As a New York Football Giants fan, all I can say is that I picked the wrong week to quit huffing glue. That was the worst performance I can remember seeing since maybe Eli Manning’s rookie year. Even the kicker sucked. The Giants just made the Carolina Panthers look like a good team. Just tell me that this is the low point of the season because I haven’t been this disgusted since Ray Handley was running things in the Meadowlands.
I guess I can start fantasizing about the draft.
As a Chiefs fan, I thought the Giants game would be a tough one for them in a tough stretch (Cowboys, Eagles, Giants in consecutive weeks).
Now, with the Chiefs looking really good and the Giants looking so bad, I’m much more confident. And the Chiefs have a long week to prepare, since they played on Thursday.
So of course the Giants will win by two touchdowns.
Our fullback shattered his shoulder. So, don’t worry about a running game.
It’s Obama’s fault. /snark
i thought you were just grumbling about a tough loss, so I looked up the game stats. Holy Mother of Y. A. Tittle! What a drubbing!
They had 12 yards of offense at halftime.
Manning is really ineffective. Is it only the o-line? You sort of wonder if there is some injury to the throwing arm or something.
Sorry, Boo.
Who-Dey!!!
Just tell me that this is the low point of the season because I haven’t been this disgusted since Ray Handley was running things in the Meadowlands.
As Greg Mitchell pointed out on the Twitter machine, the Giants will now miss the playoffs for the 4th time out of the last 5 seasons. And Eli Manning really isn’t that great a QB. He’s no Trent Dilfer, but he’s no Tom Brady either.
Whatever. Eli is good enough. He was sacked six times in the first three possessions.
What was Eli’s excuse the prior two weeks? He throws too many interceptions. Did last year too!
it’s interesting to see who’s good, who’s not so good and who’s sucking.
are the Cowboys really the only good team in the NFC East?
The Cowboys aren’t good either.
As I used to say about the American League West, the NFC East won’t be won; it will be lost by all its teams but one.
Wierd day. GB lost to the Bungles, Vikes lost to the Browns, and SF is losing to the Colts.
If the Bears win, all will be well. They can put themselves in a good position. It’s at Pittsburg.
When the Browns win after trading their best player, you know it’s weird weekend.
The Steelers have looked like crap – the o-line is a sieve, the backs are mediocre on a good day, receivers have a major case of the dropsies, and the d-line is pliable (LBs and DBs look ok) – and I don’t expect tonight to be much better. I’d love to be wrong, but I only expect my Steelers to do marginally better than my Rattlers did yesterday…
You can always cheer for the Seahawks. Seahawk fans are very, very happy these days.
The universe giveth and the universe taketh away. So it goes.
Suddenly the Yankees look old and the Mets look interesting…lots of upside over the next few years while the last of the great Yankees are headed for retirement, their farm system looks like Oklahoma during the dust bowl years and the Junior Steinbrenners don’t have a clue.
And…not so suddenly in the Giants case (I’ve never been convinced about Eli Manning. He pouts on the field and embarrasses his receivers publicly.)…the Jets have miraculously lost their loser status while the Giants look plain rotten. I mean…even Rex Ryan looks human now instead of the tub-of -lard hustler he’s always resembled.
Oh.
Wait a minute!!!
Those are your two teams, right Booman? The Yankees and the Giants?
Oh.
Sorry.
You gonna keep rooting for them anyway?
Betcha.
Just like you’re rooting for your other team.
The DemRats.
Winners so far, but…like I said, I’ve not been convinced.
There’s something to be said for loyalty, I guess. Even misplaced, blindered, lockstep loyalty. I wish I knew what it was.
Keep up the good work.
They’re gonna need it.
Watch.
AG
P.S. Always remember…the sports teams work under their own “PermaGov” systems. NFL/MLB etc. are just little PermaGovs. They don’t really care which parties…err, ahh…teams…win and which ones don’t as long as the money keeps on rolling in. They don’t care about what the coaches and players do either until it affects the cashflow.
And/or…
Until they don’t of course. Then? Substitute a kinder, gentler hustle.
Yup.
WTFU.
I’m a no-()ets New Yawk fan. And the Islanders are an ()ets.
I try to have sympathy, but at my perch as a Chicago Cubs fan….talk to me in another 100 years.
Are you also a Bears fan?
Doing about as well as my Buccaneers, and you guys actually have a QB!
All I have to say is: Da Bears!!!
It was a sad, sad day in Ninerland.
They suck but they suck even at that so that makes them mediocre. The O-line has been allowed to decline for three straight years now which is an odd thing to do when you have a damn fine QB. There’s considerable talent everywhere but on the O-line. Unfortunately half the team is under the guidance of Dam Capers, and his picture is in the dictionary next to the word “suck”.
Oh well as with many years in Packerland the season is about beating the Bears .. twice. Not gonna be easy this season.
The season is young, the divisions aren’t being dominated by any one team after 3 games. Relax!
Well, it’s minuscule consolation, but the Panthers aren’t as bad as they’ve been portrayed. They’ve been drafting high for years and doing a decent job getting players in general so have solid talent. Rivera is an excellent defensive coach, reflected by them holding Seattle to 12 points in week 1 despite giving Seattle way too many chances on offense. Buffalo’s victory was weird – lots of luck to keep some drives going (same thing happened for Buffalo yesterday, but the luck ran out in the end).
Their weakness has been offense, and even there it is mostly a coaching problem. Having a son-of-Shula as OC is like having an ex-Belichek assistant as your head coach – you hire him hoping some of the greatness has rubbed off but you find none of it did. On top of that Rivera is your typical defensive-head-coach – he handcuffs his offense by hoping for a ground-and-point offense that will give his boys on defense long breaks, but that’s not how teams win in the NFL anymore (the last team that did with that model was the 2000 Ravens, and even then they were an anachronism may possible by an insanely great defense).
Rivera looked at what Dallas and Denver did on defense and, since he’s a great defensive planner and has better personnel, was able to fully exploit New Jersey’s weaknesses. With no O for the Giants there was no chance for the D.
There may be some hope, at least after Kansas City next week (who has solid defensive personnel and a good scheme, plus 10 days to prep). After next week the only team the Giants face for the next couple of months with strong defensive people is Chicago.
But, realistically, this is probably an indicator that a rebuilding era is needed. You can only pick in the bottom half of the draft so many years in a row before it catches up to you. New England has kept it going for longer than anyone with their clever trades for additional picks over the years, but weaker drafts the last few years have weakened their depth and are making them vulnerable. If they lose Brady they’ll be like the Colts were when Manning went down – the rest of the team has really atrophied. Pittsburgh under Cowher had a number of bad years which helped their drafting (something people tend to forget) and to reload with better people, and now they are on schedule to get a good draft position again. Probably the New Jersey Giants will need to go through that kind of rebuilding process as well. It’s not a fun process for the fan who’s had a great team to watch over many years – and Yankees’ fans in particular have no experience with this process – but its a normal part of being a fan.