All right so that didn’t go like everyone hoped it would.

So let’s first higlight some of the good before we get to soo much of the bad.

There were three things in particular that I thought were GREAT to see during this game. Not exaggerating when I say great.

 

#1 Domenik Hixon is returning Kicks Again!

Despite what the announcer Thom Brennan would have you believe, Domenik Hixon WAS NOT RETURNING KICKS REGULARLY THIS SEASON BEFORE THIS WEEK!!!!!

How do these people have jobs?

We Giants fans know that Hixon hasn’t regularly returned kicks since he took over for Plaxico Buress, BUT with Mannigham emerging and Nicks hot on his tail the Giants can afford to move Hixon to return specialist.

And special he did look.

I believe he will also return punts, however, due to the nature of the game, we fans were not able to see even ONE punt return (that’s not one of the good things)

 

#2 Hakeem Nicks 5 recepetions 114 yards a Touchdown. Touchdown in three straight games! Averaging over 19 yards pre reception.

This Giants receiving corps looks to be in GREAT shape moving forward in the future. Steve Smith is nice, Mario Manningham is nice and Hakeem Nicks, is not only a player who catches almost anything that hits his hands, but also a guy who can exploit defenses deep with deceptive speed. Nicks and Eli still have some chemistry issues to work out, but he looks great so far.

#3 William Beatty played well in place of Kareem McKenzie.

I thought he did at least. He looks very fluid athletically. And I think that was a Terrific draft pick by Jerry Reese. I said with much received slack before the draft that I thought if Beatty was there at the end of round 1 that the Giants should draft him.

Great footwork, great effort, a little undersized, but that’s really his only drawback.

I’ve also gone on record saying I think eventually we’ll see David Diehl move to RT replacing McKenzie and Beatty will be inserting into the starting LT position, where his athleticsm will help against some of those speed rushers Diehl struggles with on Manning’s blindside. But that’s for another year.

O.K. A few more things I have to stretch to make look good.

Eli Didn’t throw an INT to Darren Shaprer.

He really, really tried to though.  Still close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. So he didn’t.

Jacobs averaged 4.7 yards pre carry!

He looked feisty in this game, I thought. It was nice to see. I thought in the game the Giants needed to come out early and set the tempo of the game, unfortunately the Saints came out early and set the tempo of the game.

Such a small sample size though that it means nothing really.

The Giants pass defenses is still second best ranked in the league.

That’s obviously misleading though.

Steve Smith is still #3 in recption yards this season still. And quitely had another pretty good games, 4 catches for 44 yards. Like I said the receiving corps is nice. Good for him.

Tynes is 5 for 5 in his last 5 kicks.

Good. Our Special teams play could be a strength moving forward.

Run Defense, despite all the room should have been to run only gave up 3.2 yards per carry, but who cares!?!? When you give up infinity points

Now the Bad! (red font because it was so awful I have to go with color here)

Bill Sheridan called an awful game plan! I don’t know what GIants team he’s been watching the past 5 years, but the one I’ve watched doesn’t play zone coverage well. And guess what we played too much zone coveage!

The cornerbacks generally tackle well, but don’t play zone coverage well.

Shadow Colston with Webster, should have put Thomas on Lance Moore, and use Bruce Johnson (Dockery didn’t play well) on Devery Henderson  and Robert Meachem who are one trick pony kind of players. Run deep fast.

And then BLITZ!!! After the first thirty-eight touchdowns I would have just sent someone to hit Brees every play, high/low/late/more than once! doesn’t matter. Make them stop throwing the ball!!!

Or if not make sure that when Brees wakes up Monday he cna’t feel his limbs, so if we play the Saints again in the playoffs he might have a little fear in him.

C.C. Brown had 12 tackles!. Unfortunately that was more due to the fact that he couldnt’ break up any passes and had to tackle all the guys he let get open in the first place. Awful pass coverage

Chase Blackburn and Pierce had 15 combined tackles. Unfortunately that was more due to the fact that (t)he(y) couldn’t break up any passes and had to tackle all the guy (t)he(y) let get open in the first place. Awful pass coverage

Kevin Dockery was also exposed. Terrell Thomas was O.K. Not great.  Corey Webster I don’t think played poorly actually. Marques Colston went off, but that was mostly against zone and his two biggest receptions were against Antonio Pierce!!!!! Talk about a mis match. I saw a couple of plays where Webster gave up short yardage, but other than the pass interference call (bogus) I don’t remember Webster really making a terrible play. Did you guys?

Awful pass interference call on Webster. If you just saw the highlight on football night in America they don’t show you that Colston tripped over his own feet!!! Wasn’t touched by Webster.

Would you guys have kneeled it going into half only down 10 and getting the ball back?

I don’t think I would have either. We’ve seen Eli Make things happen there before a lot. unfortuantely someone blew a blocking assignment which didn’t give Eli a chance to work his magic.

a field goal there brings the game within a mangeable seven and who knows what happens from there.

But things took a turn for the worst when Eli fumbled and Reggie Bush put the Giants away with a sweep around the corner.

No Drops By the Wide Receivers

A first for the season. They have a lot, but not this one.

The Eagles lost too!

Now we don’t have to hear Eagle fans bragging about anything the rest of the season because your automatic response is just “13-9 Oakland!” So that will shut those annoying fans up.

That’s all for this game.

 

In summary, Offense not bad, actually. They were in a terrible position where they couldn’t be balanced and still didn’t play terribly.

Defense terrible. C.C. Brown awful. Kevin Dockery awful. C.C. Brown dreadful. Antonio Pierce and Blackburn in coverage. Terrible schmeatics. You can’t blame that on them, they are not coverage guys plain an simple. C.C. Brown Atrocious.

One Closing idea!

When Ross gets back make Terrell Thomas a Coverage safety. Michael Johnson can move up and play more in the box and Thomas’s primary concern will be playing pass defense. Our run defense isn’t bad. It wasn’t even that bad this past game, so we don’t need C.C. Brown playing the run well at the expense of terrible pass defense.

 

Leave some comments. Fent your frustration.

 
have a nice day, everyone.