A Game the Giants Should have Won

This picture of Jeremy Shockey says it all ...

Today against the Cowboys was a game that the Giants definitely should have won. We settled for FGs when we needed to drive a dagger in the Cowboys and score TDs. We somewhat contained Tony Romo -- although don't tell Fox that, as they believe he's the second coming of Fran Tarkenton. Eli had a good game - 270 yards and 2 TDs and no INTs. But we just couldn't get the job done tonight.

When it comes down to it, we made too many stupid personal foul penalties, our defense didn't make 3rd down stoppages when it should have and our coaching and play calling is just downright awful.

I'm just disgusted right now with the Giants coaching staff. I didn't have a problem with them going for it on 4-1 in the 2nd quarter when they were near the 30 yard line of the Cowboys, but I definitely had a problem with the way the coaches calls plays when we were inside the 5 yard line of the Cowboys. There's no way that you can be at or around the 5 yard line of the Cowboys twice in the game and not score at least one touchdown there. It's just inexcusable to go away from the strength of Brandon Jacobs in that situation and not at least try once to run the ball in from that distance.

Sure one of the two wildcard spots in the NFC is still a possibility and the season is long from over as it seemed that the team came together somewhat during the week of turmoil and played a halfway decent game today. But don't tell me that right now. We're 6-6 and that's just not acceptable for the type of team that the Giants should be.

I'm sure that the media will play up the fact that the Giants won because of the late game heroics of Tony Romo. That's not the case at all. He threw one pass at the end of the game to put them in FG position. He was given the opportunity to do so because the Giants left way too much time on the clock - 1:06 - after the late TD catch from Plaxico. Romo did not have a great game, but I'm sure that the media will say that he did. Eli put the Giants on his back at the end of the game by driving the team 65 yards down the field in two minutes to tie the game. That fact will be lost because the Cowboys won the game by 3 points. It drives me insane.

It remains to be seen how the Giants will respond in next week's tough game against the Panthers. If they don't win, kiss the season goodbye.