This morning I am going to cover the New York Football Giants and this evening the 49ers. I will make my pick with the 49ers analysis tonight. Here we go.....
NEW YORK GIANTS
This team has really played some of the best football in the NFL the last 4 weeks. With 2 weeks left they were 7-7 and no one knew which Giants team would ever show up. Then sexy Rexy opened his big mouth and Tom Coughlins team has gone on an amazing run, starting with the Jets and now leading them into the NFC championship game. This wasn't a cake walk either for them as they had to defeat the Cowboys on the last day to win the division and get in to the playoffs, and then went on to beat up the Falcons (showing once again that Matty Ice left all his big game wins at BC). Last week may have been the game thought that was most impressive as they went in to Green Bay ( with Tom Coughlins fact lubed up with high doses of vaseline this time) and rolled the defending Super Bowl Champ Green Bay Packers, who oh by the way were 15-1!! They simply out played the defending champs especially on OFFENSE!!!
I know that the big story for the G-men has been the play of their defense, and especially that pass rush (Jason Pierre-Paul may get defensive player of the year), but Eli Manning has become an elite QB this year with the way he has led the Giants offense. With the emergence of Victor Cruz as a deadly receiving threat, and Hakeem Nicks playing out of his mind Eli has been simply outstanding all season. He has cut down on the turnovers in a big way and has that offense clicking on all cylinders. Now before anyone goes off an says he benefits from that 2 headed monster of a running attack, you better check yo self fool!! (Sorry I get gangsta sometimes) That vaunted running attack was TERRIBLE during the regular season. They barely avg 3.4 yes per carry and were almost non existent all together in all 7 Giant losses. I do believe that their playoff success running the ball has been set up by the way Eli and those receivers have been playing.
Now they have to go to San Francisco and try to carve their way back to the Super Bowl against the "feel good team of the year"in the 49ers. These 2 teams met in the regular season with the Niners coming out on top 27-20. The thing to remember is that that game should have been tied when Eli layed out a beautiful pass to Mario Manningham, who got behind the defense, and he simply didn't catch the ball. Victor Cruz and that running game hadnt emerged as weapons yet either that week. None the less the 49ers still held on to win. With that said let me point something out AGAIN...
Giants last Super Bowl year
Regular season---NE 38 NYG 35
SUPER BOWL---NE 14 NYG 17
THIS YEAR
Regular season GB 38 NYG 35
Playoffs--GB 20 NYG 37
Regular season 49ers 27 NYG 20
Playoffs?????
Tom Coughlin gets his team ready to play, and makes adjustments, better than almost any coach in the NFL.(whether Giany fans admit it or not..how bad did they want him fired by week 6) Can he pull it off one more time to get to his second Super Bowl ( as many as the immortsl Bill Parcells went to in NY)? Is Eli ready to cement his place as the only Manning brother with 2 Super Bowl rings? The biggest question of all is..can this Giants team play as consistently as they have the last 4 weeks when they have been one of the most inconsistent teams in the NFC all year? We will see Sunday at 630 pm..1230 hawaiin...
One more thing to think about. We have seen something very VERY similar to this Giants run before...a team that squeaks in to the playoffs on the last day of the season... whose QB is playing lights out...whose running game has become a huge weapon in the playoffs...whose defense has been phenomenal...whose regular season record was 9-7.....
Yep, you guessed it, Last years GREEN BAY PACKERS......
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE GIANTS CHANCES ARE? WHAT DO YOR FRIENDS THINK?
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