'Kudos & Wet Willies': Loving The Defense Edition

if you look at it, Eli had enough room for himself, his brother, Archie, Cooper and all the in laws to all at least get a yard and a half. I think he got partially held up on O’Hara’s ankle (not really Shaun’s fault) but Eli needed to lower the shoulder or dive in there, he went in scared of getting popped.

Also on the Barden play. I agree he should’ve caught it, but it was one he had to jump up a bit for, it was thrown very hard and it was only a 7 or 8 yard throw. That was a lot on Eli too, Eli wasn’t just being nice when he said it was his fault in the post game.

Also think the Giants org. deserves more of a wet willie then Beckum himself. They got shown the hard way what happens if Boss is hurt. Doubt they go that way again

Love the DL play, said all along stopping the run depends on those guys. Doesn’t matter who the LB’s are if all the DL’s are making the tackles. Canty looked like Fred Robbins out there, and Cofield looked like Cofield. Kiwi was a monster. Osi was the same dude, its just OK now cuz the DT’s are doing their job. And Tuck looked healthy again.

And Anvil didn’t even play, which is fine….cuz there’s 16 (hopefully + games) games, so he can spell others as the season goes along.

The LB’s played well too, I thought the starting 3 were quiet but their jobs. So much for that idea that if you don’t know who the LB’s are they aren’t good.

Eli will take what’s there in the passing game, but this game just shows how much damage our WRs are gonna do. I bet Eli can’t wait to show off all his toys to big bro.

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve looked forward to seeing the defense on the field. Boy, what a relief to see most of them play to their ability yesterday! DGrant was awesome & EVERYWHERE!
As far as the throw to Barden, if you’re 6-6, add the 18" of outstretched arms over your head AND can jump a modest 30" vertical, Eli should be able to throw that ball 10’ in the air & there should be NO excuse for an NFL receiver to not come down with it. What a sweet 2nd half, lots of mistakes, but lots of improvement and corrections made at the half, I’m sure TC had a cow when the ground game was not working. I’m pleased… next week against Indi will be a good test :-)

stepped up yesterday.

Eli looked good.

Manningham made some tremendous catches and looked like the Manningham that I saw the beginning of last year.

Nicks is starting to live up to the hype that he came to the NYG with. Is it safe to say that the big toe isn’t a bother?

Yeah, Bradshaw made some mistakes but he made up for them in my opinion. that 39 yard run was very much needed.

I can’t say that there is one particular player on the defense who didn’t play well. The play that I thought was the most crucial was the shoestring tackle by Phillips. The was a TD easy and the fact that ge made an effective, less than full contact tackle that close to the endzone is a testament of true talent. Good Job!!!

Osi appears to be poised for a good season. I haven’t seen that Osi since 07. I am just happy that he seems to be determined to put the doubts about his talent to rest.

Canty was a beast.
Cofield was a beast.
Tuck was a beast.
Webster…Thomas….Boley….Bulluck…Great job fella!!!

I know it was wet, but 6 dropped passes, three of which were picked. If you can touch it, you can catch it. Way too many penalties. And ST is just about atrocious right now. Lot of cleaning up to do. But nothing that won’t get taken care of as the season progresses.

That offsides on the kickoff might have been more of JPP’s speed than anything else. And no one wanted to block him on that.

Reynaud didn’t get a chance to do much, but I like the potential. He’s def capable of making guys miss.

Def was a lil spotty at times, but you know as the season moves along and these guys get used to the scheme, we’ll have last year’s debacle behind us. Def like what’s going on there.

that being said….Brandon Jacobs. I’ve flip flopped on this myself. I know others have too. I’m tired of hearing him talking crap. But he’s gotta start. Part of what makes AB so explosive is Jake and the oline softening them up. AB didn’t really start padding his stats until the 2nd half. And I think it was because the defense was tired and beat up. Jake may not put up numbers like AB, but I think the offense will work better with him starting and AB closing. Just my opinion.

gets a W against a mediocre team. That is what winners do.

Gotta find a way to run the ball. WRs will recall how to catch the ball – no worries. LBs got no notoriety because they played pretty well. D was strong. Take away tipped passes and all of a sudden this is less of a competitive game.

Eli was a stud. So was Ham. Rolle was all over the place.
Dodge? No comment. Boss? Hope he comes back soon. Barden? Jury remains out.

too many times there was poor tackling, and not just on ST. Guys need to go to clinic on how to wrap a guy up.

The most encouraging thing I saw yesterday was the pre-snap communication on the defensive side of the ball. I’m not sure if it was Rolle I saw come down to guide LBs/DBs into position but it was someone and it made a noticeable difference. We asked for a leader to “step up and make big plays” and we saw leadership and it produced a win.

But, IMO big Kudos to the Giants fans. How many other team’s fans would be chanting for their ex-punter? How many teams fans would even know their ex punter or care enough? The whole friggen stadium was in unison chanting “We want Fea-gles!!, We want Fea-gles!!!” Then the sarcastic cheer when he managed to hit the saftety kick well?

Awesome.

I really dislike when i go to another fan page after we legitimately beat them and they blame everything but the fact that they ran into a better team. I skimmed through most of there posts yesterday on there wrap up thread, and didn’t come across one post that said the Giants played a helluva game yesterday, hats off. Instead, they blamed there teams shortcomings(which is fine), had the nerve to blame the refs(um we had 2 more penalties for 32 more yards – but you’re right, the league wanted NY to look good in there stadium debut….wtf?) and of all things, the field itself. I thought maybe this was the ramblings of angry posters, but one of there staff writers, James the Aussie, even included it in his optomist/pessimist story today:

The Field Itself- Extremely Pessimistic: Granted, much of the Panthers’ failings were their own in the 2nd half, but Carolina needs to make a formal complaint to the league about the playing surface at the new Meadowlands. Did you see all those black spheres stuck to our players? Those were rubber pellets that floated out of the AstroTurf when the field became waterlogged. The second half was atrocious in part to a substandard field.

Are you kidding me? The Giants must of had to play on an entirely different, heavenly surface during that game. Way to blame everything other than your team just running up against a juggernaut, named the New York Football Giants.

Wet Willies to CSR.

If you watch the replays, he is trying to block the same guy that McKenzie is blocking and he lets the LB go right by him.

The crowd yesterday !!come on guys we got to get louder than that on 3rd downs

Hard to make a conclusion yet about what we saw in this game will mean going forward. Maybe if they had played together during the preseason, but since they didn’t, maybe we can chalk up the problems to just needing a little time to gel. Losing Boss so early didn’t help either.

We could also probably chalk up some of the issues to the fact that the Panthers have a pretty darn good run defense. Actually, their pass defense isn’t really as bad as the Eli and the Giants made them look, which is really good news. (It’s always so hard to accept that the Giants have a very dangerous passing game.)

Honestly, I will NOT be shocked if Andrews steps into the lineup any time in the next two weeks. I’ll be expecting it to happen by week 4.

Lastly, I have such very high hopes for Barden, but if the Giants were to dress Cruz and give him a shot, I have this sick feeling that Barden will never get his opportunity back with this team.

For opening the Stadium the way they should have closed it.

This really goes out to the whole offensive unit. The panthers brought various rushers from the outside and inside. Jacobs had a great block that set up a nice long pass to Mario Maningham. The oline cleaned up everyone wich gave Eli what seemed to be all day

The kid went out there and played his heart out. He was a little tentative on a ball over the middle that he could have intercepted had he reacted sooner but overall the KP was laying wood and made two plays that saved two TD’s.

Bravo!!!!!!!!!

This is the highest I’ve been on this team in a while. I forgot what it was like to see the Giants win and feel like we earned it. Did you guys see that defense?! Watching Canty and Osi play was a thing of beauty. That defense floored me, and while it may be a bit savage to say, I loved watching them literally beat on a quarterback so bad that he had to leave the game.

That’s Giant Defense. That’s the attitude we were missing all year. All newspapers today should run the picture of Matt Moore with enough turf on him to make it look like he was wearing fatigues and the headline below: “THE NEW YORK GIANTS DEFENSE IS BACK”

Great game, and anyone who votes lower than 80 on the fan confidence poll needs to stop being cynical. The O-Line wasn’t great, but we’ve still got Beatty and Andrews waiting in the wings to take over should players fail to produce. How awesome is it that we have quality back ups in our ranks?

I must say though, the Kevin Boss hit infuriates me. Yet again someone dives into Boss helmet first, and no flag is thrown. I really hope the league does something for that guy in the future or else he’s going to have severe medical problems down the line.

O played a good 2nd half but the defense was good ALL DAY. I’ve said it before but last year we woulda been down by 4 TDS considering we kept giving them a short field with the TOs (which BTW are not even close to Eli’s fault. NONE OF THEM). But that shows we still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do. And it was good to see (in player transcripts) that all the guys were thinking the same thing.

Love starting the season with a win
Love opening the new stadium with a win
Love the Eli/Peyton SNF commercial where Eli locks Peyton in the closet

Can’t agree with your kudo for this guy, without some magical escapes by Bradshaw we wouldn’t have had a 100yds rushing for the game, need a punter but still a great win. When you turn the ball over 4xs and win that’s amazing. I can’t remember a game with 9 turnovers in it. Can you? Where is Bear Pascoe when you need him, Beckem needs to be cut as the is no one on the team I would want to cut to bring Bear back, unless Boss has to be placed on IR.

Dropped balls, showing us the real Fewell defense. Punter’s jitters. Yeah okay. Shutting down the run is a priority again. Beating the team that embarrassed us when we were on strike against Sheridan. Some good things. I am actually fine with Beatty as tight end, let’s throw him the ball. Never threw it much to Boss anyway. Except when he was about to get hammered. Do we really think Bear is better than Beatty ? Barden doesn’t go across the middle. He’s from a small school, they only had little guys. And he was always on the fly when they hit him, not crossing into NFL linebackers. But Manningham’s first season on the field he only was thrown the ball to take a hit, not to catch it. So Ramses, you don’t get fade routes this year. You are there to take hits and drop the ball. But it is all part of the long term plan.
Those free agenst we hired? Hey get the money the first year and heal up. We did that with Ottis. And when we needed him he performed. Bring us something down the road. Like now.
Special teams weakness. It’s as much a Giants tradition as an aggressive defense. Why not put some starters out there and actually give Quinn something to play with? I guess I have heard of Chase Blackburn before, but if you told me we cut him two years ago I wouldn’t have argued with you. Why not show ST is important?
And Lawrence Tynes? Hey I saw touchbacks. If you hate on the guy, you can’t just ignore him later.
We can actually beat the elite. Not saying we will, but we can.
Let the real season begin next week. And let’s not peak too early. It’s a looooooong season.

Did Boss get a Willie when he went up for an pass that was clearly too high? Boss got a hand on that ball too?

the fact is it was a bad pass.

Eli was upset about it for a reason, and he should be. I’m not sure why Ed wrote that Barden didn’t jump either. It looked like he gave it his all….Eli gotta hit him w/ that pass.

the play of Kenny Phillips. Man if he’s all the way back, look out. That tackle on Williams was probably the play of the game for me.

Defense looks scary. Granted, this was Matt Moore throwing so let’s not get too excited.
The D line looked incredible. They controlled the point of attack, closed gaps and stopped the run early. The pressure when they were behind was excellent. If they’ll get points early and control the clock, they’ll be able to pressure most quarterbacks.
I know it’s been said a hundred times but the stadium is confusing as hell. I had a medical issue (nothing serious)’ and it took me 45 minutes to find the EMS room I walked up and down flights of stairs- Wet Willie!. The guys in the ems derserve a kudos.
Wet Willie to the giants organization for not firing tom Quinn in the offseason when it seemed like a no-brainer.
Nice pickup with Reynard.
Kudos to ‘read and react’. Whatever you want to call it, this system seems much more prepared to face some of the better QBs in the league.
Victor Cruz and Manningham were in Red Bank for an autograph session after the game. Victor Cruz seems like a down to earth nice guy- kudos. Manningham seemed disinterested. But kudos to both guys for being nice enough to sign stuff for the fans.
Kudos to the cowboys and eagles for losing.

equal blame between protection and Dodge. He takes sooooooo long to punt the freaking ball. It’s like we’re watching in slow motion.

Thomas had a monster game. I can’t fault him on that one on one play. That’s a tough play for any defensive player.