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Giants' Manning clearly has regressed
Adam Schein / FOXSports.com
Posted: 1 hour ago
Honestly, if you are a Giants fan you are sick after watching the Giants lose in Jacksonville.
Eli Manning was just awful. Actually, if he was just awful, the Giants might have won the game. He was sadly pathetic.
I'm talking Dave Brown on a bad day.
And this loss had nothing to do with injuries to signature players. The Jaguars were begging the Giants to win this game. Ranging from Jacksonville fumbles to Carl Smith calling a pass play over the middle at 26-10 with four minutes to go, the Jags tried to give the game away. But the Giants stunk from the head down.
How bad was Manning?
On the first drive he couldn't complete a pass five yards to Tiki Barber on a screen. That was a harbinger of things to come. Manning missed high. He missed low. Manning threw a wobbly, grotesque duck off of his back foot on the move (remember Collins, Kerry), picked off by Deon Grant. And Plaxico Burress was wide open! A Rashean Mathis penalty negated Manning's worst play of a night. Manning was backtracking, lost his composure and opted to try to fling the ball instead of taking the sack. He fumbled and it was returned for a touchdown. It didn't count on the scoreboard, but it hit home just how out of it Manning truly was.
There's no other way to phrase it — Eli Manning has really regressed. I loved the pick when it was made. But Manning, who I have consistently defended on my radio show, has proven me dead wrong. You hope he snaps out of it, but it has been a major nosedive of a season for Manning since the Commanders game.
And Burress' act is officially wearing thin.
Burress fumbled after a big gain early, eventually ruled incomplete. He ran a lazy route at the end of the first half. And Burress botched a rare strike from Manning on a bomb. It would've been a touchdown. Instead, Burress was lazy again, not getting his second hand up, bobbling the ball instead of easily catching it and taking off. The ball popped loose on the ground during Burress' dive due to his laziness, and it was correctly ruled incomplete. Burress then "fainted" with shock at the call.
How about doing everything possible to catch the darn ball! That was just horrendous.
And then Burress didn't even bother to attend the huddle on the ensuing play, telling the world it was going to be a run! Burress needs to get his act together to be half the player he thinks he is.
And then there's the broadcast.
I feel so badly for Mike Tirico and Tony Kornheiser, so professional and so great at what they do. They constantly get stuck with pointless, entertainment-type interviews in the booth, to promote something that has nothing to do with anything.
That essentially is code for it having everything to do with the Disney family. That Christian Slater interview in Seattle a few weeks ago was just riveting.
Here was Monday night's scene:
It's 13-10 and you have Jay-Z in the booth, who wouldn't know Bob Whitfield from Bob Hope. Emotions are tense, the Giants finally have life. Meanwhile, David Garrard is hitting Marcedes Lewis and busting out of attempts for tackles (see Torbor, Reggie) and Tirico is stuck trying to get Jay-Z to pump his return album.
Nobody cares that we finally have a football game! Jay-Z has returned!
They are missing plays, calling wrong downs, but hey, Jay-Z got to say he will be on your TV set soon on ABC. That's apparently all that matters. There was time to show more pictures of Jay-Z than David Garrard. Jay-Z got more airtime than Jeremy Shockey, which says a lot about a lot.
It's a joke listening to these interviews during MNF.
And they kept showing the group in the booth.
How about showing the damn field during a game???
I mean, come on!
Jay-Z is from Brooklyn. Tirico is from Queens. Kornheiser is from Long Island. Joe Theisman chimes in; he's from the region, a New Jersey native.
It was just riveting stuff.
It took away from perhaps the most dramatic part of a bad game, and took away from a Jacksonville drive.
This was a needed win for the now 6-4 Jags.
By the way, is it legal for Maurice Jones Drew to do the Macarena with the team mascot? Or is that a group celebration or usage of the prop?
Rest of story:
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6194586?print=true
Adam Schein / FOXSports.com
Posted: 1 hour ago
Honestly, if you are a Giants fan you are sick after watching the Giants lose in Jacksonville.
Eli Manning was just awful. Actually, if he was just awful, the Giants might have won the game. He was sadly pathetic.
I'm talking Dave Brown on a bad day.
And this loss had nothing to do with injuries to signature players. The Jaguars were begging the Giants to win this game. Ranging from Jacksonville fumbles to Carl Smith calling a pass play over the middle at 26-10 with four minutes to go, the Jags tried to give the game away. But the Giants stunk from the head down.
How bad was Manning?
On the first drive he couldn't complete a pass five yards to Tiki Barber on a screen. That was a harbinger of things to come. Manning missed high. He missed low. Manning threw a wobbly, grotesque duck off of his back foot on the move (remember Collins, Kerry), picked off by Deon Grant. And Plaxico Burress was wide open! A Rashean Mathis penalty negated Manning's worst play of a night. Manning was backtracking, lost his composure and opted to try to fling the ball instead of taking the sack. He fumbled and it was returned for a touchdown. It didn't count on the scoreboard, but it hit home just how out of it Manning truly was.
There's no other way to phrase it — Eli Manning has really regressed. I loved the pick when it was made. But Manning, who I have consistently defended on my radio show, has proven me dead wrong. You hope he snaps out of it, but it has been a major nosedive of a season for Manning since the Commanders game.
And Burress' act is officially wearing thin.
Burress fumbled after a big gain early, eventually ruled incomplete. He ran a lazy route at the end of the first half. And Burress botched a rare strike from Manning on a bomb. It would've been a touchdown. Instead, Burress was lazy again, not getting his second hand up, bobbling the ball instead of easily catching it and taking off. The ball popped loose on the ground during Burress' dive due to his laziness, and it was correctly ruled incomplete. Burress then "fainted" with shock at the call.
How about doing everything possible to catch the darn ball! That was just horrendous.
And then Burress didn't even bother to attend the huddle on the ensuing play, telling the world it was going to be a run! Burress needs to get his act together to be half the player he thinks he is.
And then there's the broadcast.
I feel so badly for Mike Tirico and Tony Kornheiser, so professional and so great at what they do. They constantly get stuck with pointless, entertainment-type interviews in the booth, to promote something that has nothing to do with anything.
That essentially is code for it having everything to do with the Disney family. That Christian Slater interview in Seattle a few weeks ago was just riveting.
Here was Monday night's scene:
It's 13-10 and you have Jay-Z in the booth, who wouldn't know Bob Whitfield from Bob Hope. Emotions are tense, the Giants finally have life. Meanwhile, David Garrard is hitting Marcedes Lewis and busting out of attempts for tackles (see Torbor, Reggie) and Tirico is stuck trying to get Jay-Z to pump his return album.
Nobody cares that we finally have a football game! Jay-Z has returned!
They are missing plays, calling wrong downs, but hey, Jay-Z got to say he will be on your TV set soon on ABC. That's apparently all that matters. There was time to show more pictures of Jay-Z than David Garrard. Jay-Z got more airtime than Jeremy Shockey, which says a lot about a lot.
It's a joke listening to these interviews during MNF.
And they kept showing the group in the booth.
How about showing the damn field during a game???
I mean, come on!
Jay-Z is from Brooklyn. Tirico is from Queens. Kornheiser is from Long Island. Joe Theisman chimes in; he's from the region, a New Jersey native.
It was just riveting stuff.
It took away from perhaps the most dramatic part of a bad game, and took away from a Jacksonville drive.
This was a needed win for the now 6-4 Jags.
By the way, is it legal for Maurice Jones Drew to do the Macarena with the team mascot? Or is that a group celebration or usage of the prop?
Rest of story:
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6194586?print=true