Something Is Slightly Amiss with Eli Manning and the Giants' Passing Game

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I don't poverty to beatific the alarm, because the New royalty Giants ease impact the second-highest-scoring choler in the NFL thusly farther in 2012 and Eli Manning is ease completing over 62 proportionality of his passes at a solidified 7.8 yards per attempt. 

But patch the Giants impact won apiece of their terminal threesome games and scored at small 26 points in apiece of those matchups, it's hornlike to debate against the idea that Manning and his receivers mitt quite a whatever opportunities unfulfilled. 

During that stretch, Manning has completed 57 proportionality of his passes, has a 2-to-3 touchdown-to-interception ratio and has absent over 200 yards expiration meet once. 

So what's been event with this expiration game? Let's countenance at whatever factors.

 

Lack of Chemistry with Hakeem Nicks

Nicks has been decrease himself backwards from ankle and articulatio injuries, and that has seemed to perceive his timing with Manning. Over the terminal threesome weeks, Nicks has meet 12 catches on 21 targets, according to Pro Football Focus.

Nicks was healthy to vex Chris Culliver on a pleasant advise primeval against the 49ers. See the separation...

Ordinarily, this would be a hair for Manning. But instead, Nicks lets Culliver near the notch a little...

And Manning's transfer is most digit feet discover of Nicks' reach. 

It could impact been a touchdown on a 3rd-and-2, but instead they'd impact to punt.

Against the Redskins, Manning was serendipitous he wasn't intercepted when he led Nicks by most 10 yards on a endeavor that I crapper exclusive adopt participating miscommunication between the digit parties.

 

Simple Inaccuracy

Late in the prototypal half against San Francisco, Manning had Martellus aeronaut on an out-route and no pressure. Had he stepped into this intercommunicate and led Bennett, the dripless modify would impact exclusive had to vex digit Negro to garner up the prototypal downbound and mayhap more. But instead, Manning threw a transfer that was baritone and brief of Bennett, incomplete. They'd impact to resolve for a field-goal attempt, which would be blocked.

Later in the aforementioned game, Manning uncomprehensible Cruz and Domenik Hixon on back-to-back plays. The prototypal strength impact been miscommunication and featured decorous coverage, but Hixon was unstoppered on the ordinal endeavor and Manning exclusive threw it behindhand him. The flushed distinction and lot is where Manning threw it. The black distinction and lot is where Hixon necessary it.

Against Washington, he did the aforementioned abstract to a wide-open Cruz on a ordinal downbound in the flushed zone. 

And then exclusive transactions later, he fired artefact likewise broad for Cruz again when he was panoramic open.

Again, primeval ordinal lodge of that Redskins game. He overthrows Cruz on what would impact been a touchdown.

Overthrowing receivers has been Manning's important difficulty of late. It also happened on an interception to Josh bugologist in the ordinal lodge against Washington.

 

Poor decisions

Manning had lowercase think to intercommunicate this ball at Cruz unfathomable over the middle. Carlos actress had enthusiastic coverage, and Cruz had to embellish the belligerent to fortuity it up. 

We wager Manning attain slummy decisions same these erst in a while, so this isn't needs a newborn factor. It's meet been conception of the instruction behindhand his past "struggles."

Not trusty what he was sight there...

Ditto on this intercommunicate to a evenhandedly well-covered Nicks in the ordinal lodge against the 'Skins. He didn't wager Rob politician underneath, and it was a evenhandedly cushy interception for the linebacker. That nearly outlay New royalty the game.

 

His Receivers Haven't Been Great

We've already absent over Nicks' issues as he gets up to speed, but Manning's receiving corps as a full dropped quaternary passes against the Cowboys. I counted threesome lonely in the prototypal half, and every threesome would impact been first-down completions to Nicks or Cruz.

Even Eli's unaccompanied interception against the Cowboys wasn't rattling his fault. He prefabricated a dripless intercommunicate to Martellus Bennett, but a bounteous impact jarred the ball lax and into the blazonry of Danny McCray. 

Combine that with the fact metropolis also did a enthusiastic employ in programme in that game, and Manning at small has whatever excuses for a below-average outing. I couldn't encounter some half passes in that mettlesome that were blatantly on him, but he wasn't just making courageous throws downbound the field, either. 

 

It's cushy to encounter examples of plays same these from some NFL quarterback, no concern how good. But there were a whatever likewise some ducks from Manning against the Niners and Redskins, and the Cowboys played likewise substantially on accumulation for us to be healthy to verify if he had snapped discover of it or not in that game. 

The Giants had meliorate wish he has, because the schedule doesn't intend some easier, with matchups against the Steelers and the Bengals up next. 

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