11-17-2009, 08:58 PM
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| Giants Can Regroup And Still Take This Division
It's been an awful stretch the past 4 games. The injuries on defense finally caught up to the Giants. Eli and the Giants offense have sputtered over the same stretch. But this week is where it all could end. The Giants will finally have Canty, Boley and Aaron Ross playing somewhat of a full game. This should help the the Giants get back some of their missing passrush, especially with Canty expected to play a full game. But it's not really the passrush that has hurt the Giants defense, it's the fact that outside of Corey Webster, the Giants have no secondary. Ross coming back will help, he's not a shutdown corner but what he does really good is play the ball. He has the speed to keep up with anyone. What the Giants should do is move Terrel Thomas to the Safety position. Even out of position, Thomas is a better choice than either CC Brown or Aaron Rouse.
We are starting to see a lot more of Clint Sintim at LB too. Along with Michael Boley, they can cover good ground. Sintim if used correctly is an excellent pass rusher.
Im still inclined to think Bill Sheridan is about 80% of the Giants defensive woes. It's obvious that the players and him are not ont eh same page. Whatever happened to the exotic Blitz schemes that he promised he would keep in place. Spags had a worse or just as bad secondary to work with over the past few years and that didnt stop the blitzing.
On the Offensive side of the ball, it's looking like the last game things started coming togeather. Eli threw the ball mistake free and Jacobs was getting nice runs...........................................but why did they stop going to Jacobs and most importantly in the first quarter they have a 4th and 2 and elect to go for a FG. Now I understand the logic that hey you get the points on the board first but you have a struggling team inside the red zone, so why not just go for it. Now it turns out the FG was botched, would it have mattered anyway?
The Giants have really lost their identity on offense. They are getting pass happy and to the point where Eli just forces teh ball into coverage. They need to keep feeding Jacobs and Bradshaw the ball. jacobs was finally running his normal way, not stutter stepping or cutting back, he was running down hill and it was working. I dont understand why Gilbride went away from that.
This week against the Falcons, the Giants just need to pound the ball and play Giants football. Atlanta's run defense is craptastic and the Giants need to take advantage of that. Atlanta's pass protection is dismal as well and this where the giants defense just has to be aggresive.
I think the Giants can right the ship with a win this week. This bye week went the Giants way, the rest of the NFC just let the Giants back in this.   |
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