Week 11: Giants VS Eagles

Preamble:

This is the first time I'm doing this. I didn't even have the motivation to do this until I saw the disater that was the Giants last night loss to the Eagles. Here goes nothing. But honestly can it be any worse than what happened last night?

There are a lot of things I can take away from this. I'm not going to say the obvious things, like Jacobs is less reliable than getting a stoner friend to pick you up at the airport. Or how back up QBs scare me when Vince Young looked like STEVE Young on an 18 play 9 minute drive. Or how if you don't catch the ball you don't MOVE the ball. Or nothing angered me more than Steve Smith celebrating a TD in Jersey while wearing an Eagles jersey. Or my reaffirmation of how much I despise DeShawn Jackson. (I digress) Besides all of that here is what I actually learned...



"Oh hey Matt, next time don't f*ck my sh*t up!" - Tom Coughlin



If Matt Dodge was still on the Giants the final score would have easily been 42-10 because DeShawn Jackson would have housed almost all of them.

Granted much of those returns would probably be called back because DeShawn Jackson lacks any control to act like a big boy.

The punting putz, kicking calamity, the field-position failure that is Dodge had a knack for kicking the ball in such a way that always put the returners in the best position to get 6. 

Steve Weatherford kept the Giants in that game by effective punting. Yes, he did have a close call where DeShawn Jackson almost housed one but he did make that tackle and overall he punted well. He kicked the ball all over the place, the furthest being 61 yards, and on two punts he was down right Feaglesesque (I'm gonna make that a household frame of reference). I don't like that the Giants were so inept that they punted 9 times but Weatherford planted 4 inside the 20 and put the Eagles in poor field position more times than not.

Having said all of this, you know your team is in serious trouble when the punter is the silver lining.