Week Three 2016: Giants vs Redskins

We’ll it’s hard to find the right words to describe how the Giants played this past Sunday. This was a terrible effort by Big Blue. They had several chances to win the game, but because of dumb decisions and undisciplined play they lost the game. In the game against the Saints, they lost three fumbles. It’s hard to win a game when you have three turnovers, but it’s doable. But three turnovers and committing over 100 yards in penalties? That’s damn near impossible.



What Went Right

Beckham, who at times acted like a kid who got his Xbox taken away, had a good day against Norman. I don’t know why Josh Norman was strutting around like he did something important. It’s like Hawkeye bragging to Loki when the Avengers saved Manhattan from aliens. They’re both good at what they do, but neither were crucial to their team’s success.

Sorry, Clint, but you know it's true. Your only role in those movies is to be "the relatable one".

Bobby Hart played well as a fill in at right tackle. It looks like he’ll be there for the time being, and that should work just fine.

The run defense looked good I guess.



What Went Wrong

In a game where so much went wrong for the Giants, I’m just going to give some bullet points of the worst of the worst...

Nice try, Jim Bob, here's a Giants' jersey.

Watching the Giants trying to tackle was like watching hillbilly kids trying to catch greased pigs.

A blocked Redskins’ punt that was negated by an unnecessary roughness penalty on Andrew Adams, who just got added to the team for safety depth.

A critical Redskins’ 3rd down incompletion was negated by a roughing the passer penalty from Olivier Vernon.

A huge play by Odell Beckham Jr. that would’ve put the Giants in great position to get a touchdown was negated by Weston Richburg’s second unsportsmanlike conduct penalty when he taunted Josh Norman after knocking him down. Richburg was ejected because of this penalty.

The Redskins faked a punt on 4th down, and the Giants looked like a high school team by the way they fell for it.

Odell Beckham Jr. lost a fight with a kicker’s net.



On To The Next One

The Giants are facing a good team on Monday night in Minnesota. The Vikings look to be a very tough match up for the Giants.
This will be the first real test for Big Blue’s offensive line. Let’s see how it will hold up against this Kool-Aid Man defensive line.

OH YEAH!

Injuries are also something that the Giants have to worry about. Vereen is out for the rest of the season, and it looks like Jennings won’t be suiting up on Monday. This leaves Orleans Darwka, Bobby Rainey, and rookie Paul Perkins to take on this tough match up.
On the defensive side of the ball, the injuries are really stacking up. Eli Apple, DRC, Darian Thompson, and Nat Berhe are all banged up. This doesn’t bode well for Monday because the Vikings’ biggest play maker on offense is their receiver Stefon Diggs.

Despite these current pressing issues, we have history to deal with, as well. Eli doesn’t have a great history against this team. It’s kind of unreliable to say, because he’s not playing against the same roster time after time, but he seems to do poorly against the Vikings. In the eight times he’s played the Vikings he thrown four touchdowns and a whopping FOURTEEN interceptions. The Giants also lost five of those eight games. Now I’m no math wiz, but I think that’s not exactly the best.
But Eli doesn’t get bogged down in the past. When asked if the Vikings have his number, he smart-assedly said, “I don’t think anybody has my phone number on the Vikings. Maybe Linval, I’m not sure. I'm trying to think if I have anybody's number. Maybe somebody, I'm sure. I think I have Sam Bradford’s number. He’s got my number. I can’t think of anyone else off-hand. I’ll look through my phone and get back to you on that one.”

What a little jokester this guy is.

Maybe because of Minnesota’s improbable win over the Panthers, they’ll be over-confident and they’ll take the Giants for granted. The problem with this straw-grasping scenario is that Giants are a good team, so they won’t be taken lightly.



Monday night starts a gauntlet of sorts for the Giants. First they have the Vikings in Minnesota, then the Packers in Green Bay, then the currently undefeated Ravens, then they go across the pond to play the not good Rams, and it ends at home against the surprisingly successful Eagles. A win against Washington would’ve made this much easier. Hopefully they can win three of these five games, but I don’t figure that Monday night will be one of those wins.