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That was painful to watch. The Giants outplayed the Colts in many ways, but ultimately managed to shoot themselves in the foot with mental mistakes: penalties, dropped passes, poor clock management, and lousy passes. So, so bad.
The good:
- The O-line were excellent, as has become usual, even with an injury or two
- The run game was even better than I hoped, with the team averaging more than 7 yards per carry (!)
- Decent defense, especially as the game went on, with a few glaring exceptions
- Solid run defense
The bad:
- Eli's passes were not on the mark, at all
- Multiple dropped passes
- Multiple dropped interceptions (!)
- Eli's bad decision to try to hand off to Tiki when he wasn't where he was expecting
- Multiple stupid penalties
- Shockey's completely boneheaded decision to run back in during their last-ditch attempt to score
- Feeley's kicking
- The general lack of pass rushing
Overall, the Giants squandered more opportunities than most teams ever get, and instead of having a nice, neat victory to ride into week two, they had a disheartening, depressing loss that everyone knows they should have won. Eli is showing continued questionable judgment and poor accuracy, which are not good qualities in your quarterback. The pass rushing was a big disappointment - with Strahan, Umenyora, Tuck, and Kiwanuka all seeing playing time, and not one of them really managing anything substantial, well, you have to be disappointed. When the only sack of the game comes from Robbins, of all people, you know something's a bit off. And those three missed interceptions (not to mention a couple of tipped passes that could theoretically also have been interceptions) really hurt.
All in all, what had the potential to be a great game (and was looking like one at first) turned into a major disappointment and a terrible note to start the season with. Here's to hoping this is the shock to the system that the Giants need to start playing like a Superbowl team instead of a wildcard team.
The good:
- The O-line were excellent, as has become usual, even with an injury or two
- The run game was even better than I hoped, with the team averaging more than 7 yards per carry (!)
- Decent defense, especially as the game went on, with a few glaring exceptions
- Solid run defense
The bad:
- Eli's passes were not on the mark, at all
- Multiple dropped passes
- Multiple dropped interceptions (!)
- Eli's bad decision to try to hand off to Tiki when he wasn't where he was expecting
- Multiple stupid penalties
- Shockey's completely boneheaded decision to run back in during their last-ditch attempt to score
- Feeley's kicking
- The general lack of pass rushing
Overall, the Giants squandered more opportunities than most teams ever get, and instead of having a nice, neat victory to ride into week two, they had a disheartening, depressing loss that everyone knows they should have won. Eli is showing continued questionable judgment and poor accuracy, which are not good qualities in your quarterback. The pass rushing was a big disappointment - with Strahan, Umenyora, Tuck, and Kiwanuka all seeing playing time, and not one of them really managing anything substantial, well, you have to be disappointed. When the only sack of the game comes from Robbins, of all people, you know something's a bit off. And those three missed interceptions (not to mention a couple of tipped passes that could theoretically also have been interceptions) really hurt.
All in all, what had the potential to be a great game (and was looking like one at first) turned into a major disappointment and a terrible note to start the season with. Here's to hoping this is the shock to the system that the Giants need to start playing like a Superbowl team instead of a wildcard team.
