No offense but I see a major letdown by the Giants WR corps this year.... I think the loss of Plax is going to impact the Giants much more than the media and Giant fans are talking about. Howveer I do think Nicks is going to be a great WR and make you forget all about Plax just not right now.
With a new DC and a young WR groups I fully expect the Giants to start off slow. This is the year that Eli really has to carry this offense. He looked up to the task (though there is room for improvement) but his WRs let him down.
You know that because of the teams we root for we can never hope to see eye-to-eye on this. Let's just say "holding can be called on almost every play" and leave it at that.
The problem is in that division starting slow may not be something they can recover from. I think Eli will be fine because he does have a good running game and he does get good protection. The problem is the team struggled without Plax big time last year and I don't see anybody on the roster right now that is going to step up and take the pressure off the RBs to consistently move the ball. They will get better as the year goes on but hopefully for you and my best friend so does Dallas and Philly although the Skins may be very good as well.
That hold on Pace pissed me off and I started screaming at the TV. Eli would have been eating dirt, instead he completes a 25 yard pass to Nicks.
I don't buy the whole argument about what should've happened in the NFL. Players always fuck up plays in the NFL. If it was Randy Moss dropping that pass, I would've agreed that the Jets got away with one, but who the hell is Steve Smith? He's not that good. The Jets looked horrid at the start of the game but over the course of the first stringers being in, the Jets were better. Both teams were ugly, but to focus intensely on the negative and to ignore the positive is foolish.
This kid has great footwork one of the best i've ever seen. He's calm in the pocket and good strong arm and solid accuracy especially on the run. I Think despite the drops sanchez played better. An if we didn't have 64 penalties we could of built a nicer lead. When all the starters left we were up 17-13. We win.
Sanchez does have very good footwork and I love his accuracy. I wouldn't call his arm strength amazing though. He's not a Chad Pennington, but doesn't have the whip Cutler does either. I think he's in the Tony Romo & Phillip Rivers category of arm strength. Neither guy has a cannon, but both have excellent placement and because of that (moreso than their arm strength) they have been successful in the league.
I agree with your logic here. I don't like to take the "it would have been an interception if he held on" or "he would have had a sack if he wasn't held" approach. Steve Smith is a heretofore possession WR that got deep on the Jets twice (the other time was when Eli checked down to Boss, he had Rhodes 5 yards behind him). I think you have to take the good with the bad here. The Giants WRs were getting open, they just weren't catching passes. Eli was on point, the protection held up, the chemistry is there; they just need to catch the damn ball! The Jets racked up entirely too many penalties, but they did it while playing physical. They forced a very impressive fumble from Jacobs, and capitalized on a mistake by Hixon. Most of the penalties were of the careless nature that can easily be corrected. The most concerning penalties are, I think, the ones on Sheppard. He could have been called for a couple more PI/IC if the refs felt like it; he's not as good as Revis and the Giants went right for him (also keep in mind they have film on him from his Philly days). Sheppard didn't respond well to being picked on, and he better get used to it. This was the first time he's played opposite Revis, I reckon, and he may have been shocked by it a bit.
