Giants 31, Jets 16: We've Got Victor Cruz!

Love the hate. MOAR HATE.

that’s the biggest question mark IMO.

Let’s all hope Eli is fine…Blackburn is nothing serious…and no 24 hour later injuries pop up like last year w/ Boley

I want to see the stable of running backs make some plays

…about how the game meant nothing even after all the shit their team talked.

So much fun watching those morons backtrack.

Victor Cruz!!! this kid stood out to me way back at mini camp, before i knew who number 3 was. it’s good to see it translate onto the field.

Sexy Rexy even mentioned him in his post game conference, saying that that’s what he said to Coughlin at the handshake. then he said, and i paraphrase “they better not cut him, or as a matter of fact, i hope they cut him. because i know one team that will scoop him up. and that’s us.”

can we please wait until we get our two Pro Bowlers back before making snap judgements? Is it too much to ask for us to wait until three of the four best players on our offense come back before declaring this a failure? Holy Cow, it was 10-10 with 15 of our starters playing against 20 of theirs! There was no stomping, there was one team jumping out early and the other team coming back to tie it. Gee, could we stop this rush to be the first to declare the season a false hope?

Handling business on another level. A pleasant surprise indeed. Hope to see more of this guy on a permanent basis. Barden pissed me off. Just didn’t see enough from that guy tonight. Sintim?…thumbs up, Goth?…humbs up. Eli?…wiggle hand. Boley?…thumbs up Rolle?…thumbs up. Fewell?…to early to tell. (To be continued.)

Cruz was just too much for us. You can’t stop, you can only hope to slow him down. Rolle with the immediate impact, and JPP nice move on Woody. Sorry for the hit on Manning, hope all is well with the kid. Preseason sucks that way.

Hope we get another crack at you guys late in the season :)

Kudo -

Cruz that was a no brainer (I declare Moss officially gone)
Rolle – That was a sweet INT and run
Wilkinson – 6 tackles and a forced fumble
JPP – the only Giants sack of the game
Hagan – some nice catches in traffic

Wet willie
Dodge – not for the blocked punt but because he couldn’t get a good one of fall night
While we are at it – special teams looked pretty bad. On kickoffs, the giants usually started at the 20-25 and the Jets were near the 30
Offensive line – Bradshaw and Jacobs had a combined one yard rushing and I put most of that on the trenches

Kwillie

Bradshaw would have gotten a wet willie for his running but that shuffle pass was awesom

Beatty looked good at LT the entire first half.(I’m rewatching this on DVR right now and am at the half) I didn’t see him blow an assignment throughout against their number ones. I think there is hope for this guy yet.

Def. played a conservative pass defense for most of the half, and we really brought very few blitzes(anyone who went to camp will tell you this is not indicative of Fewell’s style so far) I think there was alot of zone assignment work being done and the LB’s as a whole I thought played a good half, especially Goff.

And lastly, the football gods may be on our side this season…. how the hell Eli isn’t dead is beyond me

How come he didn’t start alongside Nicks over Barden?

like, say for instance, if i stopped by there and said, “What? No pictures of the crimson masked-Michael Phelps-looking QB of yours?” They’d ban me.

Again.

Not like the folks here.
Yall take it in stride;)

Chris Snee and Shaun O’hara are taken for granted sometimes…but they’re All-Pro caliber players for a reason. Speaking of All Pro caliber…Steve Smith. Does he drop that opening pass from Eli like Pharoahe did?

The D didnt look to great either, but its gonna take some time to gel. New DC, new DL coach as well. They didn’t look too bad against the run, and I think when they did look bad generally Rocky Bernard was in the game.

Vic Cruz looks very good. I hope he’s not just a one game wonder. If he’s really gonna make his mark, he’ll do it on punt returns. He was back there, but the ball was too close the the boundry to do anything.

They could’ve found another Hixon with Cruz, tho I think he’s much more explosive and seems a whole lot less frail then Hixon.

I was on the Gang Green SB Nation page and it’s funny how after the Jets lost, that game was no longer important to them. Hmm.

Anyway, as crazy as this sounds, I thought our starters didn’t do too badly. Sure the Jets looks dominant as times with their pass rush and defense but we didn’t even have all our starters playing in this game. I’m sure they feel good about dominating our 1AA squad. But how do you explain us still hanging in the game before Eli was taken out?

Then on top of that, the Jets still kept there starters a bit longer against the Giants B squad and we were still in it. And finally, with their backups, our backups blew the game out of the water.

Sure at times we looked shaky, but I’m still hopeful it will come together.

Sorgi or Bomar?