NFL-Giants: NY Giants football news

According to Mike G in this article on the Giants defensive line, he hurts opening bottles. No wonder his play hasn’t been what we expect.

Here’s a follow-up on that dirty scumbag named Flozell Adams. Maybe it’s Gary Myers being a homer as a Giants beat writer, but I like to think that most everyone is in agreement here – the 12,500 dollar fine was not nearly punishment enough for tearing Tuck’s labrum on a dirty play.

Dude!

Michael Boley, Rocky Bernard, and Chris Canty? Pretty awesome!

Osi Umenyiora, Justin Tuck, Chris Canty, Fred Robbins, Barry Cofield, Rocky Bernard, and Matthia Kiwanuka is pretty awesome because all 7 of those guys are good enough to start somewhere in the NFL.

Canty is the only guy I haven’t blogged about yet. Good ESPN article here (how often does that happen?) on the signing. They say he’ll play DT for the Giants, probably replacing Robbins as a starter.

But I don’t see why he would replace Robbins, the Giants best DT. If anyone cares, Pter King made Haynesworth and Cofield his 2 all-pro defensive tackles this year. Wouldn’t we better off demoting Cofield?

I have to think Canty willl see some time at DE as well because we have 3 guys who play only DT (Robbins, Cofield, Bernard) and 4 full time DTs seems like one too many.

6 years and 42 million makes him the Giants most expensive acqusition yet. Clearly they expect big things from the guy.

Nice video here. Says the Giants have the best offensive line + the best defensive line. That means we’re gonna win some games!

The NFL got something right… Here’s the link. They still seem to think it was OK to call a penalty on the play – which of course led to a Dallas TD. I don’t get it.

I hated the refs for giving Dallas that second TD. But whatever. You have to love a game where we destroy Dallas with great defense and a very sold running game. Brandon Jacoba are both amazing. They can move the pile, break off a big run, etc. Gotta credit the offensive line as well.

Not sure what to say about matthews – you don’t want your blocking tightend to get called for holding too much. But I don’t want to start complaining. Great blocking, great running, great defense = great game.

It’s hard to pick just a few guys on defense to praise but how about Danny Clark? Nice game. Corey Webster? Justin Tuck? Gotta love the Giants defense.

Some people might be complaining about Eli’s interception, fumble, bad passes. Just remember you don’t get perfect games. QBs don’t go 40/40. Turnovers happen. I’m just excited we have a QB who can pass for a TD. It wasn’t that long ago when we had to root for Kent Grahm and Danny Kannell. There’s just no getting around the fact that Eli’s a good QB and even if today wasn’t his best game he still helped us win. 16/27 and 3 TDs? I’ll take it.

Did Plax help us win? He had some nice blocks. He couldn’t come up with that TD catch where Eli threw it behind him. He dropped one that was thrown real well with aout 3 minutes left that could have helped the Giants run out the clock. I really want to give him the benefit of the doubt though. He was amazingly clutch last season. I wonder if he ran the wrong route and caused the interception – that could make me stop sticking up fpr him…

Hopefully Tuck will be as angry as I am about his fine for grabbing Bulger’s facemask last week. Sure Tuck grabbed the facemask but…

1. He was being held
2. Bulger ducked into it
3. It was clearly accidental

Anyway, if he’s angry he might kick some extra butt…

Also have a Giants.com article on the secondary for you.

And this article on Hixon’s return game. Did you know that punt returners have to study punters?

I was going to go into individual performances, but the Giants so dominated the Rams in week 2 that almost everyone looked like an all-pro. We ran like crazy so Jacobs, Bradshaw and the offensive line get credit. Manning and Toomer had big games. We left a few TDs on the field early but hey it’s week 2 and we more than got the job done.

On defense, Tuck and Robbins were incredible. We didn’t give up much in the passing game so the secondary was strong. I especially liked Corey Webster’s game.

Special teams continue to look like the Giants weak link though Sammy Knight stood out some.