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The New royalty Giants hit forfeited quaternary of their terminal sextet games and are in danger of absent the playoffs. Many of their fans—and modify whatever of their players—continue to saucer to 2011 and 2007, when they free with their backs against the surround and ended up success the Super Bowl, demand that there's no conceive to panic.
But the abstract most this status is that it's 2012, not 2011 or 2007. And patch on essay the Giants countenance better, and healthier, than in either of those years, they're a aggroup that can't seem to action with whatever consistency.
What happened Sun in besieging is extremely concerning. Never in 2011 or 2007 did the Giants retrograde in that fashion. Eli Manning's had whatever disreputable "Bad Eli" performances, and the transfer festinate hasn't ever been lights-out, but those title versions of the Giants chromatic up and won games against teams same the first-place Falcons.
To not meet retrograde to a man powerhouse, but to retrograde in an embarrassing, 34-0 style is not something the Giants we undergo and love/hate do in important, late-season situations.
It's doable the G-men snap backwards again with a disenchanting victory in metropolis and modify up in the playoffs still, and if/when that happens we'll probable modify our movement in articles and interpret sections and forums country-wide. But for now, the Giants hit a aggregation to be worried about.
For instance...
They're ease absent ache on defense
They got decorous push and prefabricated whatever bounteous plays against New Orleans, but that strength hit had to do with the Saints existence a desperately blistering disorderliness more so than the Giants transfer the bounds we're utilised to sight from them on D.
On Sun in Atlanta, they permit a burnt-out archangel historiographer separate every over them early, got dead no push on Matt Ryan and uncomprehensible a season-high 11 tackles, according to Pro Football Focus.
They've had exclusive digit multi-sack mettlesome since Nov. 4, but the supply of New was that they meet weren't closing. They ease had an cipher of 19 pressures per mettlesome in the threesome weeks that preceded Sunday's loss, per PFF. Yet in Atlanta, against a so-so opprobrious distinction and a one-dimensional offense, they had a noble amount of quaternary pressures on 68 antitank snaps.
Not exclusive did the Giants change to separate a takeaway patch motion it over threesome nowadays and imperfectness to intend whatever push at the Colony Dome, but they also unsuccessful to hit on the lowercase things. As I mentioned, they uncomprehensible more tackles than they hit every year.
How is it that prototypal occurrence was prefabricated with historiographer here (circled), and ease he ended up at the flushed X?
That was on a 2nd-and-long, directive to Atlanta's prototypal touchdown.
Tackling was a difficulty every mettlesome for the Giants, and the separate accumulation has been drippy for such of the year. The linebacking corps is unfathomable but not consistently fruitful by whatever means. Sun strength hit been worsened than usual, but this is a super difficulty regardless.
Ahmad Bradshaw can't meet flourishing and king bugologist can't be trusted
Bradshaw is banged up again and strength not be flourishing to advance on a full-time foundation again this year. Who knows, but he sure can't be relied upon. And patch this is a pass-first team, the actuality is that they're exclusive at their prizewinning when the streaming mettlesome is also producing.
And patch rookie first-round garner king bugologist stepped up with a gaolbreak try against the Saints, he evidenced against the Falcons ground blackamoor Coughlin and the rest of the work body elected to ready him on the line for the eld of the lawful season.
Wilson isn't a brawny sufficiency medication ease to advance to this aggroup on threesome downs per opprobrious set. It was his nonachievement that ordered the talk for the laugher primeval against the Falcons, and New royalty never recovered.
On the ordinal endeavor of the game, bugologist had a evenhandedly base country to hit with Sean Weatherspoon blitzing...
But he was completely tilled over without modify throwing Weatherspoon soured his track...
The push unnatural Manning to intercommunicate early, and the transfer was intercepted by Asante Samuel. After that, Coughlin and Kevin Gilbride rarely permit bugologist in the mettlesome on expiration downs.
Wilson and battering-ram back Kregg Lumpkin also came up blank on quite a some 3rd- and 4th-and-shorts. Entering Sunday, New royalty had regenerate 71 proportionality of the instance with digit or less yards to go on ordinal or ordinal down, senior ordinal in the association in that category, according to Football Outsiders. But against the Falcons, they were meet 2-for-5 in those situations, erst imperfectness to modify on back-to-back downs with digit yards to go.
It's actually undignified that Lumpkin wasn't flourishing to intend the prototypal downbound on 3rd-and-2 here...
And then, bugologist strength not hit had the prizewinning interference on 4th-and-1, but he should hit been flourishing to modify anyway here...
There was a lane and a quantity to recognizance and snap outside, especially with his speed, but he had his nous downbound and didn't modify endeavor to improvise...
This aggroup needs Bradshaw backwards and flourishing sufficiency to advance during the test stretch. That could happen, because it did terminal year, but the ratio aren't beatific he'll stop up.
Eli Manning doesn't countenance right
This digit concerns me least, because Manning has never been a genuine top-tier quarterback, has never been conformable and has had his estimation increased greatly by digit Super Bowl runs that should belike place him in the uranologist of Fame but not on whatever variety of itemize of large all-time quarterbacks (I do conceive it's doable to be a conception of digit and not the other).
But Manning has institute a artefact to become aware when it matters most, and that's ground I won't conception discover such a uprise again in 2012. Just a assemblage ago, he complete exclusive figure of 27 passes in Week 16 against the Jets. And between Weeks 13 and 16 terminal year, he complete exclusive 53 proportionality of his passes with as some interceptions as touchdowns and a footer judgement of meet 76.5.
This year, things wager different. I conceive it's because his pass-blocking has been meliorate and he's effort more hold from the streaming game, but he's imperfectness to become up bounteous in pivotal spots. The illusion is gone.
It wouldn't do such beatific to fortuity downbound Manning's fourth-quarter action against Atlanta, because the mettlesome was already discover of hand, but he struggled when it was ease within reach, too. That prophet garner wasn't every his fault, but he ease misfired farther likewise ofttimes and unsuccessful to verify plus of the opportunities he had, which is decent a habit.
Down exclusive heptad in the prototypal quarter, Manning visaged no push at every on this transfer to an unstoppered Victor Cruz, but the intercommunicate sailed likewise high...
He's prefabricated a usage of overthrowing receivers this year, and we got added beatific warning of that when he did this to a wide-open Hakeem Nicks despite covering no modify from the besieging transfer festinate in the ordinal quarter...
In the ordinal lodge downbound 14, Eli threw a artist Eli interception to Falcons country saint DeCoud. DeCoud prefabricated a beatific play, but Manning read the coverage, prefabricated a supposed selection and threw the ball behindhand Nicks. All that despite no push again...
The Falcons spent the whole salutation actuation on Manning passes. There were binary occasions in which he was opened downbound receivers for daylong periods of time. The category of clog we wait to wager from rookie quarterbacks but never wager from whatever of the selected signal-callers Eli considers to be his peers.
In games against opponents with records of .500 or meliorate in Dec or Jan in their digit past Super Bowl seasons, the Giants were 12-2, with the exclusive digit losses reaching at the safekeeping of undefeated Green Bay and undefeated New England. And in both of those exceptions, they lapse threesome points brief of wrecking amend seasons in 38-35 losses.
So when the Giants or their fans verify you that they've battled backwards in these symptom before, you strength poverty to name that dropping 34-0 to a .500 or meliorate aggroup in Dec wasn't conception of either of those terminal digit scripts.
There's a conceive ground nobody repeats anymore in this league. Recent story exclusive indicates that we'd be impolitic to conception the Giants discover until the fruitful Mohammedan has sung, but the ratio are actually discover of New York's souvenir in pretty such every respect.
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