Loading ...The New York Giants are going to the Super Bowl. Let that sink in for a moment. The New York Football Giants will play the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI.
When you look back on the season that was, it's difficult to believe this once 7-7 team would be on their way to Indianapolis fighting for another Super Bowl championship, yet here they are. Led by quarterback Eli Manning, who now has more road playoff wins than any other signal caller in NFL history, the Giants are writing another fairytale against all odds. And much like the 2007 team, it all culminates against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.
The odds are against them. Again. They open as 3.5 point underdogs and already pundits are proclaiming "there's no way they can do it again."
The adversity seems to fuel this team, but New England won't be blindsided again. This time Bill Belichick & Co. will know what's coming their way, so the Giants will need to step away from the 2007 parallels and realize the Super bowl will be has hard fought as the NFC Championship game that led them here.
But before all that, the fans still have the right to celebrate an NFC Championship.
Devin Thomas had a "Vision" he Would Make a Big Play
Devin Thomas had a feeling he would make a play that would help the Giants win the NFC Championship.
And the player who barely saw time as a receiver this season, then saw his kick returning duties taken from him and briefly thought he was paralyzed after a collision in the Dec. 18 loss to the Redskins, played a huge part in the Giants’ fifth NFC title.
“I had a vision in my mind that I was going to make some type of big play to help us win the game,” he said. “I thought it was just going to be that first fumble, but I got another opportunity to recover another one and I jumped on that.”
Lawrence Tynes Lives the "Dream" Yet Again
Lawrence Tynes had a dream Saturday night. He called it “the typical kicker dream.”
In other words, it was a make-the-winning-field-goal-to-send-your-team-to-the-Super-Bowl dream.
Tynes experienced the once-in-a-lifetime moment .. for the second time in his lifetime.
Jacquian Williams Forever Erases Obscurity to Giants Fans
List the names of potential NFC championship game heroes and Jacquian Williams would not be the first person to come to mind.
However, Williams made a dramatic play that was instrumental in sending the Giants to Super Bowl XLVI. In overtime, Williams reached in and stripped the ball from 49ers punt returner Kyle Williams. Devin Thomas recovered at the 49ers’ 24-yard line, setting up the game-winning field goal by Lawrence Tynes.
No Debating it: Eli Manning is Elite
Manning was ever stoic, ever calm, even on the doorstep of history and football immortality. Only one man in the modern class of "elite" quarterbacks has won more than one Super Bowl. Drew Brees hasn't. Aaron Rodgers hasn't. Even big brother Peyton Manning hasn't.
But thanks to Tynes' kick and the Giants' relentless defense and Eli Manning's ability to get up after hit after hit after hit, little brother has a chance to join Tom Brady with multiple rings. Is Manning elite? The way he has played this season and gotten New York to the final game, Manning has rendered the question moot. It is no longer up for debate.
Victor Cruz’s magical ride goes to Indy
Victor Cruz dropped the first pass thrown his way this season and fans immediately took to his Twitter timeline questioning his value to the Giants.
In the biggest game of his life, with a Super Bowl trip as improbable as his sudden rise to NFL stardom on the line, Cruz made the Candlestick Park crowd chant his name.
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The talking heads this morning are talking about Alex Smith going 1-13 on 3rd down as if it was a particularly bad day.
But it should not have come as a surprise to anyone who has watched this Niner offense even a little bit this year. As I posted here last week:
One thing that really stood out to me while watching them against the Saints last weekend was that the vast majority of their calls on first down were play action passes. The offense enjoyed almost all of its success when Smith was able to complete those first down throws for anything from 7-15 yards. Most of the series’ that featured first down runs by Gore (which, of course, the Saints were ready for) wound up being short lived. Forget third and long. This is not an offense that even wants to get to third down. Their aim is to move the chains on first or second down.
(pats himself on back)
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Colin Cowherd on ESPN radio:
“One game, crappy weather, on the road … give me Eli Manning over any QB in history.”
And how ’bout some love for my boy Billy Cundiff?
Maybe I’m in the minority but I’d much rather take my chances against a team with a suspect D and an elite QB who flinches under pressure than another rugged take-no-prisoners defense and a less than elite QB.
Better matchup for the G-men.
Thank you, Billy.
Now there’s someone I feel sorry for. Not because he didn’t screw up, but because the entire city of Baltimore went from ecstasy to misery in 30 seconds and will find it easier to blame him than the real culprit, Lee Evans (all he had to do was turn his shoulder instead of prancing backwards and there’s no way the defender can get that ball loose). But all these games hinge on one or two plays. The pats made ‘em. The Ravens didn’t. The Giants made ‘em. The Niners didn’t.
So based on what has been posted it would appear that Cowherd and Dilfer “get it”. Perhaps some of the other morons will stop defending their idiotic assessments of the younger Manning that they made a few years ago and open their eyes and see he is verging on first-ballot HOF credentials already with a good 6-8 years of play still ahead of him.
The opinions of idiots like Jimmy Johnson, morning talk show hosts, and the usual suspects (three who have always really ticked me off are Chris Carter, Ron Jaworski and Steve Young, who ALWAYS have an agenda) clearly don’t bother Eli. He just goes out and plays. But thanks to fools like them the general population of fans and those who matter when it comes to voting for MVP and the HOF are at least mildly influenced because they either watch the games with preconceived notions and therefore see what they want to see or don’t watch games and just accept what they assume is “expert” thinking.
Eli really should be getting his due. As I’ve said before, I’d take him as the Giants quarterback over anyone in the game, and I am 100% certain that he is among the best 2-3 quarterbacks alive. And I am very comfortable in my conviction that he enters the Super Bowl as, right now, the best quarterback who will set foot on that field.
Congratulations to everyone.
The two two lasting images from the game last night:
1: Weatherford (of all people) running around the field yelling “we’re going to the f****** Super Bowl!”
and
2: Eli getting CLOBBERED on a sack, getting up with his helmet crooked, turf in his facemask, and his shoulder pad sticking out, and continuing to lead his team as if he did not even take a hit.