Well, and sadly, do I remember Emmitt Smith and an overtime game in our house. We needed a win for the playoffs as I recall, and Smith had a damaged arm he pretty near carried by his side. They kept on handing him the ball and the warrior that he was kept on gobbling up yards...Smith right, Smith left, Smith scores, Playoff hopes lost.
It was painful but at the same time I couldn't help admiring the man's resilency and greatness.
That might have been the most courageous performance, but for pure skill and singlehandedness greatness Roger's performance last year - if little noted - will stand as monumental and indomitable genius.
We were better than them and we were beating them up on both sides of the ball.
There came a play (they were going from right to left on the tv screen) the pocket collapsed, he dodged one way, nothing there, dodged the other way and actually hid behind an offensive lineman...must have kept that up for thirty seconds, someone briefly flashed open and zingo...
Later he was going to throw the hail Mary before half time - another great play = but that single moment, quick feet, quick arm, quickest brain - changed everything.
The best football player I ever saw (and one who tortured us) was Jimmy Brown. Until Aaron Rogers.
Would love to hear other's recollections of that game and other great perfomrances where the villains refused to co operate and outdid the heroes.
had shepard and beckham hauled in those all but sure touchdowns early in the game would have probably gone the giants way
it was the failure to make that superiority count on the scoreboard that left the door open for green bay to come back and win and once green bay got going they really stuck it to the defence,i hope they learned from that jpp and vernon didnt get close to rogers all game and once drc left and the scrubs from the back end of the depth chart of the secondry came in i feared the worst
had they been able to run better green bay wouldnt have got time to score those quick td's before the half either i hope the OL gets its act together and the RB can make those tough yards when they need to close a half or game out as they didnt do that well enough all last year and particularly against green bay in that playoff game
Following your lead I went to school with the son of ex Giants Randall Minnier (67-68).
That may be but it doesn't detract from the brilliance of Rogers. Then he came back and beat Dallas running to his left and hitting his TE just as he came to the out bounds marker.
But I never saw anything like the dodging he did agasint us, and then just a flick of his wrist and he's throwing off the wrong foot with astonishing accuracy.
I know it hurt, but if you're a sportsman you can't help but admire.
it was the failure to make that superiority count on the scoreboard that left the door open for green bay to come back and win and once green bay got going they really stuck it to the defence,i hope they learned from that jpp and vernon didnt get close to rogers all game and once drc left and the scrubs from the back end of the depth chart of the secondry came in i feared the worst
JPP did not play as he was injured.
Even with him out,we still sacked Rodgers 4 times in the first half.
I would say losing DRC was the major factor in us losing that game.
Most fans feel like we should have a fourth chance who is just as good or can fill in,but what team in the history of this league had four all pro corners? Considering the fact we have two with Apple looking like he can be the 3rd,it's damn near an embarrassment of riches.
Let's not forget the plays we left on the field. That's the difference between winning it all and being one and done.
Reggie White is dead, and the Giants probably still can't block him. He made his NFL debut against NYG at the Vet. The Eagles lost in OT, but Reggie was on top of Simms all day. He went on to record an incredible 24 sacks against the Giants - his biggest figure against any opponent.
Peter King is on record saying that Smith's teammates were rolling their eyes in the locker room about Smith milking the injury.
he was such a beast.
2-0 against us while playing for the Eagles (including the playoff game in 2007) and 2-0 for the 49ers (including that unmentionable playoff game in 2003).
5 TD passes, 100 yards rushing and he was just unstoppable. We still need to pay him back for kicking our ass like that.
For 'old school', I'd go with Vai Sikahema (sp?). Him using the goalpost pads as punching bags still pisses me off to this day.
vs NYG 28g: 146 catches / 203 targets; 1,489 yards; 13 TDs
vs PHL 27g: 149 / 208; 1,618 yards; 8 TDs
vs WSH 28g; 125 / 182; 1,407 yards; 8 TDs
...I guess he's just a really good fuckin player. Still annoying that 21% of his career TDs have come against us though.
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of great games against us...
yes, moreso at the superdome: the 52-49 crazy game from a couple of years ago and then the 49-24 shellacking in 2011. he was just a machine.
5-2 record
173 completions from 259 attempts and 67% rate
2177 yards and 8.4 yards/att
20 Touchdowns
4 Ints
money...