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5 Reasons Why It Was a Good Thing That the Giants Lost
Sometimes losing can benefit a team in the long run i.e. the G-Men losing the last regular season game last year. Here are 5 reasons why I think that it is a good thing the Giants lost last Monday night.
1) Eli can come back down to earth now. Eli has been on cloud 9 since beginning his playoff run last year. From doing the magazine version of Cribs to being on the cover of girliest guys periodicals, everyone has been kissing his white ass up and down Washington Street
2) Weakness are now exposed. It is difficult to devise practices each week when you destroy every single team you play. Now the G-Men can go back, identify what they did wrong, and fix it.
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4) Perhaps Plax can get motivated now. I don't know, maybe its just me but doesn't it seem like Plaxico Burress doesn't give a shit sometimes? Scoring Super Bowl Wining TD's and getting salary raises can do that to a person I suppose. Since Plax can straight dominate a team any night, it is possible that losing to the Browns will get him focused and ready to go. Also, the fact that a Michigan Receiver (Braylon Edwards) showed him up, (Plax went to Michigan State) this might get him on his horse.
5) The target is now off their back. Now the media can bullshit about another team instead. With every game the Giants won, the browner the nose of the media would end up getting. Since they lost to the lowly Browns, the Giants can now relax and get back down to business instead of having to answer questions on whether they can repeat as champs again or if they believe they can go 16-0.
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Comment by Bubba on October 15, 2008 at 5:59pm -
Ugh! Where do I start on what happened Monday night....
First off, Cleveland just clearly had a better game plan than the Giants and there were no halftime adjustments by Spagnolo to remedy this. The Giants defense went with their normal game plan of blitzing safeties and linebackers like crazy and obviously the Browns were ready for it because we barely touched Derek Anderson all night. Cleveland stayed with a max protect package most of the game and went with a lot of short passes and misdirection to combat the over aggressive pass rush. Instead of backing off the blitz the Giants stuck to their guns which is why Braylon Edwards was left in single coverage so many times.
On the other side of the ball we were equally as bad with our game plan. The Giants were clearly trying their asses off to force the ball to Plaxico to the point where Eli wasn't even looking at anyone else. It didn't take the Browns safeties long to pick up on that. I am a firm believer in taking what the defense gives you and it certainly looked to me like the defense was giving us the run. we could have ran Jacobs and Ward all night while throwing little dip and dunks to Steve Smith and easily won that game. I don't know why we were going for the home run play so many times when clock management is where we live. One series that comes to mind is when the giants had something like a 2nd and 10 and they try a 30 yard pass to Plax and then on 3rd and 10 they try a screen that gets 5 yards. To me it seems pretty black and white what the giants do and what has consistently worked for us. i don't know why we felt the need to try and reinvent ourselves on Monday Night Football.
As far as the weeks to come go, i think the giants are going to learn more from this loss than all of the previous wins added up. Most of all this is going to make the Giants hungry again. It has been a long time since we lost and i think some of the boys didn't seem to be flying around the ball like they normally do. Look for the Giants to make an example out of the 49ers next weekend.
-Bub
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