beatty did have one falso start penalty at the 4th quarter, but overal his performance last night was preety good so i still think he belongs at kudos, but as for AB wet willies all the way when he lack diciplin for punching docket in the pile, WITH HIS HELMET ON!!!

to the O-line especailly, Ohara, Snee, and Seubert. The cardinals killed the Giants with blitzes and pressure up the middle all three of these guys got beat several times and it was a big reason the run game was not working and Eli looked out of sorts.

Awful loss but it’s a long season. If the Giants can pull out a win next week they’ll be 6-2 and 3-0 in the division halfway through with a lot of injuries and a real young WR corps. Philly will be tough as always but they seem to be having some of the same problems the Giants are especailly with pass coverage and defensive injuries. Remember Pitt was 5-3 last year with losses to NYG, IND, and PHIL all contenders and Big Ben was banged up and not playing well. We all know what happenend. Usually I’m the most pesimistic guy out there and like Ed said they might not be as good as we thought but they have talent and if they improve they might actually peak in December instead of fade like they usually do.

A total disaster last night, and while I hate to disagree with Ed, I have to put some of the blame on the coords last night.

The Giants know better than any team in the league that if you get to Kurt Warner early and often, you take him right out of his game. 2 sacks last night, not enough. Giants also played way too much zone defense last night.

On offense, we heard Al Michaels tell us a zillion times that the winds were tough last night, yet Eli kept throwing wet Nerf footballs 30 yards downfield, including once on a 3rd and short in the 4th quarter.

Everyone talks about the Giants “great” offensive line, and they have a 265 lb battering ram at running back, and yet they still can’t figure out how to get one or two yards when needed.

One last thing Ed, I think you were way too generous with the Kudos. The Yankees left you in too good a mood today, lol.

If the Giants don’t figure it out, and fast, they could find themselves in 3rd place next Sunday.

Be it injuries, coaching, execution, whatever, this team is the most precarious 5-2 team in the NFL

to be a Giants and Mets fan. It’s going to be a very long and crappy week. Please sweep the Phillies please, Yankees. At least that will end this awful baseball season sooner.

A sweep by the Yankees and a dominant win next Sunday in Philly by the Giant will cure all ills that I’m feeling right now.

Hixon has proved to me he is not a capable deep threat….one on one, you have to make a play.

Maninngham had a huge drop, I only hope as the season goes on he makes his catches more consistently.
 
Tynes is god-awful at kickoffs. He couldn’t reach the end zone in the dome last week, and barely reached the ten this week.

Eli needs to step up as well, if teams are going to challenge him like that, he needs to be more accurate.

D-Line came out ballin’, then what happened?

I think Nicks deserves a kudo for grabbing that tip

Giants are better on paper than on the field. The injuries on defense has taken this team from an elite status to a good team status. At present, we are a middle of the pack team and will be watching the Saints and Patriots or Steelers in the Superbowl.

Big kudos to Boss and Smith for those excellent receptions in the forth quarter. Boss was totally rocked and Smith showed great concentration on his ball.

Wet willie for Manninghams drop and route running. Eli’s pecking order should be Nicks, Smith, Boss, and then Manningham. It’s becoming clear to me that Hixon is not a 1, 2,or 3. His efforts should be on special teams only. It may be time to give Barden a shot at the corner fade.

We need Canty, Boley and Ross in the lineup quick. Our D is not scary at all. If things continue the way they are going, we will be lucky to get a wild card.

playing DT to help get pressure on the QB, and it seemed to work, but that’s probably why the Cards were able to run so well on first downs. We had a lot of plays where there was only one DT on the field and our safeties running away from the line of scrimmage. There was noticeably more blitzes called, and to a certain extent I thought it was effective in rushing the offense before the WR could get downfield.

It seems to me, early on everyone was saying get AB more touches..so KG did just that..although last night’s game they should have ridden BJ more..the offense was way better with him in..the in 1 series out the next did not allow for BJ to get in sync..even then he was a beast..

is it just me or did it seem as if our DB would get to their zone and forget about the WR ? a few times Fitz was just roaming alone,we dont have the safety support so why cover space when there is a man you can guard…

More slants & curls…boss up the seem…its not rocket science .we are at our best with 2 backs 1 te 2 wr..if its a blitz run a slant…other teams do it to us..

Overall the D played well..Feags had an off night as did Eli & the WR..but it’s stillbetter to be 5-2 than 2-5..

he had a costly false start that backed us up on the last drive and got beat by calais cambell for a sack. definitely agree on the willies for feagles, probably his worst game as a giant. the playcalling was god awful, and im not usually one to criticize gillbride but there were some seriously bad calls (a draw backed up on our own goal line, a deep bomb on 3rd and 2?). eli had his worst game of the season, and we have the eagles and the chargers coming up. we need the bye week to come sooner.

probably in part to this being a decently officiated game — when we had to red-flag it 4 plays in to get our rightful fumble recovery I thought we’d be in for another week of zebra hell!
My observations:
It seemed like every time we rushed just the 4, Arizona did well, and most of the time we blitzed, it went well for NY. If anybody taped the game, they should count the blitzes and results compared to 4-man rush… the 4-man rush is not existent this year. It’s just not.
The play calling WAS weak. I haven’t been on Gilbride all year and I’m still not. But damn, man, can we get the NFL LEADING RECEIVER involved in the game before the 4th quarter? Can we stop throwing 60-yard passes, which we are something like 2 for 33 at this year? we’re not stretching the field with them, we’re giving away downs.
If we want to use those quick outs to receivers at the line of scrimmage, have somebody watch how the Patriots work their blocking scheme for Welker. That’s how it’s done. Our efforts were terrible!
Overall, play-calling I didn’t think stunk but… at the beginning of the game we were throwing and throwing…. like last week, that’s no way to set the tone. It seems our runs are pretty predictable… I think we should be running on 75% of first downs b/c we get in this routine: 1st down, incl pass, 2nd down, predicatble run, 3rd and 6/7, everyone knows we’re passing!
All in all, we were in this game, and the 2 turnovers at the end were the difference. What can ya do? 5-2, top of the division, but now GD do I ever need this team to beat the vile Eggles

TC has admitted that he told Feagles to punt to the sideline away from Breaston – I assume that the wind took the ball out of play alot quicker than Feagles would have liked – but at least he did as he was told!

not get a wet willy?

i love Jeff when the Giants have a chance to pin an opponent deep, but when they need a booming kick to change field position, he isn’t the guy. i know the winds were awful last night, but it’s worth mentioning. the Cardinals were on the Giants’ side of the field all night long.

I have seen him drop way too many balls the past 4 years. He should have caught that bomb last night or, at the very least, prevented RC from picking it off.

He shows no desire to go up and get balls unlike guys like Nicks and Tyree. He just waits for them to fall into his hands.

I see no way Hix or Moss are on the roster next year. Its time to move on.. Give Barden an opportunity!

In my mind, Nicks should absolutely be WR #3 right now. Smith and Manningham should start as well, and Hixon needs to be kept mostly to returns. I also wouldn’t mind seeing some Barden action one of these days.

…I really do.

When its working and the run game is not, like what happened largely until before the Saints game.

yet…Jacobs looks normal again. 5 YPC Jacobs. Juggernaut Jacobs. Against the Saints. Against the Cardinals.

Why, we only give the man the ball, 13 times this game and I’m too pissed at the Giants too look back to the Saints game, less than 13 times that game…what are we doing ?

Deep passes on 3rd and 2?

HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jake gets the ball 22 and 26 times, when he’s not going all that well….yet, 13 and less than that…when he’s back to normal?

I like Eli and the passing game, still do. Yet, its going to have games like this and the last where its out of rhythm.

I’d change my name to F&*K Bradshaw, but I can’t. He’s still my boy, but Brandon Jacobs is the Giants back, everyone else is a backup. Give Jake the ball, 25 times if you have to. RUN THE GOD DAMN BALL. Especially if the pass O is out of rhythm.

but I have one thing to say: this is still a very good football team that’s in a bit of a funk right now. Step back for a minute: they did not play well last night, they turned the ball over 4 times, they dropped a sure TD pass, they turned the ball over on both of their last two drives, both of which were promising and looked to be heading for TD’s, and yet, despite all that, they lost by a TD to the defending NFC Champions.

This team is still miles better than the ‘07 team was at the same point. It might not be a 14 or 13 win team like we all thought 2 weeks ago, but they’re gonna win ~11 games and make the playoffs and that’s all we can ask for. They’re not all-time great, but they’re still pretty darn good.

Boley needs to get back…NOW.

Sintim needs to play too. He can do what Danny Clark did and more.

And it was nice to not blame a game on CC Brown, he wasn’t all that bad (good even)

Two delay of game penalties, a couple of sacks where he should’ve had the presence of mind to get rid of the ball, and a lot of bad throws. If he doesn’t get bailed out by the fluky bounce to Nicks for the long TD, and some great catches by Smith and Boss when the ball was forced into tight coverage, his night is even worse than it was anyway. He has to be better than that.

If he had protected the ball we would not have lost that game. No, I don’t know that for sure, and no, he was not the only sloppy play offender, but the offense had momentum, and that turnover was a killer.

Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the final interception on a 2 and 10? WTH, with 80 seconds and 2 downs left ELI shouldn’t have been throwing into that much traffic. Poor play on Eli’s part

Dan
Just another Giants fan in Chicago

I damn near smashed the remote after that last Eli INT.
Go Yankees.

I don’t know what the average starting field position for each team was, but it definetly felt like the whole second half was played in the Giant’s side of the field. 3-and-outs and poor punts will do that to you. Just like last week, I felt that they got into panic mode way too early and it cost them any chance of getting a rythm on offense. What happened to ball control football, especially against a pass happy team? If this team loses the TOP and turnover battle, they will lose.
All that being said, I am not too worried. I am siding with Ed on the Yanks win and Gmen loss today. I’ve got faith that they will learn from their mistakes and get it together.
Bring on the Iggles and Phillies. We get to watch 2 NY teams take down 2 Philly teams next week.
And how sweet is the DVR? I managed to watch both games simultaneously, without missing a snap or a pitch, without watching a commercial, and I finished both games on time. Only thing better would have been seeing Eli finish that drive to take it to OT. Now for the dreaded 6 days until the next kick-off.

he deserves a wet willie i cant stand listening to this guy he is so annoying he said that the giants should throw dep more when he himself said the stat that the giants were 0 for their last 7 on deep balls
also whatever happened to a guy named Travis Beckum?? He could be a key guy oon those third downs

I’ve had a busy week as I haven’t been able to get here till today (Thurs. afternoon), and there’s way too many comments to read through so I’m guessing much of my sentiments will have already been touched, but I’m way too opinionated not to throw my two pennies in.

We have to catch balls down field. They were there. They’ve been there. The question mark on our WR is apparently warranted. That being said, we should never be going down field on 3rd and 2. Not w/ Jacobs in the backfield and Hedgecock in front of him. Not w/ Smith to be had in the flat. The next time it came up, they knew the exact play we were going to run as we should have done it the first time.

While the D had their backs against the wall a lot, I can’t say Sheridan’s schemes put us in any better position to stop them.

Oh, and Jacobs, you’re not Tiki, and your not Bradshaw. Stop trying to pick your holes. You’re not elusive. You’re a big, slow target. You’re a Mack truck, a human wrecking ball. Hit the hole hard and pound your way to 1,000 yards. If you can’t remember what worked for you in prior years, then just watch this game film and see Beanie Wells performance.