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Probably my last post on the Giants beating up on the Redskins

I want to start talking about the next game, but the Giants vs. Redskins game is still the one making all the news. The biggest concern for Giants fans is Shockey's foot / ankle injury. It might be time for Giants fans to accept that Shockey is injury prone. Shiancoe is a good backup, but maybe we need a third tightend who's more of a pass catching threat than Rich Seubert. Still, watching Seubert come in as a blocking tightend was pretty cool so maybe we should keep him as our #3 tightend.

The best news is that Giants coaches are finally letting their players outplay (instead of trying to out-think opponents):

To a man, the Giants talked about how their coaches flipped their focus during the bye week. Instead of complicating the defense, Tom Coughlin and defensive coordinator Tim Lewis opted to simplify it.

"It was guys being more prepared," said Pierce, who, along with Brandon Short and Gibril Wilson, had a team-high six tackles. "Coach simplified some things for us, trying to make things easier so we could just read and react, not think as much. We went out there and had the performance we were looking for."

If that continues, we should see more defensive domination from the Giants who simply have good players. However we must remember that Brunell is the weakest of the 4 QBs the Giants have faced to date. Will the Giants be able to outplay the NFL's best offenses or will they need to outscheme them at some point?

The Redskins blogger I exchanged questions with asked where the hell was Sean Taylor? Apparently Taylor was busy threatening Brandon Jacobs. If you like reading people who criticize the Redskins defense, here's another article, this one from the Washington Times. Interestingly, he says that Carlos Rogers may never be ready to take over for Shawn Springs. That's why I called Carlos Rodgers a reach on April 24, 2005. I freely admit that when I'm right it might be more luck than skill but I'm still going to brag about it whan I'm accuarate.

Back to the posisitve stuff, the Giants. Glauber tells us about Tiki Barber's motivating message that the Giants have to make themselves good. It also helps that Barber does more than talk; Tiki leads by example. Steve Serby reminds us that Tom Coughlin also gets a lot of credit while Paul Schwartz reminds us that the Giants needed this win badly.

Posted by James Trotta at October 10, 2006 1:59 PM