Lubeck

Lighten up Sharon... I'm just busting your chops.

 

It started when I was looking for a "Mr Obvious" image on google... somehow Dennis Rodman (if that's him) was one of the images.. I couldn't resist. And that's how the story of you being Sassy Sarah the sequel started.

Ohhhhhh....that is a really weird picture to be connected to Mr. Obvious.

Nas' picture of that....that...thing above his signature line.

I'm confused how "stating the obvious" turns me into a She-Man

trying to hide that adam's apple ha?

What in the world started this line of discussion?

So she finally came out after all these year...

If an injured player feels ready to play then put them in. At the first showing they can't perform 100% sit them down.

And I think the Giants players, and not Tuck, were the ones who brought it the media's attention. I doubt Tuck was interviewed after the game and was like, "Yah, I'm the man, I gave an impassioned half time speech that got us all riled up."

 

So the accolades were deferred. And then Tuck was specifically asked about it and gave what I'm sure is a bullet point version of it.

And from everything I've read and from his regular appearance with Fatscesa this afternoon he is willing to give a brief recounting of what he said but is not keen to promote himself about what happened. Based on that first Serby article and then what I heard this afternoon on the ride home he doesn't even want to talk about it but seems to know the media will hound him about it unless he gives them something. Lets be honest the "Tuck needs to become a leader" storyline has been going since preseason and the press wasn't going to give him a pass on an impassioned halftime speech that may or may not have led to a complete 180 in how the defense played. "That is between me and my teammates" would not have made the NY press happy when they have been hounding him to be a leader, and not when the last major leader of the defense Strahan readily gave them material. That had to be on his mind. Especially since Strahan is clearly a mentor to him and someone who knows how to handle the NY media.

Yeah the way I see this going down is the players were telling Serby or someone else what a great speech Tuck gave, and then Serby and the rest of the beat writers went to Tuck to get his version of the story. If Tuck had gone directly to the writers to thump his chest I could agree with you Jim but he was just answering a question.

Yeah it worked.

Another collapse was com ing for the Giants. Another 30 minutes and another season would likely end in disgrace, failure, sorrow.

 

And right then and there, inside an angry, prideful halftime locker room, the complexion of a game, of a season, changed.

 

"Guys are just talking amongst themselves, and you could just hear excuses being made . . . not necessarily bad ones, but just saying like, 'I thought we had this and I thought we had that,' blah, blah, blah," Justin Tuck said after Giants 24, Jaguars 20.

 

That's when Osi Umenyiora stood up from his chair.

 

"I'm looking at his face, and I can tell he's about to say something," Tuck said, "and he just burst out and says, 'Man, c'mon guys, we sit here squabbling about this little stuff -- it don't even matter no more. We got a whole 'nother second half to play. And right now, playing like we're playing, we're gonna get ran outta here. We're gonna get embarrassed in our own place.' "

 

Maurice Jones-Drew and the Jaguars (153 yards) had run the ball down Big Blue's throats in that first half, and the Giants, trailing 17-6, had been booed off the field.

 

Now Umenyiora sat down and defensive coordinator Perry Fewell began making adjustments, from passive to aggressive.

 

"Our passion is low," Fewell told Big Blue. "We need to get up and stop feeling sorry for ourselves and take it to this football team 'cause they're taking it to us."

 

Tuck: "At that point, man, we called it up, and he's still talking a little bit. . . . I just started my speech."

 

"A halftime speech for the ages," Barry Cofield said. "I was teary-eyed running back on the field."

 

I said to Tuck: "Give me verbatim as you remember it."

 

"Oh, you can't hear verbatim," Tuck said. "That's a friendly paper. And what I was saying -- it'd been a lot of bleeps.

 

"But basically what I said. . . . you know the thing about me, guys know that I love inviting guys to my house. I love cooking dinners for them. If they want to spend a night at my house, it got too late, they don't feel like driving home, I got an extra bedroom, they can sleep in my house. And basically what I said, 'That's only a luxury to my friends. Jacksonville is visitors.

 

" 'And they came in our house, and they took over. They kicked down our door, they're eating our food, they're sleeping in our bed, they didn't wipe their feet at the mat. They really disrespected us in our own house. And I don't allow that. And you shouldn't either.' That's, like I said, the friendly version. And I really challenged them to come out in this second half and end this here. Because I'm tired of hearing about this up-and-down season. I'm tired of hearing about us getting off to a fast start and not being able to finish."

 

The locker room was quiet.

 

"And I heard Brandon [Jacobs] in the background saying, 'Yeah, Tuck!' " Tuck said.

 

How long did you speak for?

 

"About two minutes," Tuck said.

 

And how loud were you?

 

"Very."

 

Is that as loud as you've ever been in a football locker room?

 

"Yeah."

 

As a Giant, or ever?

 

"Ever."

 

Were you louder than John Mara at the end of last season?

 

"Yeah," and he chuckled.

 

The Giants finally took the lead when Eli Manning and Kevin Boss combined on a 32-yard catch-and-run touchdown against a blitz with 3:15 remaining.

 

"It was on our shoulders," Umenyiora said.

 

Then Jaguars quarterback Garrard, from his 27, drove to the Giants' 29.

 

"Guys were almost throwing up on the sideline," Tuck said.

 

The brink of exhaustion; the brink of extinction.

 

"We were gonna bend but not break," Tuck said.

 

And so Tuck and Antrel Rolle sacked Garrard back to the 40. Then rookie Jason Pierre-Paul recorded his first sack. Then Terrell Thomas sacked Garrard, who fumbled, and Rolle recovered the fumble. Game over. Season not. Eagles lose to Bears.

 

I asked Tuck: "Why do you care so much about being a New York Giant?"

 

"I was basically Wellington Mara's last draft pick. After they drafted me, he walked out of the room, and he went up to his office. . . . It just resonated to me that sometimes you're just destined to be somewhere," Tuck said. "Why was I destined to be here? I don't know, but I'm gonna go wholeheartedly trying to find out what my purpose is for this football team, what my purpose is for this city. And just make sure every time they talk about me, they say that he gave it everything he had. A lot of people forget where they come from [Kellyton, Ala.] when they make it big, and I'm from probably the smallest place in America.

 

"But it's still home, and I'll love it 'til I die."

 

wow. you guys are giving praise to this dude who's middle name is "open book"... the Jag's defense is rank near bottom of the league and he has to pull some crazy prayers for us to just sneak in a win?? and that's because our Defense went ape shit on Garrard and Co.

 

let's imagine our Defense gave up the TD and lost this game.. i'm sure the tone here would be quit different and you guys are out for blood....

The D really did come out in the second half with an entirely new identify. This is one of those games where I wish we had a hidden mic in the locker room so we could hear Coughlin at his finest.

Wrong topic

I will never be able to give Gilbride credit for anything. Whenever he does something creative I swear the offensive players made a mistake and got the wrong call and did it themselves.

I think at this point Killdrive needs to be creative.....wouldn't mind both Bradshaw and Jacobs on the field....Bradshaw could be lined up in the slot....at least they both know the offense.

 

Jacobs has decent hands, he came down with a nice catch against the Eagles.

 

I'd rather see Bradshaw and Jacobs out there then some complete scrub.

This kind of scenario with numerous weapons missing demands creativity. Gilfuck hates creativity. I fully expect him to plug along with the same system regardless of the fact that there are so many new components. His base plan is so pathetically predictable so it can only get worse with fill ins.

cruz has been on ir for a while now.

He has been since the beginning of the season. He had a hammie issue. Right now he is healthy but the Giants put him on IR to avoid having to put him through the waiver/practice squad system and lose him.

Can we somehow just have this be the first post on any Jakk topic?

So who was put on IR or released?

 

The Giants' receiving corps is about to be further depleted.

 

Hakeem Nicks will be out of action with a lower leg injury, according to two people with knowledge of the health of the Giants' leading receiver. The people requested anonymity because all injury reports are to be officially announced by Giants coach Tom Coughlin.

 

The exact nature of the injury and the timetable for Nicks' recovery are unclear, but Coughlin is set to speak with reporters this afternoon.

 

Nicks has had a few ankle injuries this season, but nothing so severe that it has knocked him out of action.

 

Nicks has a team-high 62 catches for 800 yards and nine touchdowns. He had six catches for 65 yards Sunday night against the Eagles.

 

The loss of Nicks would be the second big blow to Eli Manning's reservoir of targets. Steve Smith is out, likely until early next month, with a partially torn pectoral muscle.

 

Offense: WTF! Nothing done on offense. In fact there has been nothing done really the past couple weeks. Can't get a run game going because of the broken Oline. Pass plays on third and long continue to target receivers whose patterns are short of a first down. C-

Defense: Passive coverage. Allowing the receivers to get enough free yards that they take it and move the chains. That said a good job at containing Vick and also keeping the game close that we have a chance. B+

Special Teams: Well no FG attempts so no way to rank that. But punts and punt coverage are 1/3 or 1/4 so D- for ST.

As horrible as this game has been to watch there is still the chance to win. This is the kind of game we need Eli to step up and deliver. Without that effort we are fucked.

the real Man, Myth, Legend

EIGHTEEN GAME SEASON BABY WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Except you can only have 45 active players so by your estimate the Giants are destined to lose

We need better gunners. What's Tyree up to?

Spreading the word of God.

I remember line drive kicks that sent the returner running backwards and then running forwards without seeing a single Giant in the picture for a second or 2. I could be wrong but normally even a 60 yard kick with around 5 seconds of hangtime will be enough for the coverage team to get down there...just don't think he gets enough hangtime...even on his boomers...

5 seconds does not give the cover team time to get in position for a 60 yard punt. Not when you have to devote enough players to cover against a punter who needs time to make that 60 yard punt that Dodge clearly needs.

Most of his kicks are line drives.

And they are short or go out of bounds. Nearly every kick I have seen from him that had distance was a BOOMER....massive air time...because it went well beyond the coverage team.

Yes lets stack everyone inside a confined area allowing the speed guys on the outside to have less defenders to overcome. Great game planning. In fact it sounds exactly like what they tried to do against the Cowboys, bringing a safety into the box, that allowed for so many deep plays where Bryant was one on one just outrunning our CBs.