I am very confident in the Giants right now, as we all should be.
Webster will shut down Colston. The D will stop their running game. Reggie and Shockey may beat our LB's without Boley playing. As for the rest of their receivers, moore, henderson or meachem. I think dock, johnson, TT can hang with them all. CC brown should be ready as well. Outside of Sharper I do not know much about the saints D. Any good? Can they stop our offense?
Early prediction: Giants 41- Saints 24.
Eli has always played very well, in domed stadiums.
Its going to be a great game. Thanksgiving day is shaping up to be a great contest as well.
"I don't know anything about the Saints, but here's a worthless prediction..."
If anyone hears Berman mention it this week, let me know.
Pressure on brees all day will make his life miserable which will cause the dump off to bush where our LBs need to cover him closely. Cannot have a westbrook situation here.
I just dont see how the Saints can go from being terrible the last couple of years to all of a sudden an awesome 4-0 team. Brees is a great QB and their is a ton of talent but the Giants are running on all cylinders. Every faze of the game has been played well for the Giants. Yes we played softer teams but you are supposed to blow them out and we did. In the past soft games meant a game coming down to the wire.
2) The Saint were not simply terrible the last couple years. They were in remission. In '06 they were a very tough team. I think this is more of that team coming back into form.
The Saints aren't the Colts, but they are a good first test.
The only way the Saints win is if they get turnovers and an early lead and force the Giants to abandon the run to play catch up.
We are going to move the ball all over them. I have confidence that our defense can do a solid enough job to where we can win by scoring in the low 20s
Win the 2 home games (ARZ, SD) against pretty horrible defenses
Split the 2 road games (@ NO, @ PHI)
Thats about as good as you can ask for.
We are going to find out a lot about our defense. The Saints are gonna put up yards and get points, the challenge for the defense is to keep the Giants in a position to outscore the Saints. If it is a high scoring game i think this fares bad for us. A low scoring game and we come out on top.
I really think Boley is going to be greatly missed this week because IMO, he would have neutralized Shockey. From what i have seen, he is pretty darn good in coverage and could easily handle Shockey, get him frustrated and make him hurt his team. However, without Boley i expect to see a big game from Shockey. What we need to do is keep 'em out of the endzone, settling for Field Goals.
Brown and Rause really need to step it up. There were a few times they got beat deep against the Raiders, which should not have happened. Thankfully, Russell is absolutely atrocious and could not hit them, but Brees will be much different. I really hope TC concentrates on getting them used to fighting for that deep ball position all week.
The best part about this game is that we are playing with house money. At 5-0, we can afford to lose to a good team and still come out on top. This may encourage the critics to knock the Giants by saying that they can't beat any good teams and are only 5-1 because of the weak schedule they have. But I'll tell ya, you know you have a good team when the ONLY thing to criticize is the schedule. Also, good teams win the games they are supposed to, and win them handedly, unlike, say, the Cowboys!!!
Go Blue!!!
I stand by my prediction.