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Photograph of San Diego Chargers tight end Antonio Gates (85) slipping away from New York Giants' Aaron Rouse (26) by Julie Jacobson/AP
After a come-from-ahead 21-20 loss to San Diego, the Giants still have only one impressive win this season. Four of their five wins have come against league doormats. Other than a Week 2 victory over Dallas, what have the Giants done to inspire confidence?
Eli Manning played well in this one, going 25-33 for 215 yards and two touchdowns. But as those numbers suggest, the Giants hardly stretched the field. The Giants couldn't take advantage of holding the ball for almost two-thirds of the game. When it mattered most, Philip Rivers (traded for Eli Manning at the 2004 draft), shredded the injury-riddled Giants secondary. If not for a botched field goal try, the Giants would have been comfortably ahead at the end. Leading 17-14, the Giants had a 1st-and-goal on the four yard line but came away with only a field goal. Those are the sequences that cost teams. A 5-0 start has yielded to a 5-4 record entering the bye. That is not how they wanted to go into their week off.
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Waiting until the Fourth Quarter to do something is generally not the best idea in the world especially when you stop doing that thing at the wrong moment. The Giants were on the march on both sides of the ball. Just when they could have used a touchdown, they settled for a field goal and the rest is exactly what fans feared might happen. It's a combination of injuries, bad luck and lack of follow through. My philosophy of life is that when you have the guy on the ropes, you pound away until his head falls apart.
I put this one down to bad coaching. Pussy field goals galore. The players mostly looked pretty decent, unlike last week. I think when men become NFL coaches, they are required by law to have their testicles removed. That's why they always settle for a field goal on 4th down.
Yup. Coaching/play calling.
They had first and goal twice, once with 4 yrds to go and once with less than a yard and settled for field goals both times. Coaches have zero trust/faith in their players.
Yep, coaching, play-calling and that headcase Tynes' non-kick on that field goal in the 1st quarter.
Oh that Coughlin is a fucking genius. Stupid penalties as well as crappy play calling doomed the Giants. The final San Diego drive looked too easy to execute.
Why on earth would you not go for the TD on 3rd and goal with three minutes left? The Chargers will still going to have enough time for one last drive, so throw the ball in the end zone and try to win it right there. Makes no sense.
The best thing Tynes does are kickoffs that travel 15 feet off the ground and occasionally skip past the returner and through the end zone.
Can we please stop sending Justin Tuck down the field to cover people??? Let your cover guys cover and let Tuck rush the passer.
What happened to Corey Webster? The guy was the MVP of the first 5 weeks and now is stinking the place out.