His first start was exactly on my 17th birthday. 11/21/2004 vs. the Falcons. Went to the game with a bunch of friends. Only time I ever saw Vick play in person as well, I remember he had a 100+ yards rushing in that game. Good times (even though Giants lost).
His first start was exactly on my 17th birthday. 11/21/2004 vs. the Falcons. Went to the game with a bunch of friends. Only time I ever saw Vick play in person as well, I remember he had a 100+ yards rushing in that game. Good times (even though Giants lost).
Maybe the worst roughing the passer call ever on Carlos Emmons in that game
Over time I forgot just how dominant Plax was. He may be the best FA signing we ever made.
It's a shame that guy never made it to Hawaii. Especially because the thing that never showed up on the stat sheet for him, and what the pro bowl voters could never have accounted for, was the effect he had on the defense just by lining up out there. The D having to constantly account for his size, speed, and talent was a huge part of our offense's success the years that Burress was here.
The biggest robbery of all was Donald Driver making it to the pro bowl over Burress in 2007 (and this was back when the pro bowl was after the super bowl, so Burress could have played in it, just as Osi did).
Driver literally only made it I believe because of his name being tied to Favre, the Packers record, and the fact he was a pro bowler the prior year.
Then again I guess abusing Al Harris for like 10 rec and 150+ yards in the NFCCG and then catching the game-winning TD pass with 0:35 left in the 4th to beat the 18-0 Pats in the Super Bowl wasn't a bad consolation prize for Burress.
to me as I watched those TDs was how Eli was really good at shuffling and moving to avoid the rush early in his career.
I still believe that of all his HOF skills, that was the one that diminished the most and really impacted the second leg of his career - not his arm strength as I have heard it argued many times before.
RE: RE: I was there for the very 1st one, lower tier behind that very endzone Â
His first start was exactly on my 17th birthday. 11/21/2004 vs. the Falcons. Went to the game with a bunch of friends. Only time I ever saw Vick play in person as well, I remember he had a 100+ yards rushing in that game. Good times (even though Giants lost).
Maybe the worst roughing the passer call ever on Carlos Emmons in that game
Oh man I remember screaming about that one. Falcons would have had to punt from their own end zone and Giants would have had much better field position on that last drive. ANother play in that game that killed us was when they had a real good drive going and were in Falcon territory when DE Brady Smith faked a rush and instead dropped into coverage and Eli threw it right to him for a big INT to kill that drive.
I had forgotten how good Toomer was in the early part of the tape. Also, it is striking how many receivers we had with injury shortened careers--Shockey, Plax, Nicks, Cruz, Ballard...
Also a reminder of how quick Victor Cruz was!
Maybe the worst roughing the passer call ever on Carlos Emmons in that game
It's a shame that guy never made it to Hawaii. Especially because the thing that never showed up on the stat sheet for him, and what the pro bowl voters could never have accounted for, was the effect he had on the defense just by lining up out there. The D having to constantly account for his size, speed, and talent was a huge part of our offense's success the years that Burress was here.
The biggest robbery of all was Donald Driver making it to the pro bowl over Burress in 2007 (and this was back when the pro bowl was after the super bowl, so Burress could have played in it, just as Osi did).
Driver had 82 rec, 1048 yds, 2 TDs. That's right. 2 TDs.
Burress? 70 rec, 1025 yds, 12 TDs.
Driver literally only made it I believe because of his name being tied to Favre, the Packers record, and the fact he was a pro bowler the prior year.
Then again I guess abusing Al Harris for like 10 rec and 150+ yards in the NFCCG and then catching the game-winning TD pass with 0:35 left in the 4th to beat the 18-0 Pats in the Super Bowl wasn't a bad consolation prize for Burress.
I still believe that of all his HOF skills, that was the one that diminished the most and really impacted the second leg of his career - not his arm strength as I have heard it argued many times before.
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His first start was exactly on my 17th birthday. 11/21/2004 vs. the Falcons. Went to the game with a bunch of friends. Only time I ever saw Vick play in person as well, I remember he had a 100+ yards rushing in that game. Good times (even though Giants lost).
Maybe the worst roughing the passer call ever on Carlos Emmons in that game
Oh man I remember screaming about that one. Falcons would have had to punt from their own end zone and Giants would have had much better field position on that last drive. ANother play in that game that killed us was when they had a real good drive going and were in Falcon territory when DE Brady Smith faked a rush and instead dropped into coverage and Eli threw it right to him for a big INT to kill that drive.
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with all those old TDs to Shockey and Burress.
Also a reminder of how quick Victor Cruz was!
Cant help thinking of what could have been if PLax hadn't shot himself in 2008
Couple things ...
Eli/Shockey - could have been GREAT had Shockey had a head on his shoulders.
Plax-Nicks-Cruz- such dominate players, we don’t have anything close to that now at WR.
Boss could have been very good if not for all the injuries.
Sure do miss when the Giants actually had a football team!
Just got through 2005 - man, Shockey, Burress and Toomer was a freakin' good receiving corps.