Giants-Packer Game Thoughts

[Ruben Douglas]

Because the majority of my friends are Packer fans, and I am unwilling to go over and talk trash on the Packer board, I wanted to start a thread to at least make a few comments on the game.

First of all, it has been terrible living in Milwaukee the past week having to listen to all the Packer garbage. It was a foregone conclusion up here that the Packers were Super Bowl bound and a "Team of Destiny". What Destiny they were talking about I'll never know. Mayor's were changing street names, people were believing in a "G-Force", Seinfeld was being pulled off the air, Dad's were taping jersey's to their kids, and the list goes on. It has been an interesting week in WI.

On to the game...

First of all, my feeling is that the 1 single play that changed the game wasn't the Favre interception or any TD or turnover, it was a prevention of a turnover. It was a play by #43 on the Giants...I don't know his name. But it was the play that McQuarters fumbled the punt return at the end of the 4th quarter. A Packer player got his hands on the ball and just when he had control of it #43 reached out and knocked it loose allowing the ball to bounce back 5 yards and into another Giants player hands. Thus allowing the Giants to keep the ball and most importantly, not giving the ball back to the Packers with the chance to seal a Super Bowl birth.

The QB play was also intriguing. Manning played one hell of a game...enough said. Favre on the other hand, played a bad game. For the first time in his career there have been two games that Favre has looked too old to play the game...the Bears 2nd game and today. The cold obviously had a lot to do with that but it was actually strange to watch Favre look his age. But he did not lose the game for the Packers...

The Packers secondary lost the game for them tonight. It was not the play calling by McCarthy (although very questionable) or the lack of a running game, or Favre's play. It was Al Harris getting made to look like small kid on the High School football team practice squad that everyone liked to line up against in practice because they knew they would own him. Plaxico was the big brother beating up on his little brother in a game of one on one. Then Harris came down with a "cramp" (you could substitute "cramp" with "ego" and it might be more accurate) and had to take himself out of the game until it felt better. Needless to say, it was a fun side story to the game.

Generally speaking, the Packers should have won this game. They had more than enough chances and failed to take advantage of them, including the benefits of some calls by the refs (KGB's offsides that wasn't called, a pass interference that wasn't called, etc.) but were never able to get over that hump. The Giants gave this game away but the Packers were unwilling to accept the belated Christmas present.

Due to the Packer loss, I feel at ease knowing that there will be approximately 50-100 grown men in the state of WI without the Brett Favre tattoos that they would've inevitably gotten had the Packer's made another trip to the Super Bowl.

[emperorjones]

Just my quick thought? 1st - go talk trash. More people should do it on both sides. Thats half the fun of being a fan. Having other fans talk trash when your team loses and getting to talk back when you win. Without that I'd probably have grown up as much less a Bear fan or a Bulls fan (Knick fans drove me nuts as did Viking, Dallas, Redskin & Packer fans in the early 80s when Bears and Bulls were laughable).

As for the game. Good analysis. The only thing that could salvage this bust of a season for me is watching the Packers lose at home in the cold like they did. Today is a good day.

[tclg]

I just cant believe tynes hit that field goal in the freezing cold from that far

[WEFFPIM]

First of all, my feeling is that the 1 single play that changed the game wasn't the Favre interception or any TD or turnover, it was a prevention of a turnover. It was a play by #43 on the Giants...I don't know his name. But it was the play that McQuarters fumbled the punt return at the end of the 4th quarter. A Packer player got his hands on the ball and just when he had control of it #43 reached out and knocked it loose allowing the ball to bounce back 5 yards and into another Giants player hands. Thus allowing the Giants to keep the ball and most importantly, not giving the ball back to the Packers with the chance to seal a Super Bowl birth.

I don't remember the Giant who did that, but Jarret Bush was the Packer that tried grabbing the ball rather than fumbling it, and #43 came in to knock it out.

The play for me that caught my eye, and I saw it when it happened was at the end of the 3rd Quarter, Packers ball at their own 35-40 yard line. 2nd and 10, and Favre airs it out for the touchdown into triple coverage. When that happened I said, "Favre is back to his old self." Just two plays later was when McQuarters intercepted his pass and then fumbled the ball to Tauscher. The Packers caught a lucky break on a Favre mistake. That wasn't gonna happen again.

That's when I knew the Packers were in trouble in a game they should have been able to control.

[NLK]

I wanted the packers to win (i know, i know blasphemous from a BEARS FAN). I only wanted them to win, hoping Favre would retire after the SOUPer Bowl (intentionally misspelled).

Nothing is as funny as Cliffs post here: http://www.realgm.com/boards/football/v ... php?t=4673

[SportsWorld]

That was a fun game to watch. It couldn't have ended better with Tynes missing his first 2 field goals from a shorter distance only to get redemption and kick the game winner from a longer distance. Go Giants!

[Bulls69]

My two favorite team in the NFL are the Bears and any team that is playing the Packers I loved it .