Maybe We Got A Little Too Excited After The Texans Game
Feel free to change that headline to “Maybe Clem Got A Little Too Excited After The Texans Game” if you knew that the Giants were going to revert back to the same old unwatchable team yesterday. Hand up, I have no problem admitting that I thought the offense may have turned a corner down in Houston despite knowing that Texans aren’t exactly a great team. But I have to believe in something right now. I can’t keep living in this Groundhog Day of watching an ineffective offense and a decent defense that inevitably collapses because the offense can put up points. I thought the Giants would be able to put up big numbers on the Saints secondary because almost every team they have played this season has and Ereck Flowers not being in the lineup would somehow make everything gucci. Turns out I’m a fucking idiot. But we already knew that. I will now perform seppuku and hit myself with this classic Vine as my penance.
The big stat these days is that the Giants haven’t scored 30+ points in a game since the 2015 season finale. Tom Coughlin was the coach and the only thing Peter Chernin owned was a big dick and a cracker factory. It’s crazy that pretty much every rule the NFL has passed in the last decade is to help offenses yet the Giants still move the ball like the game is on All-Madden. Shit, Mitch Trubisky put up 35 points by himself in the FIRST HALF yesterday. If that doesn’t make you want to crawl into a hole, I don’t know what will. It’s one thing for your favorite team to be bad. But for your favorite team to be bad and boring is a flat out depressing during the glorious NFL season.
Some other quick thoughts:
– I am not a blame the refs type of fan because usually in the end it all evens out. But fuck it seemed like the zebras had it out for Big Blue yesterday, with the “horse collar” call on Janoris Jenkins and this trip of Dalvin Tomlinson after Ted Ginn tried to drag the Giants back into the contest as two game changers.
Then again, the Saints came up big almost every time they truly had to, so whatever I guess.
– Taysom Hill is fun as fuck to watch, even though I get confused whenever he has the ball because it looks like Drew Brees gained 50 in his Speed rating since Hill’s number 7 looks like a number 9 if you glance at it quickly. I wouldn’t put it past Sean Payton doing that on purpose because he is diabolical like that and giving him a player like Hill is almost unfair.
– The Giants caught a break not having to face Mark Ingram yesterday and they still couldn’t capitalize. Big Blitzin’ Jimmy Bettcher’s D did an awesome job in the first half limiting the Saints to nothing but field goals, but New Orleans made its adjustments at halftime and moved the ball at will. Did you guys know that Alvin Kamara didn’t start while he was playing at Tennessee? Oh, that got pounded in your head a million times last season? Anyway, that guy is fucking awesome.
– Watching Eli dink and dunk is frustrating, but watching him miss a wide open Odell on one of the rare times he took a shot downfield may actually drive me crazy. I don’t know what the point of having playmakers on your offense is if you are just going to be running curls and outs. Sean McVay would average no less than 150 points per game if he was the Giants coach and you can’t convince me otherwise.
*Remembers the Giants offensive line issues*
Okay, 125 points per game. But still, the bulk of the Giants yards coming on the first drive and once the game was close to out of reach should erase any good feelings about the offense actually looking like even an average NFL unit.
– I will say something nice about the Giants offense. Watching Saquon score a touchdown by jumping from the free throw line gave me a boner.
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So there’s that.
– This may just be years of watching bad line play talking, but I feel like every time a defender gets to Eli, it is the quickest sack in the history of football which usually results in an avalanche of defenders laying on our quarterback.
– Despite all this, the Giants are 1-3 in a jumbled NFC East where nobody has looked all that good. Going to Carolina with the Panthers being fresh off a bye isn’t exactly the prescription to fix what is wrong with the Giants. But at this point, we just need the Giants to keep working through whatever and pray to God that Pat Shurmur isn’t a lemon. Oh yeah and watch Oregon games every week and hope that Justin Herbert is worthy of a Top 5 pick that the Giants may have if this shit keeps up. Especially since Josh Rosen looked pretty good yesterday for the Cardinals.
God, we may really be on the darkest timeline right now, huh?