{"id":759299,"date":"2017-10-18T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=759299"},"modified":"2017-10-18T20:00:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T00:00:55","slug":"old-school-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/old-school-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Old School Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Guest Post<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">This past Sunday we saw vintage 1980\u2019s Bill Parcells football. \u00a0Recall that those teams had average (at best) wide receivers like Bobby Johnson and Lionel Manuel. \u00a0They had great tight end play with Mark Bavaro. \u00a0They had straight-ahead runners like Ottis Anderson and Joe Morris. \u00a0They won by winning the trenches, shortening the game by running the ball, playing stout defense, and not making mistakes. \u00a0The scheme maximized the personnel. \u00a0Kudos to McAdoo, Sullivan, and Spagnuolo for dusting off this game plan.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">That being said, the Giants are not as good as they looked Sunday night, nor as bad as they\u2019ve looked in their losses. \u00a0They are two shanked punts away from being a .500 team. \u00a0They\u2019ve been competitive in most of their games. \u00a0That\u2019s the good news. \u00a0The bad news is that they are pretty banged up right now and the win vs Denver is a single data point. \u00a0If they can squeeze out a win this weekend vs SEA and get healthy over the bye week, maybe they can pick up some momentum going into the second half of the season.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post This past Sunday we saw vintage 1980\u2019s Bill Parcells football. \u00a0Recall that those teams had average (at best)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104436596],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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