November 28, 2005
Giants not an elite team yet
I'm sure most of you saw the Giants lose to the Seahawks. Some of the Giants played well, like Osi Umenyiora who had a great day against the best left tackle in the NFL. There's no way I thought Osi could produce 2 sacks, 8 tackles, and several hits or hurries going against Walter Jones.
The problem on defense was with the secondary. Will Allen played well, but ex-Giant Joe Jerivicious had an awesome day picking on Corey Webster. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that a veteran NFL receiver can school a rookie who hasn't played much, but I was surprised anyway.
And what hapened to Jay Feely? Seattle kicker Josh Brown has an excuse for him:
"The wind really swirls in here and stays high," said Seahawks kicker Josh Brown. "It is not necessarily right down the field. That's why the first couple of kicks were ground balls on kickoffs because if you get the ball caught up in the air, it is going to drop that way. I really feel bad for him."
And the offensive line thought things were a bit too loud (and they were loud) committing 11 false start penalties (2 of which came from Walker on a punt). Petigout (5) and Diehl (3) were especially bad.
So all in all, the Giants could clean a few things up and be an elite team. But until they do...
Posted by James Trotta at November 28, 2005 2:38 PMThere is enough blame to go around for this team, starting with the o-line and all of the false starts. But I would rather label it as another choke for the Manning family.
Posted by: NFL Adam at November 29, 2005 2:48 AMhow exactly did manning choke the game? dd you watch the game? Feely missed 3 gamewinning field goals. manning drove down the field 4 times at the end of the 4th qtr and OT to put the Giants in position to win. watch the game, before you make ignorant generalizations like that.
Posted by: Giant Fan at November 29, 2005 7:34 AMHey, the giants played as team on both sides of the ball! A kicker doesn't make a team! But a nice win against Dallas will make you forget-aboutit! Get the win this week, we proved we are an elite team and we can come back. These Giants have heart! Brian D
Posted by: Brian at November 29, 2005 11:00 AMLets make Giants Stadium rocking, get loud get nuts have fun go big blue this week!
Posted by: Brian at November 29, 2005 11:06 AMmomma said there'd be days like this-not an easy game to watch,but were almost there!Expect a few less flags this week,Tikis looking great, Eli,s coming!
Posted by: tom at November 30, 2005 12:47 AM
Seems the NFL now says that the 2 gift touchdowns that the (my) Giants got were really incompletions, so the game really was not that close. I would fault the false starts more than Feely. The kicker is always the last ditch effort because you couldn't move the ball 10 more yards. If anything, I thought the one Shockey catch that was ruled incomplete was more complete than the touchdown catches. Any lose sucks, but, despite the errors they hung in there and didn't give up. At home, that would have been a sure win.
"2 gift touchdowns ??" Did anyone watch the game ? Toomer got both feet in.
Posted by: blue tom at November 30, 2005 7:17 AMgiants are a elite team just look at there reacord da!,,, oh ye of so little faith, G-MEN are going to romp some cow girl ass on sunday 45-14.osi u is coming into his own no doubt about it, with a mentor like strahan (who is ALWAYS doubled and triple covered)what do you expect doulble da! NOTHING is wrong with jay feely by the way the dude is only human.any time you take a 40,45, 50 yard field goal to win the game no less for granted well then your just a plain old fool of an idiot....arent you...any field goal longer than 35 yards should not be taken lightly by a bunch of SPOILED brats.the g-men should me plenty last sunday and im glad were alive and well heading into week 13!!!!!!! p.s. just ask herm what he thought about the damm game.
Posted by: john a at December 1, 2005 3:19 PMThe gaints played well but the kicker has a big problem.. i believe thats all they pay them for and he is not doing is J.O.B this could kill us in the futrue.
Posted by: Kehinde at December 5, 2005 3:08 PMI feel as though my Giants won that game. It does go as a loss but they still won. I don't believe that they are elite enough to go very far in the playoffs but then I didn't think so in 2000 either.
Posted by: Steve D. at December 14, 2005 9:55 AM