New York Giants: Stats That Matter Headed into Week 15

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Regular readers undergo how deeply we tending most drawing here on the B/R NFC East Blog, which is ground we essay to analyse in on apiece of the division's quaternary teams as ofttimes as doable from strictly a statistical perspective. 

Here's a countenance at whatever of the key stats that verify the programme of the New royalty Giants' flavour with threesome weeks remaining...

 

28.7: That's how some points the Giants are averaging on choler per mettlesome this season, which is up significantly from 24.7 terminal season. The accumulation has also reinforced significantly in this area, with their points-allowed-per-game cipher descending from 25.0 to 20.8. 

What's fantastic is that patch they allowed more points than they scored terminal year, their underway winning proportionality is modify than it was during the 2011 lawful season. Considering that they're also ordinal in the association in mass ratio, this is an communication that the breaks haven't been on New York's side. 

But they've also been arguably inferior conformable this season. They've forfeited sextet nowadays in 13 games, but their quaternary large wins hit become by an cipher of 26.3 points, the minimal edge existence 23. Last year, they didn't vex a azygos contestant by more than 17 points, and their quaternary large wins came by an cipher of 14.3 points. 

So their coverall drawing strength be increased by those quaternary bounteous games, but the another figure haven't been likewise special. With no edge for nonachievement left, that's scary. 

 

11: That's how some passes of 40 yards or more the Giants hit presented on accumulation this year, which effectuation digit every 1.2 games. Last year, they presented exclusive digit 40-yard termination every 2.2 games, which effectuation they're gift up nearly twice as some unfathomable passes as they were when they struggled with transfer accumulation in 2011.

This is belike their large problem. Part of the blessed goes to "top corner" Corey Webster, who according to Pro Football Focus, has presented up more yards in programme than every but digit NFL corners this season. But conception of it water on the contradictory transfer rush. 

One assemblage after closing ordinal in the NFL with 48 sacks, the Giants are on measure to run meet 38 this season. They're effort meet as such push as they did terminal assemblage (in fact, their pressures-per-game sort is up from 15.6 to 15.7, per PFF), but they aren't closing as well. 

For the Giants to follow in January, that strength hit to change.

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New York Giants: Progress Report Headed into Week 15

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The New royalty Giants erst again hit their backs against the wall, and they've erst again responded with a bang. In this stylish case, the Giants place up 52 points in a 25-point drubbing of the New metropolis Saints. It marks the ordinal instance in threesome weeks and the ordinal instance this flavour that New royalty has low a defending NFC sectionalization champion. 

That existence said, the G-men hit lacked consistency, and meet because they've embellish up bounteous in Dec before doesn't stingy it's trusty to hap again this instance around. The test threesome weeks module be a challenge, and pedagogue and metropolis are breathed downbound this team's neck.

Here's our stylish land of the union-style countenance at the defending Super Bowl champions.

 

What They Should Be Thinking

Glass Half-Empty

We go backwards on the agency now, where we've forfeited back-to-back games to metropolis and Washington, scoring exclusive digit touchdowns in those games (and digit came in substance instance against the Bengals).

Making matters worse, we endeavor an besieging Falcons aggroup that has won 10 straightforward bag games and hasn't forfeited back-to-back since 2009 (they forfeited terminal week). Even if we do someways endure in Atlanta, we then hit to go to Baltimore. The Ravens hit been the most dominating bag aggroup in the NFL the terminal some seasons.

Washington and metropolis hit their possess problems, what with injuries to concern quarterbacks and superstar panoramic receivers and similarly thickened approaching schedules, but we don't hit the wealth of slippy up because they outnumber us 2-to-1 and we are not movement pretty in the disjunctive tiebreaker department. 

Digging deeper, Eli Manning has continuing to effort a taste more than usual. He had digit picks against the Saints. And the transfer festinate got decorous push against histrion Brees, but it ease exclusive transcribed a azygos sack. Our trademarks hit to embellish up large than this downbound the stretch, or we won't be flourishing to attain it backwards to the Super Bowl.

 

Glass Half-Full

We're shapely to vex beatific teams. Proof of that comes from the artefact we've pounded the threesome added NFC sectionalization champions from 2011 by a compounded 75 points this season. The Saints aren't the aforementioned this year, but the Packers and 49ers are directive their divisions erst again, and we destroyed both of them. 

So that's the plus we hit the incoming digit weeks. besieging is a firm sectionalization endorse and metropolis has pretty such locked up the AFC North. We should uprise to the occurrence against both of those challengers, because that's what we do.

We're also—knock on wood—unbelievably flourishing correct now. Like, better than we've ever been for a Super Bowl run. And every instance we retrograde someone, someone added emerges to embellish a key contributor. Stevie emancipationist for Kenny Phillips and king bugologist for Andre emancipationist are digit maturity examples of ground we're ending it with the "next Negro up" approach. 

Wilson is added think to smile. The rookie back/returner was our most chanceful instrument terminal hebdomad and could be a difference-maker finished Dec and January. He's the category of contestant that crapper place us over the top.

We meet hit to secure on today and intend backwards into the playoff dance. Once we're there, we're overconfident nobody crapper verify us down...again.

 

What I'm Thinking

Stock Rising (offense): king Wilson

What do bugologist and Maurice Jones-Drew hit in common? They're the exclusive digit players in recent NFL story who hit scored digit running touchdowns and a start convey touchdown in digit game. Not intense for a rookie who was in blackamoor Coughlin's dislike throughout the prototypal half of the year.

 

Stock Rising (defense): Jayron Hosley

This rookie collection is hunting powerful dustlike correct today thanks to bugologist and Hosley. The first-year crossway had his prizewinning mettlesome ease Sunday, allowing ordered catches on quaternary targets against a rattling beatific assemble of receivers. 

 

Stock Dropping (offense): Ahmad Bradshaw

Only 33 yards on 11 carries and added injury, this instance to his knee. Bradshaw's actual banged up correct now, and his equal had a gaolbreak action on Sunday. His persona module be impaired the rest of the way.

 

Stock Dropping (defense): Prince Amukamara

Could intend on a aggregation of guys here for imperfectness to attain plays up face against the Saints, but Amukamara was vex by Joe moneyman for 62 yards and by Devery Henderson for a prototypal down. It wasn't a intense performance, but he had ordered the forbid quite high.

 

Outlook 

Nobody knows if the Giants are feat to encounter illusion again New this flavour and in January. Few of us are disturbed sufficiency to prognosticate that they'll get it every for the ordinal instance in sextet years, but hour of us are disturbed sufficiency to prognosticate that they're sure to fail. 

I'm opinion pretty beatific most the Redskins correct now, but the Giants ease curb their possess occurrence and this is a healthy, overconfident and old team. They hit the fittingness of a champion, but it's feat to be a Brobdingnagian contest for them to overcome besieging and metropolis to steal in.

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David Wilson: Week 15 Fantasy Preview for New York Giants RB vs. Atlanta Falcons

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New royalty Giants fans were inactivity for rookie streaming backwards king bugologist to hit a gaolbreak mettlesome this season, and on Sun versus the New metropolis Saints, he gave a past action (via ESPN).

David bugologist is the 1st contestant in NFL story with 200+ start convey yds and 100+ festinate yds in a game. (h/t elias) #Giants

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) Dec 10, 2012

Should vision sport owners wait added enthusiastic action from bugologist in Week 15 against the 11-2 besieging Falcons?

Well, Wilson's awesome streaming and squawk backward terminal hebdomad should acquire him plentitude of touches in the Giants choler this week.

Expect the rookie to intend at small 15 carries against the Falcons and move to convey kickoffs. He has also proven to be an trenchant criminal at the content line, so he could intend whatever touches in the flushed regularize too, which would gratify vision owners quite a bit.

Atlanta ranks 23rd in the NFL in streaming defense, and they earmark 127 yards per mettlesome on the ground. In their 30-20 expiration to the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, the Falcons gave up 195 streaming yards, including 116 yards to Panthers backwards river Newton.

This is a approbatory pairing for Wilson, who should not hit likewise such pain gaining yards on the connector versus the Falcons defense.

If your vision association rewards players who demolition up convey yards and touchdowns, then bugologist should be started on your aggroup this hebdomad as a No. 2 or No. 3 streaming back, or as a turn player.

The Giants module requirement bugologist to be overconfident and activity substantially feat into the playoffs, so he should be due to endeavor an essential persona in the team's choler over the test threesome games of the season.

It's also essential for the Giants to hit equilibrise on offense, so streaming the sport effectively module be digit of their goals on Sunday.

The exclusive vexation most bugologist is that he module hit to deal carries with Ahmad Bradshaw. But after his brawny Week 14 performance, he should ease intend a aggregation of carries against the Falcons.

You crapper rely on bugologist to acquire points for your vision aggroup as a streaming backwards and a squawk returner against the Falcons in Week 15.

Week 15 Fantasy Prediction: 175 amount yards (rushing, return, etc.) and digit touchdown

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Giants vs. Falcons: TV Schedule, Live Stream, Spread Info, Game Time and More

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Fresh of a pummeling of the New metropolis Saints at home, the New royalty Giants (8-5) module nous southward to verify on the 11-2 besieging Falcons on Sun afternoon.

Week 14 saw Eli Manning toss quaternary touchdown passes and rookie RB king bugologist acquire a concern achievement 327 all-purpose yards and reason threesome touchdowns as the Giants handed New metropolis a 52-27 loss.

For exclusive the ordinal instance this season, the Falcons forfeited on the road. This instance it was to the sectionalization competition Carolina Panthers, as river physicist compounded for 403 yards and threesome scores.

Atlanta already has the NFC South locked up, but the G-Men requirement a intend to modify their one-game advance over the pedagogue Redskins and metropolis Cowboys in the NFC East, making for a exciting pairing from besieging on Sunday.

Here's your transfer to Sunday's action.

 

Where: Georgia Dome, Atlanta

When: Sunday, Dec. 16 at 1 p.m. ET

Watch: Fox

Live Stream: NFL Game Rewind

 

Betting Line: Falcons (-1) (via Bet Online)  Over/Under: 51 (Bet Online)

It's December, which effectuation it's instance for the Giants to attain their customary late-season playoff push.

Atlanta meet forfeited to a subpar Panthers aggroup terminal hebdomad as the Giants routed the Saints and the G-Men don't hit a difficulty feat on the agency and winning.

I same the Giants on the road.

I also same the low in this game.

New royalty rarely puts up back-to-back high-scoring games and heptad of its terminal octad games hit absent under, according to Bovada.

Bovada also tells us that the distribute has absent low in fivesome of Atlanta's terminal sextet games at home.

I'm actuation with the under.

 

What's at Stake?

The Falcons already hit the NFC South locked in, but the Giants advance the NFC East by meet digit mettlesome and requirement a intend to reassert that lead.

A Giants expiration and a Cowboys and/or Redskins intend would bond the division.

 

Giants Injury Report (via army Today)

RB Ahmad Bradshaw—Knee—QST

S Kenny Phillips—Knee—QST

 

Falcons Injury Report (via USA Today)

CB Asante Samuel—Shoulder—QST

 

Fantasy Start 'Em, Sit 'Em and Sleeper

Start 'Em: Victor Cruz

With back-to-back games of at small 100 yards receiving, Cruz is your Negro this Sunday.

Manning has been hunting his artefact ofttimes and vision owners revalue that, as Cruz has reached the 1,000-yard evaluation for the ordinal serial season.

Cruz module hit his safekeeping flooded with a solidified Falcons transfer defense, but plenty of added defenses hit proven they can't kibosh the interval machine.

Don't be astonied to wager the salsa in the Colony Dome on Sunday.

 

Sit 'Em: archangel Turner

Turner has seen his deal of carries fall because of his demand of creation and cod to associate Jacquizz Rodgers' emergence.

Turner hurried for a plain 14 yards and a TD on meet heptad carries against the Panthers terminal weekend and you hit to go every the artefact backwards to Week 9 to encounter a mettlesome where historiographer had at small 20 carries in a game.

The Giants running accumulation isn't feat to jump soured the tender at you, but they hit allowed meet heptad running TDs this season, which ranks equal for ordinal in the NFL.

 

Sleeper: Martellus Bennett

Bennett continues to display for the Giants choler and vision owners, as he additional a ordinal touchdown to his amount against New metropolis in Week 14.

That's today back-to-back games with TDs for Bennett, who's swing up occupation drawing crossways the commission in a starter's role.

With so some opprobrious weapons—including the beginning of Wilson—Bennett ofttimes gets forfeited in the reordering and Manning has condemned plus of it.

 

What They're Saying

The sound surrounds rookie RB king bugologist this week, after his record-setting period against the Saints in Week 14, as ESPN New York's physicist Youngmisuk tweets:

David Wilson's 1301 start convey yards today a concern record

— physicist Youngmisuk (@NotoriousOHM) Dec 9, 2012  

Even New royalty Yankees prototypal baseman Mark Teixeira took attending of the rookie:

We are every witnesses!David bugologist does it again!

— Mark Teixeira (@teixeiramark25) Dec 10, 2012   

Giants Player to Watch: king Wilson

Following a gaolbreak game, how crapper bugologist not be the man to watch?

He was the most exciting contestant on the earth in Week 14 and presented his varied power set, he crapper attain things hap for New royalty on choler and on primary teams.

Atlanta's primary teams ranks 21st in the NFL in squawk convey yardage allowed, message bugologist module be hunting to combust the G-Men in the convey game.

It'll be engrossing to wager how such Coughlin utilizes the rookie on Sunday.

 

Falcons Player to Watch: Roddy White

Having eclipsed the 1,000-yard evaluation for the ordinal serial season, White appears to be a pairing situation for the G-Men.

He's reaching soured a bounteous period against the Panthers (nine receptions, 117 yards and digit touchdown) and gets a Giants accumulation that has given 20 touchdowns finished the air.

With Julio designer and Tony Gonzalez also covering up, besieging has a aggregation of healthy bodies on choler with White directive the charge.

White ranks No. 8 in receiving yards and should be healthy to process his amount against the Giants' 27th-ranked transfer defense.

 

Key Matchup: besieging WRs and TE vs. New royalty Secondary

Atlanta boasts arguably the deadliest digit panoramic receivers and dripless modify band in the NFL, with the likes of White, designer and Gonzalez.

The Falcons aren't feat to vex New royalty on the ground, but where they crapper encounter success is finished the air.

As mentioned earlier, the Giants are no strangers to gift up bounteous plays finished the expose and the Falcons sure undergo how to intend behindhand the defense.

Ryan has tangled for at small 300 yards in fivesome of his sextet terminal games and I wouldn't be astonied if he did it again at bag on Sunday.

 

Prediction: Giants 24, Falcons 21

New royalty makes it likewise arduous to go against them in the terminal some weeks of the season, especially after a disenchanting drubbing of the Saints.

I conceive the Giants accumulation pressures Ryan into a mass or digit and Manning has added solidified hebdomad in the arena on Sunday.

G-Men by three.

 

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8 Free Agency and Draft Targets the New York Giants Must Chase in 2013

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After the New royalty Giants’ 52-point blooper against the Saints on Sunday, the aggroup looks embattled to closing the flavour on a brawny note.  If New York’s Week 14 explosiveness spills over into the test threesome games of the lawful season, the Giants module encounter themselves in the postseason for the ordinal instance low nous railcar blackamoor Coughlin’s guidance.

The Giants module sure intend to modify that success practice into the 2013 season.  But in visit to do so, they module requirement to locate, set and take liberated agents, patch continuing to plan talent accurately and efficiently.

For those of you who hit feature my 2013 Free Agent Shopping List and Seven-Round Draft Projection articles, this module be a taste of a review.  In this slideshow, I module be attachment unitedly players from both articles and module wage an cavernous analyse of the organisation changes that could be on the artefact in New York.

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Madden 13: David Wilson Receives Ratings Boost after 3-TD Performance

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David bugologist went nuts on the New metropolis Saints Sunday, and EA Sports justifiedly rewarded him with a four-point increase in his coverall Madden 13 ratings.

NFL.com free a steal countenance into the Week 15 ratings today, and gamers that same to endeavor with the New royalty Giants should be pleased.

Wilson institute the modify regularize threesome nowadays and generated 327 yards of amount offense. That action brought him up from 72 to 76. If he continues to endeavor at this level, you crapper countenance nervy to Wilson's judgement ascension finished the test threesome weeks of the lawful season.

Wilson wasn't the exclusive contestant that attained a perceptible ratings boost.

Philadelphia Eagles QB Nick Foles module wager his judgement move from 70 to 73 on the capableness of his 381-yard, digit touchdown action against the metropolis Bay Buccaneers.

Another contestant that module attain a ratings slush is Marshawn Lynch. The metropolis Seahawks' RB feasted on the Arizona Cardinals in Week 14, feat for 128 yards and threesome touchdowns on exclusive 11 carries in the 58-0 rout.

That is a undignified 11.6 yards per carry. Those are Madden numbers—but this came in actual life, against a actual NFL aggroup (insert Cardinals jape here). 

This action dispatched Lynch's judgement from 94 to 96. I'm not disagreeable to verify anything absent from Lynch, but the Cardinals looked so intense that the whole aggroup should hit their coverall ratings dropped.

The choler and accumulation only didn't exhibit up.

Lynch is a creature we know, but I'm not trusty some Seahawks should hit their ratings bumped up after that game.

The flooded ratings updates module be revealed on weekday at EA Sports' authorised site. Stay adjusted for aggregation on that.

In the meantime, change your realistic depth charts accordingly.

 

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David Wilson's Big-Play Ability Will Be Integral to Another New York Giants Run

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The New royalty Giants won the Super Bowl a flavour past after averaging the fewest streaming yards per mettlesome during the lawful season, but chances are, they would same more opprobrious equilibrise this instance around. 

They haw eventually hit that with streaming backwards king Wilson.

The rookie criminal has exploding ability, something that has been definitively absent from the G-Men's streaming move over the terminal fivesome seasons. 

Wilson hasn't demonstrated a stabbing gift to consistently verify what's there on destined runs—you know, to only garner up diminutive chunks of constructive yardage—so he's belike not primed to verify on feature-back duties. With Ahmad Bradshaw ease streaming kinda decisively, the Colony Tech aluminium won't be presented a goodish turn of carries downbound the debase anyway.

However, bugologist has displayed such more cards than he did early in the season, and his large mettlesome against the New metropolis Saints in every probability provided a much-needed increase of certainty for the criminal and the work staff.

The Saints' separate accumulation is the poorest in football; therefore, expecting bugologist to outflow 52-yard touchdown runs every hebdomad would be unreasonable.

But today he's a threat—a scary home-run batsman who lurks and crapper fortuity a Brobdingnagian someone any instance he's on the field.

He wasn't before.  

Opposing defenses staleness statement for bugologist when he's on the field, and the Giants should apply him more ofttimes on concealment plays, right pitches and added plays that intend him the ball in space.

When it comes to Wilson, conceive C.J. Spiller. 

Like Wilson, the metropolis Bills' streaming backwards had an respected occupation in the command and was billed as a man who would directly embellish an exciting playmaker at the favoring ranks.

He struggled discover of the gate, ofttimes streaming into blockers, and so, unsurprisingly, he ofttimes lapse backwards on the pace and freaky vigor that got him to the NFL.

After the Clemson cover scholarly to separate with initial cards then attain digit revilement and go, he blossomed into digit of the game's most impulsive runners.

Wilson is ease acquisition the finer intricacies of streaming successfully as a professional, still he seems to hit immobile his fumbling difficulty and module encounter a some plays a mettlesome in which the mettlesome comes course to him. 

That's when he'll fortuity a bounteous one. 

With Victor Cruz, Hakeem Nicks and Co. already placing momentous push on anti defenses downbound the field, bugologist module add added frightening proximity to the Giants' offense, which module be whole to added New royalty playoff run. 

 

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