1. CC Brown – another blown coverage on DJax wide-open TD. Can’t believe there is no-one on the roster who can do this better. Move TT to safety during bye week, and go with Dockery/Johnson at CB if Ross isn’t ready. This is JR’s one "Wet Willie", as it’s amazing we couldn’t come up with better plan in off-season or before trading dead line (hell, the Eagles, in a much more desperate situation, got Witherspoon for a # 5 an d a guy worse than Sinorice Moss !! – problem instantly solved.)

2. Special Teams – another bye week issue to address. Fire the special teams coach. This has been a bad unit for years, on both returns and coverage. Gotta be someone out there more competent. Would send a message that there will be consequences for failure. Unfortunately, you can’t fire Sheridan or Gilbride at this stage of the season.

3. Eli – no solution here. Just hope it’s not the heel causing all those horrid throws (and only "brain fasciitis" makes you throw it into the teeth of the coverage).

Was it just me, or on those first two possessions did it seem like the Eagles were in the Giants huddle. We finally bitzed, and they had perfect play called each time. On offense, they jumped almost every route our receivers ran. Can you say "out-coached" ?!?

I have said it before.

More athelicism at LB – Boley is back. Play Kehl or Sintim instead of Clark.

How much worse can a first year safety be than Brown? I would cut him – he is that bad – and play Rouse or even better, one of the young guys off the practice squad (name eludes me).

Canty should help the DL but some creative ways to line up would not hurt. Play Kiwi more.

Fly to the ball !!! Make some plays!!! Take some chances!!!

I’m down with all you say, although I think we should bench A P now and not wait until things get worse. I’m not sure we’d losing much if we lose his signal calling. He seems to be thinking too much out there

although they might be availabe for spot duty only. Better something than nothing.

- This is an unathletic, uninspired team that believed in its own hype - from top to bottom. Watching replays of other games on NFL network — middling teams like the 49ers are playing watchable football, playing with heart and fire, win or lose, while the Giants seem to be saying — “but this can’t happen to us, we’re the NY Giants, wah, wah, wah!” Beat the Chargers or put the season to bed. If they can’t find a way to defeat their next opponent — a middling team — then the BYE will solve nothing. The season will be lost, lots of heads will be scratched, and maybe next year fans will enter the new season with more scepticism and a better eye towards picking out what were, this year at least, easily seen flaws…

He may be a dirty player, but he does know the game and can help us short term. He’s on the scrap heap and can be had for nothing. I’d at least give him a look if I’m Reese.

maybe i just haven’t noticed but when i see the defense running around looking lost and they cut to Sheridan on the side lines it seems like he just stands there with his clip board with no emotions. One of my favorite things about Spags was his emotion and intesity and scrambling to get players in and out, mixing things up and even shouting on the field as the other team is lining up. I loved watching that and it really seemed like the players responded to that. To me it seemed that Spags was the true “qb” of the defense and AP was just benefiting from his intellegence. I always thought the team should have payed what ever Spags wants and promise him the throne to the giants and let TC go in a few years. Just a thought

Against the Eagles……..Did anyone recognize that on the TD pass To Jackson, this Sheridan(disguised as a NFL DC)had his 2 best rushes drop back into coverage,sent only 4 and Danny Clark was one of them……this is the same Clark that hadn’t recorded a sack b4 last week in over 3yrs………this has been his(sheridan) MO,against the Saintsno blitzing, yet we draft a LB (Sintim)in the 2nd rd to just that!It appears to b total incompetence…………Offensively,why hasnt Ramses Barden seen the field yet,but we seem to continue to put Moss out there,do we have to hope for an injury to notice the talent sitting in front them, something like the 07 Super Bowl team! It seems that the coaching staff is adverse to benching players and giving young players opportunities, unless there is an injury or you are a 1st rd pick ie;………Bradshaw, Boss and Micheal Johnson,didnt see the field until there were significant injuries………..And I dont believe we win the SB,without those rookie contributions!…………….Reese has given these guys the tools and they just aren’t handy!

He was wide open for an obvious TD but Eli sailed the ball way over his head..and yes I have been clamouring for Barden all season..We have players on the field that should be on the practice squad and players on the practice squad that should be on the field..What’s up with that?

But Ed makes some great points:

1. DTs haven’t done anything this year. We used to be able to count on them to get a pressure on the QB and that hasn’t happened this year.

2. I’d love to see Sintim get playing time. We are playing with slow, unathletic LBs. The coaching staff can be stubborn towards young players (i.e. – Butler playing over KP last year), lets hope that ends.

3a. Sheridan has to be the biggest problem. He is the coordinator. He needs to make sure that his players know where they need to be in every situation. Our players are constantly out of position and confused. C.C. Brown plays 40 yards deep on 3rd and 10 and they just throw it right in front of him. Sheridan needs to see this on film and correct him. I can’t stand C.C. Brown, but he has not gotten coached up at all.

3b. Another reason that I believe Sheridan is the problem is because this was an unathletic defensive team last year, but Spags was able to make our D look good. We still had Clark, Pierce, and Blackburn last year. They didn’t suddenly get that much slower. They just aren’t being put in the right positions to succeed. There are a lot of great coordinators out there that can do so much more with less. Sheridan needs to find ways to hide weaknesses on this team.

Lots of talk about bringing in the rookies, and I’m starting to wonder, why not? Really C.C. Brown is awful. I can’t believe that even an overwhelmed rookie wouldn’t be able to put up the same workload as Brown. Honestly, what’s the draw to Brown? His hitting ability? Its so rare he’s anywhere near someone to tackle that we don’t see that ability of his. Personally I would try giving Anderson or Rashad a chance. Ed, didn’t you do a piece in the preseason about how Anderson really wanted a chance to prove himself? At this point, we should to give it to him. Realistically, there’s nothing we can do about Brown to improve our season. He’s now a target for offenses. I know rookies aren’t a very safe option, and it could wind up worse than Brown, but how much better does our season look with Brown starting?

As for bringing Barden in, I’m now somewhat skeptical of the kid. The talk all preseason was how he could go up into the air and bring down the ball against two or three DBs, but if he’s doing that against our DBs then what does that prove? I’m more curious about Ware. Has he been used at all the previous few weeks? With Bradshaw’s playing time about to become very limited, we’re going to need him.

I agree with the thoughts on D however it’s time to start putting the blame on Sheridan for this horrible D we have. All of the changes Ed V has suggested should already be in the works because Shridan should be looking at doing some new things you know adjusting to the realty on the ground. On Sunday if I see the same old players and the same old game plan I am gonna scream even louder for Shridan to be fired at the end of the year. I love Jerry Reese but when you have a now team you don’t hand over the defense to a rookie coordinator!

I know that he can’t make the catches or the reads on the field, but before you defend Gilbride again ask yourself these questions. Is our offense a power run team or a pass team? How come the only quick pass our offense seems to have is the bubble screen. When is the last time Gilbride has suprised a defense with new wrinkles during a game. The Giants fool nobody on offense the defense already knows what play is coming before the snap is that all on Eli or does the O Coordinator have to take more blame for a generic game plane. Yes Gilbride is a good coach, however his play calling is terrible and predictable. For god sake’s Defenses have been playing us the same for a year now and he still has not figured out how to make the pay for putting 8 men in the box. We need to up grade!

My problem with KG is his inability to react during the game. This was glaring last year in the playoffs. It was clear in the 1st qtr that Eli was not throwing the ball well. Who knows why, but the gameplan was to try to hit a long one early, and Eli wasn’t getting it done. At that point, they needed to call some short passes and try to get Eli hot, but it just didn’t happen.

Last Sunday, Eli was horribly off, clearly unable or unwilling to step into his passes. At this point there was no adjustment.

But this is who he is, and it isn’t going to change. Firing him now doesn’t make any sense though. Quite simply, if the D continues playing at its current level, the season is over. So while I really disagree with how the Offensive playcalling is being done, the only way to get the wheels back on this bus is to get the Defense to start forcing some turnovers.

have provided an environment that promotes typos, grammatical errors, etc. People are always apologizing for them. As long as sense can be made of the message, I say leave it alone. Another area where technology has provided an environment that encourages rank growth is the loathsome troll. I say don’t encourage them by responding to them (okay, maybe, occasionally a one sentence barb, but no more than that—life’s too short.)

How about Ty Law for safety?

Coaches coach, players play. Football is a team sport,
Anything that happens on the field, both the coaches and players
are responsible, players are trained by coaches, a player must practice till
he can execute the play.
if a player cannot execute then find another player that can.
Both coaches and players are highly paid to do their jobs.
If they can’t perform, replace them.

How can Eli and T.C. say they are concerned. It looked to me like Eli was in a daze and the defence were looking in the wrong direction .I think T.C. should look back at last year and get back to basic.