Positives of this Game

Here's another positive:

Guess which two teams had the most similar ranking in the Football Outsiders Power Rankings (http://footballoutsiders.com/dvoa-ratings/2009/week-1-dvoa-ratings)?

14 NYG 4.7%
15 WAS 4.3%

Obviously, the middle of the pack rankings have no meaning whatsoever in the grand scheme of things, it's Week 1, but isn't it nice to know that in at least one respect, we played the Giants to a virtual draw?

I get more phone calls around gametime than the rest of the day combined. I'm going to start cutting my phone off.

When I cut mine back on Monday morning, I had 6 new text messages from 2 different sh*t talking giants fans. I obviously need new friends.

It did seem to me that McIntosh made some nice disruptive plays Sunday. That's a positive...

Maybe that we see that we still have a ways to go and we don't take teams like the Rams for granted? Maybe we'll be focused and motivated enough to put the kind of ass whipping on a team we've all been waiting for.

I think it's a huge positive that after the game in one of Zorn's many interviews he flat out stated that the secondary was playing too far off the line of scrimmage.

That really needed to be addressed. Even though the entire fanbase already knows it Blache might actually have to tone down the "If you want an eight yard completion at any point in the game we are happy to oblige defensive backfield philosophy."

Next up I hope we will address the Blache "Don't you dare try and throw any seventy yard passes against us because Laron Landry is fifty yards off the line of scrimmage philosophy."

It really does get rather tiring seeing our corners play so far off the line

I think it's a huge positive that after the game in one of Zorn's many interviews he flat out stated that the secondary was playing too far off the line of scrimmage.

That really needed to be addressed. Even though the entire fanbase already knows it Blache might actually have to tone down the "If you want an eight yard completion at any point in the game we are happy to oblige defensive backfield philosophy."

Next up I hope we will address the Blache "Don't you dare try and throw any seventy yard passes against us because Laron Landry is fifty yards off the line of scrimmage philosophy."

There is an argument being made by some that because Blache lets his DB's play so far back off the line of scrimmage, there is less chance of them getting beat deep and the fact that his defense ranks high in the "points allowed" category justifies this and validates his strategy. It allows the play to happen in front of the DB where he can make a tackle instead of behind him for a TD. Of course this often allows for long drives that end up for 3 points. What it doesn't take into account is the amount of time the defense is on the field and the offense is on the sideline. Of course that means fewer chances for the offense to score or get into a rhythm, (sorry CRedkinsRule). I can't speak for GTripp but I believe that's one of the points he trys to make, unsuccessfully to those who always see the bottom line as, " The defense's job is to not allow a lot of points...PERIOD!". When we need to score and the defense cannot get off the field, I think we see the fallacy of this strategy.

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Nice hit Fletcher.

HTTR.

Lost in all the shuffle was this:

The Giants DID take away Moss, and the passing offense didn't suffer. Not one bit. We were actually better off NOT going to Moss.

When was the last time we could say that?

Maybe we should find a way to stop LETTING teams "take away" Moss if he's such an effective weapon. There are plenty of good receivers out there who are the focus of attention each and every week (just about every #1), but they still find a way to produce. It's not like they had pro-bowlers all along their secondary. It's just another bogus excuse that I'm tired of hearing about.