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.
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When and where did Hedgecock say he was worried about the pro bowl?
after the game hedgecock said he was rowing to the probowl…I prefer Gilbert graping to the superbowl, but at 10-1 all is good. I even said hi to my eagles fan neighbhor…..of course by hello I mean “how bout them giants…tough day for mcnabb.” His response an unintelligible grunt and a slam of the door. silly eagles fan
Rowing, Pro-Bowl, Touchdown…Bah…..
Hedgecock CAUGHT the ball!
jose you could not be more right….throw away number 9…..as you said, he caught the damn ball, row away.
I want to say 1st I love reading what you write, saying that I will nit pick on non football issue as I can not fine real fault (not that I was looking) with anything you said about football.
1. William Dafoe played the Green Goblin (Marvel Comics) not the Green lantern (DC comics).
2. The head in a vice you made reference to happened in Casino not Goodfellas. Joe Pesci was in both so I can see how you mixed them up.
Once again you do great work and I check the site every few hours so keep up the great work.
weak129 I don’t know what you are talking about…please re-read…ok I edited, thanks for the info. That said (I am totally addicted to “that said”) it is definitely Willem not William. In fact we can now include Willem’s mother when discussing the most confusing names ever given to a child. Anfernee Hardaway, Marvcus Patton, Jehereme Urban and now Willem Dafoe. Seriously, did they think 1 letter change would make them seem anything but insane?
weak if you like what you read please comment, I thrive on them. Basically your comments are my form of crack…to much?
FYI
Re:your granmother’s expression, ““Cain and Hora,”. The actual words are (spelled phonetically), cain ayin hara. It is usually pronounced kenaina hora. The literal translation is – No evil eye. The English language equivalent is knock on wood.
Enjoy your blog. Keep up the good work.
wow… I actually googled cain ayin hara, cause I knew there was no way I would spell it right….still I believe it translates to “why is that rhinoceros in a uniform, and why he is he running right at me?” I know this becuase if you slow down the tape of Brandon Jacobs trucking Leron Landry you can seem him mouthing “cain ayin hara” two seconds before he gets planted into the meadowlands turf.
#2. I don’t know where you come off mentioning Plaxico when you are talking about Hixon unless it is to say how good a compliment he would be to Plax. Why not wonder instead if Hixon should bump Amani down? Realize we have 4 good receivers (really 3 good and 1 great receiver in Plax.) There needs to be no discussion of ‘a team without Plax.’ We beat the Cardinals, so what. We will need Plax when it counts, so come off it. That said, if there were to be a discussion of where Hixon fits in, he should bump Toomer down, if anything. (And maybe even bump him below Steve Smith…. soon enough atleast.)
#6 I do love seeing Diehl’s picture. The lower half of his face is probably larger than any other human being’s.
#9 You never know with fullbacks, man. They are the craziest players out there. They don’t get to tackle, they barely get to run or catch the ball, and they kill their body. I think most are criminally insane, too. Whatever he has to do to get his juices flowing on Sunday. If he feels disrespected, so be it. (Maybe we should hope he doesn’t go to the Pro-Bowl, so he feels even more slighted next year.)
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And if I may go on a tangent after the Pro-Bowl statement, how many Giants do you think make the Pro-Bowl this year? Jacobs, Tuck, maybe one of D-tackles and 2 offensive lineman? Anyone else? Pierce, Eli (doubtful with atleast Warner/Brees), Plax? Any secondary members?
where do I come off? Ha, I feel like I just got drunk at some random weddding and decided to give a speech and now I am being scolded by the brides parents. “where do you come off Mr Jacks?”
To answer your question, certainly you have heard about the strained relationship between Plax and Coughlin. He has been suspended once, held out of another half and fined 40/50 times. Not exactly a team player. There have been rumors all year that the gmen may move on in the offseason without plax. That said, do I think the Gmen are better without him? No. But I think asking the question is warranted…….
Pro bowlers – pre injury I would have said robbins, but the two broken hands have slown him down. I would like to think webster should get some votes, but probably not. Hedgecock getting slighted might work in out favor as you mentioned. You have to think o’hara or snee have a chance this year as well.
Thanks for writing monster