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Old BBI Game Review- 1984 Giants @ Rams Wild Card

Matt in SGS : 6/23/2015 11:51 am
For this game review, I went a little deeper in the archives for the 1984 Giants @ Rams Wild Card game. This would be Bill Parcells' first playoff game as the Giants' head coach. The Giants essentially backed into the playoffs with a 9-7 record and needed a loss by the Cardinals at Washington (who missed a late FG to win) and a loss by the Cowboys at Miami on a Monday Night to clinch the spot.

The Giants would go to Los Angeles, which was an earlier horror show as the Giants lost 33-12 in a game that featured an NFL record 3 safeties recorded by the Rams, 2 blocked punts, and punt return TD.

The Giants special teams was so bad that Parcells put LT in on the coverage team. And this game also served notice of what happens in the playoffs when a team comes out flat. The Rams looked lifeless throughout the game, didn't take the Giants seriously and they got burned. The Giants were also fortunate on a TD saving tackle by Terry Kinard and an all time horrible call made by John Robinson down by the goal line. In the end, the game was won on an LT sack and fumble.

The next game review is the 1993 Giants vs. Cardinals, which was won on a late 54 yard Brad Daluiso field goal into a strong wind.
http://bigbluevcr.blogspot.com/2015/06/1984-giants-rams.html - ( New Window )
Tough struggle..  
Big Blue '56 : 6/23/2015 11:54 am : link
I transferred the VHS to DVD not to long ago..

Thanks Matt
ugh, the John Robinson Rams  
Greg from LI : 6/23/2015 11:55 am : link
They were such a pain in the ass for the Giants. Robert goddamned Delpino killed them for some reason.
That inside the 5 yard-line  
Big Blue '56 : 6/23/2015 12:01 pm : link
D stand was awesome and critical..
RE: ugh, the John Robinson Rams  
Big Blue '56 : 6/23/2015 12:01 pm : link
In comment 12338816 Greg from LI said:
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They were such a pain in the ass for the Giants. Robert goddamned Delpino killed them for some reason.


Everett as well
After the 3rd safety  
YAJ2112 : 6/23/2015 12:45 pm : link
I uttered the phrase "What the Fuck?" for the first time about a Giants game. My grandfather was impressed.
The Week 15 game vs. the Cards was a good game that seemed to be  
Victor in CT : 6/23/2015 12:56 pm : link
turning the Giants way when Mark Haynes got hurt. They couldn't cover after that and the Cards pulled it out.
RE: After the 3rd safety  
Big Blue '56 : 6/23/2015 1:02 pm : link
In comment 12338952 YAJ2112 said:
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I uttered the phrase "What the Fuck?" for the first time about a Giants game. My grandfather was impressed.


Except there were no safeties in that game..
RE: RE: After the 3rd safety  
YAJ2112 : 6/23/2015 1:15 pm : link
In comment 12338984 Big Blue '56 said:
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In comment 12338952 YAJ2112 said:


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I uttered the phrase "What the Fuck?" for the first time about a Giants game. My grandfather was impressed.



Except there were no safeties in that game..


There were in the regular season matchup that Matt mentioned in the OP.
one point Matt about the  
bluepepper : 6/23/2015 1:26 pm : link
crazy playoff situation that last weekend. The Rams-49ers played a rare Friday night game which the Niners won. It was only at that point that the Giants-Saints Saturday became meaningless. This explains to me the Giants no-show performance. They prepared all week as if their playoff fate was on the line and then woke up the day of the game to find that it meant nothing. No excuse but makes it more understandable.

Don't ask me how the Rams loss factored in but it had something to do with tie-breakers.

The 1984  
BIG FRED 1973 : 6/23/2015 2:31 pm : link
Season is one of my favorite seasons ..
One of the things I remember was....  
BillKo : 6/23/2015 2:41 pm : link
Joe Morris ripping off a long run that would have helped seal the win....except it was called back for holding. It was easily about a 50 yard run.

As I was a Giants fan only since 1980, and only 16 at the time of this playoff game, seeing a runnning back on the Giants do that was very rare.
Thanks Matt, I can't wait to go through this tonight.  
truebluelarry : 6/23/2015 3:47 pm : link
I remember that Week 16 in 1984 like it was yesterday. The awful Giants loss to New Orleans was depressing, i remember the fans at Giants Stadium booing mercilessly.

But those back-to-back cardiac attack games between the Cardinals and Redskins on Sunday and the cowboys and dolphins on Monday night were unbelievable in how they both came out in the Giants favor. I felt like the Giants were a team of destiny after that (and they were for at least a week anyway.)
Even my grandmother got into this game  
JonC : 6/23/2015 6:59 pm : link
NYG had begun their ascent ...
I realized some of the videos dropped off  
Matt in SGS : 6/23/2015 8:17 pm : link
I just fixed it.

Rewatching this game, you could see the growth of this young defense that was going to end up turning into a monster. And a guy who unfortunately got hurt before the 1986 season, but played a great game in this Wild Card round was Curtis McGriff. He consistently stuffed the much bigger Rams offensive linemen and didn't give Dickerson anywhere to run.
And one other thing  
Matt in SGS : 6/23/2015 8:27 pm : link
when talking about putting a team in LA. In this playoff game, the Rams did not sell it out and it was blacked out in the LA area. That's right. A playoff game. Featuring the Rams with one of the best offensive players in the NFL (Dickerson) against a big market team (the Giants), couldn't sell out the stadium for a post-season game.
My favorite Giants-Rams game is still the 1990 regular season  
Victor in CT : 6/24/2015 8:35 am : link
game where the Giants took their revenge for the Flipper Anderson game playoff loss in 1989. The Giants went out and physically kicked the living shit out of anything in a blue and yellow uniform on both sides of the ball for the entire 60 minutes. You could hear the pads exploding on every play. One of my top 5 all time favorite Giants games.
Matt  
Greg from LI : 6/24/2015 11:33 am : link
Oh, but that was all because it was too hard for them to drive to Anaheim to go to the game! At least that's what Rams fans have always tried to claim. LA is a horrible NFL town and any team that moves there will go through the same thing.
Thanks Matt looking forward to watching  
Stu11 : 6/24/2015 12:12 pm : link
this is basically the only Giants playoff game in my lifetime that I did not hear or see a single moment. I was 16 at the time and we went on a family trip to Jamaica that left that Sunday AM. Being 1984 there was no internet and no US papers on the resort. There was literally no way to even find the score. I picked up a weak radio signal from Miami around mid-week that talked about the Giants preparing for the SF game the next Saturday so that's the only way I even knew they won. I caught that weak signal going in and out for some of the playoff game vs. SF. heard Harry's pick 6.
Watching the highlights (and another great upload)  
dpinzow : 6/24/2015 9:22 pm : link
that PI on Kinard was outrageous! It was actually offensive interference on Hill
RE: Matt  
dpinzow : 6/24/2015 9:23 pm : link
In comment 12340234 Greg from LI said:
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Oh, but that was all because it was too hard for them to drive to Anaheim to go to the game! At least that's what Rams fans have always tried to claim. LA is a horrible NFL town and any team that moves there will go through the same thing.


Yup, USC is traditionally the "NFL" team in LA
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Eric from BBI : Admin : 6/25/2015 12:58 am : link
the regular season game was the weirdest game I ever saw...the Giants scored a TD on the opening kickoff with the returner didn't field the ball. I think Sheikh missed the extra point. It was all downhill from there. Not only three safeties, but the uprights actually fell over in the game and delayed the contest for a long time.
reading  
Eric from BBI : Admin : 6/25/2015 1:08 am : link
the review...great job Matt...also a blast from the past in there was Kevin Belcher. I thought the Giants were set at center with him but he got into that offseason car wreck and never played again.

Has John Robinson picked his nose yet?  
Jints in Carolina : 6/25/2015 2:34 am : link
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