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This week is the definition of a "must win" game

PatersonPlank : 9/20/2017 7:16 pm
Teams starting 0-3 in the last 5 years have never made the playoffs. Frankly only 12% of teams starting 0-2 have made it.

Teams starting 0-3 in the last 5 years have never even finished above .500.

Its sad to think that we need to go into Philly, a place we haven't won in for a long time, to save our season. I hope they figure out some OL issues before Sunday.
Wait a second...  
Go Terps : 9/20/2017 7:28 pm : link
this is a must win because it's the Eagles. I don't care if we're 0-15.

There is definitely a part of me that believes there is a 2 game season within the 16 game season. Win the right 2 games (against these cunts), and I can live with 2-14.
It's definitely a must win game  
UConn4523 : 9/20/2017 7:29 pm : link
0-3 and things start getting ugly. I'd almost root for a total tank job if that happens.
Feels like a bad dream...  
Bchurch : 9/20/2017 7:29 pm : link
I haven't been this excited for a season in a looooong time. We're 2 weeks in and already talking about "must win". Unbelievable...
unfortunately there's no fix  
micky : 9/20/2017 7:30 pm : link
thug dug themselves into this hole with ol and have to deal with it til the off season.

Philly would have to have a horrendous game in order for giants to have a chance Sunday. 0-3 is likely record come Sunday evening. philly is going to go ballistic on them sunday.
We aren't going to win this  
BigBlueDownTheShore : 9/20/2017 7:30 pm : link
Game. Their dline is going to wreck our oline. I will be surprised if we get a win.
RE: unfortunately there's no fix  
micky : 9/20/2017 7:31 pm : link
In comment 13609028 micky said:
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thug dug themselves into this hole with ol and have to deal with it til the off season.

Philly would have to have a horrendous game in order for giants to have a chance Sunday. 0-3 is likely record come Sunday evening. philly is going to go ballistic on them sunday.


they dug
turnovers are always  
sundayatone : 9/20/2017 7:39 pm : link
a big problem for eli against the eagles.
No  
shyster : 9/20/2017 7:45 pm : link
Early season road game is rarely "must" and certainly not "definition".

They have to find a way to win one of the next two. If you told me right now that Giants lose at Philly and win at Tampa Week 4, I would take it in a second.
Part of me is hoping for that  
superspynyg : 9/20/2017 7:57 pm : link
End of the world thing to happen.
Terps, I think you are being overly melodramatic......  
Doomster : 9/20/2017 8:21 pm : link
I thought last week was a must win, to avoid this being a must win.....

For a team that looked like a shoe in to make the playoffs, now they are approaching a team that doesn't control it's own destiny if they lose this game.....

The best thing the Eagle defense does is attack the offense with their front seven.......the worse thing the Giants do, is try to protect against a front seven....in other words, a match made in hell for the Giants, in Philly, no less....

The only way we win, the offense, MUST, play mistake free football.....OBj has to make a difference......Marshall has to wake up....our pass patterns have to be run deeper, to avoid 3rd down completions not resulting in first downs....we must run the ball, and run play action instead of draws off a shotgun formation.....this OL and the TE's have to block better....and most importantly, our coaches have to take their heads out of the sand, and act accordingly when someone is not playing at the level expected of them......

As for the defense, they must create turnovers....

Can this all take place in a week? I don't know, but we better hope it can.....an 0-3 start could just snowball....

Time for McAdoo to come up with a better game plan, and have his players ready to execute....
RE: No  
UConn4523 : 9/20/2017 8:26 pm : link
In comment 13609038 shyster said:
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Early season road game is rarely "must" and certainly not "definition".

They have to find a way to win one of the next two. If you told me right now that Giants lose at Philly and win at Tampa Week 4, I would take it in a second.


I wouldn't, this game is more important and we matchup well with Tampa. We need to be 2-2. Starting 1-3 and 0-2 in the division would be a disaster.
If we lose this game we will be  
PatersonPlank : 9/20/2017 8:41 pm : link
0-3 record - no team has made the playoffs starting 0-3 in a long time, certainly not the last 5 years. In fact no team in the past 5 years has finished better than 6-10.

0-3 in the NFC

0-2 in the NFC East

these are all huge hurdles.
I'd like to think that the  
McNally's_Nuts : 9/20/2017 9:48 pm : link
Giants are going to come out with a sense of urgency on offense but I just don't see it.
RE: No  
JOrthman : 9/20/2017 9:55 pm : link
In comment 13609038 shyster said:
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Early season road game is rarely "must" and certainly not "definition".

They have to find a way to win one of the next two. If you told me right now that Giants lose at Philly and win at Tampa Week 4, I would take it in a second.


It is when you're 0-2.
Macdoo = Goofball  
RodneyHampton : 9/20/2017 9:58 pm : link
Giants crushed my soul already this season. Coughlin never let the team give up in bad times and will never get enough credit for that. Macdoo has not proven he is able to continue to command the locker room in tough times.

Macdoo is a overmatched goofball I am worried we are very doomed. COMPLETE waste of a top end D.
RE: Macdoo = Goofball  
RetroJint : 9/20/2017 10:06 pm : link
In comment 13609098 RodneyHampton said:
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Giants crushed my soul already this season. Coughlin never let the team give up in bad times and will never get enough credit for that. Macdoo has not proven he is able to continue to command the locker room in tough times.

Macdoo is a overmatched goofball I am worried we are very doomed. COMPLETE waste of a top end D.

It's way too early to write his coaching eulogy. Belichick struggled after a good first season. Parcells worked through a nightmarish first season. Before you say this team has much more talent , consider that the Oline , coupled with Eli's considerable limitations neutralize a good deal of that roster strength . He has to find a way to get them to fire off the ball as a cohesive , physical unit . And he has to block it up for Eli, however many it takes .
Injuries are piling up...  
ZGiants98 : 9/21/2017 12:09 am : link
Jenkins... Goodson... Robinson... Engram... Odell.... Hart....

Not looking good.
The reason 0-3 teams don't make the playoffs  
81_Great_Dane : 9/21/2017 12:55 am : link
is that most of those teams are really, really bad. The Giants shouldn't be THAT bad. Their defense alone should prevent that.

Any 3-game losing streak is tough, but it's survivable. It's worse if it's at the start of the season, but it's still survivable.

The problem with going 0-3, though, is you need to get on a heckuva roll for the rest of the season to get to the playoffs. Could this team go 0-3 and finish at 10-6? Sure, but the things that blew them up in Dallas and against Detroit don't seem likely to vanish.
RE: Wait a second...  
BillKo : 9/21/2017 9:48 am : link
In comment 13609023 Go Terps said:
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this is a must win because it's the Eagles. I don't care if we're 0-15.

There is definitely a part of me that believes there is a 2 game season within the 16 game season. Win the right 2 games (against these cunts), and I can live with 2-14.


Well said! :)
Hard to win  
gmenatlarge : 9/21/2017 9:49 am : link
with half a team.

the funny thing about McAdoo is he says "to do the same thing over and aver again when it's not working is insanity", but isn't that exactly what they have been doing offensively, depressing.
I don't call it, Must Win  
ATL_Giants : 9/21/2017 11:21 am : link
unless it mathematically eliminates us.

What an over-used term to drum up hype & anticipation for a game.
RE: I don't call it, Must Win  
family progtitioner : 9/21/2017 11:23 am : link
In comment 13609419 ATL_Giants said:
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unless it mathematically eliminates us.

What an over-used term to drum up hype & anticipation for a game.


0-3 teams basically don't rebound. It's a must win. That said, the 2011 team I think had a 4 game losing streak and rebounded from that so who knows?
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