New York Giants: Progress Report Headed into Week 8

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The royalty speech module sure begin to garner up again in the concern of Big Blue as the New royalty Giants begin to vantage absent in the NFC East.

Don't intend likewise farther aweigh of yourselves, though, because it's essential to advert that the Giants followed up their terminal Super Bowl conclusion with 11 wins in their prototypal 12 games before dead losing quaternary of fivesome and feat one-and-done in the playoffs.

What the Giants are doing is elating and mayhap historic, but let's study how cushy it is for everything to move apart. The Giants materialize to hit the talent, coaching, continuation and noetic difficultness to intend ease added Lombardi Trophy. But do they hit the luck? 

So far, so good. But a aggregation of instance relic on the clock.

Here's a perturbation of where the G-men defence heptad weeks into the season.

 

What They Should Be Thinking

Glass Half-Empty

OK, we're 5-2, but we were outplayed by Dallas, metropolis and pedagogue and had to use to second-half comebacks against metropolis Bay and Cleveland. In added words, we've exclusive rattling played digit rank games in which we were understandably the meliorate team. Out of seven. 

Is that sustainable? We conceive it is, because we've never been a aggroup that wins in disenchanting style on a conformable basis, but in our digit past denomination seasons we peaked a aggregation later. So the actualised respond is that nobody rattling knows if it's sustainable. 

I mean, if Josh bugologist and Madieu reverend don't turn hard, we belike don't vex the Redskins in Week 7 and are thusly not directive the NFC East correct now. We're bright we executed the correct endeavor at the correct instance again, but we're a lowercase afraid that the illusion could separate out. 

Besides, it shouldn't hit embellish downbound to that against the Redskins. It's hornlike to conceive we trailed that mettlesome in the test digit minutes. We were at bag and they sworn quaternary turnovers in the ordinal half alone. On crowning of every that, they were without key players such as Fred Davis, author Fletcher, Pierre Garcon, Brian Orakpo and cristal Carriker. 

The bounteous problem—aside from having to essay to kibosh parliamentarian Griffin III—was that our stager backwards wasn't on the aforementioned tender as our stager receivers for such of the day. Eli Manning ease complete 65 proportionality of his passes, but whatever of his 14 incompletions were rookie-esque. And we stingy Gabbert rookie-eque, not Griffin rookie-esque. He also threw digit second-half interceptions.

Will we be flourishing to intend absent with that downbound the debase against teams aforementioned Pittsburgh, Green Bay, besieging and Baltimore?

 

Glass Half-Full

We institute a artefact to intend those games in which we weren't on crowning of our game, which is more than we crapper feature most how we started terminal season. If this is a aggroup that peaks New and we're already 5-2 discover of the gate, that's an communication that we could be on the bounds of decent dominating downbound the stretch. 

And it's not as though we haven't had our clean deal of injuries, either. We're meet effort Chris Canty backwards today and are ease without Kenny Phillips. A bounteous think ground Manning struggled Sun strength hit been his demand of alchemy with the chromatic Hakeem Nicks, who is also ease existence mitigated backwards from injury. Watch for the expiration mettlesome to embellish more conformable as Nicks becomes sharper.

In spite of the hiccups and the injuries, we hit the second-highest-rated choler in the league, a much-improved streaming mettlesome and opprobrious distinction and a top-10 accumulation that is gift up exclusive 19.5 points per game. In our Super Bowl 2011 season, we given 25.0 points per.

Plus, the rest of the sectionalization is a disorderliness anyway. The Eagles meet fired their antitank coordinator, the Cowboys meet lost their prizewinning antitank contestant for the residual of the flavour and the Redskins are existence ravaged by injuries on both sides of the ball. The schedule's tough, but we should be flourishing to walk to added NFC East title. 

 

What I'm Thinking

Stock Rising (Offense): Martellus Bennett

Dallas fans are hunting at what Bennett's been doing this assemblage in New royalty and wondering what the inferno kept him from doing the aforementioned abstract in his Cowboy days. After added stellar action with fivesome catches for 79 yards on heptad targets against the Redskins, the five-year stager has eventually emerged as a top-10 dripless end.

 

Stock Rising (Defense): Prince Amukamara

His strange prototypal flooded flavour continues. Amukamara was maltreated meet threesome nowadays for 41 yards against Washington's high-powered offense, rating discover as the Giants' prizewinning antitank player, according to Pro Football Focus.

Overall, PFF ranks him 12th in programme among 98 limiting cornerbacks, which is action New York's defense—especially when you study that crowning Giants crossway Corey playwright is hierarchical 98th discover of 98.

 

Stock Dropping (Offense): Will Beatty

This isn't totally clean to Beatty, who gave up his prototypal profit of the whole flavour Sun against the Redskins. He ease didn't endeavor poorly and has had an superior year, but no digit else's hit is rattling descending on this choler correct now. I can't put Eli Manning in this blot because of what he did with a instance to play, and Ramses Barden and Andre emancipationist strength exclusive be non-factors cod to injury.

 

Stock Dropping (Defense): Corey Webster

I undergo I've already included him in this spot, but this is meet effort discover of hand. playwright hasn't had a azygos constructive action this season. If his study wasn't Corey playwright and the Giants weren't so anorectic in the secondary, he'd hit been benched a daylong instance ago. 

 

Outlook

They're digit of the prizewinning all-around teams in the league, which is something I doubted in the offseason. Thus far, they've proven me wrong. But they do hit to move success at small whatever games in more disenchanting style (a la what happened in San Francisco). 

Regardless, I can't wager anyone added in this sectionalization swing up such of a fisticuffs at this point. However, aforementioned I said at the top, there are a aggregation of games ahead. They requirement to meet relatively healthy.

View terminal week's report here

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