Land of the Giants: Power Rankings, Power Football, and Kenny Phillips' Future

takes an average of all thier minion’s opinion’s, so it was probably Clayton’s ignorance that dropped the Giants from 2 to 3 in the overall poll. Still, I don’t understand how a team can fall when it wins a game regardless of the opponent, especially like that.

Power rankings are meaningless of course, but c’mon. How the hell can you do that? Since when does winning a game make a team worse?

And as for not needing Plaxico…..well welcome aboard Wallace. See, not being pigeonholed to throw to one tall WR is not as good as a bunch of quick WR who can actually get open. We all know how good Plax and Toom were. But these other guys can play too. Steve Smith is simply one of the best overall WR in the game. Can anyone else say Keenan McCardell? Remember him?

And only on a few occasions has their been balls thrown over the WR head (he over threw Boss and I believe Smith 2 or 3 times, on rollouts tho), that’s another myth that rarely happened as was the "successful RZ offense with Plaxico.

The Jets, and the Saints for that matter, have a big test this week and next week for the Saints. Are each of these 2 perennially cursed teams any good? I hope the Saints beat the hell out of the Jets. Would love to face them when they are think they are going undefeated with NY(…NJ) teams.

As for not getting the attention, of course the Jets will this week too. They are getting that big test, while the Giants in all likelyhood are gonna keep it vanilla this week too. Let em get the attention. The one thing I like about them is they finally got rid of Mangini. Couldn’t stand that fat pile.

That if the Ravens beat the Pats they are No 1 and if the Pats beat the Ravens they will be above us in the rankings…

As will the likely winner between the Jets and the Saints..

Last year we were No 1 for long parts of the season and by season end it meant nothing. I think the team and coaches will have learnt from that so even if we are No 1 (which we are on the NFL.Com experts polls) we will be able to deal with the hype and fan expectation.

None from me. I hate the Jets, always will. They cannot lose enough to suit me, and I find it comical how every 5 years when the Jets win three in a row, we are inundated with pictures of Fat Fireman Ed rooting on their drunken masses in our house. Then the Jets do what the Jets do best, and torch the whole thing, and their fans are forced to begin concentrating on who they will boo when the Jets make their first round selection in the NFL Draft, while Steve Serby of the NY Post has to tear up his yearly “Jets will be Super” column.

I would rather drink from the same glass as Amy Winehouse than root for the Jets.

should be able to win the next 2 weeks without rushing anyone back in before they’re ready.

I guess what bugs me the most about it is the fact they have such a small fan base compared to the GIants. I’m convinced most media and talk show hosts in the NY area are Jet fans thats why they get talked up so much. Look at WFAN; it’s the flagship station for the Giants yet it’s a Jet Pep ralley every Friday/Monday. The Jets have not even sold out all of their games this year so they can’t have that many fans. I know more Cowboy and Steeler fans in this area than Jet Fans. In Basketball and Hockey I’m a Nets and Devils fans but I accept the fact they get no coverage because they have about 100 fans while the Knicks and Rangers have huge fan bases. The Devils have won 3 championships in 15 years and yet any Hockey talk in NY is Ranger talk. I’m not saying the Jets fan base is a bad as Devils/Nets but it’s closer to them than to the Giants. Not only that it seems as if the Jets for years have tried to run their organization with a lot of NY flash and have always used gimmicks to draw attention away from the Giants and a lot of media types take the bait.

and the city rallied behind their sports teams, it seemed to me the Giants got all the media attention, while the Jets were largely forgotten as “the other New York team.” Modern media is always obsessed with who’s next, as ESPN has literally admitted to doing, so it’s no wonder the Jets have gotten the lion’s share of publicity to open the season.

And the reviews are not good. Moose Johnston (Cowboy homer) and Siragusa kept on Jacobs about not running so hard and there a huge spread on the Post about him today. You can bet Jacobs has been hearing this and is ready to blow up KC this coming week. This team loves doubters.

Is there any team out there that scares you right now?

I feel like the Giants could walk into Baltimore, and do the same exact thing they did last year when everyone was so high on the Ravens, just unequivocally beat the living crap out of them by playing physical Giants football on both sides of the ball.

I feel like they could walk right into New Orleans today, with our number one ranked pass defense (injured or not) and find out how well Drew Brees throws the ball off his ass.

We could walk into OUR HOUSE and teach Rex Ryan that sometimes, it’s better to keep your mouth shut, because if you talk about this team…you’re going to get embarrassed.

The only way this team loses is if they beat themselves. We have the best QB in ALL of football during crunch time (who is slowly but surely becoming a fantasy stud as well). We have the two most physically punishing running backs behind easily one of the most consistently effective offensive lines in all of football. Our defense is missing key players in every package, and they are still ranked 2nd overall in the NFL.

2nd, and they’re only getting healthier.

I’m happy for them. I root for them too when they’re not playing the Giants. Hopefully they’ve finally found the QB they’ve been searching for since the days of Joe Namath.

I think the power ranking is a jinx anyway so I could care less if the G-men aren’t in the top 3. I say let them decide it on the field.

it doesn’t have anything to do with fan base sizes or success. It has to do with what’ll move papers, and apparently Jets fans are in the market for buying hope. Also, it’s a matter of what you can pump flashy news out of, and the Giants simply aren’t doing anything but playing great football. With the Jets you have glitzy BS stories like Future Hall-of-Famer Sanchez, Rex bagbelly Ryan and his big mouth, preseason team fights, “this is the year,” and all that jazz. It’s all fluff and meaningless BS.

Give me the Lombardi all day every day. As a Giant and Yankee fan (I like the Jets alright, I consider them the appetizer or dessert to the Giants game) it’s all about the Championships, not how we got there, how gaudy the stats are, or what anyone thinks about the team. It’s about winning, plain and simple.

is the scum of the earth…

the simple fact that he’s saying this scares me…the guy is an effing liar.

I agree with every word of this. It’s almost exactly how I feel.

I like the Jets – I always root for them unless they’re playing the Giants, and I have no problem with them getting all the attention. In a lot of ways, the Giants are boring, at least when they’re off the field, and I appreciate them for it. The Jets seem to alternate terrible seasons with seasons where they rope their fans into believing this will be the year, and every year something goes heartbreakingly wrong for them. To a neutral observer, it’s a much more interesting story than hearing about the best team in the NFL dismantling the worst team. So let them have their fun, and just know that deep down inside, every single one of them would trade the media love for the Giants’ success.

The only difference for me is that I’m not really exposed to the Jets stories since I live in Chicago now, so I’m not annoyed by them. Sometimes I click on a link about the Jets just to see what’s up, but I don’t follow them closely. The Bears fans get really pissed off by the “all-NY” superbowl talk, and it cracks me up.

When they were bragging about the Bears victory, I countered with, we got a shutout – and the Jets are also undefeated. They hate it when a NY team is in front of them, but two of them undefeated is brutal for them. LOL

having him agree with you is bad. he is a worthless piece of dog crap.

he probably is right but i wouldnt go around bragging about that.