Wild Card Week: They Might Be Giants

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About Shields status:

Aaron Nagler @AaronNagler 1h1 hour ago
@Junior_op We haven't heard from him in months, but Clinton-Dix did say he was still having headaches as recently as a few weeks ago.

[MadScientist]

Time to call it a career. Take the ring, the money and take it easy for a good long time.

As for the Giants. They've come into Lambeau and fucked up the Packers playoffs twice now. Time to pay them back.

[smuggler]

Would be nice to crush them but it doesn't make up for those two upsets. That would require us beating them in NY as dogs. Twice. Won't happen for a long long time.

[Upnorth]

My biggest question going into this game is whether our pass rush is good enough / giants oline sucks enough to cover up for our depleted secondary. We might be able to get to eli often enough to prevent a back end collapse.

[call_me_ishmael]

Really sucks for Sam. This would be a case where I would advocate for signing another corner in FA after the season in addition to drafting one. They are just so young there.

[Teamcheez1]

My biggest question going into this game is whether our pass rush is good enough / giants oline sucks enough to cover up for our depleted secondary. We might be able to get to eli often enough to prevent a back end collapse.

Mike Pennel is eligible to come back. All is solved.

[hoosier]

I am optimistic that the new amoeba defense (four safeties plus however many CBs are still able to make it onto the field) will hemorrhage less than when they had Rollins and Randall back there together.

[gbgary]

My biggest question going into this game is whether our pass rush is good enough / giants oline sucks enough to cover up for our depleted secondary. We might be able to get to eli often enough to prevent a back end collapse.

it did ok in the first game earlier this season. we get the suspended guy back. that might help the run d. obj only had 50+- yards and 1 td that game. i just hope we don't put our back-up, injured, dbs on an island too much by blitzing.

[Fritz]

I think the amoeba defense is probably going to have to carry this team through whatever playoff run they can get. And I know Pennel can come back, and you'd think that'd help, but he didn't do much last time he came back. Still, you'd think the guy has fresh legs, and Guion seems to not be effective recently.

[texaspackerbacker]

Yeah, I too have hope for that "amoeba" thing or whatever they want to call it based on brief success last game. The question is, what are we weakening or opening up when we do that? I remember seeing the first Cowboy/Giant game, and the Giants gashed 'em with inside running. If we have too many DBs on the field, that might become the weakness.

[Netmag]

Well, let's face it, the D is shaky at best. In a single game, they can look good some quarters, and other quarters look like they'll collapse at any moment (a la against Seattle in the playoffs when we had that game won and blew it). However, the one hopeful thing is that I recall feeling the same way about our D when we last won the super bowl. Then, I just thought we were too young and needed maybe another year to get better. I now feel that none of that really matters as much in the NFL today. All that matters is getting hot when it matters. Doesn't matter if you have a lot of rookies or not. In fact, you need some young guys to have the energy and ability to not even know or care that they shouldn't be in the super bowl yet.
However, now, it's more that we seem decimated rather than just young, but maybe there's a chance they can all (including the Offense) still catch fire here.

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Gonna be a long game:

Rob Demovsky @RobDemovsky Rob Demovsky Retweeted Kevin Seifert
Ed Hochuli will handle the Packers-Giants.

[QBME]

Gonna be a long game:

Rob Demovsky @RobDemovsky Rob Demovsky Retweeted Kevin Seifert
Ed Hochuli will handle the Packers-Giants.

I'm not impressed with big Ed. If you check out his bio on his law firm website (http://www.jshfirm.com), it notes that he "moonlights" as an NFL referee. IMHO this supports the idea of professional ref's for the NFL. And Patler, please, don't.

[Patler]

IMHO this supports the idea of professional ref's for the NFL. And Patler, please, don't.

I'll try not to, but you are going to have to tell me what it is that I'm not supposed to do. I have no idea what you thought I might do!

[QBME]

I'll try not to, but you are going to have to tell me what it is that I'm not supposed to do. I have no idea what you thought I might do!

Four or five years ago I floated the concept of dedicated, professional full time refs. I was then Patlerized, i.e. dressed down in a gentlemanly, albeit clinically precise fashion, as to the reality of such a notion. I even received a Patlerized stamp (haven't seen that for a while) from others on the board. So I'm preemptively throwing myself on the mercy of the kangaroo court.