Posted on 11/01/2005 7:46:27 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
Classic NFC East clash. The division's best defense (Washington) taking on the division's most balanced offense (the Giants). The hitting would be fierce, the scoring low and close.
Or so you probably figured.
This one basically ended about 1 p.m. Sunday when the Giants won the coin toss. On their first play, Tiki Barber bounced it outside, sliced through four or five Redskins defenders -- who looked as if they weren't quite awake -- and was off to the races for 57 yards. That set up the first of five Jay Feely field goals.
And that would be all the points the Giants would need at home.
Stunningly, their defense turned Joe Gibbs' Redskins into Diet Sprite Zero. Zero caffeine, zero carbs, zero sugar, zero points.
Giants 36, Redskins 0.
Damn, Joe.
This was the first time Gibbs has been shut out in a regular-season game in his three-ring career (the Giants beat the Redskins 17-0 in the 1986 NFC championship). Three Super Bowl championships, no shutouts -- until Sunday, when his offense failed to score against the NFL's 31st-worst defense.
What next, the Chicago White Sox sweeping the World Series?
The Redskins, now 4-3, had played well enough to win all six of their previous games, but the Giants made Washington's team look as hapless as Bush or Cheney in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch. The Redskins totaled 125 yards, converting only two of 12 third downs. That allowed the Giants, who had lost the time of possession in all six of their previous games, to almost double the Redskins in ball-control time.
Mark Brunell, who had been one of the NFL's hottest passers, again looked as though he should be coaching quarterbacks...
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I can't believe my 'Boys lost to those putzes.
Yah.
A truly sorry bunch.
"I can't believe my 'Boys lost to those putzes."
Its embarrasing to have lost to such a group of drolling spaz's as the redskins.
I look forward to the rematch later so we can be vindicated.
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