Quick Hits
Quick thoughts on the game:
1) While the Giants only amassed 87 yards on the ground, it had less to do with the Baby Rhino’s injury and more to do with the Cardinals defense. As Eli Manning pointed out they were using Adrian Wilson in the box more often then not, and they only had one safety up top. They dared the Giants to throw, and throw they did. Even though the Giants decimated the Ravens, Baltimore tried to stop the Giants with there front 7. The Giants are proving they can win however you want them to. If you put 8 in the box, eli can be efficient and if you go with your front seven, as my grandmother used to say “Cain and Hora,” which loosely translated from yiddish means “That man is huge, we are all going to die.”
2) Domenik Hixon can flat out play. I know I keep saying the Giants are still better with Plaxico healthy, and they are, but at this point it seems fair to ask; If Plaxico continues to bother Coughlin and the team concept, are they alright without him? I don’t think it is fair to judge based on the small sample size of 2 games, but Hixon has shown some game breaking ability…food for thought (I hate cliche’s, umm burger for pensiveness).
3) No, Bradshaw did not get taken off kick return duties, although I think the Giants are headed there. As Coughlin pointed out, with “Le Beby Rhino” injured, Bradshaw was going to be used more often (even though it didn’t work out that way), so he thought he would mix Hixon into that operation. He replaced Bradshaw after the penalty just to get fresh legs in there. Clearly Hixon has proven he needs to be there permanently, as fellow writer Rich Resch demanded last week (good call Rich…but you never mentioned containing Jereheme Urban, where were you on that? Fine I never heard of him either, and check out the spelling of his name. That’s up there with Anfernee Hardaway and Marvcus Patton as two of the most confused mothers of there time.)
4) On one pulling play, Chris Snee hit a Cardinal linebacker so hard he launched him off his feet. It looked like a fight scene from Spiderman when he gets launched across the room into a brick wall by the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe - second “most chiseled” actor face of all time, right behind Ivan Drago).
5) Tony Siragusa makes my ears bleed, some choice quotes: “Great job by Boldin of getting the first down” (literally the next sentence) I don’t know if he got the first, but he knew where the marker was.” Ummm that’s the equivalent of saying nothing. In essence he could have said this and it would have been just as useless; “Ok moose this is what I have for ya, the Cardinals play football in Arizona, the Giants in New York…ok back up to you Moose.” When asking Moose about a traditional thanksgiving dinner Siragusa said his too would be traditional “ya know lasagna…little meatballs.” Fortunately at that point my buddy shep called me to tell me he his cable went out and I had to do the play by play for him. At one point I told him I was throwing it down to goose and my buddy shep said “If he can tell you what the free kick was all about I will let you sleep with my fiance.” Essentially my buddy Shep is saying he believes Goose knows so little about the game at hand he is willing to let you sleep with his wife in order to prove it.
6) Dave Diehl’s face looks like it is being squished inside a vice with his helmet on, it reminds me of the scene in Casino, where the guy is getting his head squished in a vice. I’m very literal.
7) Is it just me or did Arizona guard, Deuce Lutui, try to fight every Giant on the field?
8) I knew about the free kick rule….well sort of, and by sort of I mean not at all, but if Mcnabb or anyone else hadn’t, this would be totally understandable.
9) Is anyone else a bit upset that Madison Hedgecock is worried about the pro bowl. Seems like a Cowboy concern. It’s knit-picky, but why not run around like Gilbert Grape pretending to be an Airplane. Then when they ask why, you could say your getting ready for the flight to Miami and the Superbowl…to presumptuous? Better then rowing to a meaningless game in Hawaii.
10) Say whatever you want, Gilbride can coach.
