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Literally. While the New York Giants were on the other side of the country laying a smack down on the San Francisco 49ers in the beat down heard 'round the NFC, a pair of hooligans were rummaging through the Giants players' cars…parked all the way back in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Our favorite line from the Profootballtalk.com story that brought this to our attention:
Police say they’re searching for multiple suspects who broke a lock on the gate to the parking lot where players park their cars during road trips, burglarized some players’ cars and stole a 1996 Chevy Caprice. (Which I’m guessing was not a car belonging to an NFL player.)
Hey, we mock athletes for blowing their fortunes all the time, so if one of these guys was frugal enough to drive a '96 Caprice, good for him. Backup offensive lineman James Brewer posted on Twitter that one of the cars was his.
"Only in Jersey can someone be heartless enough to break into my car while we are in Cali making fans proud..geez get your life right in 2012," Brewer tweeted.
Part of us wonders why the Giants contract a lot in East Rutherford and don't just have their players park at the stadium. And the rest of us is ready to get back to football. Robert Griffin III and the Washington Redskins are up next.
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norm says:
October 16, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Marty B Watch:
20 receptions through six games.
Currently on pace to finish the year with 53 catches.
This one’s going down to the wire, kids.
Although I think that knee needs a rest. Give the kid a week off.
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So about the rest of the division…
Not really sure what to make of Dallas. They came in and beat the Giants in rather impressive fashion in Week 1. They then looked pretty bad against TB, atrocious against Chicago, and then so-so against Baltimore. They still scare me a bit more than Philadelphia over the long haul because Romo is simply better than Vick, but it’s pretty clear that they are very inferior to the Giants.
The Eagles? They are who I thought they were. For all of the “talent” that everyone keeps talking about on this team, they are exactly .500 since the so-called “Dream Team” came together. 11-11. Their QB sucks, their offensive line is dreadful, and their defense is nothing better than mediocre. They’ll be 7-9 or 8-8 by year’s end.
Washington is interesting because of Griffin, but I still don’t take the Redskins seriously as a threat in the NFC East. Maybe in a couple of years, but not right now.
I really think the division is Big Blue’s for the taking, boys.
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fanfor55years says:
October 16, 2012 at 10:37 AM
This is a good review, as usual, but I’m going to use this post as a way of saying that even smart guys like Haz sometimes fall prey to not thinking everything through.
The entire “still bad in the Red Zone and we traded field goals for touchdowns on Sunday and can’t do that” is bunk.
The first trip to the end zone, when the game was very much in question, Eli made a beautiful throw to Cruz and the latter made a great catch of a bullet. Touchdown. And we scored two other times down there.
But most of our trips into the Red Zone were under circumstances where the only mistake you can make in a game that you are dominating is to turn the ball over in tight quarters and give up points that are heading you toward first a 2-score margin and then a 3-score margin EVEN if you settle for field goals. In those circumstances you play it safe and “settle” for 3-points at worst. You don’t call risky plays and don’t make risky throws. You just make sure you don’t give up those points that make the Niners’ coming back that much harder.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t be nice to get 7 points instead of 3, but there are game situations where you will take 3 rather than take ANY real risk on getting 0. That’s pretty much the way the Giants played it on Sunday, and it was absolutely the correct approach.
Except for Coughlin’s weird clock management at the end of the first half, this team played as close to a perfect game as can be played against a good team. Those Red Zone situations were not failures at all. I acknowledge that Haz gave the team an A+, so he isn’t letting anything get in the way of that, but people on this site have mentioned the Red Zone stuff a number of times and that just isn’t correct.
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JimStoll says:
October 16, 2012 at 10:51 AM
this is usaually one of my pet peeves and reasons why I can never fully endorse Gilbride as OC
over his tenure, we have often been one of the worst teams in terms of converting TDs inside the 20, despite being one of the best teams at getting inside the 20. Maddening!
But I agree with FF.
After counter-punching for the first quarter, including shaking off two huge body blows on the two opening drives by SF, Eli and the offense went TD, FG, TD so that by the 10:00 mark of the 3d Q we were up 17-3. It was obvious by that point that only the Giants could beat the Giants in this game. And thus, the Giants took a pretty conservative, make no mistake approach from there on out. In fact, Eli almost made a killer mistake when he missed cruz and hit Rogers right in the gut at the 5. Had Rogers hung on, he might have taken it all the way back and turned a 20-3 game into 20-1- with the concomitant swing in momentum. After that near miss the 3 was just fine. In fact, each of the 3?s following the second TD made SF’s job incrementally harder. The first turned a 14 point game into a 17 point game — 3 scores. the next made it not only a three score game, but a 3 TD game. The final 3 made it a 3 score 2 2pt conversion game.
So while one would rather have had 7?s at each opportunity, the 3?s were the result of knowing the scoreboard and the tempo of the game and playing conservatively to the 3.
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GOAT56 says:
October 16, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Where I disagree is I don’t equate trying to score a TD as being risky. I think we were trying to score TDs and just didn’t execute. We attempted 5 FGs and had 2 TDs, I don’t think that’s good. I thought be failing SF still wasn’t completely out of the game. Maybe 38-14 still is in my head but 23-3 when it should have been 31-3 or 27-3 didn’t feel 100%.
Also, this has been an ongoing problem. We are leading the NFL in percentage of drives scored but not points. I think this clearly shows our inefficiency in the redzone or inside the 30. We kicked a ton of FGs vs TB and Carolina. We had to settle for a FG when starting a drive at the 2 vs Dallas. And we had a key TO inside the 10 vs Philly. I would just like to see us improve in this area. For all the areas we have improved in this is an area that hasn’t really gotten any better from game 1.
Let’s not forget that SF is a pretty stingy defense, as well. Scoring touchdowns on them is not easy. Plus, they are a team known for takeaways. That’s why I agree with FF55 that not going all out for TDs in those spots was just fine. With the way Smith was throwing the football, there wasn’t much of a difference between 20-3 and 24-3 or 23-3 and 27-3.
Re-read my post. In fact, by scoring those FGs we were making the Niners jump huge hurdles by expanding the lead to first two TDs and then three. Our defense was dominating and the only thing that could have lost the game was turnovers and flukes, AS LONG AS WE CAME AWAY WITH THREE POINTS.
And how you can say trying for a TD in the Red Zone when you have to put the ball in the air against a good defense in very confined space isn’t risky is, frankly, beyond me. You’re sadly mistaken.
But I’m done with this. I’m worried about this week, not last one.
We did pass the ball, we just weren’t effective. For example to Eli near interception which appeared to be miscommunication. I’m not questioning the style of plays called in the redzone, I’m just saying we need to execute better in the redzone.
The reason I bring it up is because I think the redzone has been an ongoing issue and we need to be better there starting with the Redskins.
Eagles canned Castillo.
And so ends the great ‘OL coach to DC’ experiment.
Police are searching for a green van with Pennsylvania license plates seen leaving the scene. They feel the real target was the case holding the teams 4 Lombardi trophies … but being from Philadelphia the alleged perpetrators were unable to identify them … became confused … and reverted to the usual vandalism.
LOL
LOL. Now we know the real reason Castillo was canned. He didn’t get the trophies as he had promised Andy he would. And he didn’t even bring him a cheesesteak as penance.
*slow claps*
Well done.
This Castillo thing is nuts.
Philly’s D ranks 15th in points allowed; 12th in yards surrendered; and 4th in percentage of 3rd down conversions allowed.
Those are the standard metrics used to evaluate defensive play. And in every one of them, Philly ranks in the upper half of the league.
The defense has not been the problem. But even if it had been, changing coordinators mid-season is always fraught with peril. Now, you’re going to have a new voice who presumably will look to install new wrinkles, if not change the orientation of the defense altogether. If nothing else, this seems a recipe for chaos that will do more harm than good in the short term.
Reading the tea leaves, it sure looks like Reid just threw Castillo under the bus. It’s no secret that Reid has been the given the ultimatum of “Win this year or else.” And that Reid is the guy in charge of the offense – which has been the REAL problem with that team. Rather than take responsibility for his own failings, Reid opted to scapegoat the coordinator who actually had been doing a fairly decent job.
I doubt this ends well – and I, for one, could not be any happier about it.
Actually, I sorta hope Andy gets to somehow stick around. You never know. They might actually bring in a solid coach/GM combo who will build the team the right way and turn them into a team we have to really worry about. And I would think one of their first calls would be to our Mr. Ross. Marc Ross will be a candidate for a lot of GM jobs on failed teams. I thought he might be gone this year. I’ll tell you one thing. John Mara should do whatever he can to retain him until they’re absolutely sure that his successor within the Giants’ organization is almost equally capable, because he’s probably almost equally responsible for our draft success as is Jerry Reese.
If he’s offered a job as a GM, how could we keep him?
Sadly, Ross is gone with the wind after this year.
That’s the inevitable downside of assembling what’s arguable the deepest team in the NFL. When teams around the league look at your roster and see the low percentage of high round busts and a high percentage of low-round, UDFA finds they can’t help but come to the realization that the Director of College Scouting must be a pretty smart cookie.
There’s no amount of $$$ the Maras can offer Ross that would quench his desire to run his own show elsewhere. It’s going to happen. In fact, I think there was a report in a New Jersey paper the other day which suggested that the new ownership of the Browns would be likely suitors this offseason.
15th in points allowed despite Vick’s penchant for giving the ball back to the other team. Kind of a small miracle this isn’t worse.
Exactly. We all laughed when he was hired and they had some initial troubles. But if you look at leat year and this year in total I think it shows he did a solid job. Their big defensive issue this year has been ours, pass rush. They only have 7 sacks. I think like with us that’s on the players and not the coach.
Norm I agree. The problem with the Eagles was not Castillo this year if you look at the numbers but maybe the defense giving up those late leads, espacially this past weekend vs the Lions was the straw that broke the camels back.
To me the biggest reason the Eagles are struggling is Vick. His turnovers are killing them. On top of not having a great O-Line, and more or less the Linebackers are as always MIA with this team….me personally I love the turmoil, because I dont think there is any other team I hate more. It still is hurting me that we lost to this crappy team thanks to a brain fart by Coughlin when we were at their 26 and should have won with the FG. Oh well…..
Norm beat e to the punch, but I completely agree with him. The defense was playing very well and was not the problem. Other than giving up 10 pts in the final 5 minutes Sunday, I thought they played as good as any D in the league. Remember the offense turned the ball over 9 times in the first 2 games and the defense still, despite all those extra possessions and extra time on the field allowed them to win bot games. I think the owner ship in Philly is getting ready to completely clean house and Reid is doing whatever he can to save his own enormous **** I think with one more bad game, Vick will join Lopez tonight in the outhouse and The Nick Foyles eras will begin. Pretty sure once that happens that Vick will be QB for the Jets next year.
Oh man, I would LOVE to see Vick and Tebow as the Jets’ quarterback duo. That would keep the repeat champions of the NFL off the back pages forever. Every media member covering the NFL would cream in his or her pants. What a shltshow that would be!!
If they start Foyles I think they are crazy. I think their best chance is to coach Vick better to mimize his mistakes. Run the ball more and run more underneath routes. I think they are our cheif competition for this division.
Good stuff from Ralph on snap counts from Sunday:
And since I’m on a snap-count roll, here are a few more interesting ones from Sunday’s game …
Jason Pierre-Paul again lead the D-line with 51 (84%), but Osi Umenyiora got an unusually high 48 (79%). For most of the season he’s had a more even split with Justin Tuck. This time Tuck had 40 (66%). Add in the 37 snaps Kiwanuka took along the defensive line, plus the 34 Linval Joseph got at DT (56%) and … well, a lot of D-linemen played a lot, as it turned out.
Markus Kuhn (20 snaps, 33%) is clearly ahead of Marvin Austin (7, 11%) in the DT pecking order, though as soon as Chris Canty is ready to play you won’t see much of either of them.
Adrian Tracy played only 12 snaps (20%). I’m pretty sure they were all at LB, though he did spend a lot of his LB time standing along the line of scrimmage.
Keith Rivers, in his return from a hamstring injury, played only seven plays.
Tyler Sash saw 20 snaps on special teams, but not a single snap on defense in his return from suspension.
With Jayron Hosley back (36, 59%), neither Justin Tryon nor Michael Coe played a defensive snap. Neither did LB Mark Herzlich, who some people thought was on the verge of pushing Chase Blackburn (41, 67%) out of a job.
Hakeem Nicks, in his return from foot/knee injuries, was on the field for 52 plays (80%).
Who’s No. 3? It’s clear now that it’s Domenik Hixon (22, 34%). Ramses Barden (3, 5%) is fourth and rookie Rueben Randle (0) is the odd man out.
David Diehl took 13 snaps (20%) as the jumbo tight end.
great stuff man. I liked them moving Tracey around out there. He looked good
Thank you! I was asking for something like this.
Awesome! Good to always know the snap count!
I’m a little shocked at the number of snaps Jayron Hosley was active on. Dude was playing pretty well coming off an injury considering his name was never brought up once.
Last year Washington beat us due to great play and pressure from the front 7 combined with some complex coverage schemes (Hasletts special) that gave Eli 2 of his worst games of the season. If you look back to 10 &11, even though we won all 4 games, Eli had some pretty rough games statistically. I think this year with 2 of their best front 7 guys lost for the year and with their back 7 getting long in the tooth, Eli will torch them.
Add to that our OL is improved.
The Eagles are 31st in the NFL in scoring and the DC gets axed? Huh?
this.
Sure their defense gave up the lead, but that’s not the ultimate problem. An offense with McCoy, DeSean and Maclin shouldn’t be putting up only 17 points a game.
But Reid would never fire himself for not running the ball ever.