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re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

Kyle Langan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:32:12 GMT

One of the things I noticed that the Giants did down the stretch last year and into the playoffs which worked really well was throw to jacobs. Alot of times he would be running across the middle. That man is a load to deal with in space. At least try and get it to him. If he drops it then forget it, its worth a try.

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

Kyle Langan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:10:10 GMT

I couldnt agree more with ff55 in the sense that we should lay off the blitz. 5 man rush with a few stunts to isolate Tuck should be all we need. I do believe that when it comes to the "experts" making predictions, they just want to do the popular thing and pick the "hot" team. This bye week wast vital, and our guys up front will be charged to go, we saw most of our success early in the season when it comes to sacks and that should prove to be awakend once again with the week off no doubt.

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

Fitz — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:57:52 GMT

Found this weird video Of ELI and Peyton Leaving Villa in Hollywood last april..It looks like ELI doesn't want anybody to know(maybe WIFEY,haa) He is out Drinking and Partying...And Peyton looks like hes had a few LOL..Ehh no Privacy for those Mannings..

www.youtube.com/watch

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

Fitz — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:57:34 GMT

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

bonesxl1100 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:46:03 GMT

Eagles vs Giants on NFL network right now

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

shmitty013 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:45:02 GMT

Dirt - I'm having trouble finding it as well but, I hope for our sake Coughlin sees it.

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

Dirt — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:37:21 GMT

www.nfl.com/videos

And finally at the 0:45 mark:

www.nfl.com/videos

I see a trend here, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

shmitty013 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:32:57 GMT

Time to watch my boys lay into texas. Everyone likes to talk about Laurinaitis and why not, but I have to say as an avid Ohio State fan and watching all their games, watch his buddy Marcus Freeman. Very athletic and a good tackler.

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

bonesxl1100 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:52:09 GMT

This may be my second post ever here although, I have been a frequent reader here for over a year now. Just about every day I come to read the articles as well as the comments.

I have to admit, I did not want to play the egirls either and have been a little nervous about this week coming up. But after reading these comments, I am beginning to feel a lot more confident.

I especially agree with FF's strategy. We all love to see the pressure and the blitz as it is more exciting and worked plenty for us in the past. But I think we need to worry about the short quick passes and screens when playing the eagles. That is what has always killed us in the past with them. Hopefully our front 4 can get pressure on their own a little bit more so we wont have to blitz as much as usual and leave a dump off to Westbrook as our linebackers just blitzed their way out of the play.

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

fanfor55years — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:38:45 GMT

Haz, very nice. What would really be interesting is going back and seeing what people said BEFORE that game. It might help put some of the comments posted on the last few threads about Sunday's game in a nice context.

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

hkiswani — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:29:43 GMT

Lol I just looked back at some of the playoff threads from last season.. These posts from right after the Dallas win are priceless:

TroyThorne said:

I JUST HAD A HEART ATTACK!!!! I AM NO LONGER LIVING I AM DEAD RIGHT NOW!!!

January 13, 2008 7:49 PM [Delete]

Samardzija said:

RW yes yes yes yes

Romo you FAGGOT!!!

THE NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS PREVAILS

January 13, 2008 7:50 PM [Delete]

Krow said:

Back to Mexico you immature jerk !!!

January 13, 2008 7:51 PM [Delete]

KD said:

TO crying on WFAN right now!

January 13, 2008 8:52 PM [Delete]

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

fanfor55years — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:13:24 GMT

Okay, good to see that there are a number of "realistic optimists" around here to offset the "sneaky underminers" and the "why shouldn't we win every game?" fanatics.

We can analyze this game to death. The bottom line is that most playoff games at the Division playoff level (this weekend is usually the best of the year in the NFL because of four games between very good teams that can smell the finish line) are determined in the trenches, by special teams, and by a very few plays and/or calls that go one way or the other. I like the fact that we have the best group in those trenches, a battle-tested veteran punter who is a great weapon in close games, and a quarterback who is not only the best of the eight left in the playoffs but a known winner in the clutch. I'd like to see the Giants address their weakness in kickoff coverage somehow, and make use of Hixon on returns as necessary. Then let the chips fall where they may.

One last thought. I keep hearing on ESPN and elsewhere that "the Eagles are this year's Giants". Okay, maybe. They were hot and cold. They looked like they were dead earlier in the season and managed to get into the playoffs with a little help from other teams. They beat an inferior team on the road in the Wild Card weekend. And they're hot and confident.

But there's a BIG difference. For our second game last year we had to go into Dallas and beat a heavily-favored team that was so confident that they may not have had an "edge" mentally, and had a quarterback who has proved he chokes under pressure and an O-line that wore down as the game progressed and couldn't protect their quarterback or sustain a run game.

The Eagles have to come into Giants Stadium and beat a team that is loaded for bear, still rightly thinks it doesn't get the respect that a defending Super Bowl Champion and #1 seed deserves, and is superior to its opponent in every part of what I have called the "core" of a team (O-line, D-line, quarterback). So the Eagles may be last year's Giants, but the Giants are most assuredly not last year's Cowboys.

I have to expect a close game because it seems all of the Giants v. Eagles games come down to the 4th quarter no matter who is dominating whom. But I think that the likely outcome is that the Giants win the 4th quarter against an Eagles team that is tiring from the pounding and take the winning margin from 3-7 points to 10-14. Precisely because the Giants know what they did to the Cowboys last year, they will not allow that to happen to them.

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

danny4danger — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:07:00 GMT

Honestly, the more I think about this game, and the more I read on this thread, the less worried I am about this matchup. As FF55 and Jim Stoll said, I don't care how dangerous an Eagles team the Giants face, as long as the Giants are amply recharged, they can move the ball on anyone.

Conversely, with a good game plan in place, the Eagles offense cannot move the ball without big plays. I trust enough in this coaching staff to come up with a number of defensive packages that will limit those big plays and force McNabb into sustaining long drives down the field, which I do not think the Eagles offense can do consistently throughout the game.

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

hkiswani — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:48:28 GMT

Fitz -

I don't know who keeps adding that Goal Line Blitz thing to my posts.

I wouldn't annoy you guys with that over and over every post.

re: Giants vs. Eagles: An Early Look

Jim Stoll — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:29:24 GMT

FF, I agree with your defensive analysis and posted much the same above. show blitz, but drop back - bait Donovan into the screens and dumps and then blanket them.

I also agree that the rest is key. Remember, Dallas pounded when Suebert had the flu and McKenzie left early with a back. Philly beat us up with Freddie nursing that shoulder, Tuck the knee and Phillips (or was it Johnson?) with the flu. Also, the nip and tuck affair with Carolina, was with the Tuck portion also nursing the flu.

And while you overstated it a bit (it was 10 straight against winning teams - games 4,5 and 6 were Seattle, Cleveland and SF) - it was the first time in NFL history (I think) that any team played 10 consectutive games against teams with winning records. That's one helluva grind.

Let's also not forget that we played half the Philly game without Jacobs and, in any event, he was still gimpy from the Baltimore game. He sat out Dallas. also, the extra reps for Ward only made him better. He was a stud against Carolina and very good against Minnie. Had we played that game to win, he easily would have eclipsed 100 yards again (and the team probably would have gone over 200).

Finally, as I have posted a few times, this O-Line always seems to have a slump sometime in every season. In my opinion, they did not play well for 4 games, beginnin g in Arizona and ending in Dallas. They were outstanding to say the least against Carolina, and they would have been just as good against Minnie if they had their usual opportunity to take over the game in the second half.

Bottom line, I think our running game will be as strong as it has been all season, the O-Line plyed extremely well at the end of the season and now they are rested. I think the offense can easily control time of possession. All we really should need to do is protect the ball and finish drives.