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Giants beat Panthers 27-13 - game summary

First of all, fire Joe Buck. Listening to this guy talk about the Giants is worse than puking in your mouth and swallowing a little bit at a time for next three hours or whenever the game ends. Now a recap of the game itself:

The Giants passing game got off to a slower start than it should have. Manning threw a bad ball that was almost picked off. Moss made a nice catch here. Tyree dropped a pass that just should not be a problem. The timing was off between Eli and Carter plus Eli and Tiki. The Giants still got 3 but it was disheartening to see them unable to take advantage of a depleted Carolina secondary.

A bit later it was bad officiating as a Burress catch was ruled incomplete and the Giants challenge failed. At this point Manning was 3/9 for 22 yards. There was the Tyree drop, the Tiki poor effort, and the Burress catch with a BS call to consider though. Then there was also the poorly thrown ball that Carolina should have returned for a TD. Overall, Eli wasn’t having a good day in the first quarter. A long completion and then a TD pass to Plax sure made those stats look better. Plus the Giants were now up 10-0.

Then the Giants secondary gave up a lot of passing yards and Carolina scored a quick TD. 10-7. Dockery was trying to cover Steve Smith and failing as you’d expect. Demps was trying to play football and failing as we’ve also come to expect. Do we really have no one better than Demps? Man that guy is infuriating to watch. A little pass rush would be nice to watch too, but the Giants couldn’t pressure Weinke at all.

When the Giants got the ball back, Tiki broke 10,000 yards career rushing on a nice run. Congratulations Tiki! Carter was interfered with (and it was obvious) but the officials failed to make the correct call. This was just an unbelievably bad non-call. How these refs can completely suck and still keep their jobs is beyond me. If I performed like that I’d be unemployed. An errant (high of course) pass later and the Giants had to punt. The Panthers blitz was generating some serious pressure on Manning to be fair.

On the Panthers next possession the refs screwed us again when the Giants forced a fumble but the idiot ref blew his whistle. Moron. Then Will Demps dropped an interception. All in all, you start to wonder why you watch these games when incompetent officials and safeties make them a lot less fun than they should be.

Apparently Osi didn’t want to watch that crap either. He couldn’t berate the refs so he yelled at the Giants secondary some. Can’t say they didn’t earn it. Osi didn’t have much time to yell because the Giants offense went pass happy (and went nowhere).

So the Giants defense is back out and the officials screw us again, this time with a defensive holding call on Fred Robbins when all he did was cleanly beat his man and put him on the ground. I swear the BS officiating makes these games so much less fun. The NFL really needs to clean this crap up. Anyway, after some Montana-like passing and Steve Young-like scrambling from Weinke the Panthers tied the game up at 10.

The Giants got the ball back. After a couple of bad officiating errors, the Giants finally get a TD to go up 17-10 before halftime. That made me feel a bit better, but with these refs and our secondary, I certainly wasn’t very confident.

The 3rd quarter was a good one though. Gibril Wilson came up with two interceptions and the Giants scored twice to make it 27-10. The Giants running game with Brandon Jacobs kept getting stuffed in short yardage (all game really). Manning finally threw for the TD and it was nice to see Tyree get the reception. During this series there was a nasty hit on Eli Manning where the Panther led with his helmet. No doubt there will be a fine, but of course no call by the officials on this obvious personal foul…

The 4th quarter involved a lot of back and forth until Dockery changed things up a little with an interception. The guy played OK in the first half even though he was beaten on a few plays, that can happen when you’re in position but a QB makes a good throw or the receiver makes a good catch. But in the second half he really played well. The interception was just gravy.

The Giants went 3 and out again following the interception, but they didn’t need more points to win. Of course it still would have been nice to see the offense move the ball (and the chains) a little. Carolina did manage a field goal with a few minutes left in the 4th. But I’ll take the 27-13 win. Better than what we’ve been getting.