Zelmo

Lol....I think I'm done for the year doing booth reviews....remember that god damn Cruz play? -Z

I've never had any faith that the booth reviewer dude will review a close play for my team in the final two minutes...absolutely zero faith. -Z

I agree with all of this. I think the officiating has been terrible and inconsistent. Just thought that by the book the Lee Evans play wasn't a catch. -Z

Gotcha... I didn't catch that that was tongue in cheek. -Z

Right but we all know the Jennings catch wasn't a TD. That was an egregious call. -Z

I don't think the Lee Evans play was a TD. It is definitely not an open shut case. I think at best he starts losing possession at the same time the tippety toe of his second foot comes down. At best I think the loss of possesion happens simultaneously. Here's my breakdown from Game Rewind: Picture 1: Evans after securing the ball and getting his right, and first foot, down: Picture 2: Evans still has clear possession of the ball, though there's no sign that any part of his left foot has come down yet: Picture 3: This is probably the most controversial picture...the dislodging of the ball has clearly begun, and it is unclear if and how much of his left foot is touching the ground..It's clear that his foot isn't down but it's possible that at this point his toes are grazing the ground... Picture 4: This is the first time it is clear that any part of his left foot is down, and by now the ball is completely out...even now it is only his toes that have come down at this point: Picture 5: The left is down all the way, and the ball is way out Here are a few pics from a different angle.... Picture 1: It's hard to gauge exactly where in the sequence of pictures above this corresponds to but judging from how much the ball is protruding from under his forearm it looks to me like sometime around Picture 3 from above... PIcture 2: Here his toes are clearly on the ground...to me judging from the ball it looks like around the time of Picture 4 above, and above by Picture 4 possession is already gone Picture 3: Foot completely down....ball completely out They got the call right. I do think it was close enough for a booth review, and I think it's egregious that there wasn't one, but I think they got it right. -Z

Nem I think it's time you finally stopped being down on this team and jumped on the bandwagon. Come on man take the plunge... -Z

The freaking Jennings TD they looked at in such uber-mega-super slow motion that they found the one split microsecond that the ball was remotely still with his hand under it. -Z

When the ball crosses the outer plane of the goal it is indeed a touchdown, and the contact came after that. One of the announcers said, "It depends if they look at this in real-time or slow-motion" -Z

It's ridiculous -Z

NE being the only team with a winning record that they have beaten is definitely a fair point. But surely you realize how disingenuous it is to break down their wins and discredit them by pointing out that many of them have been very close games against bad teams, games that they almost lost, and then say that loses cannot be broken down and analyzed, a loss is a loss, and ignore the fact that some of their losses have been against excellent teams and were games they damn near almost won. I'm just saying it goes both ways. If you're gonna discredit wins by looking at the exact circumstances, than it's only fair that circumstances be looked at in losses and well. And when you do that you see that yes, the Giants have been in very ugly games with bad teams, and lost to bad teams, and the Giants have also played NE, GB, NO, and SF and went absolutely toe to toe with every one of those teams except NO. Does this mean the Giants are a championship team? Does it mean they're even gonna make the playoffs? No, obviously. They are perched at 6-6. Partly because bringing consistent intensity is a component of being a good team, and the Giants for some reason fail to do that. You say they're fortunate playing in such a weak division this year. I can easily counter how unfortunate they are with the unending circus of injuries they've had this year. There are so many circumstances and so many ways you can analyze everything depending on how much weight you give to each circumstance. The only thing that matters in the end though, is 6-6. .500, average...we'll see how the rest of the season goes. -Z

That really isn't the point...the point is you leaving out facts which transpired that are relevant to the point you're trying to make... -Z

I love how you leave out us beating NE in Gillette. -Z

The Giants are taking this game, and you can take that to the bank. The Cowboys are meeting the wrong team at the wrong time. -Z

The funniest part about this list is that Rex Ryan is on it....I thought Rex was supposed to be the opposite of Coughlin and that everyone in the NFL was dying to play for the Jets? This is nonsense. -Z

I'm assuming you mean this one: http://www.nfl.com/videos/new-york-giants/09000d5d823d9f08/QB-Manning-to-TE-Ballard-28-yd-pass (There's no replay because the clock was running and the broadcast couldn't show a replay until later when the clock was stopped.) -Z

WARNING: This may make JMFP's sarcastic "Tom Coughlin Has Lost The Team" sensor literally explode. http://www.giants.com/media-vault/videos/Giants-celebrate-comeback-win-vs-Patriots/cb25b0ec-10de-444f-8a7d-a041c5e7e096 -Z

The one he made to win it was farther than the ones he missed. He missed from 43 yards out early in the fourth, and he missed from 36 yards with 4 seconds left. (And btw he hit a 37 yarder earlier in the game). Then he nailed the game winner from 47 yards. It was totally ridiculous and I don't think I've ever had less confidence in anything than when I saw him walk out on the field to kick that FG in OT. I'm pretty sure you were trying to say that his actual 47 yard game winner was impressive, but that was Tree's point, that he missed other easy opportunities to win the game. (To put his miss from 36 in perspective, Tynes himself had hit earlier from 37, and the Packers kicker made kicks of 36 and 37....so the weather isn't a valid excuse for missing that kick, at all.) -Z

I shudder every time I see him step on the field.... -Z

Abso-freaking-lutely... At the time I thought it was dumb, I figured rest our guys who cares if the Pats go 16-0, our job is to win a SB and we're a wildcard team with a road playoff games ahead of us and the game is completely meaningless for us let's just rest our guys...and I've never in my entire life been more wrong. We don't play our starters in week 17 and we don't win that SB, plain and simple. -Z

It's time for us to lay the smackdown on this pretty boy: -Z

It's not just these four carries, and it's not just this game, and it's not just coming back from injury. He's hesitant and not explosive in any way with the ball. Bottom line is he doesn't make plays anymore. If he'd pick his lane, hit it hard instead of pansying around, push the pile, and avoid falling flat on his face at the LOS every other play, it'd be a different story. I like Jacobs, I always thought he was capable of doing amazing things. But he hasn't performed all season. And it's not just our terrible run blocking. Bradshaw does more with what he's given by the blocking than Jacobs. -Z

Storm, I was gonna fight you on that post last night, but decided not to. Guess it was a good move lol. There's a lot of blown potential in Jacobs. A lot. -Z

The crowd really gave it to him today. -Z

To me the funniest flaw in the whole we beat them and they beat so and so so we're better than so an so logic, is that it's always self-contradictory in the end... For example, from this season: Giants beat Bills...Bills beat Patriots....Patriots beat Cowboys...Cowboys beat 49ers...49ers beat Seahawks.... Yet the Seahawks beat the Giants, which makes the whole thing paradoxical and stupid. Also realize, that we play every one of the teams in that chain this year, and should we lose a single game to any of them it will just make the "paradox" worse. It's just stupid. -Z