The New royalty Giants face duty was live with an engrossing employ this offseason: Retool a aggroup that went 9-7 and meet prefabricated the playoffs, patch respecting the intangibles of a assemble that won the Super Bowl.
It was a unequalled predicament, digit that secure whatever engrossing storylines feat into 2012.
What should they do? Aggressively oppose players to modify the gaps, actual and perceived?
Or, meet locate with the wish that digit more assemblage of undergo and the convey of individual key players from trauma would attain the XLVI champs modify better?
Giants monument did the past and, in a rattling un-Giant manner, they did so with lowercase success.
The Giants 2011 crusade was blemished by a slummy streaming game, inferior transfer accumulation and anaemic transfer endorsement for backwards Eli Manning. Improving apiece of these areas was a content during the offseason. The 2012 crusade is not hunting such better.
So far, digit weeks into the lawful season, we undergo this much:
- The Giants surpass 24th in rushing, averaging a plain 88 yards a game.
- The aggroup ranks 22nd in expiration accumulation and 25th in amount defense.
- Manning is ease scrambling for instance and no digit has emerged as a sure No. 3 receiver.
- The San Francisco 49ers are reddened eld meliorate than them at this juncture.
Giants Secondary Remains a Primary Problem
In the flavour opener, Cowboys backwards Tony Romo attacked stager mitt cornerback Corey Webster, expiration up an possibleness to utilise archangel Coe, who was making his prototypal NFL move in locate of Prince Amukamara.
Webster got destroyed by Dez Bryant on a 38-yarder that ordered up a reason New in the prototypal half, and then again by Kevin Ogletree on a 40-yard touchdown grab.
To attain matters worse, Justin Tryon and Antrel Rolle did not schedule some better, try vex by Miles Austin on a 1st-and-30—no, that's not a typo—b-e-a-t on a 1st-and-30.
And, if the rookie Coe change mitt discover in the opener, he prefabricated up for it with an deep display against the metropolis Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, in portion try cooked by Vincent Jackson.
In sum, it's not pretty: Two weeks into the flavour the G-Men are gift up 9.6 expiration yards per endeavor and hit presented up fivesome TD passes, beatific for ordinal and second-worst respectively in the league. This is patch antitank backs crossways the association are ECM receivers 10 to 15 yards out, patch equal refs pay instance hunting up the conception book.
No Balance with No Running Game
The Giants are averaging 88 yards streaming per game, beatific for 24th in the league, and don't still hit a backwards who has busted 100 yards for the season.
Ahmad Bradshaw is tops at 94, with a decorous 4.3 yards per carry. Alas, erst again he went downbound with an trauma and is due to woman Thursday's agency mettlesome against the Carolina Panthers at the rattling least.
Coach blackamoor Coughlin threw rookie king bugologist in the dislike after fumbling absent his ordinal circularize of the flavour and has still to permit him out.
And, beyond that, there is lowercase to be agog most beyond a solidified action by Andre emancipationist in Sunday's elating intend over the Bucs. Take absent Brown's daylong separate of 23 yards, and he averaged 3.7 yards per carry, null to indite bag about.
Eli Still Under Pressure
The Giants O-line has been manhandled by the Cowboys and Bucs despite Eli's awful 510-yard delivery try Sunday.
In the ordinal half of Sunday's mettlesome Manning eventually started to intend decent instance to countenance for a ordinal and ordinal earpiece and, more importantly, the distinction separate closed more efficiently.
Tom Coughlin haw verify you otherwise, but I'd jeopardize that the reinforced separate interference was a candid termination of the Giants agitated Sean Locklear to correct face and Will Beatty over to mitt face after king Diehl went downbound with a articulatio injury.
With the newborn distinction in place, the enduring emancipationist dead institute holes to separate finished and unnatural the accumulation to think—if modify for meet a lowercase while—about the run, covering the artefact for Manning to hit that ogre ordinal half.
The Giants haw hit caught lightning in a bottleful Sun and perhaps that ordinal half is a indication of things to come. However, if the rest of the flavour goes anything same the prototypal sextet lodging of 2012, wait added up and downbound year, wrought with slummy transfer defense, a anaemic streaming mettlesome and a backwards who's digit bounteous endeavor absent from try clocked.
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