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After winning the game against Dallas, you have to wonder what’s next for the Giants defense. Even wihtout ballhawking corners they generate turnovers and are usually good against the run. They can play physical (see the way they manhandled the Dallas offensive line) and they are fast (see Osi chasing down Jones from behind when Jones was trying to get outside on a misdirection).

Sure we don’t have speed everywhere. Nick Griesen is playing very well at WILL but is not particularly fast. Brent Alexander might be the slowest defensive back in the league.

So what’s next? Hopefully some more victories. I look for the Giants to continue to focus on stopping he run and be successful there. They won’t be able to limit every passing game to as few yards as Dallas got but the coverage is certainly more effective that it was earlier in the season and Deloatch responded with a fairly strong game.

Dr. Z is arguing that crowd noise should not be as large a factor as it was in Seattle when the Giants had 11 false start penalties. He also got an answer about the exact NFL rules:

So I placed a call to Mike Pereira, the NFL’s Supervisor of Officials.

“Well, no, it doesn’t exactly exist,” he said. “It was on the books, but I think that Boomer Esiason game did a lot to get it kind of phased out. First it was changed to a situation where the wide receivers had to be able to hear the quarterback, which was ridiculous, because they’re farthest away. Then it became ‘At the discretion of the referee,’ and 99 times out of 100 he’s going to say that the noise isn’t loud enough to stop play. What we’ve got now is a rule that says that the home team can’t use artificial means to incite the crowd or raise the volume, such as the scoreboard or a bugle.”