Did you notice that the Giants are 3-0? Nice. Hmm, let's see who they beat.a) the Redskins, who BARELY BEAT the Rams (0-3) 9-7 and then proceeded to lose to the Detroit Lions! So this is a 1-2 Redskin team that has barely escaped after facing teams that are 1-5. Not impressive.b) the Dallas Cowboys, who beat the TB Bucs (0-3) and barely beat the Carolina Panthers (0-3). If Steve...

Wonder had some interesting observations:1) Playing TB was equivalent to a bye. They have no homefield advantage, half the stadium is transplacted NYers, nice to play them there.2) TB and CLE are the two worst teams in the league. If you put them in the Super Bowl the score might be 0-0 in March before anyone scored.3) Man-Idiot fined a player something like $1700 for taking a $3...

That was a clinic. Of the good kind. Tampa Bay is a bad team, but all wins are good and any road win is a very good win. Ring it up, collect, next. Buying time for the team to heal up. But unfortunately McKenzie (knee) and Seubert (shoulder) left the game. So while some get better, others get hurt. Otherwise a very good all around performance.Good:1) The Defense shut down Tampa Bay...

We've heard it mentioned no less than a half dozen times this week that this is a "trap" game. Bullbrown. THIS IS NOT A TRAP GAME. When your team is hit hard by injuries, gets GASHED for 250 YDS (!) in the running game, gives up 31 points the prior week, cannot make any conversions in the red zone all season, there are NO ILLUSIONS that the Giants are a very good team...

Out:Canty, Sintim, Ross, Nicks, WareQuestionable:Tuck, Hixon, Dockery, KoetsProbable:ManninghamGarafolo's PreviewUltimatenyg (Burned Out, 5 stages of Grief Depression stage) Preview: Giants -7 Showtime Phil Simms:Simms takes NY GiantsSimms praised the Giants, who "can do just about anything" (except score in the red zone), can still rush the passer and Leftwich holds...

Phillips is out for the year. I really did not want to even post today. Losing Osi last August was worse than this, but this is up there. Francesa said it is big, very big. He did not back away, kept on repeating how big a loss this is for the Giants. And he is right.A quick word on Phillips- this injury could mean his playing days are in jeopardy. This is no layup. Good luck to...

1) This sounds like fun:a) Tuck possibly out (?) w/ a torn labrumb) Canty likely out (?)c) Derrick Ward and Cadillac Williams know how to rund) AT Tampa Baye) 1PM start"Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun." Add Giants Defensive Linemen. Better have lots of those IVs ready at halftime. Will they be lucky enough to make it that far? These are the games where...

1) Papa and Banks reviewed the Dallas win with a 23 minute recap. Good stuff.2) Vaccaro has a nice piece on how Manningham got to the place he is currently in. He mentions the Wonderlicht score; concerns about MM's ability to learn the offense were there. Vaccaro did not mention was how Manningham got hurt in training camp in 2008. That is a big setback for ANY rookie. They need...

I know a lot of you hate Dallas, making this a particularly sweet win. So let's enjoy this one a little more before moving on.So many great comments yesterday.. we'd need 3 blog posts to recap them all.1) I liked Dallas to win the game on Sunday, especially if Kenny Phillips could not play. Thankfully we did not see a lot of CC Brown. Given how important Phillips was (even...

This was a great win, warts and all. Yes, there are a multitude of problems that need fixing, but there were MANY positives gained from this victory. We have been saying since the middle of preseason that the defense needed time to come together- they are buying time with wins. Phil Simms said before the game that the Giants defense gives up the big play and that that would cost...

Phillips will start. Look at the list of inactives.. they are almost all hurt:Ross, Dockery, Canty, Nicks, Sintim, Ware. Koets also inactive (hurt?). I believe Whimper is the only inactive player who is not hurt.

1) NYG vs Dallas: The Boys got pushed around on defense. (Gilbride said the heat had a lot to do with it.) That is the game. You can push around that Dallas DL. The Giants can and need to do that. On offense, the Dallas pass protection was not up to the standards they are used to. On both sides of the ball the Giants have the advantage and you would think that the Giants can win...

Short version: Wonder sees all else equal, that the Giants lose 27-20, but does NOT rule a win out by ANY means. He sees the Saints beating the Eagles EASILY in the Linc, assuming Kolb starts.These picks for division winners are not a surprise WEST- Seattle South- Saints East- Jints ...

Thursday: Phillips was back to practice (even making a few INTs).Friday: Phillips misses practice; status for Sunday questionable.NY Times: Among the injuries to the secondary, the most worrisome seemed to be the one to Phillips, who could be hampered all season. “We are going to manage this for the year, yes,” Coughlin said of Phillips’s knee injury.When asked if he would...

1) Read it and weep: Canty (calf) is out for the game on Sunday. 2) Dallas Game PreviewWonder Game Plan for the Giants defense:a) Do NOT let WR's get "over the top"b) Treat WITTEN as a WRc) POUR in on ROMO...he does NOT like pressured) RUN BLITZES should also do welle) ATTACK CONSTANTLY; their Oline is not as good as it wasAnd Ultimatenyg will add one more:f) Maintain...

1) Patrick Crayton hates the Giants. Brandon Jacobs hates the Cowboys. DeMarcus Ware hates the Giants. Chris Canty is being asked to hate the Cowboys. What else is new? 2) Lots of turnover in the Giants roster. Gone are Douzable and Reyes. The Giants have flopped a set of Johnsons (Michael, Bruce, Gartrell). Wonder color on the new roster addition:RB Gartrell Johnson: a STEAL off...

1) Hat's off to Jim Zorn on the Fake FG at the end of the half. He's down 17-0, the argument you always hear from the broadcasters (ie Madden) is that you have to get those first points, they'll kick the FG and be happy to go into the H2 with something to build on. Instead they faked and scored a TD. Rule #8, Do the Unpredictable. There were 77,000 people in the stadium...

1) We talk about how the difference between teams #1 thru #26 in the NFL is not very large. Intangibles like coaching and emotion can make a #26 play like a #1 and we have numerous examples of coaches who turn good teams into underachievers in crunch time (think Marty Schottenheimer, Wade Phillips). It is only Week 1, it does not mean anything YET long term, but they are playing...

For those of you who watched, you know the final score was not indicative of the way the Giants outplayed the Redskins. This was a very good win for the Giants in every way except the injuries.1) Just like the Giants lost to Philadelphia last year in W14 20-14, the Skins got beat by the Giants in much the same way. Both games saw a special teams TD at the end of the half (punt block...

It's a swan song appearance today for Andy at the "old" Meadowlands in Section 307. Is our OL able to get to the second level (LBers) on run plays with Haynesworth and Daniels potentially blowing things up? Is the DL of the Giants playing cohesively, keeping Campbell inside the pocket, staying in their lanes and winning that battle? How well conditioned are the Skins...

Phil Simms was blunt with his (paraphrased) comments:1) GIANTS- "Very curious" (to see) about this team. I saw them do a lot of good things in the offseason, they looked good on paper. But I did not see it, not even a glimpse of it in preseason. I saw big passing plays against them, I saw lots of time, too much time, for the opposing QB. This team still needs that big...

Carl Banks was on WFAN Friday with Roberts and Benigno. Go to the middle (~55% or 60% of the way through) of the audio clip to start listening to the section on the Giants.Quick summary: Giants should be a playoff team, the back 7 of the defense has the question marks and the upside to determine the fate, good or bad, with the team.Banks believes the WR issues are overblown. He specifically...

Kind of scary that with Dockery looking to be out, Rookie Bruce Johnson will be the nickel back. You still want to lay -6.5 points and say this is going to be an easy win? I hope the Giants win 30 to nothing, but anyone who thinks tomorrow should be an easy meal ticket game is not paying attention. This is also Terrell Thomas's first start. While we are high on him and believe...

1) Good news yesterday from Tom Coughlin. a) Nicks is going to have a very big role in the WR rotation b) Hixon, Smith and Manningham will be the other 3 that are used actively in the WR rotation. c) Hixon is expected to return kickoffs.Sounds logical. Sounds good. Sounds GREAT. 2) What do the following players all have in common???Clint Sintim (minicamp)Sinorice Moss (minicamp)Travis...

It is the Friday before Week 1. All this talk, now it is time to play the games. THE REGULAR SEASON IS HERE! God, I love football.The Skins game. We chatted with some folks over at DC Pro Sports Report to get a sense of what we will be seeing on Sunday. Here are the answers to our questions.1. Why should we expect the Redskins offense to be better than it was in 2008, when it was...