Laughing stock? Take a deep breath and think. This Giants defense held the Chargers to 21 points, and played well against a very potent offense. If someone laughs at this defense then I’ll point them to the three straight plays where we hit Charger players behind the line for a loss. That was a good defense. The problem is the play calling. I agree Sheridan made some awful decisions. Dropping Tuck to cover Gates burned us, and his blitz schemes have no variety or logic to them most of the time. But fire him? It took us what, three weeks to bench Brown? Sheridan won’t go this year. If we continue to lose, then maybe, but as is, Sheridan can fix this. He just needs to stop thinking “cerebral” and start thinking pressure. An all out blitz up the middle is not pressure. If Sheridan can learn this, we can be imposing yet again.

I know this seems a little rash, and this post is a little… angry, but I think that the poster is right. I really don’t think Sheridan gets it.

My impression was that the Giants blitzed on 7 of the 8 plays on that final drive. More importantly, though, the Giants had one responsibility on that final drive: prevent the Chargers from scoring a TD. Once the Chargers got into the fringe red zone (30→goal line), it is utterly imperative to run at LEAST Cover-2, if not Cover-3 or Cover-4, even. Sheridan left the corner isolated on Jackson… it’s just inexplicable and inexcusable.

Watching these games, the impression I get is that Sheridan is just guessing. He doesn’t seem to have an actual plan in place—it’s just a bunch of random blitzes on random downs. It may be hard to predict where they’re coming from (being random), but not hard to counter when it’s so frequent.

The talent is clearly there (and without CC Brown in there, they looked a lot better). But Sheridan.

Other thoughts:

- Boley makes the defense look so much better. For the most part, they had an answer for Gates all night.
- CC Brown really was below replacement level at safety.
- The Chargers dropped quite a few passes, which made the defense look better than it actually played (granting that it played better than previous weeks).

Bring back Lewis hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!

I agree with you cntrlalt ; The Giants coaching staff are very stubborn they don’t like playing rookies unless they have no choices;that’s why they don’t use Barden,Beckum and they’re started Hixon instead of Nicks . I think the Giants have been outcoach in a lot of games this year.With all the talent that we have we shouldn’t be this bad . How can you explain for our defense to be worst than last year with the addition of : Umenyora , Boley, Canty , Bernard and Sintim .It has to be the coach .

to be run out of the point of my this conversation, which was the linebackers. these guys were drafted to be the future linebacker corp, and its painfully obvious AP and clark are not getting it done. the college game and pro game have closed that gap in difficulty and we need to see what these valuable mid round picks have.

It’s over. Ever since Pierce slammed the raiders, a Giants game is like a scrimmage.