I have to start this time with the positive. Odell Beckham is a flat out monster. The superlatives are never going to do this rookie justice. He has everything but the size, and even there he jumps up to get balls that belie his height. As long as this guy stays healthy (he looked like a decoy after the back injury in H2), he is going to be a SUPERSTAR.
Another bleeder lost. And the bleeding continues. 3-8. 0-8 vs teams with a winning record. But none of that sh*t matters. I will tell you something that matters- Dallas fans outnumbering NYG fans and cheering the final call. I hated building a new stadium. I hated those PSLs when they sold them expensively, and this is what we get… a home Dallas crowd in New York. It makes me ill. It is all PSL-dom. A 3-7 team which prices expensive licenses to corporates, a late night work evening, regular guys who are stretched on the expenses, DAL game gets the highest scalped price of the year, so fans sell the tickets. If the Giants did not waste $850MM (+$300MM on Lehman counterparty default?), they would never have to gouge fans and we would not have so many DAL fans in the house. There is no free lunch. $1.7B for MetLife, for cupholders.
2014 was not going to be the Giants year for many reasons. Injuries. New OC. New FAs. DAL and PHL both on the upswing. No pass rush. So personally, my expectations were low. These last two losses, along with the Cardinals bleeder earlier in the year, while awful, are not devastating. The revelation that is Odell Beckham is easing our Giant collective pain.
I get excited about 2015. I get excited thinking about Cruz and Beckham on the field at the same time. We have needs. But Donnell is going to get better. Jennings has a little left in his tank. Eli, despite the awful INT, has a title in him. Schwartz is part of the OL solution. We need more beef for the OL, and we need a pass rush. As good as JPP is against the run, ironically he should be taken out in pass rush situations. He does not have a pass rush. 3.5 sacks in 11 games, with ~2 of them probably secondary sacks. Moore got a sack, so there is optimism there. The end of the game was a bitter reminder of how important it is to get to the QB in the NFL. It cost the Giants the game. JPP’s primary job description is pressuring the QB. He was mostly invisible tonight and he has been mostly invisible in pass rush all season.
Ahead are JAX TENN & WAS. These teams are collectively 6-27. That is as bad or worse than the Giants. So we would expect some lipstick on this 2014 season, 3 wins to make the team 6-8 before playing 2 tougher teams (STL, PHL) at the end of the year. PHL and DAL are both 8-3. The season is for all intent and purposes done. All I am doing now is seeing who looks good for 2015.
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