Allstarjim

Norv sort of redeemed himself, but that Chargers team was too talented and the AFC west was too weak for him to at least not win that division. He did coach 2good games and his team playedgritty undermanned yesterday, so Norv is kind of in the middle. The jury is out on him when he has to start from scratch with a team, with a young QB, players etc.

I think Norv cost his team a chance to win by not starting Volek. Rivers was a statue in the pocket and could not avoid the rush at all. The Patriots defense looked like they knew if they blitzed, they were going to win the play every time. Rivers could not even move around in the pocket very well, something that was painfully evident. I couldn't understand why they would bench LT yet let Rivers play on the bum knee, with an experienced QB that had just led your team on a game-winning drive in Indy. It's a decision that just baffles me and I don't think the press is giving it as much attention as it deserves.

Another reason to hate the Cowboys. Garrett was the Falcons first choice and he declined.

Well you could always write to him.

 

New York Football Giants

ATTN: Steve Spanguolo

Giants Stadium

East Rutherford, NJ 07073

We could do a SportsWrath "Letters to Spags" movement. If we can get everyone on this board to write him one letter, maybe he will be so moved he will stay! LOL. I know it's always about the money, though.

From the ESPN article about this:

"In fact, in some league circles, it is believed that Spagnuolo, 48, is now the front-runner for the job.

 

The relationship between Spagnuolo and new Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff, hired last week by owner Arthur Blank, apparently dates to when both worked in the World League in the early 1990s. Dimitroff will have considerable input into the choice of the new head coach."

Maybe he will stay a la Jason Garrett? PAY THE MAN! I think I will cry if we lose this guy.

And welcome back Tim!

Nem, I know it's been a month and a half now, but also wanted to send my condolences anyway. God bless to you and your family.

Us beating the Patriots in the SuperBowl would be the greatest upset in SuperBowl, probably championship, history. It will go down as an instant classic. Actually, either way it will go down as an instant classic, because the alternative is the greatest season ever by an NFL team. But for us to ruin THAT, and take the Lombardi Trophy home, it would be one of the biggest moments in sports, ever.

I don't know. Not sure they care that much who won. If I was sitting in -4 degree weather with a -24 degree windchill, not sure I would look that chipper myself.

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!

I am still in shock. Giants are NFC CHAMPIONS! AND WE ARE GOING FOR IT ALL! This is beautiful.

We almost never win when I watch the game with my girlfriend, and lo and behold, my girlfriend (also a huge Giant fan) is up here with me this weekend. We have never watched the game together at the certain sportsbar we are going to today, though.

YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAW!!!!!!

If thou are an unbeliever, then thou will surely blow this off. The rest of thine, heed my words. Let the record show, last Sunday evening, a heavy underdog Giants team beat the Cowboys, at home. A team that had already beaten them twice this season. This despite having several key injuries and the Cowboys being relatively healthy. Indeed, even Terry Glenn was back at full strength. To what or to WHOM may we attribute this magnificent upset?

I give thou, Jerry Jones, Terrell Owens, and Patrick Crayton. Jerry Jones, for his arrogant hubris in giving his players 2 NFC championship tickets each before said 'Boys had earned them. Verily I say unto thine, that this angered the football gods. And henceforth, empowered the Giants with the powers to smite them upon their home turf. Yea, let it be known that T.O.'s "popcorn ready" chutzpah and Crayton's arrogance further angered the football gods, and yea, they turned their backs upon them. Their fate had been sealed even before the game had begun.

Surely, the Giants were the darlings of the gods, yea? But ney, Michael Strahan went before thy televisions and rubbed the victory in to T.O. and Crayton. The gods asketh for humility in victory. Verily I say unto thou, the gods are now angry at thine Giants. Lest thou face defeat on Sunday, thou must beseech thine football gods, and appease them with incense and prayers. Already, the signs art all around thee. The gods have sent in an artic front so that thine own Eli Manning might stumble. Indeed, the gods hero, Brett Favre, seemingly ageless, has been blessed by the gods with rejuvenation upon his right arm.

I call upon thee, Michael Strahan, to REPENT BEFORE THE FOOTBALL GODS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. And to the Giants fans, to undo thine arrogance upon those suffering Cowboys, and wish them well in their long offseason.

Amen.

Malcolm Kelly of Oklahoma has declared early. I would love for the Giants to get their hands on this kid. 6'-4" and 219 lb wide receiver. There is nobody at wide receiver in the draft that has Kelly's size and talent. You guys know how much I like big wide receivers, and this guy looks like a future pro bowler to me. It would be a sick group of receivers if we drafted him. That or trade for Javon Walker, and I am doing backflips.

I know you will make us all proud. Godspeed.

Got the dreaded "red x" for your pics.

you are limiting the loss to one last drive...this loss extends to the fact that the cowboys ran all over the giants for the better part of 3 quarters, and then ran just 4 times in the 4th quarter...the o-line went south, the center couldn't snap shotgun, receivers dropped passes...this loss goes well beyond romo's last drive. the dog believes he is a quality QB that will be good for a long time...he needs to handle the pressure of the big games better, but that will come in time...giant fans should recognize that better then anyone...

You could also say that the Giants defense stepped it up in the second half. The O-line went south? Maybe that had something to do with them trying to stop best front 4 in the NFL for 4 quarters. Eventually, Osi, Strahan & Co. are going to either wear you down or figure you out. As far as I saw, there were a couple of dropped passes, and one of them belonged to Corey Webster in the first half that would've stopped a TD drive, but Cowboys fans don't mention that one. These things happen on both sides. The team that makes the fewest mistakes almost ALWAYS win. It's a credit to the Giants that they didn't make as many as the Cowboys, because they played better as a team. I agree that Romo is a very good QB who will be good for a long time. I've said before and will say it again, neither of these teams are going anywhere, and I think the road to the SuperBowl in the NFC will go through New York and Dallas for at least the next several years.

I went to a sportsbar close to where I live in the greater Washington D.C. area. It was really great. Almost the whole bar was united against the Cowboys. There was a table of about 10 or so Cowboy fans decked out in their gear. There was about a 15 or more Giants fans in their gear, and the rest were all Redskins' fans just rooting for the Cowboys to lose.

Throughout the game, all the big plays by the Giants returned deafening cheers. By the 4th quarter, the bar had turned into a soccer stadium. There were "Cowboys Suck" chants that could've been heard a couple of blocks away. When Giants were on defense, it was "Defense", and inbetween, "Let's Go Giants" chants. The electricity was palpable. It was unbelievable. I would've thought I was in a bar in New York. When Tony Romo let his final pass fly, the whole bar got quiet, you could hear a pin drop... And then McQuarters! When he caught that ball, it started a frenzy that lasted for 10 minutes. I was running around the bar hugging strangers, high-fiving all over the place... the bar was going NUTS! After the initial hysteria broke, the "Cowboys Suck" chants started again! Five minutes after the game ended, I looked back over to the "Cowboys' section" and only 3 had stuck around to eat crow. The smile and euphoria I had stayed for the rest of the night. I was getting all kinds of text messages and phone calls from friends like it was my birthday or something. But the greatest part about it all was all these people that were there just went absolutely ape-shit for the Giants. What a game, and what a fun time it was being there.

Anyone else got a good story?

If the Giants were to win the Superbowl, I would come on here the next day, and then I would never post again.

Somebody make sure this stays bumped, just in case!

It's been a couple of days and I honestly haven't come off of the high of beating the Cowboys. Eggy, here is the difference between your team and ours - your window is starting to close, and ours is just starting to open. With key players getting another year older, like T.O., Terry Glenn, Jason Ferguson, Anthony Henry, Greg Ellis, and Flozell Adams, if those players start to decline, we may have already seen the best of the Cowboys this year. Your team does have a good nucleus, though, but our team has a great one. Even if Strahan retires, we have Justin Tuck who has proven to be a force. Webster has come into his own to possibly replace Madison. Ross had a great rookie season. Plaxico in his prime, as well as Brandon Jacobs and an emerging Ahmad Bradshaw. Our team has a lot to look forward too.

I see the Dallas/NYG rivalry re-emerging as the pre-eminent rivalry in the NFL in the coming years. Eli vs. Romo. I like our chances.

Yeah, Ronde got owned.

 

You just need to look at my sig to see how I feel about Toomer. No doubt, GOAT.

I have to say I've been down on Toomer for a couple of years, and have said how much I covet upgrading the #2 receiver position. All of that talk is shelved now. Amani, I loved you before but today you have locked yourself in as one of the all-time great Giants. He has come up so big. Thank you Amani for the memories you gave me today!

i can't see clemens name anymore without thinking "oh my goodness gracious."

I wish we were still in the days when people said things like "oh my goodness gracious" instead of things like "what the F*CK?" and so on. It just sounds so much nicer.

IF the Giants win tommorow. This would be JUST as big (to me) as the victory in the 90's vs SF. That year the mghty 49ers were supposed to trounce us.....and we fuckin' knocked Montana silly, Roger Craig fumbled, and the Giants kicked a winning FG to seal it. I lost 17 pounds of water from sweating. I wanted that game BAD and got it!!!!

 

I would be PUMPED for monday IF the Giants beat these Cowboys. I could go to work and say to the 6 Cowboy fans "Hey, Cowboy Fan? We won Beeeotchh-h-h-h!!!"

YEAH YEAH! YOU ARE GETTING ME CRUNKED, RANDOFF!!!! IT'S GO TIME!!!

It's amazing how everybody always want to get rid of Toomer. Every year he's too old but every year he produces. This team has other issues and a WR isn't one of them.

Wulfgar, I hear you dude. Toomer is great and I don't know any Giants fan who doesn't appreciate him. But the reality is that he is no longer a downfield threat and he also led the league in drops this year, something I put partially on him and partially on Eli. I love Toomer, but he is not a weapon that other teams are that concerned about. Really, teams only have to worry about Plaxico (and Shockey when healthy) hurting them through the air in our offense. It's not that we wouldn't be fine with the status quo. But to become a truly dangerous offensive team a la the Colts or Chargers, we need to upgrade that #2 WR position to someone that stretches the field and is more of a playmaker than Toomer.

I posted a link in an earler thread talking about how Javon Walker and Chad Johnson both could be traded. I like Walker better, because he is a little bigger of a target than CJ I believe, not a headcase at all (that we know of), and would come significantly cheaper, both in the trade market and in dollars. I think he would fit in GREAT on our team, unlike CJ whose ego would crowd the locker room. Would he be a big playmaker? Sure he would. But IMO Walker would be too, is cheaper, and less of a headache.

I told him to "Go fuck yourself" after the Patriots/Giants game.

LMAO!