December 17, 2006
Giants Eagles preview no.2
I don't have to tell you that the Giants Eagles game is a big one; the winner has a good chance of making the playoffs. The loser doesn't. The article I link to above is right to point out issues with the Giants secondary, but wrong to say that all those yards last week came against "the hardly-inspiring Chris Weinke". Well I'm not inspired by Weinke, but he did make some very accurate throws; some of the beaten Giants actually had decent position on the guy they were covering.
I suspect the real problem will be Brian Westbrook in the short passing game. I don't know that our zone will be any tighter around the middle of the field than it has been so far this year. If the Giants can take away those short passes to Westbrook I like our chances. The Eagles will have only moderate success running against us and Garcia can't beat us if he has to take his time to throw deep often. It's all about the short middle of the field.
On offense, the Giants need to establish Tiki and the running game. The Eagles know it. It would also be nice if Accurate Eli Manning shows up instead of Throws too High Manning. The Eagles defense can't beat us unless we let them. If Eli is accurate Burress and Shockey will make plays. The Giants and especially Manning have a bad habit of playing like crap for large parts of football games so let's hope they don't let us fans down.
Bleeding Green Nation disagrees with me and says the Eagles can cover the Giants receivers. Hopefully Manning will ahve a good game and we'll see who's right. This game preview is really just a bunch of quotes, some more interesting than others.
Go Giants!
Posted by James Trotta at December 17, 2006 2:59 AMI am also cautiously optimistic about our chances, especially if Eli is on his game.
With the blitzes we are sure to get it would be nice if Eli could figure out how to sell a good screen pass. Maybe he could watch a few tapes of Y.A. back in the early sixties. He is the best I've ever seen in my almost 50 years of watching the Giants.
I'm sick. It's now Eagles 36 Giants 22 due to our 4th turnover. Two picks by Eli and two blown changes inside the 10 yard line resulting in field goals instead of touchdowns.
I think our season (including playoffs) just went out the window. We are now 3rd in the division and really don't deserver to make the playoffs.