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Proud of this team and this game

Guenhwyvar

By Guenhwyvar,
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We had an awesome showing against a very good team. Not a lot of defenses are built to stop the giants offense when firing on all cylinders. Playing without Kemo didn't help either. They are the super bowl champions for a reason.

If we see them in the playoffs again, they won't win.

However, this was a good reality check for us, and no losses are good, but this one is will serve as a good lesson. It will either destroy our confidence as a team and we will be out of the playoffs in the first game, or it will remind us that we can hang with the best of them, and help us towards a superbowl run. I think it will be the latter.

Every possible odd was against us winning, and we came a field goal away from winning it. It wasn't the offense, defense, special teams, or coachings fault. Somebody had to lose out of these two good teams, this was our turn. Next time may not be.

Here come the playoffs, and here come the panthers. Rest of the league beware, because a wounded panther is a dangerous opponent to face......

Merry Christmas Everyone....

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I'm glad someone isn't jumping off a cliff after this game. Football is not a zero sum game until the playoffs; yes, we lost a close game to an excellent team on their home turf, but we learned more about them and how to play them if we have to return to New York. Even more importantly, we learned about what we need to improve on before we start the playoffs. Honestly, home-field advantage is overrated in the modern NFL: teams are not only too good to really be affected by the hostile environment, but they also filter out the distractions of home and concentrate on the task at hand. it's been over a decade since the last time both No. 1 seeds made it to the Super Bowl, and even then it was two teams in their prime.

Our offense continued to show that it can run the ball on anyone, even when they stack 9 in the box. I believe our passing game would have been better if you took out the cold and the weather (did you see the way Kasay's kick got knocked down by the wind?)

This game was lost by the defense, specifically the secondary. Ward's runs were all on guard pulls where their offensive line overloaded our DLs, and the secondary got caught out of position a lot (we did the same thing to Tampa.)

On the coaching aspect, I really think people need to realize that this is not Madden '09. Jeff Davidson just doesn't say to himself "Hmm, I'll just keep running reverses to Steve Smith because he's got a 97 speed rating."

On the last series of the game, we were in great position to win with Kasay's kick: he simply couldn't get it out of the wind's grasp. By the time we reached overtime, their defense was keyed into two things: shadowing Smith and stuffing the run. They pulled it off, and finally the grind of the game got to the defensive line and Ward was able to get them close.

What can we take from this? We can go to New Orleans next week, smash them for a bye, rest and dissect the playoff field. I don't think the team's going to go "Woe is us, we were so close to the #1 seed and national media attention and sportswriters fawning over us and. . ."

Good game Giants, you better hope you don't meet us again! :-D

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I think they just made a few more plays then us. Our D was gased. They wanted it more. I am not happy about losing(because morons who know nothing about football will talk crap all week) but I am not sure we REALLY want the hefty task that comes with HFA. We are a really good time that can only get better. Nothing but good coming from this. We missed kemo but getting healthy is much more important. Now kinda off topic.....we clinched a playoff birth but not the division? I hear onething and then I hear another. please clarify....

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