Loading ...Following the correct ruling that Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant had landed out of bounds on what would have been a game-winning touchdown catch, the referees correctly added four seconds to the game clock, bringing it to :10 remaining in the fourth quarter. What happened next, however, is a bit of an anomaly that shocked both New York Giants co-owner John Mara and head coach Tom Coughlin.
On 3rd and 6 from the 37, quarterback Tony Romo would drop back and hit tight end Jason Witten near the sideline for a gain of 10 yards – a play that would take four seconds off the clock. On the very next play, Romo would narrowly miss wide receiver Miles Austin inside the five (more than 22 yards away from the line of scrimmage). The missed connection would take only five seconds off the game clock, leaving one tick left for a final shot in the endzone.
Although the Cowboys would fail to convert a miracle last second (literally) win, the fact that they were able to get three plays off in 10 seconds had Coughlin shaking his head.
"I must say it’s been a long time since I’ve seen three plays in 10 seconds. That was an incredible thing that happened there. We thought it was over," Coughlin said.
But was it a hometown advantage? Coughlin stopped short before saying it was…
“I’m not saying that. I’m just saying that’s a heck of a long time. 10 seconds, three plays. The ball started at the 40-yard line.”
TC may not say it, but we sure will… Three plays in 10 seconds, while possible, should not have happened in Sunday's game. Even giving Witten only four seconds on the third down play, the pass to Austin over the middle 22 yards away from the line of scrimmage should have run off more than five seconds.
At the end of the day, that's not what happened, and it doesn't even matter now, but apparently time runs a little bit slower in Jerry World.
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Oh, and one more thing.
How the f*#k does Michael Coe whiff on that deep ball? He reads the play, gets over, gets position, swats…and MISSES.
I’m so sick and freakin’ tired of Justin Tryon and Michael Coe. Get rid of this dead wood now and put somebody–ANYBODY back there but them. If Coe simply shows the hand-eye coordination of a window-licking moron, that game is over ala SB46 and we’re not nearly as sick. But no. He has to totally whiff on the ball.
These guys are deep depth players. Bottom-of-the-roster ‘guys’.
Teams cheat at home. Looking at you Seahawks.
Best quip of the day goes to norm … morphing Swag Hosley into …
JAG Hosley.
Classic …
Just read this in an article:
“Keith Rivers left the game with a calf strain.”
When I first saw Rivers play I was excited. Hadn’t seen a Giants LB fly to the ball and tackle like him in a long time. But then he starts this same crap he did in Cincy and can’t ever stay on the field.
Looks like Blackburn’s hammy is going to keep him out a while and Herlzich will take his place by default because Rivers gets hurt opening his mail.
If I were a professional athlete and had to read the words “left the game with a strained calf,” about myself, I would immediately do a self-examination to ensure that my **** were still attached.
Yes.
Rivers’ career here will be short. He should be a near Pro Bowl type player.
Also, am I the ONLY fan shouting at TV to put ABrown BACK in the game????
I love AB, but 1 yard & a cloud of tire shreds on 1st AND 2nd down absolutely KILLS me….
ABrown gets 4+ yards on seemingly every carry.
rant over
Or 7 yards a carry yesterday, no big deal
LOL at “1 yard & a cloud of tire shreds…”
hehe.
Seriously though, I know what you mean but we’re going to have to live with that for a while. TC has to deal with reality, and that reality is that these guys are human beings–emotional beings. And AB is a veteran leader who is not–CANnot lose his job if he’s healthy. Bradshaw et al have to know that their coach has their backs. In return, they have his back in that locker room. You and I don’t have to deal with that–we just have to yell at the TV. And I do my job every Sunday!
Ok. So it’s the morning after. We won and for the 7th time in 9 years we close out the first half at 6-2. But yesterday was the most painful win I can remember in a long time. First, we squandered 3 opportunities in the first quarter which left you with that uh-oh feeling. Then after getting JPPs pick 6 we failed to display any killer instinct whatsoever. This was especially distressing given that we did in fact take away their running game and made them one dimensional. Still we could not stop their pass game unless either we recorded a sack or Romo made an errant throw. In between — and that means something like 45 for 62 — the pass defense was worse than dreadful. Then our offense goes to sleep completely. Bradshaw gets literally nom yards on virtually every run. Every pass is underneath and short of the sticks. We can’t hit anything downfield or catch it when the ball arrives. Just plain ugly.
But the killer has to be that would-be TD throw to Bryant. How on earth do you let him get behind you in that scenario? Unforgivable. An F for the entire defense.
I say all this because like they do every year the Giants suck you in with a great first half record, an occasional sensational game (SF) but a few real stinkers that the record causes you to ignore. Then comes the second half blues and usually results in the team either staggering to the playoffs or missing altogether.
The past two weeks are the ugly games masked by W’s that make you wonder what we really have here. The defense seemingly can’t stop much of anyone, even when it’s late in the game, we have a lead, the opponent is one dimensional, and we know exactly what is coming. The offense for all it’s explosiveness has the ability to sputter and stop on a moments notice. Like in so many past years we are once again the FG kings inside the red zone. Most trips in, fewest TDs. We cannot run the ball and Bradshaw is at least as big a reason as the line. He will now be the poster boy for bad personnel decisions by the coaches.
Alas, we are 6-2 with 2 games to the bye. Win them both and basically our ticket to the post-season is punched. Lose them both and let everyone else back into the race. Pittsburgh is starting to play much better; they dismantled a Redskin team we needed 11th hour Eli-ics to handle; and they did it by completely smothering their running game. Cincy is playing like crap but we are due for a loss to a bad team where we just look bad.
Maybe the last 2 weeks were an aberration. But right now if you look at the first 8 weeks, we have played 2 excellent games (SF and Car.), 3 awful games (Dallas 2x and Philly) and 3 games where one part of the team failed to show up for part or all of the game and we escaped with our lives. Definitely still a work in progress. The next two weeks will probably only tell us whether the last third of the season will be a dogfight. It’s the giants so I’m afraid I know the answer.
To sum up. This is shaping up to be a typical season.
Indeed
Yes … all true. But I’ll say it again … there were many many years where we’d be lamenting a loss right now.
Defending champs … 6-2 at the turn … and at least a 2 game lead in our Division.
Do we need to play better? Yes, definitely. But I’d rather be us this morning than Dallas.
No disagreement there. It is just so frustrating (as usual) to see this team swing so dramatically from good play to bad.
But as you say, better us than them.
Right now it’s Atlanta (7-0), Chicago (6-1), us (6-2), SF (5-2), GB and Minnie (4-3).
Dallas, Philly and Washington all outside looking in and they’ve yet to play one another
So yes, better to be us
I’m ready to move on, but I’m sorry. Fewell’s schemes and game plans suck. He needs to watch tape from Steelers, Falcons whoever and see how they play the the Skins and Eagles. Vick and RG111 didn’t give them much problem. There is something seriously wrong. Anyone but the Boys would have beaten the Giants yesterday. Fewell gets too much of a pass sorry.
Okay. I’m done. Next!
Abso-freakin’-lutely!
And remember: The Tom Coughlin Giants have NEVER started 6-2 as two-time Super Bowl Champions.
Because of the schedule, I thought the Giants would do well to go 9-7 this year to be honest. I believe they’ll end up 2 games better than that now.
Oops, sorry, that last post belonged under Krow’s comment, not Tuck’s.
Road win against an opponent that always plays us tough, knows us very well, and had an excellent game plan in place that took advantage of every one of our vulnerabilities.
Amazing plays that resulted in a half-season’s worth of turnovers in our favor, including one of the most athletic defensive plays seen in years by our best player on defense.
While not the “elegant, perfect” fourth quarter, still another comeback led by Eli Manning (accompanied by some pretty decent runs by Bradshaw) when we had to have it in a critical game where we had in front of us a chance to gain a 2 1/2 game lead in the NFC East and did so.
A “perfect Tom Coughlin win” because we got the W yet the coach can show film to every player on the team (with the happy exceptions of Steve Weatherford and Laurence Tynes, who both should have received a game ball) in order to demand that he play better going forward.
Yeah, there was a lot of “bad”, but let’s not forget that there was a lot of good too. I could go on about all the things I hated yesterday (I could start with Perry Fewell and take a few hours to discuss what I cannot stand about what he’s doing), but after rooting for this team for all these years it’s easy for me to maintain perspective and simply say that:
1) This is a salary-capped league in which rough parity has been achieved;
2) This is a week-to-week league and “Any Given Sunday” is absolutely true;
3) Having a 2 1/2 game lead in your division after eight games when the rest of the division teams all have a lot of games against each other coming up is a rare occurrence, particularly in the NFC East; and
4) Teams keep evolving as the season progresses and the idea is to be “complete” and “hot” come December and use the previous months to find a few keys to winning while positioning yourself to get into the playoffs, and the Giants are well on the way to having accomplished what’s necessary to get themselves into December in very good shape.
I’m a VERY happy fan this morning.
The end result is the only good thing about yesterday. The actual game was played dreadfully. Even though JPP made a few nice plays he did not slow Romo down one bit. Even though we had 4 picks, we surrendered 400+ passing yards plus the “game winning” TD with 6 seconds left — fingers on the white line or not.
We couldn’t get a first down when we needed to 3x in the fourth Q.
This W was a gift from the Gods. We were otherwise thoroughly outplayed and humiliated. We looked far more like pretenders than contenders yesterday.
Hopefully it proves to be the low point of the season because you can’t win a lot of games playing like that. And with Pitt, Baltimore, GB, Philly, Wash and Atlanta still to come – not to mention our old nemesis, New Orleans – there is still an awful lot that can go wrong.
Yo Stoll,
I think everyones expectations, that the Giants should blowout everyone they face, are just a little high. You posting s$!# like this basically assumes that the Giants are this dominating force that surgically dismembers every team they face, and anything short of that is deservant of a rant like the 2 you just posted.
Yes, we are the super bowl defending champs
Yes we probably have the best depth chart overall when it comes to defensive lineman
yes we should have handled dallas
and Yes Perry Fewell should stay aggressive
and yes the offense played way too conservative
but to sit here and type that long @$$ message ranting about how disgracefull the Giants are right now after a 6 turnover game seems to me like u like hearing urself talk.
CHALKED UP TO DIVISIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES……PERIOD!
Come back stoll when you stop exxaggerating everything. Giants never put up peyton manning and the colts” or “tom brady and the patriots” or “Rogers and the pack” type regular seasons. They play too conservative to ever dominate an entire regular season but when the playoffs get started Im sure STOLL got nothin but Praise for Eli and Company.
SHUT YOUR MOUTH HATER AND KNOW YOUR ROLL LITTLE BOY!