It's more complicated than just "hitting" Eli. A more effective, appraoch will be "dictating the game to him". The Giants in their last two games have been protecting him with short throws so that he does not get hit and does not throw deep and make that mastake throw. He's good at the short throws and Tampa gave him those. We should not. We should use the front 4 for an initial rush and take away the underneath stuff with tight, bump-and-run, coverage. It will slso make Jacobs more one-dimensional by talking away that pass out of the backfield. If executed properly, this will surely force Eli out of his short-play comfort-zone, and force him to hold the ball longer and go deeper. And if we then send in some delayed blitzes Eli's way on top of it, this will throw him off even more, and he'll be making costly mistakes with hte football downfield in no time. So the trick is to not hit him; it is to confuse him into making mistakes.
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