It was a tale of two Giants teams in today's 35-24 win against the New York Jets. In the first half, Eli Manning was 3 for 10 with 22 yards and 1 Interception. The defense, which had 12 sacks the previous week against the Eagles, had none in the first half and were playing completely average football.
In the second half, the team came in and it was a different story. Led by a more confident Manning (13 for 25 for 186 yards, 2 TDs and 1 Int on the day), the return of Brandon Jacobs (100 yards and 1 TD on the day) from injury and two interceptions and a TD return by rookie CB Aaron Ross, the Giants racked up 28 second half points to beat the Jets.
Aaron Ross was really, really impressive today. On top of his two picks (one of which was returned for a 43 yard TD), he was in the right spot at the right time on numerous occassions to tip balls away from Jets receivers. He stole the starting CB spot away from disappointing 2 year veteran Corey Webster two weeks ago and it looks like we finally have found a shutdown corner.
Let's see if the Yankees can keep my Sunday positive. ...
1 comment:
Aaron Ross is a ROOKIE. Because he has one good game, he is a shutdown corner? Unreal, lets see what he does against a real quarterback who can actually throw the 'out' pattern with velocity. Chad Pennington is a has been, although Ross had a great game and has talent, rookie's are incredibly inconsistent. They need to start him as a punt returner, that was one of specialties at Texas.
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