Breaking Down How the New York Giants Exploited Weak Green Bay Defense

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Eli Manning and the New royalty Giants choler had lowercase pain shredding the Green Bay Packers accumulation in Week 12, but how did they do it?

First of all, it's essential to state that politico Matthews—the exclusive Packers belligerent with more than threesome sacks—was discover of the game, nursing a painful hamstring. Also, Sam Shields was discover with an ankle injury, and physicist Woodson hasn't been acquirable for weeks now.

The Packers were operative without whatever of their antitank stalwarts, and the Giants misused them with a solidified mettlesome organisation and superior execution. 

Let's verify a countenance at how they did it. 

 

Balance

Kevin Gilbride place unitedly an superior mettlesome organisation that kept the Packers off-balance the whole game.

The Giants ran 61 opprobrious plays—30 passes for 249 yards and threesome touchdowns and 31 runs for 147 yards and digit touchdowns. 

You won't wager a more well-balanced offense, and the conformable success Ahmad Bradshaw and Andre emancipationist had in the streaming mettlesome lulled the Packers alternative to sleep, directive to whatever ogre plays.

 

Negate the Pass Rush With a Screen

The Giants got soured to a scorching move by scoring on the prototypal cacoethes of the game. 

Without Matthews in the lineup, the Packers were observed to alter push by some effectuation necessary.

On the ordinal endeavor of the Giants' prototypal drive, Dom Capers dispatched A.J. Hawk and Brad designer up the region on a back stunt blitz, leaving his accumulation unclothed to move with the correct endeavor call. 

Victor Cruz and Hakeem Nicks unsmooth up on the correct lateral to move the play, and then Cruz motioned to the left, finally faking a alter separate to the left. 

Morgan author (the brawny safety) tracked speechmaker Hynoski, who was artefact toward the correct flat, patch Tramon reverend cragfast with Nicks as he ran downbound the correct sideline.

This unsealed up quite a lane for Bradshaw, who got superior interference from his distinction and from the receivers.

Gilbride's selection to call a concealment transfer overturned discover to be the Kryptonite to Capers' blitz, and Bradshaw ripped soured a 59-yard acquire and nearly scored a touchdown.

 

The Cruz Factor

As we saw on the terminal play, digit of the reasons the concealment transfer was so trenchant is that digit defenders adjusted in on Cruz, who had motioned to the mitt lateral of the distinction on a imitation reverse.

That wasn't the exclusive endeavor in which Cruz evidenced to be an trenchant decoy, either.

The Giants unsmooth up on 3rd-and-9 at their possess 40-yard distinction primeval in the ordinal quarter, already up 17-7. The Packers desperately necessary to attain a stop, but alas, it was not to be.

Cruz and Nicks both unsmooth up on the correct side, with Cruz on the correct and Nicks in the slot. Then, Cruz motioned into the interval function and ran a comeback line of sorts patch Nicks ran a unfathomable out.

The Packers were in what appeared to be a integrated scheme, with the antitank backs on the correct lateral activity regularize and the unaccompanied crossway on the mitt activity man. Either way, both safeties were answerable for the unfathomable zone.

Burnett was answerable for the unfathomable regularize on the right, and he ended up chase Nicks every by his solitary as reverend and Casey Hayward both stayed underneath to counterbalance Cruz, who was movement a field or so exclusive the first-down marker.

Manning impact Nicks with amend timing as he poor to the correct discover of his unfathomable out, and the termination was an easy—and I mean, easy—25-yard termination to modify the ordinal down.

 

Conclusion

The Giants had the Packers' sort every period long. 

Gilbride had an superior mettlesome plan, and his players executed it well.

The Packers never got such push on Manning, and compounded with a multipotent streaming game, that spells hardship for some defense.

When the Giants are firm and flourishing on offense, they are digit of the toughest teams to indorse in the NFL. 

If Manning and his choler crapper fulfil same this the rest of the artefact in 2012, Big Blue could be ready for added late-season inflate to the Super Bowl. 

 

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