They aren't likely capable of it (just being less bad due to more consistency/doing something more like they have recently in the run game does not an actually threatening attack make), but they're not going to be able to jack with their already problematic passing game if the wind/weather is as bad as some are saying it will be. They need to somehow make like it's 2008, in one of those games where Eli & Co are all but irrelevant and they still put forth a quality offensive effort.
The Cowboys' offense is going to suffer too, but I'm highly doubtful they'll be impaired enough for the Raider/Eagles games formula to be enough.
Sunday could be a good day for Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray when he faces the New York Giants.
Murray has averaged 5.4 yards per carry in three career games against the Giants. He rushed for 86 yards on 20 carries in the Week 1 victory. Murray's five games with over 100 rushing yards include a 131-yard effort against the Giants in the 2012 season opener.
Aside from Murray's success against the Giants, some NFL teams tend to run the ball more when the temperatures drop and conditions worsen. On Oct. 20 against the Philadelphia Eagles, quarterback Tony Romo noted how difficult it was to throw in the windy conditions.
Sunday's forecast in East Rutherford, N.J. has temperatures in the 30s with winds coming in at 24 miles per hour.
"I don't think it's really that big of a factor," Murray said. "While you're out there, you're never thinking, 'Oh, it's hot.' You're never thinking, 'Oh, it's cold,' until you're on the sideline, really. It's not a big deal."
With the Cowboys' passing attack struggling, the run game could be a focal point against the Giants.
Now we are stuffing the sh#t outta RBs but shown no ability to stop him in the past. Cows will look to protect Romo
and its not the same Giants defense from week 1 either. Did that defense have Beason and Will Hill on it.. did it have a healthy JPP and Tuck?? Did it have the ability for the Giants to play their very effective 3 safety package with Rolle as a defacto LB.. nope...
Actually favors the cowboys. In any other year when the giants had a strong running game and the cowboys had a strong secondary this lousy weather would favor the giants.
This year the cowboys secondary sucks and with 30mph wind gusts Eli will have very few opportunities to exploit them. In fact the wind spells turnovers. Couple that with weak giants running game I think this game is going to be very hard for the giants offense to score very many points.
It's going to come down to yhe giants defense to shut the cowboys offense down for the giants to win.
This game today is the season as far as I am concerned
We know who we beat the last four games, and we know how we've looked through the first ten. We are not world beaters but are going to have to scratch and crawl for whatever we get. Cowboys are the best team we've played in over a month. Let's hope the 0-6 Giants don't show up, however, I'm not entirely convinced that they will not. Trying not to expect too much. Go Giants!!!
but what Murray has done in the past against the Giants means absolutely nothing. It's stating the obvious but he's never faced this Giants defense. As you said, they've been stuffing some of the run including some of the best backs in the league. It would be unexpected and pretty demoralizing if a struggling Dallas run game found traction against this D at home.
and defense in this weather. Both passers will be hampered. Better double Witten because he will be getting a lot of short hitters from his buddy Romo all day to move the ball. Especially if we stop the run, which w are capable of. Power running by Brown , Jacobs, Hillis with Conner paving the way might work for us. They will double Cruz so Nicks and Randle have to step up along with the TEs and FBs.
I think this is going to get ugly for Dallas up front. I don't think the deep passing game is going to do wonders for anyone today. I've been out for an hour this morning here in Brooklyn, and my son and I tried to throw the football around. Neither one of us is an NFL caliber QB, but that wind is practically an extra DB or two out there, it's just knocking shit down. I'd have to imagine it's going to be much worse in the Meadowlands.
Now couple that with a stifling DT rotation and the weakness of the Cowboy interior OL, on a cold blustery day, we have the right environment for a Giant defensive beatdown.
any of our field goal attempts into a fiasco. So the Giants will really need to be thinking touchdowns on every drive, and we can probably expect to see the Giants go for it on a few 4th downs.
Bailey, however, has a leg, so I think the Cowboys will have a shot at some medium-range field goals.
So whichever team has the best short to intermediate passing game, should prevail....but then there are those nasty turnovers....it decided the first game, it will decide this one too...
With these weather conditions, if one team falls behind significantly, it will be very hard to play catch up....but this Giant team has never gone for the jugular when it has a team on the ropes.....
This offense has done nothing since the first two games....time for it to wake up....hopefully Nicks, if he is physically able, can have that game we have been waiting all year for....
is probably going to target Witten 20 times in this game with the wind conditions.
It's time for JWill to step up and shut down the Romo to Witten connection today. He's been getting better and this would be a tremendous opportunity for him to step up.
I keep hearing that the Giants won't have 6 turnovers again today, however this weather is not going to help in that regard. I just hope that Dallas is the team putting the ball on the ground today.
They will stack the box and dare Eli to throw. Eli has been throwing badly in perfect conditions all year. The conditions today are similar to the conditions for the Giants Eagle playoff game in 2008 when Eli was helpless.Also, I have ZERO confidence in Josh Brown making any kicks in this wind.
The Giants need to run the ball and force turnovers to win. If Dallas scores early it could get very ugly if Eli needs to bring Giants back.
Giants need to score first and have defense stuff run and batter Romo.
They guy is known for high stakes bets and is usually spot on. So, I decided to look around to see who the heavy hitters were on today and it looks like about 80% are on Dallas as well.
Kiss of death or are we over-analyzing this game and we get the win?
Haven't checked any weather reports, but I take it, be it Brooklyn or Jersey, there's tough winds over a wide area, yes?
It's nasty out there. Granted, wind conditions can change at any given point in time, but the marine forecasts currently say we're getting a steady 20 knots with 40 knot gusts inshore, which usually looks worse in East Rutherford because the winds start to swirl like crazy over there.
(which are via subscription from Sirius) are usually pretty dead on in terms of accuracy - say that we're looking at a steady 20 with the gusts until after 11 PM.
Not quite sure but this might be the windiest game the Giants
have played in since in Metlife. The wind here are gusts at times, but not steady. Like Eric said, by game time the wind may or may not lessen, but, what I learned through the years at the Meadowlands, when there's even slightests of wind..it seems much more there because the area in.
Is Romo pulling it down and running with it. I can see Dallas spreading us out and creating running lanes for Murray, then play action roll outs and bootlegs with the run pass option for Romo.
take less chances. It will probably be a very close game again if he does that. If we are turning the ball over again I don;t see how we will be able to win this game. Our STs have to be the best today, as well.
Mayweather tweeted photographs of 46 betting slips, totaling $3,890,833 worth of bets, and every single one of them was a winner, netting the fighter a cool $3,938,722 (and 87 cents) in winnings on those bets. Losing betting slips have been conspicuous by their absence. When asked about his losing slips, Floyd responded, Why would I ever show a losing ticket when Im 41-0.
Is coming from the offshore sites and this stream:
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*BIG BET ALERT* Buzz is that Floyd Mayweather is dropping approx 6.5Million on Cowboys +3. Several shops + offshore accts taking his action
First off the reason why a book would even release this is because they need money on Dallas to offset the money on us. They also work under the basic premise that the more money bet, the more they make. No book in its right mind would ever give out info like this unless they wanted others to follow his bet. Books get killed when too much money comes in on one team, they win when its on both
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Not only is it extremely windy, but they're swirling winds. Flags atop the goalposts on each end are pointed towards midfield. #NYG
They're only averaging 3.1 yards/carry during this 4 game win streak, with teams not frequently selling out to stop the run.
Dallas' defense is hurting badly, especially along the DL, but I don't know if it's hurting enough for the Giants to not embarrass themselves offensively today.
this team just does not ever do well as the favorite!
THe only saving grace is that the GIants know that if they lose, any chance of them winning the Division is essentially over. Need to come out with energy, enthusiasm and a sense for ball security.
and windy helps us. It limits the downfield passing game, just like is currently happening the Jets Ravens game. But we have no such game.
So it's ground and pound. And we have a much better running attack and run defense than the Cowboys, especially with Brown, Jacobs, and Conner. We can also use Myers for some short passes. We do still need to be concerned about Witten, but the weather really helps us I think.
They just... don't, even if you only look at the four game win streak numbers vs the Cowboys' season ones. The only thing they have going for them in that comparison is quantity, as in they run the ball for attempts per game than Dallas, and no one should ever confuse quantity for quality.
The "advantage" to the Giants is the defenses being faced today, at least on paper.
have not taken advantage of the wind the way Parcells did.
Which is odd, given that Coughlin emphasizes the running game. Maybe "wind-friendly" passes, such as screens, are not as much of a staple of the offense?
The Cowboys' offense is going to suffer too, but I'm highly doubtful they'll be impaired enough for the Raider/Eagles games formula to be enough.
Murray has averaged 5.4 yards per carry in three career games against the Giants. He rushed for 86 yards on 20 carries in the Week 1 victory. Murray's five games with over 100 rushing yards include a 131-yard effort against the Giants in the 2012 season opener.
Aside from Murray's success against the Giants, some NFL teams tend to run the ball more when the temperatures drop and conditions worsen. On Oct. 20 against the Philadelphia Eagles, quarterback Tony Romo noted how difficult it was to throw in the windy conditions.
Sunday's forecast in East Rutherford, N.J. has temperatures in the 30s with winds coming in at 24 miles per hour.
"I don't think it's really that big of a factor," Murray said. "While you're out there, you're never thinking, 'Oh, it's hot.' You're never thinking, 'Oh, it's cold,' until you're on the sideline, really. It's not a big deal."
With the Cowboys' passing attack struggling, the run game could be a focal point against the Giants.
Now we are stuffing the sh#t outta RBs but shown no ability to stop him in the past. Cows will look to protect Romo
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This year the cowboys secondary sucks and with 30mph wind gusts Eli will have very few opportunities to exploit them. In fact the wind spells turnovers. Couple that with weak giants running game I think this game is going to be very hard for the giants offense to score very many points.
It's going to come down to yhe giants defense to shut the cowboys offense down for the giants to win.
Go Giants!
Now I have too much free time waiting for this game to start!
Giants 20
Cowboys 19
Go Giants!
Now couple that with a stifling DT rotation and the weakness of the Cowboy interior OL, on a cold blustery day, we have the right environment for a Giant defensive beatdown.
Bailey, however, has a leg, so I think the Cowboys will have a shot at some medium-range field goals.
So whichever team has the best short to intermediate passing game, should prevail....but then there are those nasty turnovers....it decided the first game, it will decide this one too...
With these weather conditions, if one team falls behind significantly, it will be very hard to play catch up....but this Giant team has never gone for the jugular when it has a team on the ropes.....
This offense has done nothing since the first two games....time for it to wake up....hopefully Nicks, if he is physically able, can have that game we have been waiting all year for....
It's time for JWill to step up and shut down the Romo to Witten connection today. He's been getting better and this would be a tremendous opportunity for him to step up.
The Giants need to run the ball and force turnovers to win. If Dallas scores early it could get very ugly if Eli needs to bring Giants back.
Giants need to score first and have defense stuff run and batter Romo.
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Floyd just dropped 3.5 million on Dallas +2.5
They guy is known for high stakes bets and is usually spot on. So, I decided to look around to see who the heavy hitters were on today and it looks like about 80% are on Dallas as well.
Kiss of death or are we over-analyzing this game and we get the win?
Why waste him for that? Have him go out on patterns so Romo can get to him before the blitz gets there.
We gave the first one to them, we need to take this one away!
GO GIANTS!!!!!
It's nasty out there. Granted, wind conditions can change at any given point in time, but the marine forecasts currently say we're getting a steady 20 knots with 40 knot gusts inshore, which usually looks worse in East Rutherford because the winds start to swirl like crazy over there.
he took Michigan over Alabama two years ago
That's how I would approach the conditions today.
but at the same time, if you can't throw the ball past 10 yards effectively, you can just go single high and put someone on Romo
I like Eli over Romo. 5 turnovers(instead of 6) and the Giants would have won meeting # 1.
Have to pick your spots against the wind, and definitely throw with the wind.....
So i would take his rep with a grain of salt
*BIG BET ALERT* Buzz is that Floyd Mayweather is dropping approx 6.5Million on Cowboys +3. Several shops + offshore accts taking his action
First off the reason why a book would even release this is because they need money on Dallas to offset the money on us. They also work under the basic premise that the more money bet, the more they make. No book in its right mind would ever give out info like this unless they wanted others to follow his bet. Books get killed when too much money comes in on one team, they win when its on both
This made me laugh!!!! lol
Not only is it extremely windy, but they're swirling winds. Flags atop the goalposts on each end are pointed towards midfield. #NYG
Dallas' defense is hurting badly, especially along the DL, but I don't know if it's hurting enough for the Giants to not embarrass themselves offensively today.
THe only saving grace is that the GIants know that if they lose, any chance of them winning the Division is essentially over. Need to come out with energy, enthusiasm and a sense for ball security.
So it's ground and pound. And we have a much better running attack and run defense than the Cowboys, especially with Brown, Jacobs, and Conner. We can also use Myers for some short passes. We do still need to be concerned about Witten, but the weather really helps us I think.
The "advantage" to the Giants is the defenses being faced today, at least on paper.
Which is odd, given that Coughlin emphasizes the running game. Maybe "wind-friendly" passes, such as screens, are not as much of a staple of the offense?
Let's goooooooooooooooo