With a Giants win and a Cowboys loss on Sunday - both entirely within the realm of possibility - the Giants will be in a tie for first place in the NFC East.
If you really look at the whole NFC, SF and Seattle are really good and better than everyone else. There are then a group of teams who are pretty closely bunched together - all with their own issues:
(Giants, Dal, Was, GB, Chi, NO, Atl, Det)
The issue is that the SF/Sea non division winner is going to be a WC team. That means will be a lot of teams vying for WC. The NFC East is clearly in the Giants grasp
somehow pull one out Sunday, I see them finishing the first quarter at 1-3. I just can't see them going to KC and get a win there. KC is playing extremely well on defense and they do not turn the ball over. With that said, I don't know what it's going to take to win this division. This could be a 9-7 Division winner season for the NFC East. 8-8 might even do it this year?!
Christ, look at the Dodgers. It's way to early to make pronouncements about any team. The Chiefs are 3-0 and they sure as hell didn't look like world beaters last night.
new Orleans is not good. almost lost to tampa (who sucks) and should have lost to Atlanta at home with roddy white being nothing more than a decoy except s-jax dropped a pass for a game winning TD
will likely beat Carolina, Eagles can be easily beaten twice. KC just didn`t look that imposing last night and will revert to their proper level. We can handle Chicago and Minnesota, that is not 5-3 at the break, but the traditional 6-2. And Oakland after the break, would be 7-2. After that, we will see.
is better than it looks right now. The Eagles have an entirely new system and coach, and it will take time for them to work out the kinks with their personnel. The Giants can't be this bad all season, and the Skins hinge upon RGIII who is still getting back to game form. The first two weeks were effectively preseason for him.
for us to have a very good shot at winning the division and that's the QB. Had Eli played at his 2011 level last year we probably make the playoffs then also, so its not a given it's goign to happen. But this division is very weak right now and if Eli is playing at an elite level I liek our chances to win it, even if the pass rush and running game don't come around. The playoffs now are a different story, but the division? That's ours if Eli can get his head out of his ass.
with new systems, new position coaches, and unhealthy skill players... why are the Giants with the same HC/OC/DC/QB, and mostly healthy skill players on both sides of the ball struggling?
2010- 20 W 20 L
2011- 19 W 21 L
2012- 18 W 22 L
2013- 0 W 5 L
Not since 2009 has the NFC East been above .500 out of division play. That's also the last time the division had an 11 win team, which is the longest drought of any division (and as we can see above, its not because the east is so good that everyone beats each other up)
(Giants, Dal, Was, GB, Chi, NO, Atl, Det)
The issue is that the SF/Sea non division winner is going to be a WC team. That means will be a lot of teams vying for WC. The NFC East is clearly in the Giants grasp
Kinda reminds one of the 2007 season in a way. Took a goal line stand in the 3rd game to wake up the defense.
Wonder if the OL wakes up this week..?..
Just another example of how perceptions become warped on this board.
The Giants are so damn confounding.
2011- 19 W 21 L
2012- 18 W 22 L
2013- 0 W 5 L
Not since 2009 has the NFC East been above .500 out of division play. That's also the last time the division had an 11 win team, which is the longest drought of any division (and as we can see above, its not because the east is so good that everyone beats each other up)
Shameful really.