2008 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

how about Carr?

pretty nice game for him overall.

didn’t get to see it on TV, but the box score is encouraging.

by SBakerTheTouchdownMaker on Aug 7, 2008 9:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Against the 3rd team Defense.....

.....Just kidding. Maybe all of my David Carr criticism is way off base! The guys I’ve been bagging on the most (Moss and Carr) look like they had decent performances. Hopefully Moss piques someone’s interest.

The comment above re: no one getting hurt is really the key. I’d like to have seen Eli’s #’s approach Kitna’s (6-7 for 105 yds and a TD!! – all that against the Giants 1st team D! WOW!) but these game’s are tune-up’s. I’m fine with Eli saving his best for the road playoff games vs. the Dallases and Green Bays of the world….

by Cody K on Aug 7, 2008 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Carr was terrific

until the last two minutes. He made a bad mistake on the intentional grounding, but overall it was encouraging.

by Ed Valentine on Aug 7, 2008 10:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

can i just say

FOOOOOOOOOOOTBAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!!!! i know u all missed it as much as i did. that said, terell thomas looked great tonight with that leap to swat away the ball/get the pick, nice open-field tackles from him, im very encouraged by what i saw from him bryan kehl and KP, too bad mario manningham couldn’t play, but that said brandon london and sinorice moss looked so sick tonight. brandon london is a BIG dude, and he’s quick too. we really do have one of the best receiving corps in the NFL.

by mahmoodzaky on Aug 7, 2008 11:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs