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"The Giants have been really disappointed in (TE Travis) Beckum. He is so soft. He's...

queler — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:01:25 -0000

"The Giants have been really disappointed in (TE Travis) Beckum. He is so soft. He's a non-blocker."

ProFootballWeekly.com - Insider: Rams covering up Long's inadequacy

Wilson: NFL sends Chiefs' Page a letter | National Football Post

queler — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:04:33 -0000

Wilson: NFL sends Chiefs' Page a letter | National Football Post

"The league office admitted that Page shouldn't have been penalized for unnecessary roughness against the New York Giants."
No surprise here, I thought it was a garbage call

• The Giants are using a new jersey fabric and a new tailoring template, which has resulted in some ...

queler — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:34:56 -0000

• The Giants are using a new jersey fabric and a new tailoring template, which has resulted in some small changes that Uni Watch doesn't like. Let's start with the NFL Equipment logo, which used to be positioned on a red triangle of fabric at the base of the collar. That red triangle has now been eliminated, and the logo has been lowered down beneath the collar. As you can see, that means the NFL logo and the team's "ny" logo are now stacked too close together and are also too close to the uni numbers. There's a similar problem on the back of the jersey, where there's a horizontal seam right where the players' names used to be. So they've had to lower the names (which are now sewn directly onto the jersey -- no more nameplates) and now they're too close to the uni numbers. Pfeh.

Meanwhile, equipment manager Joe Skiba has announced a change in pants protocol: When the Giants are forced to wear blue jerseys on the road -- like when they play in Dallas, say -- they'll wear these gray pants (which had previously been worn only with the white jersey) instead of these gray pants (which had previously been worn with the blue jersey, whether at home or on the road). You might ask, as Uni Watch has, why they need two different sets of gray pants to begin with, but that's another issue for another day.

Uni Watch provides all the NFL uniform news you need in a comprehensive season preview. - ESPN

Toomer cut

queler — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:27:48 -0000

Toomer cut

Now come back and sign a one-day contract. There are no ex-Giants...

Plaxico laying the foundation for a pardon? | ProFootballTalk.com

queler — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:18:04 -0000

Plaxico laying the foundation for a pardon? | ProFootballTalk.com

Behind the Eli Manning deal | National Football Post

queler — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:47:11 -0000

Behind the Eli Manning deal | National Football Post

How good was the '07 team

queler — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:20:10 -0000

I was thinking about this the other day and it seems timely based on the championship team comparison we've been talking about. Basically I was wondering if people perceive us to be a bad champion, an abberation. I guess that's not that unfounded given the achem, uneven regular season. My argument has always been that the Packers, Cowboys, and Patriots were consensus top 5 teams that year, and we beat them all successively. Any of those teams would have been considered legit champs.

I think the more interesting question is how times out of ten would we beat the Pats. Obviously, we lost once a month prior. The game was pretty close. We got some very fluky breaks: the entire Phantom play, Asante Samuel not coming down with the game-winning INT, Corey Webster getting a finger on the extremely underrated 70 yard bomb Brady through across the field at the end of the game (how does everyone not talk about that play, it was an amazing throw by Brady). I'm sure similar things happened in favor of the Pats that didn't strike as much fear in my heart so I don't remember, but Steve Smith practically handed them an INT, Pierce had that pass interference at the end zone.

I think with the same coaching strategies, that game can go both ways a lot of the time. I think with another chance, the Pats don't make the crucial coaching mistakes that cost them the game. The first, while minor, was the one play the entire game that Plax wasn't doubled which resulted in the game-winning TD and shivers down my spine. The huge mistake, that I swear I've only heard Phil Simms talk about, is that the Pats looked at the tape, saw Tuck wrecking havoc in the middle against guards and centers and decided that he was the guy that needed to be doubled. I think that was such a huge mistake, it's like if we had decided to shade our coverage to Wes Welker because he did so much damage while defenses were focused on Moss. Osi and Strahan ate those tackles alive. Hell, Strahan's been waiting his whole career for that much single teaming. I think that was a such a huge mistake, and I'm not sure how well the line does if the Offense line had actually been focused on our two best (at the time) D-Lineman.

Do we compete with Pats if Belichick doesn't make that mistake?

Corey Webster, CB, Giants Webster's paid like a great player now, but he deserved to go to the Pro...

queler — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:17:23 -0000

Corey Webster, CB, Giants

Webster's paid like a great player now, but he deserved to go to the Pro Bowl last season. Webster broke up 35 percent of the passes thrown at him a year ago, a freakishly high total and the league's best. He was in the top 10 in virtually every pass defense metric we can come up with, and had teams staying away from him by the end of the year. His transformation from healthy scratch in 2007 to shutdown corner in 2008 is remarkable.

NFL - Football Outsiders - Digging for the players who have snuck up on us and become stars - ESPN

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.