kkr Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Tryon had a bad game, but he will always get outjumped by a taller receiver so he needs extra help. Hard to assess the D because they werent on the field a lot, but Tuck and Osi were annonymous again. I think we are missing Canty big time. Diehl and Bradshaw left the game but the line and running game looked much much better without them. Wilson is going to take a lot of time to develop and just seems to be trying too hard to make up for the fumble now. Keep him on returns for the time being mostly. If Bennett could catch on a consistent basis he will be border line probowl TE level. Hixon and Joseph injured, hopefully nothing serious, especially with Joseph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Last 3 drives in 4th Q: 7/9 141 yards 2 TDs 0 INTs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 16, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2012 Does not look like a Super Bowl rematch is in the cards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Early days, talk to me in week 16 when it matters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 "Somebody better help that man!". Hakeem Nicks during the game regarding Aquib Talib! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Forgot that Bill Sheridan is the D coordinator for the Buccs. Makes sense now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Forgot that Bill Sheridan is the D coordinator for the Buccs. Makes sense now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 Eli is up for FedEx Air player of the week and also the GMC never say never moment of the week. Vote here and here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 Hakeem Nicks won NFC Player of the Week honours with 10 catches for 199 yards and 1 TD on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Well we should be expecting better when he's at 100% then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 Which don't be this week as he is out of the game a d didn't travel to Carolina! ****! Word is that it's precautionary rather than a setback and that had it been Sunday he probably would have played. At least this way he is fresh for the Eagles. Not good news for tomorrow against Carolina, especially with Hixon out too. I believe Diehl and Bradshaw also are out. Randle has apparently been getting a lot of snaps in practice though so lets see what the rook can do! He is supposed to be first round talent and the most NFL ready WR in the draft according to our scouts do we shall see! I hope he gets a shot rather than going too Barden who has shown nothing year after year. If he dies I'm excited to see what he can do. Also excited about Brown running the ball and as a receiving threat out the backfield. The line without Diehl should be interesting too, it certainly looked better on Sunday. Really tough matchup this on the road, short week, with the injuries against Super Cam. If we can sneak a W that would be awesome! Good news is that Prince, Coe and Rivers will play so hopefully that strengthens the pass D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Will be tough on offense with those missing, but I am going to remain confident that Eli can get it done with anyone. Barden made a big catch on our game winning drive in the 4th quarter at the weekend, so I reckon he'll start over Randle who's not been on the field much yet. Bradshaw being out could be a blessing. Brown looked very good Sunday and if he can play to that level regularly, it'll help Bradshaw an awful lot late in the season. I think it'll be a tight high scoring game. Game will finish with bot teams over 24 and a 1 score game. Hopefully we have the ball last! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 20, 2012 Author Share Posted September 20, 2012 Tonight would be a good night for the run blocking to click, Brown to break out and our real D to show up. I'd also like high tempo from the start but we all know that won't happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 20, 2012 Author Share Posted September 20, 2012 Nicks, Bradshaw, Hixon, Diehl, Coe, Ojomo and Robinson inactive. Jonathan Stewart, Thomas Davis and their RT are all out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 Philli week! Looks like Hixon will be back and possibly Bradshaw also. Nicks should be fine too and would have played yesterday had the game been then and not Thursday. Philli's oline is banged up and Vick is playing horrible right now which concerns me more than encourages me! These games are always tough and we really need the W after losing to Dallas week 1. I hope we go out and play hard and aggressive on both sides of the ball. If we do that then i think we can win. From MMQB Why the Giants win ... at least one big reason. Patience wins in the NFL. Impetuousness rarely does, and when it does, it doesn't last. The 2009 NFL draft illustrates that well. That spring, the Giants picked Connecticut tackle Will Beatty 60th overall, Cal Poly wide receiver Ramses Barden 85th overall and North Carolina State running back Andre Brown 129th. Until Thursday night, Beatty had been an oft-injured disappointment, Barden got passed -- and lapped several times -- in wideout impact by Victor Cruz and Hakeem Nicks and Brown had been cut by half the free world. On Thursday, they were three of the 10 most important Giants in a 36-7 rout of Carolina on the road. That's the strength of Jerry Reese as a general manager. He's not a knee-jerk guy. Last April, I wrote a story on Reese (and, in particular, how well he works with Tom Coughlin), and I sat in his office for a while talking about roster-building. The subject of the abuse he took from the talk-show set and fans came up for letting Steve Smith and Kevin Boss go in the 2011 offseason. He got a smile on his face and played me a couple of, shall we say, interesting, voice mails from critical fans after those players went to Philadelphia and Kansas City by way of Oakland, respectively. He asked me not to report what was said in the voicemails, but let's just say you need to have some blisters on your hide to be a general manager for a New York sports team. "We don't have a template for how we build here,'' says Reese, and the Giants don't. But the one thing they have no problem doing is saying goodbye. They loved Boss -- loved him. But he wasn't worth a $6 million signing bonus to them. Gone. "Around here, when the money gets above X, we say goodbye,'' John Mara told me in the spring. They figured Barden could slide into Manningham's role and so they let Manningham walk to San Francisco. Brandon Jacobs had worn out his welcome; Brown and rookie David Wilson will have a shot to replace him -- and that looks good so far. Charting players who have been good Reese picks in his first six drafts with the Giants: 2012: CB Jayron Hosley, Virginia Tech (Round 3, 94 overall) Precocious and instinctive from day one of camp, Hosley's one of the best rookie DBs in the league. He intercepted a Cam Newton pass Thursday. 2011: LB Jacquian Williams, South Florida (R6, 202) A top special-teamer from day one, Williams stripped Kyle Williams in overtime of last season's NFC title game, setting up the Giants win. 2010: DE Jason Pierre-Paul, South Florida (R1, 15) Think the Eagles (Brandon Graham at 13) or Raiders (Rolando McClain at 8) would like to have a draft-day do-over? 2009: RB Andre Brown, North Carolina State (R4, 129) Tore his Achilles as a rookie, and has been cut eight times since, but Reese brought him back, and Brown finally paid off with his big night against Carolina. 2008: WR Mario Manningham, Michigan (R3, 95) Made the second-greatest catch in modern Giants history, but the Giants let him walk in free agency. "I don't agonize over anyone,'' Reese says. 2007: RB Ahmad Bradshaw, Marshall (R7, 250) Troubled in college, he was worth a seventh-round risk, to put it mildly. What I love about the Giants 2007 draft: All eight rookies on this Super Bowl roster not only made the team, but also were active for at least one of the Giants' four playoff wins that year. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/peter_king/09/23/mmqb/index.html#ixzz27QLbgkh5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 More from King: Dr. Z Unsung Man in the Trenches of the Week The award for the offensive lineman who was the biggest factor for his team in the weekend's games, named for my friend Paul Zimmerman, the longtime SI football writer struggling in New Jersey to recover from three strokes suffered in November 2008. Zim, a former collegiate offensive lineman himself, loved watching offensive line play. Will Beatty, T, New York Giants. Except for two late pressures allowed, Beatty, in his first start of the season, provided a safety net for Eli Manning and paved the way for Andre Brown, in his first start in the NFL, to run for 113 yards. More lithe and agile than he seemed as a rookie out of UConn, Beatty's going to be a vital part of the New York offense. He showed against Carolina he's ready. Coaches of the Week Jay Gruden, offensive coordinator, Cincinnati. What a smart game he coached in Washington. On the first snap of the game, he called for rookie wideout Mohamed Sanu to throw a bomb to A.J. Green. Sanu, a high-school quarterback in New Jersey, threw a strike 49 yards in the air that Green caught and ran in for a touchdown. Later, Gruden called for BenJarvus Green-Ellis to take a Wildcat snap and bash his way through the Washington goal-line D ... and that worked for a touchdown too. Good day for the less-famous of the Grude-dog brothers. Pat Flaherty, offensive line coach, New York Giants. Preparing on a short week, going on the road ... those are problems enough for a team playing on a Thursday night, and playing a team that just beat up the New Orleans Saints. But add this: Flaherty had to prepare an offensive line that would be starting in tandem for the first time ever -- and with a right tackle, Sean Lockler, starting his first game at right tackle for the Giants, and with Will Beatty starting for the first time this season at left tackle. Flaherty's the unsung hero on the Giants' coaching staff, and he proved it again Thursday night. Eli Manning was sacked once in 51 minutes of play time, and rarely under duress. A first-time starting back, Andre Brown, rushed for 113 yards, and the Giants held the ball for 36 minutes. It shouldn't be this easy, but Flaherty's line made it look that way. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/peter_king/09/23/mmqb/index.html#ixzz27QQJRmC4 s. Good instincts and intelligence, Jayron Hosley, the Giants rookie cornerback. Hosley, on a blitz of Cam Newton Thursday, wasn't faked out by the nimble Newton. Then, when he contacted Newton as he released the ball, Hosley had the presence of mind to not drive him into the ground, but to slide off him and avoid a possible roughing penalty. That was a five-year-vet play by a third-round rookie. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/peter_king/09/23/mmqb/index.html#ixzz27QSAEuat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I never actually knew Andre Brown was originally a Giant! Our drafts have been awesome though, goes to show throwing money at top FAs isn't always the way to go, eh Washington? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 26, 2012 Author Share Posted September 26, 2012 Tynes NFC ST player of the week. 5/5 on FG's and 3/3 on XP's. Got me 20 points in fantasy! Woop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I used to be a doubter. But for the past 18 months+ he's been nothing but solid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 Tom Coughlin: A Football Life was on NFL Network last night, very good. Watch it if you can, im sure it will be on youtube at some point. Strahan up for the HOF this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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