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Friday's News
Topic Started: Oct 21 2005, 08:17 PM (157 Views)
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Friday's Report

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – The Giants will know a lot more about themselves after they play host to the Denver Broncos on Sunday.

They will know if the offensive shortcomings that plagued them last week in Dallas, particularly on third down, were a one-week aberration for a team that still leads the NFL in points-per-game.

“Anytime you play as poorly as we did last week you look forward to that next opportunity and this is the one.”
- RB Tiki Barber
They will know whether the defense has solved its own third-down dilemma and it can stop a 1-2 punch at running back that has helped Denver become the NFL’s No. 3 rushing team.

Moat importantly, they will know if they are capable of beating one of the league’s best and hottest teams. The Broncos are 5-1 and have won five consecutive games since stumbling on opening day in Miami. Each of those victories was over a team with a winning record.

“They have done a good job,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. “They haven’t turned the ball over in four games. They seemed to be able to do whatever was necessary at home. They are 4-0 at home; they are 1-1 on the road (including a victory at 4-2 Jacksonville). They have an outstanding running game. Their defense features multiple looks with multiple blitzes coming out of the secondary. So they put the same kind of pressure on you on both sides of the ball, if you will. They run the ball well. They set up their play action passes, their nakeds, all of the things they like to do off of those particular looks. And then on defense they pretty much come after you with your offensive team having to prepare for a number of looks and to handle that kind of pressure.

“So to win the game you have to stop the run, do something about the running game to allow you to be able to defend other areas, and you have to be able to run the ball yourself into multiple looks and go ahead and pick up the various blitzes they will throw at you in terms of being able to protect the passer. They have also upgraded, I think, their special teams outfits.”

It sounds as if the Giants face a rather formidable task. The unknown is how they will respond after last week’s disheartening defeat in Dallas where the Giants a) scored a total of six points off four Cowboys turnovers; B) succeeded on just one of 11 third-down conversion opportunities; and c) tied the game with 19 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, but never touched the ball in overtime.

“Anytime you play as poorly as we did last week you look forward to that next opportunity and this is the one,” running back Tiki Barber said. “It’s a home game, and we’ve played better at home than on the road this year. We look forward to making something happen for us, scoring some points, taking advantage of the opportunities our defense inevitably will give us, because they’ve done it all year. In Dallas we didn’t take advantage of them.”

Coughlin said the players’ attitude has been good and they practiced well this week. But he also made sure to remind them that they couldn’t dwell on the defeat, because 11 games remain in the season.

“I think that they were down,” Coughlin said. “Our team was down. They were very, very much into winning last weekend’s game and they came very well prepared. Our focus was outstanding and our meeting on Saturday night was excellent. Our practices have been very good and so in not gaining what we went down to Dallas to get, we were down. We were very disappointed. As I sensed that and spoke to our team, what I really wanted to do was make them understand and compliment them for the good things that happened, but also point out the things that weren’t good. So from that standpoint, we also looked at the fact that it is a very long season and we have to learn from our experiences and move forward. There’s no sense in dwelling on something that occurred yesterday. It’s time to spend a few hours studying the results, learn from it what you can, and move on.”

When they did, the Giants found perhaps their most formidable opponent to date. Denver is third in the NFL in rushing yardage, averaging 153.3 yards a game. The speedy Tatum Bell has 395 yards and three touchdowns, while the more powerful Mike Anderson has rushed for 358 yards and two scores. Quarterback Jake Plummer has not thrown an interception in his last four games, and he’s doubly dangerous because of his ability to scramble and throw on the run.

“Jake’s a competitor,” safety Brent Alexander said. “You can’t look at how strong his arm is, how fast he is. He’s going to compete and he’s going to do whatever it takes.”

“We know they’re a great running team,” linebacker Carlos Emmons said. “Their scheme is a lot different than anyone else’s in the way their linemen block. It’s something you have to work on all week to try to get adjusted to. It’s going to take a lot of great plays from our D-line as far as adjusting to their scheme and the linebackers have to handle their cutback, because they cut back a lot.”

Offensively, the Giants expect to improve their third-down conversion percentage, which will give them more continuity, momentum – and more opportunities to run the ball.

“We have to be better on third down than we were last week,” quarterback Eli Manning said. “We can’t have penalties, we can’t shoot ourselves in the foot on different things, and where there are plays there to be made, we have to make them and we can’t make mistakes. We’re going to have some bad plays. Denver is going to do some things where they’re going to win on some plays, but we just have to hang in there strong and take advantage of the shots that we have.”

The Broncos are as good stopping the run as they are running the ball themselves. They have allowed only 88.3 yards a game.

“This defense is really tough,” Barber said. “We’re looking forward to it. We’re excited about seeing what this offense can do against a defense that has proven to be one of the top in the league so far.”

The Giants are beginning a stretch in which they play four of their next five games at home. The road game is at San Francisco, which is 1-4. But with the formidable Broncos in town, the Giants are focused only on Sunday’s game.

“We just go week-to-week and you try to win,” Manning said. “You prepare for the game that you are playing and you try to win that one and you keep up with the standings and how things are working out in your division. But, really all you can do is take it one game at a time."

Notes

• Split end Plaxico Burress did not practice because of back spasms and was added to the injury report as questionable. Emmons, linebacker Reggie Torbor and safety Gibril Wilson, all of whom have ankle injuries, did practice. Emmons remains listed as questionable, while Torbor and Wilson were upgraded from questionable to probable. Burress, Barrett Green (ankle, questionable) and cornerback Will Peterson (back, out) did not practice.

“He’s going to see more doctors and get more opinions,” Coughlin said of Green.

Green, who had offseason knee and ankle surgery, has played in just one game this season. Coughlin was asked if he expects to have Green anytime soon.

“I don’t know that,” Coughlin said. “I don’t have an answer for that. In the beginning … he worked pretty much every day, but it was more how many snaps could he work kind of thing. Right now, he’s not working at all. Maybe something good will come out of that. We’ll have to see. You know what it is he’s got his two situations; one he’s coming off an ACL and the other he’s coming off an ankle surgery as well. So, he’s got some issues.”

• Rookie Eric Moore has been splitting time between defensive end and linebacker in practice. Moore, the Giants’ sixth-round draft choice this year, has been inactive for every game.

“We felt a couple of weeks ago that Eric might be a guy that we could work with because of his pass rush skills and his athleticism,” Coughlin said. “So, we began to try to slowly work him at both spots and introduce him to that spot in case we the need would arise. So, he’s been working at that spot.

“He’s played and worked at both. If you watched him this week individually, he was with the defensive line and then we’d work him some at linebacker and then we’d work him some during the team periods at linebacker.”

• Manning has thrown at least one touchdown pass in each of his last six games, throwing for 13 scores and just four interceptions in that span.

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I can actually watch the Giants and not want to strangle myself this week. Why!? Because they're on CBS!!! FOX blows!

Ok well about the game...

The Giants in my mind have to do one thing and one thing only this week and I think they can win this game with ease. They need to stop the Denver RB's. Jake Plummer is still not that good of a QB, I don't care what anyone say's, he isn't, he still can't win a big game, especially on the road...unless of course his RB's do 90% of the work for him. The Giants need to stop Bell, Anderson, Dayne, etc. If they do that, Giants win it with ease, if not, Giants lose a close one.
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<_< Tha's one difference between Giant fans and Jet fans,Giant Fans know that the Giants do nothing with "ease" . :lol:
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Ease? What's that? :huh:
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