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If you’ve read any of my work before, which I’d be surprised if you did, you would have read a time or two that the Washington Redskins are my favorite team. They have been since I was old enough to handle the remote control, and they most likely will be until I’m old enough to not handle the remote anymore. As you can imagine, I’m quite happy about there 6-2 start this season. In fact, they should be 7-1, but they lost to the then winless Rams at home. See, that’s what it’s like to be a Washington Redskins fan. Even when they are doing very bad, they have a way of keeping the game close, meaning you as a fan are forced to watch to the very last second, the one they usually lose. This season they are doing the same thing, only in reverse, winning most of there games by six games or less. It’s one of my dreams that sometime in the near future they win a game by 30-40 points, so I can enjoy the second half of a game, and my wife doesn’t have to hear my scream at the TV every other play.
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If the New York Giants had any kind of hangover after winning the Super Bowl, they got over it during the preseason. The team hasn’t missed a beat, and in many cases they look even better than their Super Bowl team. Their defense has been stellar despite key injuries and losses in the offseason, and Eli Manning is playing with a confidence that only winning a Super Bowl can give you. With the NFC East looking like the best conference in football the Giants will need to keep up the winning with both the Cowboys and Redskins with one loss in the division, but so far so good.
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Imagine you are a Washington Redskins fan. The preseason gave you Pro Bowl defensive end Jason Taylor, you started the preseason 3-0, and your offense was looking pretty good under first year head coach Jim Zorn. However, things quickly change, first, Jason Taylor gets a sprained knee, and then they lose their last two games to Carolina and Jacksonville by a combined score of 71 to 6.
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The New England Patriots and the New York Giants put on one of the most memorable games that actually pretty much amounted to nothing. The Patriots were going for the perfect 16-0 regular season, but the Giants had already solidified their spot in the playoffs. At the time, the Giants got a lot of bad press for taking this game so seriously, and many wondered what Coach Tom Coughlin, and company, was thinking. After four quarters of fantastic back and forth action the Patriots had their perfect season, but the Giants had built a type of motivation that can only prepare you for the playoffs. The Giants have won ten home games in a row, and technically, since New England finished with the better record, they will be the home team in Arizona on Super Bowl Sunday.
Eli Manning has grown up during the playoffs. After many years of hearing taunts that he’ll never be as good as his brother Peyton, the Manning name will start a Super Bowl for the second year in a row. Manning hasn’t just “done enough” to get his team to the Super Bowl, he has been an unequivocal leader. Manning has completed 62.4 percent of his passes in the postseason, six percent better than in the regular season. He is also averaging over seven yards a completion, a full yard better than his post season stats. The most important number has got to be his touchdown to interception ration. In the regular season he threw for 23 touchdowns and 20 picks. In the playoffs he has thrown for four touchdowns and zero interceptions. Despite the NFC championship game being his worst game, rating wise, it was his toughness in the below zero temperature that really lets fans know he’s come on in to his known. One of the old stigma’s about Manning is that he was a softy. You can’t say that anymore.
The running back duo of Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw has also been quite effective. Jacobs hasn’t had a stand out game yet in the playoffs, but he has recorded a touchdown in all three of the Giants postseason games. The 6’4” 260 pounder is a bruising back that wears out the offensive line, just in time for them to send out the speedy Bradshaw. The rookie Bradshaw is gaining a ton of experience in the playoffs. He is averaging a 4.2 yards a carry, and has scored once in the playoffs.
It’s amazing that Manning and wide receiver Plaxico Burress have the on field connection that they do. Burress has been listed on the injury list every week this year with a hurt ankle. Manning and Burress do not practice together. Their “practice” consists of running warm-up routes before the game. Burress still finished the regular season with 12 touchdowns, and has caught 16 balls for nearly 200 yards in the postseason. Imagine if they had practiced together.
One wide receiver that hasn’t done as well as expected in the playoffs is New England’s Randy Moss. Moss, to his defense, has had some very tough cornerbacks to play against in the postseason, but that didn’t seem to stop him during the regular season. In the playoffs Moss has a combined two catches for 32 yards in the Pats two games. That’s a far cry from his NFL best 23 touchdowns during the regular season.
Perhaps the biggest story surrounding the Super Bowl is if Tom Brady’s foot is indeed injured. Vegas lines seemed to think so when the pictures first surfaced, but even later in the same day he was seen without the walking cast on his foot that is causing on the racket. My guess of Tom Brady not playing this game is about the same as the sun not coming up tomorrow, virtually none.
The other major storyline surfacing is the nearly two touchdown favorites the Patriots have been listed as. After all, how in the world can they be that big of underdogs after they just lost to them by three points? My answer to this question is this: That game was a home game for the Giants. Secondly, while ultimately it seems this game helped propel the Giants to the Super Bowl, but in reality the game didn’t mean that much. The Patriots have Brady, the best big game quarterback in the NFL. I personally like the spread in this game, with maybe the Patriots winning by closer to 20.
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As Giants defensive end Michael Strahan put it after their first round playoff victory over Tampa Bay, “I hope the third time is a charm,” in reference to their two previous regular season losses during the regular season to the Dallas Cowboys. Their first match-up of the year came during the very first week of the season, a high scoring affair with the Cowboys coming up on top 45-35 in Dallas. In New York during week nine the Cowboys took that one 31-20. However, the Giants may be facing their nemesis at just the right time.
Never before in the history of NFL has a loss seemed so important to a team’s morale. During the final game of the year the New York Giants and New England Patriots played all of their starters in a seemingly meaningless game, as both teams have already etched in stone their playoff destinies. The one thing that was on the line was an undefeated season for the Patriots, which they ultimately got, but not after one of the best games of year. The 38-35 loss left the Giants feeling great, knowing they just hung with the best team in the league for four quarters, and left New York hoping to see them again. Amazingly the Giants only lost one game on the road this year, that was the Dallas game. It’s been said that one of the hardest things to do in the NFL is to beat the same team three times in the same season. The Giants are hoping that rings true for them this coming week.
The Cowboys went through the majority of the season riding high. Quarterback Tony Romo spent the majority of the season finding Terell Owens wide open down field. Win after win piled up, until around the 15th week of the year. They unexpectedly lost to the Eagles in Philadelphia, but only expected that to be a hiccup. Ironically, or because, according to some people, this was also the game that Jessica Simpson and Romo officially became a couple, and Simpson was seen in the press box cheering for her man throughout the game. Many fans, and even some teammates, view Simpson as a distraction, and will most likely boo if they see her at this game, no joking aside. After beating Carolina in week 16, they lost to the Redskins in week 17, allowing Washington to sneak into the playoffs. While that didn’t ultimately affect the Cowboys playoff standings, it was Romo’s 7 for 16, 86 yard performance that has Cowboys fans wondering if the Cowboys will once again sputter out early in the playoffs.
Of all the games this weekend, I see this one as having the biggest chance of an away team winning. The Giants are playing well, and the Cowboys could be in for some trouble. I feel this game is a pick-um, with the ultimate deciding factor being the play of Tony Romo. As of this second I am leaning towards a Giants upset victory.
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The New York Giants tried their best to keep New England from finishing undefeated, but ultimately fell short in a well spirited effort 38-35, after leading the majority of the game. Because the Giants took the last game of the season so seriously, besides not needing the victory for anything other than pride, is why I believe they are going into the game more mentally prepared then Tampa. Tampa has known it’s spot in the playoffs for the last two weeks, and in those two weeks rested the majority of their players. I know they are professional athletes and used to these situations, but I don’t think I can be argued too much when I say that can’t help the morale of your team. It is a plus that they are going to be rested, and playing at home, but even on paper the Giants might be a better team, despite everything previously mentioned. In many eyes the Bucs benefited from a soft schedule, playing in a division where the majority of the teams were out of the playoffs by just over the halfway point of the year. To be fair, they did win the games they played to earn the home field playoff game, but they are just about an underdog going into it.
Eli Manning is more known for being the “other Manning,” but him’s pretty good himself. This season Eli has thrown for 23 touchdowns, but his 20 interceptions are a concern among fans. At times Manning has appeared to lose focus, and as a result made poor plays that have hurt his team, including throwing an interception against the Patriots that could have given them the lead on one of the last drives of the game. Running back Brandon Jacobs is also enjoying a career revival, averaging five yards a carry, while scoring four times. When Plaxico Burress is healthy he is one of the best players in the league, and even when he has nagging injuries, like he has this year, he’s still very good. He’s caught 70 balls this year, with 12 touchdowns, among tops in the league among people not named Randy Moss. Burress has been on the injury list listed as “probable” for nearly the entire year, often only practicing with Manning minutes before the game.
As mentioned the Bucs have lost two in a row, and have also lost three of four. They are led by the ageless wonder Jeff Garcia, who parlayed a great season last year with the Eagles, to another playoff appearance, this year as the full time starting quarterback with the Bucs. Garcia very rarely makes mistakes, throwing for only four interceptions this with 13 touchdowns. Running back Earnest Graham has done a fine job filling in for injured Cadillac Williams, running for four yards a carry, and scoring 10 times.
I think the Giants are playing better football now, and are on a high after almost knocking off the team some are calling the best others. I think they will go down to Tampa and take care of business by a score of 27-21, in a very exciting game.
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