with 7 mins left in the game, and Chicago with the ball knowing they will do all they can to pound the rock and milk the clock. Those two are the Giants best interior linemen, and for the first few minutes of that drive they weren’t in. In their place was Austin Johnson and BJ Hill. Bears torched the Giants on the ground, and it wasn’t until both Lawrence and Williams finally got put back in and stopped the bleeding.
No excuse for having both guys not in there from the get go on that series. Poor decision by the coaches there.
On the TD in the first half, where Trubisky had 6.2 seconds to throw we had ZERO DL in the game. Even if you want to contain him, someone has to push the pocket and force him to a side with 3 LBs and 8 DBs you aren't going to do that. Graham lost the chess match in the first half and in the 4th quarter.
On the TD in the first half, where Trubisky had 6.2 seconds to throw we had ZERO DL in the game. Even if you want to contain him, someone has to push the pocket and force him to a side with 3 LBs and 8 DBs you aren't going to do that. Graham lost the chess match in the first half and in the 4th quarter.
and the easy rebuttal to this opinion is these players are paid millions of dollars to play this game which entails working year round on their bodies. They need to work harder in practice but since that is not really an option with the current agreements, the players need to hold themselves accountable and be in the best shape possible. Rather than make an excuse, I would like them to work harder.
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may be seeing another side effect of no preseason here. The DLs are not used to playing more than a few scrimmage snaps. There was no 2nd and 3rd preseason games where the DL plays at least half the game and sometimes into the 3rd quarter.
and the easy rebuttal to this opinion is these players are paid millions of dollars to play this game which entails working year round on their bodies. They need to work harder in practice but since that is not really an option with the current agreements, the players need to hold themselves accountable and be in the best shape possible. Rather than make an excuse, I would like them to work harder.
This is a silly take. No amount of work in the offseason compensates for game conditioning.
I don’t know, Daniel Jones had a pretty long drive before that, hard to believe that LW and DL were still tired after that. Seemed like a coaching mistake to me. If it was indeed a lack of conditioning, then shame on those two players.
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may be seeing another side effect of no preseason here. The DLs are not used to playing more than a few scrimmage snaps. There was no 2nd and 3rd preseason games where the DL plays at least half the game and sometimes into the 3rd quarter.
and the easy rebuttal to this opinion is these players are paid millions of dollars to play this game which entails working year round on their bodies. They need to work harder in practice but since that is not really an option with the current agreements, the players need to hold themselves accountable and be in the best shape possible. Rather than make an excuse, I would like them to work harder.
That isn’t an easy rebuttal. If it was then players would never leave the game. Being in shape and being in mid season form as far as endurance goes are two completely different things.
I’d be more inclined to agree with this if the Giants O just had a quick 3 and out but they didn’t. They had a nice drive where the DL and rest of the D should’ve had more than enough time to get their wind back.
^This.
Big problem for me was lack of and Inside presence at LB. Martinez is good side to but we need a downhill thumper in there to. play Peppers as a LB or Carter or Fackrel playing inside is an issue and Im not seeing much from Downs.
Mayo is being missed on running downs
I'd throw in that Graham adjusted pretty quickly and we didn't give up a point the entire second half, but clearly they have to manage their rotations better because SF will break runs against us this week if we don't.
You had multiple comments about how Williams isn't worth a damn because the Bears ran it right down our throats, yet when he and Lawrence came back into the game coincided to the point where the run started getting stuffed and we forced a 4th down, and then after that, the hold and the missed FG.
It's like keyboards get mashed before synapses actually fire with an understanding of what's going on.
The defense gave up 17 points, and had to deal with short fields because of turnovers. They played a really good game if you ask me.
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The defense gave up 17 points, and had to deal with short fields because of turnovers. They played a really good game if you ask me.
This guy hasn't posted 1 thing of value that I ever remember reading. Complain, complain, complain - and some of the complaints aren't actually legitimate, debunked by facts such the defense playing well enough yesterday to put the offense in position to win the game.
Oh, and yes it's very likely a conditioning issue they're trying to rotate and guard against.
The coaches are monitoring snap counts and they simply have to rotate the backups in to give the starters a blow.
It seems to me that a lot of fans forget that these are human beings, with human limits.
The Steelers ran for 140+ yards. So somewhere in there you are missing 40+ yards.
Awful decision. And even if they needed to monitor snaps, shouldn't the rest of the Defense on the field be told to sell out a good bit on the run, at least on 1st and 2nd down. No way that ball was going to be thrown unless it was 3rd down, and it still would have been a short pass.
That was time for the big-boys to pull up their pants and they let them march down the field, use up 5+ minutes of clock and all 3 of our timeouts.
Giants were able to have just one throw in the end zone to potentially win the game.
Awful.
Now the Bears run for almost 140 yards as well, and particularly strong at the end of the game when everybody knows they are going to run to burn the clock. And its because the highest paid player and highest defensive draft choice on the team are on the bench grabbing some Gatorade.
Super.