NFL-Giants: NY Giants football news

A lot of Giants fans, myself included, didn’t have high expectations for this game. The Giants have a lot fo big injuries and needed a lot fo help to win last Monday. And the Eagles are supposed to be good.

This Sunday, the Giants were just plain better. They averaged 4 yards per rush and Eli had time to throw. The offensive line did its job. The offense did not turn the ball over.

The defense (thanks Aaron Ross) earned the Giants some turnovers. Despite being on the field for 36 minutes, they held it together.

By the way, as Michael the dog killer Vick whines and cries about the ‘late’ hit from Canty that took him out, why don’t we make some noise about the helmet to helmet hit on Ballard as he was going out of bounds? The Eagles have been a dirty team for a long time – now I have to listen to them whine while they continue to rack up illegal plays that go unpenalized against the Giants?

In an emotional game on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on NYC, the Giants looked like the weaker team and came away with the loss they deserved.

The supposed strengths of the team, the offensive and defensive lines, were unable to get the job done. The offensive line struggled in pass protection and the running game. The defensive line couldn’t put enough pressure on Rex Grossman. Man it’s embarrassing to lose to that guy and we really did lose to that guy because the Giants defense was good enough against the run. They obviously missed Juston Tuck and Osi Umenyiora. Although JPP should clearly be the starter – a bright spot for the Giants today performing well against double teams and making plays.

But we can blame the offense more than the defense because they had fewer injuries and played worse. Sucking on third down is bad – that’s when you need your high paid QB to earn his salary. And being unable to convert a 4th and 1 is a sign of weakness.

Finally, how long can our special teams suck before we get a new special teams coach?

though not against your former team. Seeing your team’s most reliable wide receiver go to a division rival is pretty tough but I have nothing bad to say about Steve Smith – the guy was an absolute bargain for us and he never held out or got whiney like Osi or anything like that even when he was playing real cheap on his rookie contract and after catching over 100 passes in a year.

Anyway, go kill Dallas.

The Giants 1st round pick is hurt and no one knows when he’ll be back. Since you need 4-5 good cornerbacks, Prince was one rookie who was expected to see some real playing time this season.

The NY Giants are losing O’hara, Seubert, and Andrews from the offensive line. That’s a lot but all 3 are good moves even though Seubert is one of my favorite Giants.

So far we have on replacement – the 6-foot-4, 330-pound David Baas. He is 29 and doesn’t have the injury concerns (the 3 linemen we’re losing – none of them would be likely to play a 16 game season due to injuries) the Giants we’re losing have.

He has more experience at guard then at center but he is projected to start at center for New York. He was the 49ers best offensive lineman last year despite the position change so he should come in and play at a very high level in NY.

Adam Schefter on ESPN makes it sound like Osi is already gone when they write about how he has sold his house in NJ and how he think Reese lied to him.

Schefter quotes Osi’s legal affadavit from the player’s anti-trust case vs the NFL but he never actually talk to Osi. I call that some shitty reporting.

Mike Garafolo did talk to Osi. I call that good reporting, you know, when you talk to the person you’re writing an article about. Osi says he’s not mad at Reese or the Giants – the affadavit is evidence of how the lockout is hurting him – the lockout is preventing Reese (not Jerry’s fault of course) from making Osi’s new deal.

Great article from Giants.com about the 86 team’s reunion. Be sure to check out the quotes.

Nice article here on the Giants third round pick, new return man, and maybe slot receiver (unless anyone believes Sinorice Moss wins the job?). Jerrel Jernigan is said to be a tough guy with the ability to make people miss. Sounds like a guy we can use on the Giants.

I won’t argue with much of this list of overpaid NFC East guys despite there being too many Giants for my liking. But I will argue with David Diehl being on there – how can a guy who plays 4 positions on the offensive line well enough to be a quality starter – including the all important left tackle spot – be overpaid?

Injuries? Man, lots of players get hurt now and again – doesn’t make their contract a bad one. Diehl has been a friggin bargain.

Here we have a video of Mike Mayock discussing the East-West Shrine Game and he starts of with the Giants second round pick, Marvin Austin.

This article says Austin is a good guy, a family man who made a mistake, etc. It also calls him “Davis” a couple of times so try not to get confused as you read it.

One interesting thing is that in the video, Mayock says Austin is a late first / early second round talent without character concerns. The article (again don’t be confused by Vacchiano writing Davis instead of Austin) has what we’re more used to hearing:

Davis was, by all accounts, a first-round talent – some scouts put him easily in the Top 15..