Sunday, February 3, 2008

Giants Win!


What an amazing game. How many great plays were there for the Giants? Watching the Giants defense was watching hard-nosed, smashmouth football at its finest. It's going to be a long time before we forget this one.

What strikes me about this game: 1) the Giants just flat-out wanted this one more, and they wanted it badly. The defense was incredible - play after play, they kept on coming after the Patriots, bottling up holes, hitting hard, roughing up Brady. 2) Eli Manning - what type of maturation has this been for him since the Patriots and Giants first matched up during the regular season? What about the tremendous scramble and throw he made after being bottled up and grabbed? Amazing play from Manning - if you can't single out one individual on the Giants defense, then Eli deserves the MVP, which he did win. 3) Belichick's lack of class. Who walks off the field before the game's even done, after congratulating only the opposing coach. He didn't congratulate the Giants defensive players, or Eli, or Burress, or anyone. He just walked off. I suppose it's the same person who videotaped a Super Bowl practice just prior to one of the narrowest victories in Super Bowl history (the Rams). Completely classless. 4) On the flipside, how good must it feel to be Tom Coughlin? You go from being on the brink of losing your job to winning the Super Bowl over the 'greatest team ever'. Cheers to that guy.

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