i'll just set this right here since you're avoiding the other thread. sooner or later you've gotta just laugh about your team
This ... has not been good.
What looked like a solid chance to capture an up-for-grabs NFC East has swiftly morphed into a death march for the Giants. While they are no strangers to roaring back from the NY media's "the team has quit on Coughlin" stories, there's a real air of death and desperation around this team with few answers on the horizon.
The list of "things New York does well" starts and ends with Manning-to-Cruz on offense. The rest of the offense has been a cavalcade of brutal Hakeem Nicks drops, runners treating the ball like it's covered in Ebola, aggressively awful pass blocking and the re-animated corpse of Brandon Jacobs staggering around, pursued by villagers with torches and pitchforks. Eli Manning, so good in the face of pressure two seasons ago, has morphed into a vending machine that dispenses fumbles and INTs when defenders come calling
The defense can give itself a smiley sticker for "stops runs between the guards," but it's doo-doo scratch 'n sniffs down the entire rest of the report card. The fabled "two-seven off-suit" pass rush package has several guys failing the jersey test -- if you asked them right after the game what jersey number the opposing QB wore, they'd have to check the program to give you the right answer.
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