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Posted: Nov 7th 2009 9:00AM ET by Dan Graziano (RSS feed)
Filed under: Giants, NFL Quarterbacks, NFL Analysis

It's not that the
Giants' three-game losing streak has gone unnoticed. It's just that, with all the excitement over everything the Yankees have been up to, New York sports fans have had other things on their minds. Yes, they're aware, vaguely, that the Giants' defense hasn't been able to stop the
Saints,
Cardinals or
Eagles the past three weeks. And they have seen a headline or two about
Eli Manning suddenly looking much more mortal than his contract and his championship pedigree say he should. But the panic meter hasn't moved too much over all of this, because New York is still one of the few American towns in which football can take a backseat to baseball. And for the past few weeks, for very good reason, New York has been a baseball town.
That all changes this weekend. The
San Diego Chargers hit town -- another dynamic offense surely licking its chops over a take its turn at the Giants' battered ego and secondary. If the Giants lose again, they're looking at a 5-4 record heading into their bye week, which would mean two solid weeks of tabloid and talk show debate on the issue of "What's Wrong With the Giants?"
Posted: Nov 2nd 2009 11:30AM ET by Dan Graziano (RSS feed)
Filed under: Eagles, Giants, NFC East, NFL Fans

PHILADELPHIA -- Mike Alvarez is a lifelong Philadelphian with a Cole Hamels haircut and a vintage maroon Phillies cap who spent his Sunday in a parking lot. Alvarez didn't have tickets to the
Eagles-
Giants game in the afternoon. He didn't have tickets to the Phillies-Yankees World Series game at night. What he did have was a parking space for his truck, a seemingly bottomless supply of beer and enough slightly slurred wisdom to know that there was no place he would have rather been than this particular parking lot on this particular day, surrounded by his fellow Eagles and Phillies fans.
"They got flat-screens over there," Alvarez said, waving his beer can in the direction of a nearby RV. "Everybody's grilling food. I've made a ton of new friends. What more could you want?"
Posted: Nov 1st 2009 5:30PM ET by Matt Snyder (RSS feed)
Filed under: Eagles, Giants, NFC East

Next week there will be a game between the two best teams in the NFC East, and it's not going to involve the defending division champion
New York Giants. In beating the
Giants to a pulp Sunday, 40-17, the
Eagles -- and the
Dallas Cowboys, who beat Seattle at home -- have sent the G-Men back to third place. New York has now lost three straight games, while the Eagles won their second in a row after an embarrassing loss in Oakland.
Leading the way for the Eagles was
Donovan McNabb, who barely broke a sweat in destroying the Giants' patchwork secondary. He completed 17-of-23 passes for 240 yards and three touchdowns. He continues to show a strong chemistry with
DeSean Jackson,
Jeremy Maclin and
Brent Celek, who combined for 11 catches, 186 yards and three scores.
Posted: Oct 29th 2009 12:00PM ET by Dan Graziano (RSS feed)
Filed under: Giants, NFL Analysis

It was the fluke catch of the week. Sunday night at the Meadowlands,
Giants rookie receiver
Hakeem Nicks caught a tipped pass that had been intended for
Mario Manningham and carried it all the way to the end zone for a 62-yard touchdown against the Cardinals. It was a shake-your-head play -- the kind the defense can write off as an excusable miracle, a bizarre bounce, nothing more than pure luck.
But they say luck is the residue of design, and the people who know Hakeem Nicks say that design is a huge part of his game. Coaches and teammates past and present describe Nicks as an intensely studious, hyper-prepared player who obsesses over his playbook and game scripts and would rather talk about route-running than anything else. Knowing Nicks means knowing that the seeds of that Sunday night play were planted years ago at Independence High School in Charlotte, N.C., where a coach named Tommy Knotts drills 16- and 17-year-old kids on something even
NFL coaches struggle to get across -- the importance of film study.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 12:05PM ET by Dan Graziano (RSS feed)
Filed under: Cowboys, Eagles, Giants, NFL Analysis

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- This was to have been the Giants' get-right game. Sure, New Orleans beat them up last week, but the Saints are an undefeated team that was coming off a bye week and playing at home. The Giants spent the week shrugging off that loss and promising to be better this week at home against the Cardinals. The defense promised more blitzing and less trepidation. The offense promised to be sharper. To a man, the Giants were certain they'd come up with a big win Sunday night over the reigning NFC champs...and then they lost.
"For whatever reason, we've had two weeks in a row now where one area has not performed very well," Giants coach
Tom Coughlin said. "So, back to the drawing board."
And back, whether they like it or not, into a three-team NFC East tussle where there's no clear favorite -- not even them.
Posted: Oct 26th 2009 1:18AM ET by Dan Graziano (RSS feed)
Filed under: Arizona Cardinals, Giants, NFL Quarterbacks, NFL Analysis

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- They flew all over the field all night, racing to the ball, harassing the opposing quarterback with a variety of aggressive blitzes. The defense was disruptive, deep and energetic, and the main reason its team won the game. All of this was to be expected, of course...just not from this particular team.
On this night, it was the
Arizona Cardinals beating the
New York Giants at the latter's own game, forcing four turnovers and out-muscling Big Blue 24-17 on national TV in the swamps of Jersey.
"We definitely fed off our defense tonight," Arizona quarterback
Kurt Warner said.
Posted: Oct 25th 2009 7:30PM ET by Adam Gretz (RSS feed)
Filed under: Arizona Cardinals, Giants, NFL Live Blogging

We have an exciting matchup on Sunday night as Eli Manning and the New York Giants host Kurt Warner, Larry Fitzgerald and the defending NFC champion Arizona Cardinals. We'll be chatting about all of the action -- and the rest of Sunday's slate of games -- starting at 8:15 PM ET, so please, stop on by and join us.
Posted: Oct 22nd 2009 12:00PM ET by Chris Burke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Giants, Raiders

After the
Giants rolled Oakland 44-7 in Week 5, New York linebacker
Antonio Pierce spoke rather candidly about the easy victory, saying that the game
felt like a "scrimmage" and that "there was no vibe of trying or effort from the
Raiders at all from a defensive standpoint."
Not surprisingly, Pierce's comments didn't sit well with the Raiders -- particularly Oakland defensive end
Richard Seymour, who enjoyed a little schadenfreude after New Orleans pummeled the Giants in Week 6.
Posted: Oct 22nd 2009 11:12AM ET by Dan Graziano (RSS feed)
Filed under: Arizona Cardinals, Giants, NFL Quarterbacks, NFL Analysis

When
Justin Tuck showed up to watch film of the
Arizona Cardinals this week, he was fired up. He knew what he was going to see -- Cardinals QB
Kurt Warner sitting behind his line, taking forever to get rid of the ball while a swarm of receivers ran their routes downfield.
"I was licking my chops," said Tuck, the Giants' defensive end. "But then I went in there and...he's not holding the ball as long as he used to. We're looking at an average of 2.2 seconds, which is a drastic change."
You wouldn't think the Cardinals would have to change much, playing in the weak NFC West and coming off a season in which they represented the NFC in the Super Bowl. But starting with an opening-week loss to the surprisingly game division-rival 49ers, the Cardinals found life as defending conference champs to be tougher than they thought it would be.