Week Twelve: New York Giants (2-9) @ Detroit Lions (6-4)

[GalagaGuy]

Listening to Campbell's post game interview on 97.1, you'd think the Lions won by 30.  Dude really needs to be a bit more honest with his post-game comments.  

[Sports_Freak]

This view....miss and we lose...

 

[Toddwert]

17 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

I just said the box score showed the Giants outplayed us but the most important stat was....points. 

sorry im a little miffed about the deserve it line my older brother use to annoy me about my team didnt deserve to win 

[holygoat]

16 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Listening to Campbell's post game interview on 97.1, you'd think the Lions won by 30.  Dude really needs to be a bit more honest with his post-game comments.  

I didn't get that feeling listening to it at all.

[lordstanley]

Ugly win, pretty video. 

 

[Sports_Freak]

10 minutes ago, Toddwert said:

sorry im a little miffed about the deserve it line my older brother use to annoy me about my team didnt deserve to win 

Yeah, I never said "deserve." Just that the stats showed we were outplayed in most stats. But...stats are for losers ..lol j/k

[GalagaGuy]

5 minutes ago, holygoat said:

I didn't get that feeling listening to it at all.

Can you point out the things he said that were critical in any way of the performance of the any unit or player? 

[IdahoBert]

Holy crap! 69 yards! 

[holygoat]

15 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Can you point out the things he said that were critical in any way of the performance of the any unit or player? 

When does any coach do that after a win? 

[IdahoBert]

That 59 yard field goal. It almost looks like an angel nudged it back over the goal post. 

36 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

This view....miss and we lose...

 

That field goal looks like an angel nudged it back over the goal post. 

[lordstanley]

46 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

This view....miss and we lose...

 

A slice and a draw, that takes talent, lol.  I have no other explanation. 

[GalagaGuy]

16 minutes ago, holygoat said:

When does any coach do that after a win? 

Acknowledge the areas where they need to improve?

[MichiganCardinal]

Sorry I slept in, what’d I miss?

[Mr.TaterSalad]

9 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Sorry I slept in, what’d I miss?

A blowout win, in dominating fashion. 62-7. No one complained at all today. 

[Motor City Sonics]

The Giants might be a bit better than their record. 

Lost a close one to the Chargers

Beat the Eagles (Trounced them)

Blew a huge late lead to the Broncos, one of the best AFC teams

Lost close games to the first-place Bears and Green Bay

Where the Bears have been great in one-score games, the Giants have been brutal, but they are in almost everything

Just quit worrying and enjoy every win

 

 

The officials on the field of the Jags-Cardinals game just called a safety on a ball that the Cardinals touched first and they didn't know the rule.  That's pathetic.    The head official took the safety away and explained the rule.  

 

I don't think the Bears are a lot better than last year.  Last year they lost a lot of heartbreakers and many of those were set up by brutally bad coaching decisions (like our Thanksgiving game last year).      Having a coach that knows what he's doing is all the difference.   But I do sense it coming to an end for the Bears soon.    They feel more lucky than good.  

[Motown Bombers]

2 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Sorry I slept in, what’d I miss?

 

[Sports_Freak]

2 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

The Giants might be a bit better than their record. 

Beat the Eagles (Trounced them)

But they best Philly in NY before they lost their top running back and their starting QB. Imagine the Lions without Goff and Gibbs. <shudder>

[MichiganCardinal]

11 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

It was electric in there when it needed to be. Crowd may have been ill prepared for a thriller but we delivered, in my humble opinion.

[lordstanley]

35 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Sorry I slept in, what’d I miss?

Rumor had it that the Lions were losing big, their season was ending, the Super Bowl window had closed. But this board stayed chill and confident and kept the faith and urged the boys to just try the best they can and we would be proud of them no matter what. The positive vibes from our rhythmic applause must have made their way over to Ford Field because the Lions players who clearly don’t care clearly started caring again and won by a full touchdown. Then we lit candles in gratitude. 

Addition: And oh yeah, then Kay Adams blew kisses at us.

 

 

Edited yesterday at 12:07 AM by lordstanley

[MichiganCardinal]

5 hours ago, lordstanley said:

But this board stayed chill and confident and kept the faith and urged the boys to just try the best they can and we would be proud of them no matter what. The positive vibes from our rhythmic applause must have made their way over to Ford Field because the Lions players who clearly don’t care clearly started caring again and won by a full touchdown. Then we lit candles in gratitude. 

You know…. I just finished reading the thread and I got different vibes.

Far be it from me to Monday Morning QB though, must have been something you had to be there for.

[MichiganCardinal]

A loss to the Giants would have been bad. Really bad.

But these are the kinds of games that really good teams find ways to win, and that’s what the Lions did. You don’t complain when you get one of these, you shrug and move on.

It was outrageously ugly, and the defense was atrocious at times. But they’ll get that cleaned up. It doesn’t help that they’re still missing Arnold and Joseph while Reed was getting his sea legs back under him from a pretty gnarly hamstring injury. Meanwhile the Giants played a pretty good game. They certainly weren’t a 2-9 team that had given up on the season. It was fairly mistake-free, and it helps when the trick plays cut your way.

Still a lot of room to improve on the offense. Feels like Campbell is still figuring out the play calling, but I think he’s close to being full cylinders. ASB absolutely needs to figure it the f out. He needs to be Mr. Dependable, his drops single-handedly kill a drive. And multiple in a game is unacceptable.

Generally I’m still optimistic on the outlook. No team in the NFC (or NFL really) has been dominant this year, though the Rams have been close. Get Mahagony back and if this OL can play to their potential down the stretch we have a chance to win some big games in January. We have the best offensive player in football on our team right now, and that alone counts for something.

[sagnam]

Can we talk about how Kafka likely handed the game away going for it on 4th and goal up 3 with a tick under 3 minutes to go? Not saying that Gibbs couldn’t have hit his HR in the 4th if they needed a TD instead of a FG, but at that time the Giants D was playing well enough to kick there.

Edited yesterday at 07:38 AM by sagnam

[KnoxP]

I’m thinking Goff and St. Brown are not fully in sync. regarding the drops. When they are “on” seems like passes are on target and in stride. I have seen drops when that’s true and about as many as when that’s not. Goff looks like he’s expecting one thing and Saint expects something different. Yesterday I think the interception throw was behind and tipped. Against Phil, there was a throw that was called out - looking like Goff expected Saint to moving but he stopped. 

Total speculation, but something is amiss for sure.

Edited yesterday at 01:08 PM by KnoxP

[chasfh]

14 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Giants also had a late in the fourth quarter lead on the Packers.

[chasfh]

14 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

This view....miss and we lose...

 

Game situation notwithstanding, ten years ago, twenty for sure, we would have been slack-jawed after watching a franchise record-breaking field goal of 59 yards. Nowadays it seems as though there’s a field goal of 59 yards or longer every other week.