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Giants Have Found Their Identity As a Bad Football Team in The NFL
Published: November 27, 2009
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Another game goes by and I’m still not convinced the New York Giants care about the 2009 NFL season.
I thought the bye week in Week 10 would serve as a nice breather for a team struggling with some deficiencies on both offense and defense. It looked like the rest helped as the Giants jumped out to a 17-7 lead over the Atlanta Falcons in Week 11.
Then the defense gave up a scoring drive on every Falcons possession in the second half. One field goal and three touchdowns, including the score to tie the game and send it into overtime.
Wake up call?
All the talking heads will tell you the Giants were prepared and ready to play the Denver Broncos this past Thursday night. They practiced hard and were said to have enacted some other football cliches in the days leading up to the important Thanksgiving Day matchup.
But what they did was come out flat, uninspired, unfocused, and unaware that they were fighting to stay in playoff contention.
Actions speak louder than words, don’t they?
The Giants went into halftime down 16-0. They had 38 total yards. Their vaunted running game piled up 17 of those yards. Kicker Lawrence Tynes had to kick two field goals, one from 52 yards, just to keep them from putting up zeroes across the board.
But here are some more words to reassure the fans that they’re really not that bad: “We’re a good football team,” said Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora. “We just played bad today.”
“We know we have a lot of talent and it’s going to pick up,” said Giants running back Brandon Jacobs. “We just have to get our engines going.”
Yeah, you’re right, guys. You just had one bad game and you forgot to turn your engines on. That makes sense.
I sort of wish I had known that earlier, then I could have stopped removing myself from a Thanksgiving party to check the score of the game online.
Gimme a break.
The Giants are 1-5 in their last six games. Their one win came in overtime and was an absolute fluke. They lose that coin toss and they’d be 0-6 in their last six games.
So spare me the optimism and just tell me to stop watching your football games because you guys are sleeping in until next year.
Have C.C. Brown refuse to play another down of football until he consistently contributes in a positive way.
Maybe he could refill Gatorade coolers without knocking them over before someone gets a drink. Maybe he could work one night as a security officer outside of Giants stadium and try to make it through the night without setting off any alarms. Just some suggestions.
Have offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride give a press conference entirely about in-game adjustments just to remind him he is allowed to make those sorts of decisions.
Make Bill Sheridan take a couple of communications studies courses at a local college so he can learn that “miscommunication” doesn’t mean “I don’t know how to do my job.”
And have the rest of the team watch every single NFL game this season so they can see just exactly where they fit into the landscape: As an extremely mediocre team that flexed it’s muscles early in the season against mediocre competition.
Oddly enough, those teams have gotten progressively better while the Giants have gotten progressively worse.
If they’re searching for an identity, I’ve found it: A bad football team.
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Vernon Davis’ Comments Give Chicago Bears A Reason To Win
Published: November 11, 2009
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Because, really, before those comments the Chicago Bears had absolutely no reason to go out and play a football game.
Could they go out and try to avenge their second embarrassing defeat in three games? Sure, but that would be an obvious reason to play in the NFL’s first Thursday night game since the season opener.
Could they go out and try to prove their defense is capable of stopping someone other than the Cleveland Browns? I suppose so, but again, that seems sort of cliche.
Luckily, boneheaded Vernon Davis went out and talked confidently about his team, and now these Bears are rejuvenated. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the loss to a team who plays their home games in Phoenix means the Chicago Bears will not tolerate the English language.
According to The Associated Press, Davis told reporters this past Tuesday the 49ers could dominate the Bears in the trenches.
“We can destroy their front,” Davis said. “The guys up front, I think we can destroy them. I don’t see anything spectacular about their front line.”
Way to go, Vernon! You big doof! Look out for Tommie Harris, by the way. He punched Arizona’s Deuce Lutui for being underneath him. You’re lunch meat, pal!
When will these players learn that football teams could care less about winning games than winning battles in the media. It’s not about getting scores, it’s about settling them.
Look at what New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had to say about the Miami game after Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter spoke candidly to the media about his feelings about the Patriots.
“It’s really motivating for our team throughout the week and into the game when you hear that kind of stuff,” Brady said this past Monday while on The Dennis & Callahan Show on Boston radio station WEEI. “I think the guys take it to the heart, and the coaches take it to the heart.”
Bonehead move, Joey Porter! The Patriots were ready to roll over and die, give your Dolphins an easy divisional win, and you ticked them off. I bet you are kicking yourself right now. Or maybe you’re just doing your after-a-sack dance routine where you kick blades of grass. Either way, you’re swinging your leg in a kicking motion at 3-5 because of your absurd cockiness.
Now it’s Vernon Davis’s turn to taste the bitterness that is eating your own words. When that 15th-ranked Bears defense steps on the field Thursday night, they’re looking at one person: you.
You could have gone unnoticed, smart guy! You think the Bears had any idea before you brazenly mouthed off that you are the 49ers’ leading receiver? Remember the part about NFL teams not caring about winning games? The Bears are one of those teams!
Your team might win the game by two touchdowns. Easily. But what is your stat line going to look like? Because that’s what you have to live with. I would hate to be a 65-year-old Vernon Davis, talking about my career with my grandkids and having things get awkward when one of them asks about my two-catch, 13 yard performance on Nov. 12th, 2009.
“Your team scored so many points, Grandpa,” they would say. “How come you didn’t score? Huh, Grandpa? Why? Why?”
It’s a horrifying series of images, Vernon, but you brought it on yourself. Remember that the next time you say something that hundreds of other people in the media have been thinking.
Good luck, buddy. You’re going to need it.
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