Dont hate me for commenting. I just had a Dennis Green moment.

he predicted that our Gmen would be 5-4 at the bye and he was roasted for posting his thoughts. I hate that he was correct but I hate it more that it was Rivers that had the great two minute drill and Merriman (pick via Eli trade) that got the final sack and got to do that stupid ass sack dance.

It’s 3rd down on the opponents 10 and his excuse is they were defending the goal? My follow up would be are’nt they always? You go for the end zone there. You can’t trust this D against Rivers. I think there are only a few D’s in the league that are good in that situation. I’m sorry you never leave the game up to your D even if your D is very good. You would not play for a FG in the first quater why do it there?

that there was plenty of time left and that it was basically fear of a turnover that led to the conservative playcalling. The problem is that Eli was playing flawlessly (I mean really flawlessley – I can’t think of one play today from him that I had a problem with, except maybe one sack where he held the ball too long).

Tho, of course…Jacobs almost got in anyway with the run

Maybe they should have even went for it one 4th and goal?

Still, the way teh defense was playing, you kinda see what Coughlin was thinking

Yet, the way the defense was playing, was not the way Eli was playing. Really, most of his incompletions were due to the O-Line (when do we start looking at these guys? Eli has to be Houdini back there) and throwing it away.

Lot to thinkg about these next couple weeks. Tho I would have to say, they did get back to what works today.

Maybe the Giants should have “stuck back and defended the goal line” and force the Chargers to “run the ball”. I mean, that is why we didn’t go for the TD, right???, they were defending the goal line…

but our offense couldn’t score, for whatever reasons, with a first-and-ten, from the 4 yard line. Was it the play calling? Lack of discipline? Either way, it is sad that we could not average 1.001 yards per play and take it into the end zone.

(h/t to Ralph Vachianno’s twitter): the only other team in NFC History to start off 5-0 and then lose 4 straight was the 1989 Rams. Those Rams finished the season 11-5 and lost the the NFC Championship Game to maybe the best team in NFL History. Still a loooong season to go.

Then why didn’t TC GO for the win? If your leader isn’t walking the talk, and stepping up as all leaders should when the going gets tough (both TC comments this week) .. who’s going to follow THAT “lead”?!

The more I listen, the more I hear TC making excuses for not following his own advice. I am not surprised the players aren’t following. You either stand for something .. or you stand for nothing. Very weak TC, very weak.

I mean it was 3rd and goal at the 9 not 3rd and goal 25. I can understand first and second down, but once you get to that 3rd and 9 you got to try to convert that. I remember watching Peyton Manning in a similar situtation a couple years back raise up and complete and out route for a game sealing TD. Eli could have at least been allowed to attempt it. They didn’t play to win the game tonight.

oh well, my Broncos are in firm command in the AFC West and the Steelers are going down Monday night. We’ll see you guys in a few weeks. Good luck in the interim!

In the heat of battle it’s easy to make a questionable decision. If Jacobs had made it in we would all be cheering his call. TC has been a large part of our success and gets a pass on this one.

Let’s see how the rest of the season goes when we get healthy in the secondary.

Most Defenses in this league let up those types of drives late. Even great ones Look at the past two SB’s. Pitt’s D was awsome all year but got shreded late. They only won because they had the ball last just like our Giants the year before. Great D all game but when Brady needed it he got an easy TD. Hell we’ve seen Eli do it over the years. I just think a desperate talented O vs a tired D is a bad matchup even if your D held them on the past two drives. If there was a minute left sure I agree with TC kick the field goal but 2 mins with the 2 min warning and a TO remaining,no guarantee your winning. Also and it did not come back to bite the TC but what if Tynes shanks another kickoff or they let up their trade mark 40 yard return to midfield which we all knew was quite possible in that situation? I think you play to the strenghts of your team not what’s in some coaching manual and thats the O against a weak D. The Giants were a bit lucky Rivers threw his one really bad pass on the previous series, it was tough to beleive he would do that again. I could not sleep last night, I’m still sick over this one. I feel like a Jets fan.

They are absolutely killing TC for that decision. Greenie just said something like “you are paying Eli more money than ANYONE else in the NFL right now and you don’t want to put the ball in his hands to win the game?”

After that Snee holding call, Coughlin’s mindset shouldn’t have been on running the clock; it should’ve been on scoring a damn touchdown. That holding call stopped the clock and essentially saved the Chargers a timeout. They were going to have enough time to score regardless.

Worst case scenario if TC’s mindset is where it should be: a couple of incomplete passes stop the clock, the Giants don’t score a touchdown and San Diego is left with 2 timeouts and 2:40 to score a TD. The Chargers come down and score and the Giants are left with some time at the end of the game to drive for a field goal. Or the Giants stop the Chargers because the abundance of time left doesn’t necessitate a no-huddle offense.