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Giants vs. Eagles: The Best Rivalry in Sports | Bleacher Report

queler — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:48:39 -0000

Giants vs. Eagles: The Best Rivalry in Sports | Bleacher Report

I hate linking to the Bleacher Report, but I liked this. They left out a couple I think. Dawkins almost wiping Ike Hilliard off the face of the planet with a late hit on MNF. And the hook and ladder to Ron Dixon to save the Giants season, only to be tackled at the 6 yard line.

Programming Notes

queler — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:56:35 -0000

NFL Network has their series "America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions" on this week

The critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions airs encore episodes throughout the 2007 season. America's Game is a 41-part series profiling every Super Bowl winner using first-person accounts to tell the story of each championship team. From dynasties to one-shot wonders, from the undefeated to the unexpected, America's Game tells the stories behind the story of all 41 Super Bowl champions.

I caught the beginning of '86 last night. Here are some more air times to set the DVR

1986: Thursday, May 21, 3:00 PM

Sat May 23 4:00 PM

2007: Thursday, May 21, 4:00 PM

Sat May 23 3:00 PM

No 1990 Episode in the next two weeks at least. It's definately worth watching. There's a lot more focus on the regular season and history leading up to it. Bill Parcells might have been the meanest coach in the modern era that somehow still commanded that much respect. It's just nice to see a different angle other the NFL Films ones we've all seen a million times.

According to ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio, the Browns’ initial demand for Edwards wasn’t just Kiwanuka. Th...

queler — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:35:59 -0000

According to ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio, the Browns’ initial demand for Edwards wasn’t just Kiwanuka. They wanted Kiwanuka AND the Giants’ first-round draft pick.

The Blue Screen - NY Daily News

A detailed look at how the New York Giants lost the Plaxico Burress grievance - NJ.com

queler — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:24:44 -0000

A detailed look at how the New York Giants lost the Plaxico Burress grievance - NJ.com

Nice, finally a detailed explanation

Michael Strahan's new sitcom: Casting touchdown? | PopWatch Blog | EW.com

queler — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:01:08 -0000

Michael Strahan's new sitcom: Casting touchdown? | PopWatch Blog | EW.com

He was pretty good in Chuck a couple months ago

FROM JUSTIN TUCK… "Who knew our D-line needed that much re-hauling? Maybe I was a little surprised t...

queler — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:07:38 -0000

FROM JUSTIN TUCK… "Who knew our D-line needed that much re-hauling? Maybe I was a little surprised that we didn’t try to rectify some other things before going to the D-line," Tuck said. "Obviously, we did need some help on the D-line because we got beat up and worn down at the end of the year. Jerry [Reese, the Giants' general manager] knows exactly what he is doing and he’s proven he’s pretty good in the draft. Hopefully, we can get some secondary help, a couple of extra linebackers, and we have some offensive needs that I’m sure he’s looking at also."

I agree with Tuck. When in doubt, put your big dollars in the defensive line. I’m surprised other teams that have good defensive lines but could make them stronger were not active in chasing Chris Canty or Rocky Bernard. The Bears (and I am sure there are others) come to mind as a team with an abundance of cap room, but they probably felt they were doing well with their defensive line. They finished with 28 sacks, tied for 22nd in the NFL. They did get 21.5 of their sacks from their defensive line, so maybe if they were a little deeper and fresher they might have had more. The Bears had only 11 sacks on third down all year, which doesn’t make you a good third down team. I know they have some strength in their defensive line, but they could have made it stronger had they gone for more talent and taken the Giants’ approach. When you have that much cap room, it makes sense to spend the money on good players and not worry as much about the depth chart. It’s funny, but in the draft, which is all about money, everyone preaches the "pick- the-best-player" theory constantly. But when it comes to free agency, it’s all about needs on the depth chart. Doesn’t make sense to me, yet what the Giants did makes all the sense in the world.

The National Football Post | Notes From Lombardi: Jauron On T.O.

Giants Gmail Theme

queler — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:20:46 -0000

via home.comcast.net

If you have Gmail I was fooling around and made a sweet giants theme. You can know edit your own colors if you have Gmail. I also made a gmail logo that looks like the giants logo. I wasted so much time doing this I figured I might as well share. Here are instructions using the official giants colors I got off Wikipedia

Go to Setting/Themes/Choose your own Colors

At first you'll have to set two new colors. Now when you move around on any of the arrows you'll get a color dialog box, and the name of the item your setting is at the top. So click on the arrow that selects the "Main Backgound" Click the Plus sign under "Link Color" and set the color to "#192f6b" and click apply. We'll call that gBlue from now on. Click the plus sign under Text Color and enter "#ca001a" and click apply. We'll call that gRed. Notice they're both on the bottom of every box now. Set the Background color to "Silver", which is the third from the right on the top row. Now hopefully the rest with make sense

So here's how I would describe what I just told you to do:

Main Background

Background Color: Silver
Text Color: gRed
Link Color: gBlue

so using that format here's the rest:

Frame

Background Color: gBlue
Text Color: gRed
Link Color: Silver

BOX

Background Color: gBlue
Text Color: Silver

Box Content

Background Color: Silver
Text Color: Black
Button Bar
Background Color: gRed
Text Color: gBlue
Link Color: Silver
Messages

Background Color: White

Text Color: Black
Link Color: gBlue

Selected Message

Background color gRed

Now if your using Firefox, you can get that sweet gmail logo. Install Greasemonkey then after restarting, install this script. And just like that the Gmail logo is full of badassary ( I really love the new logo)

You could argue the Big Ten's premier game has become Penn State-Ohio State. It certainly proved...

queler — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:41:36 -0000

You could argue the Big Ten's premier game has become Penn State-Ohio State. It certainly proved true in 2008 and could once again be the case this fall. And Penn State is the last Big Ten home team to beat Ohio State (2005).

Big Ten mailbag - Big Ten - ESPN

The National Football Post | Notes From Lombardi: Free Agent Linebackers

queler — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:18:56 -0000

The National Football Post | Notes From Lombardi: Free Agent Linebackers

I dig Lombardi's analysis, it's always interesting to to hear an actual opinion of guy who evaluated talent for a living

3-4 thoughts

queler — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:58:40 -0000

There's been some suggestions that switch to a 3-4 would be good. I think there are some big problems with that, but I'm an armchair football player, so I thought I'd put it in a FanPost for discussion. Obviously the biggest problem is the personnel. As I see it, the biggest need for a successful 3-4 is what Gregg Easterbrook calls a Ticonderoga-class Nose Tackle. Guys like Ted Washington, who eat up two offensive lineman on every play. There are so few guys like that in the league, I think that's one of the reasons not a lot of teams play it.

I'm not sure what I would call this scale (size or quickness) but I would order these positions like this: 3-4 OLB, 4-3 DE, 3-4 DE, 4-3 DT. The positions just don't line up. Kiwi is probably the one guy who could be a 3-4 OLB, and maybe Tuck could be a 3-4 DE, based on his play inside last year. A DE in a 3-4 plays more like a tackle and eats up lineman so the LBs can make the plays. The biggest reasons the giants have gone away from the 3-4 in the last decade is because MIchael Strahan was at least one of the three best 4-3 Defensive Ends of All-Time.

At LB, we can barely field 3 LB's right now, so I don't see how we could field 4. I think I saw an interview with Accorsi (maybe), where he said one of the biggest reasons for not implementing the 3-4 is the cap. LB's cost more then lineman. That's why the Steelers have to turnover their LBs so frequently. With the money we're going to tie up in Eli and Jacobs, I can't imagine being able to afford a 3-4 for more then a couple of years.

Thoughts?