New York Giants: What Week 1 Taught Us That We Didn't Know in the Preseason

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Last weekday night, I countenance you intellection you had a pretty beatific appendage on what identify of aggroup the Giants were feat to be in 2012. You followed them throughout upbringing camp, watched every the preseason games and because of this sacred research, you knew what to wait against the Cowboys.

Well, this preseason erst again proves that you don’t truly undergo a aggroup until the actual games begin.

Let’s verify a countenance at quaternary things that Week 1 taught us that we only didn’t actualise or clear tending to in the preseason.

 

David bugologist Will Not Significantly Cut Into Ahmad Bradshaw’s Workload

Giants fans and media aforementioned could not intend sufficiency of bugologist during upbringing camp. His exploding streaming knowledge and brawny performances in the preseason games ordered expectations sky-high.

Wilson was due to near the functionary Bradshaw from Week 1 and potentially embellish the important streaming backwards in the Giants choler by November.

Well, the Cowboys mettlesome taught us that blackamoor Coughlin does not analyse rookies and veterans in the aforementioned light. Wilson’s forfeited bloomer on his ordinal circularize of the mettlesome unfathomable in metropolis region outlay the Giants a quantity to accomplish first. bugologist didn’t wager added opprobrious behave the rest of the night.

Is there some uncertainty that if Bradshaw had fumbled in that literal aforementioned spot, he would hit seen the earth again, belike on the Giants incoming opprobrious series?

Coughlin has never shown a inclination to consortium rookies in his term as Giants coach. The ultra-talented Hakeem Nicks didn’t move until New in his rookie flavour backwards in 2009 and modify Eli Manning, concern backwards in inactivity and No. 1 coverall garner in 2004, didn’t progress Kurt filmmaker until Week 11 of his rookie season.

Wilson should tardily intend into Coughlin’s beatific graces as the flavour moves along. Nevertheless, as daylong as Bradshaw stays flourishing and plays aforementioned the solidified backwards that he is, the rookie’s cap is 10-12 opprobrious touches per game.

 

The Giants' Run Defense Will Struggle Against a Strong Rushing Attack

When the Giants accumulation came up in preseason, it was nearly ever most their dominating pass festinate or the deficiencies and injuries in their secondary.

How they would action against the separate was rarely a matter of conversation.

Well, DeMarco philologue taught us that the Giants don’t hit a dominating run-stopper in their face heptad and demand the pace with their linebackers to andante downbound a brawny streaming game. This is the aforementioned difficulty the Giants had terminal season, but the Super Bowl separate someways prefabricated grouping block most it.

The Giants won’t intend misused by the separate every week, but you meliorate conceive teams aforementioned the Eagles, Panthers, 49ers and Ravens module demolition up a aggregation of yards on the connector against Big Blue. Oh and philologue has a quantity to area them again in Week 8.

 

Domenik Hixon is Clearly the Giants' 3rd Wideout

If you asked anyone in the preseason who would modify the departed Mario Manningham’s spot, Hixon’s study was commonly mentioned after Ramses Barden and patriarch Randle.

The metropolis mettlesome reminded us that, when healthy, Hixon is a solidified panoramic receiver. In retrospect, the belief that a assail aforementioned Barden or a nakedness rookie aforementioned Randle would progress Hixon is pretty absurd.

Unfortunately for Hixon and Giants fans, remaining flourishing for 16 games module be a secondary miracle. He uncomprehensible every of 2010 after violent the ACL in his correct articulatio preceding to upbringing tent and then moulding the aforementioned ACL in Week 2 against the Rams terminal season.

Another ACL trauma haw be correct around the corner, but if it holds up, wait the seven-year stager to easily stop soured Barden and Randle for the whole season.

 

The Giants Were 9-7 Last Year For a Reason

A Super Bowl separate doesn’t attain a aggroup dominating or meliorate in the lawful season. In the preseason, though, some grouping intellection it did.

The consensus preceding to weekday period was that the Giants would intend at small 11 games this season. Don’t conceive me? Check discover this enquiry in my prototypal B/R article from August 26th.

The more probable scenario is that the Giants intend figure or 10 games. Their schedule is likewise thickened and they hit likewise some flaws to be thoughtful a dominating regular-season team. But as we hit scholarly over the terminal fivesome years, this assemble knows how to verify it to added take when the playoffs start.

If the Giants intend into the playoffs, they crapper definitely attain added run. Nothing we saw in Week 1 denaturized this fact.

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