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OH.MY.GOD.

First time I EVER picked against the Giants. They suck.

The End

Can Eli get sacked one more time??!!

My bad. Offense sucks ass

Defense sucks ass

With or without Odell Beckham, Giants need to find offense quickly before panic sets in Gary Myers NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, September 18, 2017, 7:30 AM It’s just the second game, and even in New York it’s way too early to panic, but if Ben McAdoo is this tight at 0-1, imagine what he will be like at 0-2. If the Giants don’t beat the Lions on Monday night in the home opener at MetLife Stadium, and McAdoo’s offense continues to drool all over itself, the heat will officially be on him. McAdoo is the prototypical NFL coach: Secretive and paranoid. Must-win vs Detroit? Nah. But it’s pretty close. The 2007 team, which will be honored at halftime, lost its first two games and gave up 80 points to the Cowboys and Packers, and went on to win Super XLII by defeating the undefeated Patriots. In fact, three of the four Giants teams that won the Super Bowl lost their first game (1986, 2007, 2011), but when you start 0-2, all the stats start coming out about the history of 0-2 teams making the playoffs. Ben McAdoo is finding much offense on his Giant playsheet of late and that needs to change in a hurry. So, is this an it’s-not-a-bad-idea-to-win game? You bet. The entire mood will change if the Giants beat the Lions because it will bring them even at 1-1 with the Cowboys, Eagles and Washington in the NFC East instead of being all alone in last place. The Giants go to Philadelphia next week, where they have lost three in a row, and then on to Tampa, which could be a playoff team. Bill Parcells used to say when he lost the season opener that he worried himself sick with sleepless nights wondering if the first victory would ever come. “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish in the NFL, and I think that’s an important lesson,” Eli Manning said. “We can hopefully only get better from that first game. You’re going to analyze and you can’t get too sensitive after the first game.” Eli Manning and the Giants offense was held without a touchdown in season-opening loss. The 19-3 loss to Dallas last week brought back all the offensive woes from last year. It was just the fourth time in 13 career opening day starts that Manning didn’t throw a TD pass. He looked gunshy in the pocket behind a leaky offensive line and didn’t throw his first pass downfield until late in the second quarter. Dumping the ball off has never been his game. The Lions opened with a comeback victory against the Cardinals. Detroit QB Matthew Stafford recently became the highest-paid player in NFL history with a five-year, $135 million contract, which is a nice payday for a guy who has never, ever, won a playoff game. But he’s a dangerous player, especially late in games: 26 of his 52 victories have come from fourth-quarter comebacks. One QB expert I really trust compares his skills to Aaron Rodgers. That’s an issue for the Giants defense, which held Dak Prescott, Zeke Elliott, Dez Bryant and Jason Witten to just one touchdown. The real problem, of course, continues to be the Giants offense. Odell Beckham is expected to be a game-time decision against the Lions on Monday night. McAdoo needs to look down at his diner-sized laminated menu of plays and order up an appetizer, main course, dessert and beverage that has the Giants offense feeling so bloated that it explodes…and scores 20 points. Okay, 20 points is nothing, but we’re talking about taking baby steps, especially if Odell Beckham Jr., after he tests his left ankle in a pre-game workout, is unable to play again. The Giants have failed to score 20 points in seven consecutive games, which goes back to the Dec. 4 loss in Pittsburgh last year. The last time the offense shut down this long was 2003, Jim Fassel’s final season, when the Giants finished 4-12. They lost all seven games in that offensive-less streak. The 2016-17 Giants are 3-4 during this streak of not reaching 20 points. McAdoo must self-scout to find out what’s changed with the way he’s run the offense as the head coach compared to his two years as offensive coordinator. When he worked for Tom Coughlin in 2014-15, the offense failed to score 20 points in just seven of 32 games. They won only 12 games, but that was on the defense. Eli Manning looks to turn around the struggling offense when the Lions come to MetLife. In his 18 games as head coach, including the playoff loss to the Packers, the Giants have won 11 times but also failed to score 20 points in 11 games. Beckham played in the first 10, so last week’s offensive ineptitude can’t be solely placed on his absence. Is McAdoo not spending enough time with the offense because he’s now got so many other things on his plate? Has he lost his nerve and is less inclined to take chances because he’s in charge of the entire team? Has he lost faith in Manning? What happened to the creative offensive genius the Giants thought they had groomed for two years to be next in line when Coughlin was fired? Then there’s GM Jerry Reese, who brought back the same starting five without giving McAdoo any alternatives. The biggest draft day mistake Reese made was in 2016 when he was in prime position, with the 10th overall pick, to move up two spots to Cleveland’s pick to get Michigan State offensive tackle Jack Conklin, a player the Giants coveted. Reese has never moved up or down with his first-round pick in his 11 drafts as GM and this time he got burned. The Titans moved all the way up to the Browns’ spot and grabbed Conklin and he went on to be named first-team All-Pro as a rookie. Reese took cornerback Eli Apple, who continues to struggle. I don’t blame Reese for passing on Laremy Tunsil after that bong video surfaced less than a half hour before the draft. The Giants already had issues with Tunsil and were not about to invest a fully guaranteed $15 million in Tunsil after seeing him wearing a gas mask in a cloud of smoke. But if Reese took a chance, Tunsil, picked 13th overall by Miami, would be starting at left tackle with Ereck Flowers moved to the right side. The outlook will be much different by midnight Monday if the Giants win, score 25 points and Beckham takes a slant and runs 70 yards for a touchdown. If they lose, score 10 points and OBJ doesn’t play, yes, it will be time to panic.

Eli Manning isn’t counting on Odell Beckham Jr. being healthy with receiver still questionable for Week 2 BY Pat Leonard John Healy NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Thursday, September 14, 2017, 1:43 AM Odell Beckham Jr. walked through the locker room with pep in his step on Wednesday, but until the Giants hit the practice field on Thursday there won’t be any sign of whether he’ll play in Monday night’s home opener against the Detroit Lions in Week 2. Eli Manning said as much when he admitted he hadn’t expected Beckham to play in last Sunday night’s 19-3 loss in Dallas — despite Beckham’s pre-game warm up — because the receiver hadn’t practiced since spraining his left ankle on Aug. 21. “In my mind, I didn’t think he was playing,” Manning said Wednesday. “When you see him kind of warming up and catching passes, the guy hadn’t practiced in three weeks. I never thought it was a reality of him playing and just if he would have come out there, it might have been limited in certain things … I didn’t think he was going to play in the game.” Beckham is expected to meet the media on Thursday, when he may have to explain a report that he was allegedly part of a “dance battle” last week at a Meatpacking District spot with NBA star Russell Westbrook. But for now, the Giants just need him healthy. “We’ll see tomorrow if he’s out there practicing some and just take it day-by-day and see what’s going on,” Manning said. “I’m not sure.”

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Giants’ window of winning another Super Bowl is closing quickly Mike Lupica NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, September 10, 2017, 1:40 AM If not now with these Giants, when? (Patrick Smith/Getty Images) Here is a real good question for the Giants, as they prepare to open against the Cowboys on Sunday night: If they aren’t built to win now, then when, exactly? The Giants went out and got reinforcements on defense last season, and made it back to the playoffs as a wild card, and then went to Green Bay and got waxed by the Packers. And there was a bit of football karma in that one, you know, none of it good for the Giants. The last time the Giants won a Super Bowl, they went into Green Bay against the 15-1 Packers and there was a Hail Mary, jump-ball touchdown pass right before the half, Eli to Hakeem Nicks, and the game was never the same. This time Aaron Rodgers did it to them, a touchdown pass to Randall Cobb on the last play of the first half of a game that ended 38-13 for the Packers. Eli’s Giants have won two Super Bowls, you bet. The rest of the time, his whole career, they have either missed the playoffs or lost the first playoff game they played. It is the most remarkable postseason resume any big New York athlete has ever had. Now the Giants start another season with Odell Beckham, Jr., a force of nature and streak of light. They bring in Brandon Marshall, the kind of big receiver that Eli has always loved — hello, Plax — and thus look as loaded at wide receiver as ever. They have developed a total star, Landon Collins, on defense, a kid who frequently looked like the Defensive Player of the Year last year. They say they are going to show more variety on offense this season, and even talk about actually having fullbacks who will be more than hood ornaments. So they should absolutely be set up to make a run at the Cowboys in the NFC East, even though that gets harder if Ezekiel Elliott, who found a friendly Texas judge as he continues to fight his six-game suspension for violating the league’s domestic violence policy, gets to play the whole season. The Giants should win the NFC East this season. But will the Giants, the Giants of Eli and Odell and Collins and Ben McAdoo, the Giants built by general manager Jerry Reese, make a run this season, and not just at the Cowboys? If not now with these guys, when? This is Eli’s 14th season. He starts his 200th straight game on Sunday night against the Cowboys. He has been a reliable, classy, accountable, durable star. You know the two Super Bowl runs and the two Super Bowl wins against the Patriots will give him amazing capital with his fans, forever, as tough as Giants fans are on their quarterbacks. When the Giants beat the 18-0 Patriots in Glendale, Ariz. John Mara called it the greatest victory in the history of the franchise. It might have been the greatest victory, considering the opponent, any New York team has ever had. Then four years later the Giants did it again. They have made the playoffs one time since then. Lost the way they did to the Packers. So it was still Super Bowl-or-bust for them. So if they do finally put some points on the board this January, it will be the first time they have done that in six years. Of course the team the Giants play on Sunday night, the Cowboys, hasn’t won a Super Bowl in 20 years. They thought they might be on their way back to the big game last year, and then the Packers clipped them after they clipped the Giants. Just in the time that Eli has been quarterback for the Giants, the Cowboys have made the playoffs five times. All they have to show for that are wild card wins against the Lions and Eagles. There are no better fans here, or anywhere, than Giants fans. They don’t just think of their team as a family business for the Mara family and the Tisch family. They think of it as their own family business. Are remarkably loyal. And getting remarkably impatient waiting for their team to be a contender again, and that means a contender to make it back to the first Sunday in February. There has been enough time since the last Super Bowl against the Patriots to build another Super Bowl team. (Rob Carr/Getty Images) Guess what? The Giants should win the NFC East this season, whether the Cowboys lose Elliott for six games or not. The Giants are supposed to do something in January, and all the way into February. They went from an old coach to a young coach. The general manager has given his fans Beckham and Collins and been allowed to spend all the money in the world on free agents. But seriously: If he hasn’t built a team to win this year, with a 36-year-old quarterback, which year is he pointing toward? There has been enough time since the last Super Bowl against the Patriots to build another Super Bowl team. The Giants still have Eli, they have one of the great playmakers in the sport in Odell. We hear all the time about how many other weapons they have on offense. After all the work done on the defense and all the money spent, Jerry Reese ought to have been able to build another championship defense, too. Giants fans would never trade away those two victories over the Patriots. Are you kidding? Those two games, one in Glendale and the other in Indianapolis, made the Giants one of the elite teams of the sport again. They will eventually put Tom Coughlin and Eli into the Hall of Fame. But Giants fans stopped celebrating them a long time ago. Eli isn’t getting any younger. Giants fans want another parade. The route is supposed to start on Sunday night in Texas. In all ways with these Giants, it’s about time.

Latest iteration of Giants-Cowboys rivalry already in midseason form as trash-talk builds leading up to exciting Week 1 matchup Gary Myers NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Thursday, September 7, 2017, 1:52 AM It's not even Week 1 yet and the Giants-Cowboys rivalry is in midseason form. (Elsa/Getty Images) After just a few years in the Giants locker room, Justin Tuck didn’t even need to be asked his feelings about the Cowboys anymore. “I hate them,” he said. “It’s just the persona of America’s Team.” Then he would smile and walk away. It’s another Cowboys week leading up to what has turned out to be the Giants annual opening game of the season Sunday night at AT&T Stadium. The hatred of the Cowboys has been passed down several Big Blue generations from Phil Simms, Harry Carson and Lawrence Taylor to Michael Strahan and Jesse Armstead to Tuck and Antonio Pierce and Amani Toomer now to Landon Collins and JPP. “It’s a known fact. Once you get here, it’s kind of imbedded in you. They hate us, we hate them,” Collins told the Daily News on Wednesday. “When it’s time to play the game, it’s a big factor. It’s a game you can’t lose, either side.” Until last season, when the Giants and Cowboys had surprisingly strong years, they had not been Super Bowl contenders at the same time since 2007. So, as a result, the trash talking has been kept at barely a whisper for nearly a decade. Trash talking doesn’t work if one of the teams stinks. One of the fun things about one game a week is as Sunday approaches, the momentum builds for the really big matchups and lips tend to get looser. Dallas finished 13-3 last year, but the third loss was meaningless in the final game of the season in Philly. The other two losses came against the Giants. First the Giants beat them 20-19 in Dallas and then after the Cowboys won 11 straight, they beat them 10-7 at MetLife Stadium. The Giants’ victories were by a total of four points, but the way football works, it gets inside a team’s head and puts doubt in their minds. The Giants have the psychological edge Sunday. As terrific as Dak Prescott and Zeke Elliott were last season, two of the Cowboys three lowest scoring games (not counting the Philly game at the end) came against the Giants. Now with Elliott possibly sitting out the next six games after the opener, it makes this game even more important to the Cowboys. The trash talking between the Giants and Cowboys started in the offseason and picked up this week. Even Ben McAdoo provided bulletin board material when he was asked about Elliott’s availability prior to the NFL announcing he is eligible this week. One thing will never change — the Giants and Cowboys don't like each other. (Elsa/Getty Images) “All backs are the same when there’s nowhere to run,” McAdoo said. He was just pumping up his defensive line, which is the strength of the team, but at the same time was taking a shot at Elliott and the Cowboys offensive line, which is the best in the league despite some turnover. McAdoo probably didn’t mean to fire up the Cowboys – he’s one of those coaches who is afraid to confirm what day the game is being played. But if Elliott has a big game – he rushed for 51 yards in the first game against the Giants and 107 in the second – then McAdoo might regret those words. In July, Prescott said, “We’re the Cowboys. We’re going to win the NFC East.” A few days later, Collins fired back. “They do not control the East. It’s over with. We’re going to have a run for it,” he said. “I mean, they’re not going to win. I can tell you that much. We’re definitely going to take over.” When I saw Prescott in Canton after the Cowboys played the Cardinals in the Hall of Fame game last month, I asked him if he was aware of Collins’ firing back. “What else is he supposed to say? What else am I supposed to say when they ask me that question,” Prescott said. “It’s common sense.” Does this add some juice to the Cowboys-Giants games? “Everybody knows what is on the line any time it’s a division game,” Prescott said. “It doesn’t matter to me what someone says. I don’t care if it’s a coach or a player, it’s going to the same intensity. It’s Cowboys vs. New York. That’s enough said.” It bothers Prescott that in his rookie season the Giants beat him twice. “Being the only team I didn’t beat, it stands out for me personally,” he said. “Giants fans are prideful. Cowboys fans are prideful.” Even Ben McAdoo has gotten in on the verbal jabs between the rival teams. (Bill Kostroun/AP) This was a couple of days after Eli Manning did something that resembled dancing in the Giants locker room. Prescott is a former counselor and camper at the Manning Passing Academy. What did he think of the Eli Shuffle? “I didn’t see it,” he said. “I don’t pay attention to New York.” Then there’s the one-on-one matchup between Jackrabbit Jenkins and Dez Bryant. In the first meeting, Bryant had one catch for eight yards. He didn’t do any better in the rematch. He had one catch for 10 yards, but Jenkins forced a fumble on his only reception which Collins recovered with 2:13 remaining in the fourth quarter. Early in the second quarter, Prescott had a pass intended for Bryant intercepted by Jenkins. “I played better than he played,” Jenkins said after the season. Jenkins went on to explain how he shut down Bryant. Of course, Bryant couldn’t let Jenkins’ comment just sit there. Bryant tweeted that the Giants played zone against him but if they let Jenkins travel with him on every play, “I will embarrass him.” Collins said it was “the best feeling” to beat Dallas on the road last year. But the Cowboys still won the division. “We’re going to be the top dog this time,” Collins said. Tuck has handed down his hatred of the Cowboys by paying it forward to the next generation. “I do not like the Cowboys and they don’t like me,” he once said. “And that’s how it’s supposed to be. “ Collins has learned quickly: If you’re wearing blue, you hate the team with the star on its helmet.

Geno Smith happy to win Giants’ backup quarterback job, but has higher expectations for himself BY Pat Leonard John Healy NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, September 4, 2017, 4:18 PM Geno Smith still believes in his ability. (Julio Cortez/AP) Geno Smith won’t short-change himself. Asked Monday if in November of last year, Smith would have dreamed with a torn right ACL that he’d be backing up Eli Manning to open the 2017 Giants’ season, Smith replied: “If you asked me last November, I would have said I’ll be a starting quarterback somewhere.” Smith also called Josh Johnson, who was cut on Saturday, “a great competitor.” “That’s part of why you don’t want to get too high, because someone else is losing a job,” he said. But then Smith cracked a smile. “But I am happy,” he admitted. “That’s the main thing.” GROUND STOP Head coach Ben McAdoo reiterated on Monday that the Giants game plan doesn’t change whether or not Ezekiel Elliott plays. “All backs run the same when there is nowhere to run,” he said. “Our goal is to be prepared and stop the run.” Geno Smith has earned the right to be the Giants’ backup QB RUDOLPH SIGHTING As expected, WR Travis Rudolph was with the Giants practice squad despite not being officially named on Sunday. Travis Rudolph is still with the Giants despite being cut this weekend. (Julio Cortez/AP) It’s been a whirlwind of a year for 21-year-old. Rudolph lost his father this spring, went undrafted, signed by the Giants and became a fan favorite in the preseason only to be cut, then eventually signed back to the team with the practice squad. “I’ve been through so much adversity this is nothing,” Rudolph said. “This is the place I’ve always wanted to be so at the end of the day, my ultimate goal is to get back on the field.” TURNING A CORNER CB Ross Cockrell was with the Giants on Monday for his first practice with his new team since being traded from the Steelers. The defensive back was excited to be with a team expecting to contend for a championship but now has a week to learn on the playbook before the season opener against Dallas. “I’m just trying to learn the basics,” he said. “I have to get all the terminology down just to make sure when I get into the game plan, that I have those basic fundamentals down.” CALIFORNIA LOVE All three undrafted rookie free agents to make the Giants’ initial 53-man roster hail from colleges and universities in California: fullback Shane Smith (San Jose State), left tackle Chad Wheeler (USC) and linebacker Calvin Munson (San Diego State). Credit goes to Giants West Coast scouts Jeremy Breit and Michael Murphy, and VP player of evaluation Marc Ross, for identifying so much talent from one area. INJURY NOTES CB Eli Apple (ankle), DT Jay Bromley (knee), were limited in practice… CB Michael Hunter Jr. cleared concussion protocol while LB Keenan Robinson remains in protocol but was seen running on the side during practice.

Brandon Marshall is out of time to build chemistry with Eli Manning as Week 1 approaches Pat Leonard NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Wednesday, August 30, 2017, 2:15 AM Tweet email Brandon Marshall hasn't had the opportunity to build an on-field relationship with Eli Manning. (Julio Cortez/AP) Brandon Marshall is about to go into the Giants’ Week 1 opener in Dallas without having caught a single pass from Eli Manning this entire preseason. Unsettling, isn’t it? Even if Ben McAdoo plays Marshall for two series in Thursday night’s preseason finale at New England, as he did with last year’s starting receivers not named Odell Beckham Jr., Manning is not expected to play. Marshall was supposed to be the signing of the NFL offseason. The hype train for the Giants’ offense already left the station long ago. And granted, 11 NFL seasons buys a veteran receiver some benefit of the doubt. Mini-McAdoo shows up at Giants practice to meet coach Ben But Marshall himself even acknowledged in one of his rare interviews this preseason that McAdoo’s timing-based offense is much different than what Marshall is used to, and that chemistry between him and Manning is not going to happen overnight. McAdoo’s answer Tuesday to what Marshall has shown him recently as far as his understanding of the offense was case in point. “He hasn’t been out there very much in the last couple of weeks,” the coach said, after Marshall increased his Tuesday practice workload from Monday’s limited participation. “I mean, today was a good day for him to get back out there and get some routes on air and then get some of the work in the team periods.” Eli Manning's lack of in-game reps with his new receiver could be an issue with Week 1 quickly approaching. (Elsa/Getty Images) So where does this leave the Giants? Well, it’s beginning to look like no one will know the answer to how long it will take Marshall to acclimate until the lights come on in Dallas on Sept. 10. He has made some impressive plays in practice, but his individual talent is not a question. Giants dump Owa Odighizuwa following four-game PED suspension The concerns are with his fit and comfort in the context of the offense, and with his health. Marshall played two uneventful snaps in the Giants’ preseason opener against Pittsburgh. And in 26 snaps in Cleveland, he missed a run block on the offense’s first play from scrimmage — a Paul Perkins run for no gain — and then appeared to injure his shoulder on Manning’s lone target of him this August, before catching one Geno Smith pass for two yards. Marshall, it seemed, made the smart business decision not to reach for Manning’s slightly overthrown deep ball down the right sideline with Browns safety Jabrill Peppers bearing down. But Peppers popped Marshall hard anyway on the left shoulder, and Marshall eventually left the game and did not return. Marshall then stood on the sidelines for the rest of last week’s practices and did not play in last Saturday’s game against the Jets — normally the best preseason test for a team’s starters. He only returned to limited practice participation on Monday, before increasing his workload on Tuesday. Giants’ Owa Odighizuwa suspended four games for PEDs And yet Marshall has not spoken to the media since returning to the field. In fact, he has done only two interviews with local beat reporters since training camp opened: on July 29 and on Aug. 15. It is an unusual tactic for someone who already has dabbled in a media career with Showtime’s ‘Inside the NFL.’ Brandon Marshall has stayed quiet, but now he needs to let his play do the talking. (Howard Simmons/New York Daily News) Marshall, 33, it should be noted, seems focused on keeping his head down and working. Beckham is the star, and Marshall is just trying to do his part, desperate to make his first trip to the NFL postseason, let alone win a Super Bowl. Marshall has resisted any storylines about being a mentor to Beckham, as well. He is here to produce and win. Those seem to be the motives behind everything Marshall is doing — or not doing — at the moment. “Brandon looked good today, it was good to have him back out there at practice, knock some rust off,” McAdoo said. Brandon Marshall back at Giants practice, Odell Beckham still out The problem is that the Giants need Marshall in the spotlight — not out of it — if his signing is going to be worth it. They need him healthy. They need Manning and Marshall in sync. They need to see Marshall on the field. Very soon, the hype will die down, and it will be time for Marshall’s play to talk, even if he won’t.

Why Your Team Sucks 2017: New York Giants Drew Magary Yesterday 2:03pmFiled to: Why your team sucks 2017 Some people are fans of the New York Giants. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New York Giants. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: New York Giants. Your 2016 record: 11-5. I will never feel stupider than buying into the whole “The Giants always upset the Packers in the playoffs!” hype only to watch them get shredded into pulled chicken by Aaron Rodgers. God damn them for making me look like a fool, and god damn them for making BOATGHAZI an eternal thing. If they had just won that stupid game and Odell hadn’t played like shit, you never hear about this boat trip again. Instead, it is now encyclopedic. “Odell Beckham, who once let down his team by hanging out on a boat, died today…” Odell takes will render all of us braindead. Your coach: Ben McAdoo, who will never find a combination of haircut and facial hair that will work for him. Look at this poor bastard. He looks like a teenager trying to sneak into a nightclub for the first time. What a big boy. No wonder he likes fiddling with walkie talkies and calling the same play 50 times in a row like he’s playing Madden ‘95. Anyway, McAdoo left Beckham in for the second quarter of a preseason game against Cleveland, and Beckham nearly had his leg sheared off in the process. I have no clue what this man was thinking. Oh man, remember when he showed his team the footage of a dude punching a kangaroo to fire them up? “We have to stay hungry. We have to be hungry, and it’s time to … it’s time to eat.” I… I think he wants them to eat the kangaroo. Your quarterback: Oh great, here comes slack-jawed dolt Eli Manning yet again, ready to drool all over the field for another 17 weeks. He is history’s most indestructible idiot. It really is something. He is a cyborg made from discarded sweet tea bags and old hush puppies. We’ll never be rid of him. Anyway, Eli has been here for a thousand years, so you know what you’re getting: 4,000 yards, 25 TDs, a billion turnovers, and a perfect ratio of stunning victories to stunning defeats. Lather, rinse, repeat. By the way, Eli still hasn’t gotten enough shit for trying to pass off phony game memorabilia. Odell can get a million columnists screaming for his head for taking a boat trip, but here’s Eli skating by because everyone thinks he’s too stupid to be a criminal mastermind. Your backup quarterback is former Jets prospect and “man whose jaw is used to protect fire extinguisher cabinets” Geno Smith. This is not a team that had any urgent need for Colin Kaepernick on the roster, but I’m gonna use this space to bring up what John Mara said about the idea, because John Mara is a gutless shitbag: “All my years being in the league, I never received more emotional mail from people than I did about that issue,” Mara said. “If any of your players ever do that, we are never coming to another Giants game. It wasn’t one or two letters. It was a lot. It’s an emotional, emotional issue for a lot of people, more so than any other issue I’ve run into.” Fuck you, buddy. Fuck you a million times over. You sons of bitches re-signed Josh Brown even when you knew about his domestic violence arrest and the police reports from it. And now you’re cowering in the face of some bullshit “I’m canceling my subscription, sir!” threats from fans who probably can’t get out of their season ticket agreements anyway? John Mara is a pathetic waste who gets to pretend he didn’t luck into an inherited fortune just because he looks like a banker from 1936. I hope he falls into a port-o-toilet. What’s new that sucks: Well, Odell is hurt and may miss the first couple of games, so there goes every last exciting thing about this Giants outfit. These current Giants, of course, exist less as a football team and more as a weekly mood check of their star receiver and unofficial stickum spokesman. Here’s Odell getting shovey with a ref. And here’s Odell lobbying for a different officiating crew. And here’s Odell trying to put his head through a wall. And here’s Odell staring at the sun. And here’s Odell angling for a new contract, etc etc. The NFL is a dry and humorless place, but the Giants organization is exceptional in their grim stoicism even by those standards. And so last year’s Boatghazi stuff was the perfect encapsulation of the “Mr. Mara” attitude a lot of people—fans included—around the team think it should have, as if they’re extra classy because one family of rich fucks has owned it forever. As long as I’ve been alive, the Giants have dined out on their bullshit Respectable Team Of Class vs. the Rowdy Jets branding efforts. They constantly act like the genteel aristocracy of football, which is how a rare burst of color like Beckham ends up scrutinized into dust…a man who will be driven to the edge by the takes raining down on him. Brandon Marshall is here and hurt already. Elsewhere, burglars broke into a player’s home to write KKK and GO BACK TO AFRICA on the walls. It just goes to show you that New Jersey is ALWAYS on the cusp of hot new racialist trends before a place like Charlottesville even gets wind of them. What has always sucked: The running game! This is the only team that has failed to average over 4.0 yards per rush in any of the past four years. Did they do a fucking thing this offseason to address the problem? Reader, they did not. No, it’s another year of failed Shane Vereen wheel routes and Paul Perkins busting out a 10-yard run once a lunar cycle. Every year, the Giants have the same problems because they are a running loop of Reverend Lovejoy saying “Constancy constancy constancy” in your brain. They haven’t had a tight end catch a pass since Mark Bavaro. Their best pass rusher is still the dude with a lobster claw. Ereck Flowers has all the blocking ability of a ghost. I know that Cleveland and Buffalo and the like are far more woeful franchises. But I just want you to know that if you isolate the single worst quarter of play from a single team in any given season, that quarter of play will usually come from the New York Giants. Did you know? The entire New York Subway system is now offering riders the experience of what it would be like if you had to travel to the Meadowlands every day! What might not suck: Landon Collins is good. Eli Apple has a good mom. Whatever. I still say fuck them all.

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This team looked awful

Giants breathe a sigh of relief as Odell Beckham Jr. sprains his ankle, but avoids disastrous injury Pat Leonard NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, August 22, 2017, 2:05 AM CLEVELAND – Odell Beckham knelt down in agony in the tunnel of FirstEnergy Stadium during Monday night’s second quarter with what looked like a potentially catastrophic leg injury. But by the end of the Giants’ 10-6 loss to the Cleveland Browns, Beckham was so “relieved” he had only sprained his left ankle that he was sarcastically mocking a question of whether he’d be ready for the Week 1 opener in Dallas. “I don’t know, man. I’m pretty concerned, but I think I’ll be all right,” Beckham joked, with a mischievous smile beneath his floppy gold hair and matching headphones. “It feels like a sprained ankle, a rolled ankle. I don’t know. You ever hurt your ankle? That’s what it feels like.” Beckham also acknowledged he’d been put through the concussion protocol but passed with flying colors. Browns players kneel during national anthem prior to Giants game “They asked me a couple questions, but I know what today is, I know what happened yesterday, I know who we played last week, so I think I’ll be all right,” he said. Afterward, Beckham tweeted out the words “Thank U” and a prayer emoji. And in unison, every Giants coach, teammate and fan exhales, right? Well, not so fast. The Giants did say Beckham “will undergo further examination,” presumably an MRI to also check his knee, which bent awkwardly on the low-but-legal hit by Browns defensive back Briean Boddy-Calhoun. Odell Beckham Jr. kneels in the Giants' tunnel. (ESPN) Plus, Brandon Marshall also had X-rays on his shoulder, and though he tweeted an emoji of a flexed bicep, the Giants could not provide an update before flying home to New Jersey. All in all, this felt a little like the Giants’ own personal solar eclipse. And Beckham probably began Monday thinking that staring into the sun from his hotel room with no glasses was his biggest worry. Suddenly he was grasping at his leg on the football field in his first action of the preseason, fearing the worst. “Pretty scary,” Beckham admitted. What’s most frightening, though, is that Eli Manning’s first-team offense was putrid even with Beckham on the field, just as it had been in last year’s preseason debut at Buffalo, prior to ranking 26th of 32 teams in the 2016 regular season. And if Beckham’s 2017 season is impacted negatively at all by this injury, the offense’s low ceiling could collapse and squeeze the life out of Big Blue entirely, no matter how good the defense is. Plus, for Beckham, this is also about his career. He skipped OTAs in the spring to demonstrate that he wants a new contract to pay him compensatory to his value and to secure his future, and this is why he had every right to do so: it all could be gone in a flash. “That is why Odell wants a new contract,” tweeted former NFL receiver Cris Carter, a Beckham advocate. Beckham is making only $1.8 million in this fourth year of a five-year rookie contract, while Antonio Brown averages $17 million per for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Odell Beckham Jr. exited the Giants preseason game on Monday with a sprained ankle. (David Richard/AP) “This is why I hate preseason Bulls---…,” tweeted Miami Dolphins receiver Jarvis Landry, one of Beckham’s best friends and a former teammate at LSU. Beckham, 24, made it clear both on the field and in the locker room that he did not appreciate Boddy-Calhoun’s hit. When he first got up, he fired the ball on the grass at the Browns corner and then stared him down as he walked off the field. And after, he implied the preseason called for more discretion. “I don’t know. It’s just football I guess. Preseason, so …” Beckham said, trailing off and shrugging his shoulders. Presumably, Beckham now will sit out Saturday night against the Jets at MetLife Stadium, even though the starters typically play the most in the third preseason game. At least he should. McAdoo’s answer was: “If he can play, he’ll play.” Beckham’s answer was: “It’s up to coach and the training staff. We’ll see where we go from here, but I’m going there tomorrow and we’ll get a look at it.” But there is no use risking anything. Beckham is so important to the Giants because his game-breaking ability is all that bailed the offense last year out of its terrible running game, spotty pass protection and turnovers. And one year later, it’s looking like he might have to counter those same deficiencies in the offense again. When Beckham is down, the Giants are down. Without him, the hype feels hollow. With No. 13 on the sideline, with no running game to speak of, the Giants’ chances would feel pretty slim.

Only the Giants could make the Browns look good :doh:

Great! I guess I'll sit in here and talk to myself

Sacked by the Browns?? Come the fuck on!