Last Night's Action: Perfect No More

Photograph, left, of Browns fans waving a sign after the Giants' loss by Tony Dejak/AP, and photograph, right, of Eli Manning after throwing an interception by Amy Sancetta/AP

• Cleveland 35 Giants 14: It’s been so long you didn’t recognize him. But, his performance was certainly familiar to any Giant fan. Flushed out of the pocket and making a bad throw, pressured up the middle and chucking it off his back foot, we have all seen “Bad Eli” too many times not to recognize it. Unfortunately, Monday night brought it all back as Eli was terrible, throwing interceptions and missing receivers as the Giants saw their perfect season go up in smoke.

  And, don’t excuse the defense, a unit that allowed the previously offensively challenged Browns to move up and down the field at will. Tom Coughlin will certainly let his team have it and he should, they were abysmal in this game.

• Rangers 4 Devils 1: On a day the organization mourned the passing of someone far to young, another player who battled his own health issues stepped to the forefront. Aaron Voros scored two goals for New York and the Rangers shutdown the Devils to improve to 5-0.
• Buffalo 7 Islanders 1: After the Sabres jumped out to a 4-0 lead, the two teams engaged in an old-school brawl. Unfortunately, it didn’t do anything to spark the Islanders as the let in three more goals, on the way to a humiliating defeat.