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Is it just me or is Fitz slowly regressing as the season goes on?He's still good, but his play as gotten steadily less spectacular each week.
he's prone to these types of games, though. I think he's a good QB, but there's a reason why he's bounced around from team to team over the course of his career...
That's not to say that he's had an awful game, either. Two horrible throws and the Giants have made the plays.Is it just me or is Fitz slowly regressing as the season goes on?He's still good, but his play as gotten steadily less spectacular each week.
I thought McKelvin made a pretty nice play to bat that one down. It's a TD if McKelvin doesn't get his hand in there.
This team has some major discipline issues still. Absolutely crucial possession down 3 with a minute and a half and they start with a 1st and 15 because of a false start. They were toast before they even started.Hopefully Kyle Williams and Merriman will be back to close to 100% health after the bye. This team just can't keep expecting to win games 34-31 all season.
To the extent that it's possible for a statement like this to be an understatement, it's an understatement. Florence has been pretty solid up until today, but he had a season's worth of beat-downs all in one game. Manning and Nicks absolutely abused him all day. Disappointing.'GroveDiesel said:
Johnson was open. If the pass is on target, he probably scores. I know this call is getting heavily second-guessed, but I liked it. With 4:00 left to go, the Giants were always getting the ball back one way or another. Kudos to Gailey for going for the TD. Jauron would have run up the middle three times, kicked the FG, and given New York the ball back with 3:00+ on the clock. If we had a shut-down defense that would be good, but I'd rather put the game in the hands of our offense than give Manning another chance to light up Drayton Florence.
I hear you. It's not like an either/or though - there's usually a direct relationship between pressure and turnovers. What we've seen in previous weeks was the outlier. The run D was a bit of a disappointment too. These aren't the 2008 Giants - they couldn't run the ball on the Rams or Seahawks for God's sake.
I hate when people make the "Besides for 1 play" breakdowns. Every game there is one or two plays that are big ones that skew the average that is part of the game. Giants can say besides for 80 yard Fred TD run they held him to 40 yards on like 15 carries, but no we gave up 120 yards to him and need to improve on the run defense
but one play IS one play. when talking about the performance of a defense over an entire game, why let one play skew everything? yes it was a big play at a crucial moment so it certainly counts. Even if you include that play, the Bills still held the Giants to an average of less than 4 yards per carry. That's generally going to be good enough in most weeks, but not when you can't stop the pass and turn the ball over on offense.This is what Bradshaw did with his carries in the game:1313-21 (TD)11145121 (TD)9132421 (TD)13113046-4by my count, that's 3 yards or less on 18 of his 26 carries (although 3 went for a 1-yard TD). Anyway, the run defense certainly caved a bit at the end with Bradshaw gaining about 50 yards rushing on that last drive. Maybe they were worn down, maybe they just were mentally unfocused after the Fitzpatrick INT. Not sure. Up until that point though, I'd say the Bills run defense played surprisingly well in this game, especially with an unknown like Heard at NT. The run defense has been pretty solid in most games this year too. It was certainly not the reason they lost.Here were the carries for Fred Jackson:2807-14605401516303Obviously the 80-yard play skews things tremendously. They did give up 4 yards or more on 8 of his 16 rush attempts although the 2nd longest gain was only 7 yards.
Hmm I stand corrected then. Thought they were worse than that based on what I heard and saw on the redzone channel. I've always thought the people who whine about the "take away this run.." point sound ridiculous (as do the guys at Football Outsiders) - good luck ever changing their minds though.
