I was undecided last time but this time, i voted yes. It’s not a comfortable yes, but the remaining schedules for the Cowboys and us, tend to perhaps favor us. Plus, if DWare will be out for the Cowboys, that will not be good for them!

Dallas is likely to get hammered down the stretch but the Redskins & Vikings game don’t look promising for the Giants. Seeing the Giants being humiliated again by the Eagles in front of their sibilant fans is not something I want to go though again for a while.

If the Niners can somehow win in Philly this Sunday, they end with Detroit and St. Louis and certainly a 9-7 with an 8-4 conference record, winning tiebreakers. So let’s not assume this is just a battle between the Defenseless Giants and Choking Cowboys quite yet.

…but they’re 1 and done. Way, way too inconsistent on offense, and consistently poor on defense. They have the talent, but they just don’t get the job done. A good part of that is coaching, when players too often make poor choices in coverage… i.e. undisciplined. It makes you wonder what the coaches set up as reinforcement opportunities during practice leading up to the games, whether these coaches are sharp enough to spot errant decisions, and then how much coaching is applied in order to correct those wrong choices. The Giants defense today is too straight forward, too predictable on defense. They don’t throw anything in the way of complicated stunts or overloaded schemes at an offense akin to what’s regularly witnessed by the best defenses in the league. The Giants intend to beat opponents straight up, man on man, old school. Offenses know it, and in fact count on it, as we’ve witnessed by Sean Payton and Andy Reed. This defensive unit is no worse than what Spags had to work with, and by this point in 2007 Spags’ defense was dictating to offenses. Today, offenses dictate to Sheridan’s defense, and he’s not sure what to do about it so nothing changes from week to week to week. 1 and done.

What experts had us getting through the playoffs and beating the Pats in ‘07. And who had the Cardinals making it to the SB last year. I know it doesn’t look good for the playoffs but you never know in this crazy game. One bounce of the ball or an injury to a key opponent. Our offense is playing well enough to make a run. Any thoughts on using Osi as a roving-type DL/LB, sort of like LT? We seemed to keep Dallas on their heels a little with that amoeba D.

but we really need to show up and play a real solid game at Washington… Now it is just made that much more difficult since we do not hold our own destiny and we must rely on other teams to help us out.

If nothing else I would like to see a little 3 game win streak here to close out the season. If after that we can make it than great….

and by then the personnel changes will have been in place for a few weeks and young guys will have some more games under their belts. The question is whether we’ll be hot going in. We’re not hot now but as ’07 showed, it only takes one game to get hot.

If the defense that showed up against the Cowboys rears its head, then we have a decent shot at procuring our playoff spot by our own merit.
However, if the defense that played Philly shows up, we will lose any game we play.
If the latter happens, we could only get in by mere luck.

We should be able to sneak into the playoffs. The toughest game will be against the Skins, they suck of anus too and we should beat them. Carolina is not the Carolina I’m used to seeing and the combination of Matt Moore and Jake Del Home Me means we should beat them. The Vikings will be resting their studs on both sides of the ball. Dallas has the Saints and will be playing without Dware, the Skins and then the Eagles. It’s basically a two team fight for that last wildcard and we have the softer schedule. Philly will win the East, Green Bay will get a card and Gmen or Girls will get the other card.

As bad as the D was, the killer play IMO was the Jacobs fumble. That put us down 14 and we had an uphill fight for the rest of the night. I think we have enough offense and the last 3 teams we play don’t have Desean Jackson. We should be in good shape.

do not mean anything.

So let’s say the giants make it to 9-7 and get help from Dallas. Will backing into the playoffs make Bill Sheridan know how to coach a defense? Will it suddenly motivate the secondary to actually learn how NOT to blow an assignment? Will it get our running game back to form?

Personally I’ve mailed it in after the Denver game, but at the same time, I see the giants going 9-7 and getting to the playoffs….and than i see a gut wrenching loss.

I just don’t see this team having the ability to beat elite teams….

…but they’ll be eliminated in the first round…again.

We have a very good chance of making the playoffs. I think we go 2-1 in our last three games and Dallas goes 1-2 with San Fran NOT going 3-0. Once there, I think we can beat Arizona assuming that’s who we play (don’t they split up the division rivals on Wild Card Weekend?). After that it would be us against New Orleans and we saw how that turned out earlier in the year.

Is Dallas going to win 2 out of 3 down the stretch? Doubt it, seriously. My bigger concern is SF winning out. IF they do that and we go 2-1 then they’ll beat us on conference W-L. Which means I need to root for the Eagles this weekend now. Bleech. The other possibility is that the Eagles could actually lose out. Pollyanna alert: we haven’t lost the division just yet.

I voted ‘No’ last week after we had just beaten Cowboys, I now vote ‘Yes’ after losing to the Eagles, go figure. What I like .. a bit of a step up in the intensity. Giants lost to the Eagles, but we did score 38 points. I would love to see the G-Men in a post-season game, and just for that I say YES … and I actually think they will get there, not just wishful thinking. The Pro-Football Forecaster, which is always 100% correct for reasons that will be obvious, gives the G’s a better than 50% chance of winning each of their remaining three games, and a 49% chance of making the playoffs. They give Dallas a 51% chance, which is clearly a bug in the system.

The only question – if G-Men make the playoffs will there be as much pressure to flush the dunny on BS?

I keep seeing this up here on the board… dont knock me for my optimism..but ima be as real as possible here..

top two teams are saints vikes…first round bye

then we got the cards, eagles/dallas(although the giants can win the div, if some crazy ish happends)

… the giants had a lot of bad things happen agains philly sunday night.. i dont think the pr td and the fumble td guarantee the giants a win at all..but it sure makes for a different ending.

the cardinals can be beat obviously…. i dont give a one and done against arizona at all

all the giants have to do is get in the playoffs.. win out.. and we are in(if dalls loses one)

now the fan opinion comes out…
..we never know, the giants d could amazingly turn it around and play decent enough ball to allow eli and jacobs to put up points on the board to win games… after watching his performances agains dallas and philly this year.. i think that we can make some things happen….. just win!

may just be a little spoiled the last four years. Remember the mid 90’s, or early 2000’s when we were looking at losing records for consecutive seasons? Give me a year where we are in the hunt over that any day, and of course we want to be in the playoffs, because that is the entire point of playing professional sports. Anything can literally happen.

the Giants would not have beaten NE in the SB two years ago. There is always hope. Were the Giants the first team to win the SB coming in to the playoffs seeded 6th? We ‘should’ have lost each playoff game in 2007. No, I’m still in there … but I am not taking out a second mortgage on the homestead.

it’s a whole different season in january
start off fresh 0-0
and who knows what can happen

..if we were competing with anyone other then the cowboys in december. GO GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!