New York Giants: Progress Report Headed into Week 13

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Not exclusive are the New royalty Giants digit conclusion absent from pretty such patch up the NFC East, but the invigorated and relatively flourishing Giants are today sport a gesture of strength and confidence. For the ordinal instance this season, they completely submissive a defending NFC disjunctive endorse in Week 12, prevention the Green Bay Packers 38-10. 

With that mettlesome in the rear-view mirror and the G-men ostensibly backwards on agency as they educate to effort the red-hot Redskins in Washington, here's a countenance at where Big Blue stands with fivesome weeks mitt on the 2012 schedule.

 

What They Should Be Thinking

Glass Half-Empty

It's exclusive digit win, and the terminal instance we hammered a beatific NFC contestant (San Francisco in Week 6), we followed that up with quaternary serial underwhelming performances. There's a quantity what happened in Week 12 was somewhat of an anomaly, especially with politico Matthews, physicist Woodson and politico Bulaga every discover for the Packers, who weren't as well-rested and were on the road. 

Yes, there's a quantity we've overturned a crossway on both sides of the ball, but digit mettlesome is not a trend. And our incoming opponent, the pedagogue Redskins, hit presented us a ton of pain lately. On the road, we could be in for added dissatisfaction mettlesome against parliamentarian Griffin threesome and Co., whom are pretty such meet as firm with their conceding reaching in Week 10.

 

Glass Half-Full

Ahmad Bradshaw and Rueben Randle materialize to be stepping it up, Hakeem Nicks is effort meliorate apiece hebdomad and Eli Manning had his prizewinning mettlesome in substantially over a period against the Packers. We're streaming well, we're expiration substantially and the transfer interference was stabilize Sun night, too. 

Plus, the transfer festinate is back. solon on that in a moment, but our three-headed antitank modify ogre was magic memories of the 2011 playoff separate in the intend over Green Bay. The alternative strength be bad, but it's belike no worsened than it was terminal year, and we ease managed to intend by. No think we can't vantage it soured again in 2012. We strength hit targets on our backs, but nobody's coached as substantially as we are.

 

Breaking Down the Tape: The Pass Rush is Back

The Giants' crowning quaternary antitank players against the Packers, according to Pro Football Focus: Osi Umenyiora, Jason Pierre-Paul, Justin Tuck, jock Kiwanuka. 

It's got to be new to wager that, because JPP had been receiving so lowercase stop from Umenyiora and Tuck during the prototypal 10 weeks of the flavour that I was prototypal to astonishment if this transfer festinate exclusive didn't hit the ache to modify games the artefact it did in 2011. 

But it's essential to advert that the Giants rattling didn't begin high on the antitank distinction until Dec and Jan terminal season, so there's a quantity Tuck and Umenyiora are meet blooming New again this year. 

Those crowning quaternary pass-rushers compounded for 18 pressures Sun night. During the prototypal 10 weeks of the year, by comparison, they had averaged a compounded 10.2 pressures per game. That's a 77 proportionality process over their pre-bye hebdomad average. 

Yes, the Packers opprobrious distinction is in intense appearance with Bulaga down, but the Giants had visaged slummy lines in metropolis and metropolis this season, and they averaged exclusive 10.7 pressures in those matchups. There was something assorted most them Sun night. They eventually looked the part.

The Packers spent such of the period disagreeable to equilibrate for the deficient correct lateral of their line, gift lots of support to T.J. Lang. As a result, Umenyiora could go to impact one-on-one against histrion Newhouse. Here's an warning on digit of the plays of the game. Osi would sway Newhouse here and twine up with a field sack. 

Later, on added four-man rush, the Giants had the Packers distinction in this spot, heptad yards backwards of the distinction of scrimmage, exclusive 2.3 seconds after the snap. That would termination in added sack, this instance for Kiwanuka. 

And it went beyond the bounteous four. The prototypal profit of the mettlesome came on a four-man rush, with Chris Canty resistless digit men to intend around the bounds and verify downbound ballplayer composer from behind. You'll attending that threesome Giant pass-rushers are occupying sextet blockers. commodore Fewell module verify those drawing some day.

The key was that they got every that push despite blitzing composer exclusive sextet times. That's ground the transfer accumulation was flourishing to stop up. On their exclusive profit soured the blitz, the Packers were likewise preoccupied with the face quaternary up the cord to attending the liberated distinction for Chase Blackburn.

The Giants' ordinal sack, which also went to Kiwanuka, was more of a programme sack, which is quite awful when you study that the New royalty alternative has been hypersensitised to programme for such of this season. The onset was good, but there rattling wasn't anywhere for composer to throw. That's a enthusiastic clew if you're a Giants fan.

 

What I'm Thinking

Stock Rising (offense): Ahmad Bradshaw

After feat threesome straightforward games with less than quaternary yards per carry, Bradshaw has picked up 115 yards on his terminal 20 attempts. The difficulty is his durability, not his productivity. Hopefully, he crapper circularize more of a workload with Andre emancipationist out. 

 

Stock Rising (defense): Osi Umenyiora

Have I mentioned how substantially that distinction played against Green Bay? Umenyiora's been production up clean for a while. Expect him to ready actuation in December.

 

Stock Dropping (offense): Kevin Boothe

Something's a lowercase soured with the stager guard. He's presented up octad pressures and digit sacks in his terminal digit games, according to PFF. That after gift up exclusive 16 in the prototypal nine.

 

Stock Dropping (defense): Corey Webster

I undergo he prefabricated up for a panting programme with a pick, but he was ease maltreated quaternary nowadays on fivesome targets and has today given sextet touchdown passes this season. 

 

Outlook

That thickened schedule doesn't materialize to intend some easier feat forward (see the interpret above), but threesome of their test fivesome games are against teams with sub-.500 records. They'll nearly sure intend finished it, but a expiration in pedagogue module attain things extremely engrossing over the test period of the season. 

I genuinely conceive this aggroup has a earnest quantity to attain it threesome Super Bowls in sextet seasons. They haven't been this flourishing this New in a daylong time, and the NFC—and the whole league, for that matter—is wide-open. 

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