Giants Defense: Allowing 28 Points In 8 Minutes

On one hand, they smothered Jay Cutler and shut down Schaub’s passing ability, but on the other they got man-handled by Indy and embarrased by the Cowboys in the “Lights Out” game.

Then again, I suppose you could say the same sort of thing about the Pack. The losses to the Lions, Redskins and Dolphins don’t say anything good about the team’s consistency this year.

This game is going to be all about which team shows up.

I like to think, between Rodgers’ return and the first home game since the Niners, that our guys have real potential to put together a complete game this week.

first I must say our teams are very, very similar this year. Talented but not living up to potential. Both teams have a tough time closing out games it seems. The differance is you guys almost always play close games while we only win one way and that is beating the crap out of the oppenent, if that does not happen the G-Men don’t know what to do and seem to lose.

Our D has for the most part been pretty good this year. They were a no-show vs Indy and the second game vs Dallas. They played well vs Philly in the first loss but let up a huge big play late and played great but broke down terribly this past weekend but the one thing about this past Sunday is Vick decided to run the ball on almost every play when it seemed the game was out of reach and the Giants had no answers for that. Vick had over 100 yards rushing in 8 mins. The Giants took away the deep ball all day and once the Eagles were down he did not wait around he just took off and ran and made plays. The Jacksonville game was is probabbly the best example of what the Giants D is. They got ran all over the first half and were down 17-6 it looked terrible, Gerrard looked like Steve Young. Then all Tuck yells at them in the Locker room at half time and all of a sudden they dominated allowing only a FG and come up with 3 straight sacks on JAXs final drive.

To me the key matchup Sunday is your WRs vs our CBs. Terrel Thomas and Corey Webster are good to very good at times but not great and it’ll be interesting to see how they handle Driver and Jennings who are excellent. My feeling is they’ll play off a bit especially on Jennings to prevent the big play and easy score. Our safteys are solid, in fact we’ll proabbly play with 3 safteys becasue hopefully, (for my sake) we could stop your ground game with the front 4 and other 2 LBs. Dion Grant is the extra saftey and he plays like a SAM backer. He’s been good this year in that roll.

Our O is all over the place. They go 3 and out a lot, I mean if they don’t score it’s a 3 and out and and ugly 3 and out at that or we turnover the ball. Our run game is not dominate at all. Our passing game opens it up a bit and it takes a while to get the ground game going. Once it does our O looks unstopable for about 3 or 4 series in the game but there is zero consitancy with it. Eli who the hell knows. He’ll look like Jake Plummer with his decion making for 2 quarters then he’ll morph into his brother then back into Plummer. Again to me the most interesting matchup will be Hakeem Nicks in man coverage. Your corners are excellent and I’m sure they’ll show a lot of man on Nicks. Nicks is on the verge of becoming an elite WR. He’s very physical and can make some great plays on the ball. He’s very tough to bring down as well and can make a big play. He can outmuscle man coverage. But like the rest of the G-Men he’s a bit inconsistant, he’ll drop a ball or run a terrible route in a key spot. Your savy CBs will prbabbly get the best of him but he might make a big play or two especially in the red-zone that can turn the game.

Special team are awful just like yours. If we don’t lose the game becasue of special teams I’ll be happy.

The Mike Tyson/Glass Joe anology is a good one about the Giants. The only advantage I really give the Giants in this game is they can be very physically imposing. Means nothing if Jennings is running free in our secondary but at the point of attack the Giants can bring it. Giants are a mentally weak team though so they might be flat as hell from the Philly debacle. Who the hell knows with this team. My prediction GB 20 NYG 17 . . . Giants come out flat as hell then get back into it but can’t close which has been the story all year. You guys will be fired up after a good showing in NE and getting Rogers back. NY media is still harping on the Eagle game.