Almost ninety percent of the time when Eli and the Giants are in formation and Eli starts barking signals as he is looking over the defense there are more then fifteen seconds left on the play clock.
Shoot, when Gilbride was the OC more often then not Eli was still the huddle calling the play. So my question is how does the play calling work? Because most of the time they don't even huddle up.
It's like McAdoo is taking advantage of one of Eli's biggest strengths. Giving him ample time to read the defense and we all said it enough when Gilbride was the OC why don't they go to more no huddle because Eli thrived in that scheme especially when in the two minute drill.
I see him doing a lot of hand signaling. You have to wonder if this offense actually gives Eli more control of who goes where on the field because if they don't huddle how does the rest of the offense know what to do. It just seem like Eli is allowed to do an awful lot more orchestrating out there then I thought he was going to be allowed to do.
However it works it has been pretty awesome the past three games. Especially the last two.
I think the League passed him by. He couldn't or wouldn't adapt. I always felt he was of the mold..This is who/what we are now stop us. Well the league did but no adjustments were made.
Not that smart a football guy, but I still don't understand how the offense fell apart like that without Plax. Couldn't some adjustments and changes have been made?
Anyway .... this is a happy, happy day for all of us.
Optimism is warranted, but let's see more. 12 days ago Eli was done and McAdoo was a huge mistake.
I think the League passed him by. He couldn't or wouldn't adapt. I always felt he was of the mold..This is who/what we are now stop us. Well the league did but no adjustments were made.
This argument would hold more merit if Gilbride's system wasn't consistently one of the better offenses in the league until 2013 when the offensive line completely broke down.
It's like people think that the 2007-2012 Giants had all the talent of the 1980s 49ers and would have won five Suepr Bowls if it just hadn't been for that darned Gilbride.
Not that smart a football guy, but I still don't understand how the offense fell apart like that without Plax. Couldn't some adjustments and changes have been made?
Anyway .... this is a happy, happy day for all of us.
Well, one of the factors that we witnessed numerous times other than the Plax issue, is that it was very difficult to replace a starting receiver in Gilbride's system because the backup guy was less likely to always have the same reads pre and post snap as Eli. Very hard to have subs play the position at a high or even acceptable level in that system
It's a small sample but last night was the kind of play that I had always envisioned Eli being capable of (he's obviously had other great games) and it always seemed like it would never come on a consistent basis and would sometimes disappear for long stretches.
It's early but we may have hit a HR with McAdoo. I think this is exactly what Eli needed.
While I agree that offenses like KG's are becoming relics in today's NFL, I think it is due to th WNEW practice rules, which give teams less time on the field. That requires simpler offensive schemes.
And Homer is right, the offense looks great now, but let's see how it does when DC's get a handle on our tendencies.
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credit to Jr Killdrive, he has the TE's playing like no TE's EVER played as a group. I admit I was wrong about you.
I seem to remember Mowatt,Bavaro, McConkey being pretty good.
Don't want to nit pick, but McConkey wasn't a tight end