The Giants Suck Too

[Sgt PSN]

oh my

GIANTS -- Despite winning just two of their final six games, the Giants, at 8-8, were a playoff team last year.

That's not going to happen again this year. The team made some minor moves to fix its many problems, but those Band-Aids are not going to stop all the internal bleeding.

It starts with lame duck head coach Tom Coughlin, who figures to be in his final season.

Tiki Barber, the heart of the offense, is gone and Reuben Droughns is hardly a suitable replacement. It also doesn't help that wide receiver Plaxico Burress and tight end Jeremy Shockey show up to camps if and when they feel like it.

Defensively, the team's back seven remains a problem, and other than first-round pick Aaron Ross, the team did little to make it better.

While next year could be a bad one, there is hope for the Giants. Their best offseason move was the hiring of personnel man Marc Ross, who will be GM Jerry Reese's top assistant. Ross knows talent as well as anyone in the league, so in time the team will be back.

All of , ladies and gentlemen

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

The Giants were a mediocre team during the regular season but got "hot" and played their asses off to win a few games in the playoffs.  They had rookies, has-beens, and unknowns stepping up and making plays.  They deserved the NFC title as much as anyone in the NFC, for what it's worth.

[rjs246]

I felt like they earned their victory against Tampa Bay, but Dallas and Green Bay both laid massive eggs in their games against New York. That had as much to do with it as the Giants getting hot at the right time.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

You could give the Giants credit for the aforementioned egg-laying, but you're probably right not to.

[Sgt PSN]

I felt that Green Bay blew it against the Giants more than Dallas did.  It's really hard to beat a team 3 times in one year coupled with the fact that the Giants had been playing well in previous weeks and Dallas had not. 

For Green Bay to lose that game, especially in those conditions was a joke.  Mike McCarthy must have had Andy Reid on the phone at half time for advice because Ryan Grant only carried the ball 13 times for the entire game and didn't get a single carry on the final 3 posessions of the game (2 reg, 1 ot).  The result being 10 total offensive snaps (8 pass, 2 punt, 1 pick).  Awesome.  I wonder if Packer fans are going to rent a billboard like they did for Mike Sherman when he didn't go for it on 4th and 1 against the Eagles a few years back. 

I know the Giants defense was doing a good job against the run but a guy who rushes for 950 yards in 8 games and is coming off a 200 yard game the week before had better get the ball more than 13 farging times. 

[shorebird]

When I posted that article, I have to tell the truth and say I pretty much agreed with every word. Well......I was WRONG!!

Also, I don't think that the Packers and Dallas lost those games as much as the Giant defense just plain kicked ass, 'specially against the Cowboys. Against the Packers, Eli was great. His stats don't tell the whole story, not with the dropped passes I saw. Shoot, he'd have had at least 50 more yds. if Plax holds onto that pass he caught at the 5. From a guy who looks like he should be running at the special Olympics, Eli was scrambling and throwing on the run, across his body a few times for completions. And I'm talking tight ass spirals! He looked like he wasn't affected by the cold at all. Say what you want, but for any qb, much less the Eli Manning we've seen blow whole seasons for the last 3 years, to go into Lambeau Field and beat the friggen' Packers when it was -1 degree pretty much changes everything I've ever thought about him. His mechanics were good,  and he wasn't throwing off his back foot when he got pressure which is how he throws 90% of his ints. He was rolling out and buying time.

He's been in the league four years and is in the Superbowl.

I reiterate, ELI MANNING IS IN THE GODAMN SUPERBOWL!

I know there were probably some crazy die-hard Giants fans who bet just that in Vegas. The odds had to be high. They have to be rolling in dough right now.

[shorebird]

Osi likes to shtein on girls

They might be in the SB but this is hilarious

He wanted me to have sex with him and one of his brothers at the same time. He also wanted me to try it with another one of his teammates that was staying there. I said no because I didn't want to be passed around like that.

So I decided that for three grand I'd let him shtein on my face instead. I told him for an extra grand I'd let him do it without the cellophane.

[PhillyPhreak54]

RUEGAMER HAS A SCREW LOOSE

One of the practical realities of covering the NFL for nearly a full decade is that nothing surprises me anymore.

And, then, I get surprised.

Giants offensive lineman Grey Ruegamer admits that he once assisted in the castration of 200 young lambs.  And he accomplished the task without the aid of any tools or knives or other instruments.

He used his teeth.

"You grab the forelegs and pin them to the ground, and then you grab the back legs and throw them on their back," Ruegamer said.   "[A]way you go.  It's the way the Basques do it. . . .   [Y]ou pull them out with your teeth, spit them in a bucket, next one."

Okay, now I'll never be surprised again.

[Seabiscuit36]

thats gay, he likes lamb dick

[shorebird]

Lets hope he never gets the urge on the bottom of a pile.

[Eagaholic]

note to self - never get into wrestling match with Ruegamer

[Diomedes]

if that's true, it's farging awesome

if it's not, it's still awesome that he has the nerve to pass it off as true to a reporter

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Ruegamer killed Sean Taylor with his teeth?

[BigEd76]

A Super Bowl win gets you 2 more years of Feagles and 3 more years of Tynes

[Eagaholic]

Just saw a Yahoo article where it is rumored that Eli is going to be on the cover of Madden '09 (and thus, hopefully, the recepient of next season's Madden Curse).