As they have all season, the Giants used a strong running game and a great defensive effort to win a game. Today against the Buffalo Bills, the Giants won 38-21 despite fighting off the rain, snow, hurricane force winds and a another subpar effort by QB Eli Manning. How anyone could live in Buffalo is beyond me.
I don't even know what to say about Eli. He's shown flashes of being a great QB in many games in his 4 yard career, but he put up another horrible game today against the Bills, throwing for a little over 100 yards, 2 interceptions and 2 fumbles - one which wasn't his fault.
It seems like every game he fumbles at least once and it's definitely something that is disconcerting. It's obvious that around the 2nd quarter, the Giants coaches realized that Eli wasn't going to win the game for him so they went exclusively to the running game.
And it turned out to work for the G-Men as the Bills couldn't stop Brandon Jacobs or 7th round draft pick Ahmad Bradshaw - the second coming of Tiki Barber - at all. On the day, Jacobs racked up 145 yards including a 43 TD rumble. He was outdone by Bradshaw who ran for 151 yards, including an awesome 88 yard TD sprint.
Next week will be tough with the Giants going against the 15-0 New England Patriots. It'll be interesting to see if the team rest Plaxico Burress and the rest of their injured players. I think that they should.
After that it's off to face the Tampa Bay Bucaneers on January 5th in the first round of the playoffs. Anything's possible in that game, but Eli better shape up fast if the team has any chance at all at advancing deep into the playoffs.
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