Posted on 11/27/2005 8:49:47 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
Two games have been played already on Thanksgivinig...with Atlanta trouncing the Lions 27-7 and the Broncos squeaking past the Cowboys 24-21. Now for the rest of the games...
St. Louis at Houston, 1 p.m.
Carolina at Buffalo, 1 p.m.
San Diego at Washington, 1 p.m.
San Francisco at Tennessee, 1 p.m.
Chicago at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.
Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.
New England at Kansas City, 1 p.m.
Cleveland at Minnesota, 1 p.m.
Later today...
Miami at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.
Jacksonville at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.
N.Y. Giants at Seattle, 4:15 p.m.
Green Bay at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m.
Tonight on ESPN...
New Orleans at N.Y. Jets, 8:30 p.m.
And tomorrow on Monday Night Football...
Pittsburgh at Indianapolis, 9 p.m.
WHO SHALL WIN?
Slow torture. They are finding inventive ways to almost-not-win-in-the-final-seconds this year
I couldn't just sit and watch, so I got out my oboe and practiced. Apparently playing the oboe while a kicker is attempting a field goal jinxes the kicker.
Who knew? :-)
No worries, I'm sure the Giants will beat the Cowboys next week.
There's something seriously wrong with the OL penalty calling. I was listening to the game on the radio and the announcers seemed quite surprised at calls against the Giants, and no-calls in favor of the Seahawks.
Might have something to do with the double reed:)
I'm not superstitious, but... I stopped playing when the Seattle kicker tried his field goal. Just in case.
Nah that was incomplete.
He wasn't ever fully in control of the ball. The replay clearly showed it moving around when he was running with it.
While the other replay for Shockey, the one in the end zone, I didn't think it was nearly as close as the booth guys made it out to be....
No kidding. Numerous replays showed that the ones responsible for the false start penalty were no more than tensing up...or flinching the slightest bit. It was ridiculous...I mean, seriously.
Well, the scoreboard did not reflect the true winners of that game. It does suck in terms of standings and the tiebreaker... Giants should have been sitting in the #1 spot in the NFC holding the tiebreaker.
I would not want to be the Giants' next opponent, that's for sure.
Finally can address that bitter loss yesterday.
1. No fan should have to endure 16 penalties, 11 false starts, three missed field goals to win and your team just giving the game away to the #1 team in the conference on the road in their hostile place.
2. Terrible, terrible job by Fox Sports (and the refs). Absolutely unwatchable. They didn't go the replay after many plays...they're more interested in flashing graphics, Family Guy promos, and that bloated idiot Siragusa adding nothing.
The Eli interception... THEY NEVER SHOWED A REPLAY! A friend who arrived at halftime came in the room and the first thing he said was "Well, was it interference or not?" We didn't know what he was talking about; he was listening to the game on the car radio and the announcers were livid that the receiver was knocked to the ground and the ball was therefore an easy interception. How would we know? Instead, we could say definitively that there would be a special episode of "Prison Break" coming up.
And the endless commercials... Fox didn't give the viewer a BREAK. If play stopped for so much as one minute, they went to commericial. And TWICE they didn't make it back in time, including Feely's kick to win it in regulation! INEXCUSABLE!
3. I'm most mad at the refs not for hurting the Jints, but for general incompetence. Endless delays, reviews, conferences, clock re-sets... and they didn't even bother to make a call on Toomer's catch because, well, "We'll just review it anyway!". Wussies. INEXCUSABLE.
I generally don't blame them for the false starts, but a few of them were, well, a bit ticky-tack. They throw a flag if a OT twitches a butt muscle 1/1000th of a second before the snap, but don't throw a flag when two defenders grab and hold and generally manhandle Shockey on every single play. But it falls to Eli and particularly Coughlin to remedy the line calls, so they get a lions-share of the blame.
4. Good job by the 'Hawks and their fans (even though we had you guys), we'll see you again in January... hopefully in the Meadowlands!
5. KILL, AND I MEAN KILL, THE COWBOYS THIS WEEKEND.
The G-Men need a new kicker! How many chances did they have to win that game?????
But.... bring on the Cowboys! The winner will win the NFC East!
We wuz robbed!
The Cowboys are in for a world of hurt as a team full of (very rightfully) frustrated Giants demonstrate why they are the second-best team in the NFL right now.
Yesterday's game was a remarkable showing for the G-men. On the road, playing the top team in the NFC, and they handed Seattle's beaks to them - there ain't no Seahawk under the illusion that they won that game on the merits. To think that had that last kick been made, the Giants would have won despite 16 penalties (many of which were real cheap calls by the refs) and 2 missed game-winning field goals!
The single most impressive thing about the game was the way they put the hurt on Shaun Alexander - he needed the ball over thirty times to break 100 yds.
If you'd looked at Feely's season to date you would never have imagined that he'd miss two, forget about three. He'd been arguably the best kicker in football this season before this game. There's nothing to be gained by replacing him - we just need to put this behind us and move on.
Two tough losses though.... should not have lost to the Vikings (although they are looking stronger and stronger) and now this to the Bolts. They can make it right by beating Dallas this week.
How 'bout them Panther Cheerleaders...
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