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NY Giants Game Winning Drive - 2005 vs Broncos

Paulie Walnuts : 1/22/2015 7:40 pm
Eli grows up before our eyes

hard to believe this will be 10 years old next season


TOOMER!!!!!!!!!!!!! - ( New Window )
It's about time  
BlackLight : 1/22/2015 7:43 pm : link
For years I've been hunting for this - all I've seen online is the Inside the NFL version.
That guy john smith on Youtube  
Bobby Humphrey's Earpad : 1/22/2015 8:12 pm : link
is a saint. A friggin saint. He's got the best videos, including a compilation of all the Fox studio guys picking against the Giants in every game in the 2007 playoffs. They all picked Tampa Bay!
Love  
Eric from BBI : Admin : 1/22/2015 8:13 pm : link
the 4th quarter of that game.
Bobby  
Matt in SGS : 1/22/2015 8:17 pm : link
that's the same guy who used to post as SGM something and he had the great LT videos. I emailed him a few weeks back and he's sending me a new batch of old games from the mid 2000s which I only had on DVR but never saved. His old site got nuked by the NFL lawyers. So he's going to see how long this will be around until it's blown away.
RE: Bobby  
Bobby Humphrey's Earpad : 1/22/2015 8:24 pm : link
In comment 12105886 Matt in SGS said:
Quote:
that's the same guy who used to post as SGM something and he had the great LT videos. I emailed him a few weeks back and he's sending me a new batch of old games from the mid 2000s which I only had on DVR but never saved. His old site got nuked by the NFL lawyers. So he's going to see how long this will be around until it's blown away.


That 4th quarter 2008 Pittsburgh comeback posted here recently was his i think, and he's got a treasure trove of LT stuff.
Good stuff  
ChathamMark : 1/22/2015 8:33 pm : link
Thanks Paulie. Eli does look different in his younger days.
That o-line back then, man....  
kevken60 : 1/22/2015 8:36 pm : link
Tiki picking up blitzes, Shockey, Toomer,Plax..! I remember screaming at Tim (4.28) Carter for not bringing that ball in.
That Manning kid  
gmenatlarge : 1/22/2015 8:46 pm : link
May have some magic in him after all!
I love the video  
Doomster : 1/22/2015 9:27 pm : link
with all the 2007 predictions....the only thing that could have made it better, would have been the post game comments by these guys...
Weren't there rumors of Al Wilson possibly coming here near the end..  
arcarsenal : 1/22/2015 9:29 pm : link
..of his career?

Or am I just making that up?
Arc  
McNally's_Nuts : 1/22/2015 9:37 pm : link
that is correct. Apparently we traded Justin Tuck for Al Wilson but he failed the physical because of a bad neck.
Ah!  
arcarsenal : 1/22/2015 9:42 pm : link
That's right.. he failed the physical. Crazy how things go... if Tuck was part of that deal things could have been very different.
This was the day I became dead certain  
bradshaw44 : 1/22/2015 9:43 pm : link
This guy would win us a Super Bowl or two. I remember I was at Baileys in Ballston mall watching this. And in my head I said exactly everything we needed to happen to win and I believed they could do it. And they accomplished everything I had thought.
great stuff, thanks for posting.  
Del Shofner : 1/22/2015 9:55 pm : link
Random thoughts - Tiki was a good receiver (although he drops the first one) - there is a Tim Carter sighting in there - Eli and Toomer both made great plays on the touchdown - and the old stadium looks sweet!
Jamaar  
blue42 : 1/22/2015 10:46 pm : link
Taylor was incredible! Seriously, our skill players were top shelf.
I did not want Eli on this team  
idol-mind : 1/22/2015 11:20 pm : link
up until this game. Prior to the 2007 season, this was my favorite game in the Coughlin era.
The Wilson trade  
Matt in SGS : 1/22/2015 11:22 pm : link
as I recall was for Tuck and the Giants and Broncos would swap first round picks. Fortunately, the Giants doctors did their homework and flunked him with the neck problem. It also bolstered the idea that Shanahan was looking to dump damaged goods on the Giants. Most fortunate was Wilson, who never played again and was spared what could have been a devastating injury. The Giants would sign Kawika Mitchell from KC and it was the best non-trade in Giants history.
Thanks a million, Paulie ....  
Manny in CA : 1/22/2015 11:24 pm : link
My family and I were at a restaurant surrounded by Bronco fans, that day. They were so excited because they knew they had an unbeatable team; then the unspeakable happened.

I didn't say a word, just smiled to myself.
One of the great wins of the early Coughlin/Eli era  
Ben in Tampa : 1/23/2015 5:46 am : link
I remember the NFL films version of that drive had this wonderful voice over. Something to the effect of: "In the Eli Manning era, much will be expected, because anything seems possible"
Bronco fans everywhere at the old stadium  
Sec 103 : 1/23/2015 7:40 am : link
I remember my buddy yelling at some guy with a horse head on all day long... Anyway when we won the horse head ended
up on the ground in sec 103... The Bronco fan threw it down all pissed off... Great comeback, and even though it led to nothing that year. It was a great win over a big favorite. Man we play spoilers well.
That was the game that Antonio Pierce  
cjac : 1/23/2015 7:54 am : link
lit up the Tight End.

Anyone have a picture of that hit?
Giggity  
cjac : 1/23/2015 8:08 am : link
Eli had Burress, Toomer, Shockey and Barber to throw to.  
Ira : 1/23/2015 8:16 am : link
Wow. That was quite a group of targets.
What's funny about that drive...  
arcarsenal : 1/23/2015 8:31 am : link
Is that it was actually Eli's mobility of all things that probably played the biggest role. That first 3rd down conversion to Burress happened all because Eli bought time with his legs. Same with the TD pass to Toomer to cap the drive.

Eli probably still finds a way to make it happen today but there's no way those particular plays are ever a part of it.
Great memories. And the bulging eyeballs on Shanahan!  
Victor in CT : 1/23/2015 8:34 am : link
Looks like he's getting a colonoscopy without any anesthetic.
Thanks  
Howyadoin : 1/23/2015 6:26 pm : link
First game I ever took my daughter to...Awesome !!
what I love about that drive  
idiotsavant : 1/23/2015 7:35 pm : link
is the maturity of Burress and Toomer.

What I mean is that you have a series of catches where each player sells out for the play and just what it gives you, no more, no less.

No looking for the yards after catch heroics, no 'it was not lined up right for the yacs so I just dropped it'...just a complete and total sell out for what the play had, catch, fall down if need be, get the yards...then back to the huddle without any fancy dancing bullshit. 2 defenders? fine, catch and get down.

even shocky, he sees the play, makes the catch...and allows his momentum to get him out of bounds....no biggie, that catch was huge.

say what you will, but if a player is YACs focussed prior to the catch...that has got to lower the percentages...it must.

I am not saying forgo the YACs...not saying dont draw then in...its an attitude, a point of emphasis.
This is one of my all-time  
darren in pdx : 1/24/2015 4:03 am : link
favourite games. I knew for sure that Eli was going to win a Super Bowl after this game.
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