Giants Thoughts 9/29

The New York Giants are fresh off a dominating performance in Tampa Bay, where they beat the lowly Buccaneers 24-0 to improve to 3-0 overall. There were a few things that jumped out at me during this game: The Giants were dominant defensively, as Tampa was unable to get any drives going, they only had five first downs to the Giants 27. The Giants ran 76 plays to Tampa's 36. The Giants had 397 yards of total offense to Tampa Bay's 86. Look at those stats again. Sheer dominance. The Giants did not have a lot of tackles (Corey Webster led the team with 4) but that is simply because Tampa Bay barely had the ball. Although the Giants had no sacks, they had plenty of pressure on Byron Leftwich, with Mathais Kiwanuka getting three knockdowns, two for Osi Umenyiora and one for Big Fred Robbins. Robbins had a nice day clogging the middle and made a beautiful tackle for a loss deep in the backfield. Dave Tollefson also had a nice game, filling in for Justin Tuck (who only played...