So
I’ve been having a little bit of writer’s block for the past few weeks thinking
of something interesting I could write about.
Last
night’s Redskins-Giants tilt changed that for me.
Word
on the streets is that the Giants are going to inevitably choke the division
away to either Dallas or, more likely, the bandwagon-jumping inducing
Washington RG3’s.
For
the love of God, please keep touting the RG3’s as the stereotypical “team no
one wants to play against going into the playoffs” if they so happen to stay
hot and steal a wild card berth or division crown from somebody.
As
a lifelong Giants fan, I can go the rout of beating a dead horse into the sky (they get
beaten into the ground too much for my liking) by saying that the Tom
Coughlin-era Giants are at their best when they’re under the radar and nobody
believes in them, which is certainly the case again after the loss last night.
And I will say that particular point remains valid but I won't stop my pro-Giants argument there.
Also, I
would be remiss to mention that before we beat the Packers into the sky (again,
I’m sparing the ground for the remainder of this piece), our very own experts
here at P.S.S. predicted two weeks ago that, of all the teams who were leading
their divisions at this time two weeks ago, the Giants would be the ones to let
their division lead slip away.
Yes
a win would’ve helped tremendously with the Saints, Falcons, Ravens, and Eagles all left on
the schedule. But to discount the defending champs, who enjoy proving people
wrong, is just flat out st00pid. Because as nervous as Giants fans are about the
teams remaining on our schedule, you can be sure that fans of those same teams
are just as nervous about having to play the Giants this close to the end of
the season.
Reasons
for this could include, but certainly wouldn’t be limited to, the Saints having one of the worst defenses in NFL history, the Falcons only scoring two points the last time they came to our house in last year's playoffs and having barely beaten any good teams, the Ravens having just two wins of more than ten points all season, the Eagles being due to lose at Giants Stadium and being without Vick (who owns the Giants), Shady, or DJAX, or the fact that the
Coughlin-era Giants play their best football when people are down on them, they’re
fighting for their lives, and they have to win.
Last
night’s game, despite it being a division game and an important one to win with
the teams left on our schedule, was not a “must win” game by any means.
I
say this because I had a strange feeling all week leading up to last night that
the Giants were going to lose this game.
The
way that Steve Young and Trent Dilfer drooled over RG2+1 and his performance on
his Monday Night Football debut almost made it seem like they were destined to
win this game no matter what. Sometimes, these things happen in sports and
there’s nothing we can do ab00t it.
By the way, I swear to God I thought Young and Dilfer were gonna whip a certain body part out of their clothing and turn the postgame show into a lemonparty.org-type celebration that would've made Edge & Lita's live sex celebration on RAW a few years back look like an episode of Barney and Friends. It was that bad (Speaking of Barney and friends, I would like to share my opinion that Baby Bop was a huge slut... there, I said it...)
And now, a few fun facts for errebody:
1)
The New
York
B)
We could be in trouble down the stretch because Sean Locklear’s injury means we
have to play shitty-ass David Deihl on the O-line. Jeebus help us.
Pen)
Kevin Gildbride’s ineptness in calling football plays on a professional level
is masked by the fact that we’ve won two Super Bowls with him calling plays but
it doesn’t change the fact that he’s not fit to be calling plays for the
Giants. I've been saying this for years and will continue to do so until he is replaced.
Bat
Signal) Don’t read too much into the fact that we lost a division game. Yes it’s
important to win division games if you want to win your division. But as we
showed last year when the Redskins swept us, and plenty of other times in the
past, one division game does not a season make.
Eleventy
Billion) The difference in this game was a fluke offensive fumble recovery for
a TD. The Giants defense never recovered from that. Tom Coughlin is too good of
a head coach to let something like one play mentally taking your defense out of the game happen to his team again after this. This wasn’t a situation where “losing
this game the way we did was the best thing that could’ve happened to us” but
losing the way we did didn’t hurt us nearly as bad as everybody thinks.
Finally)
One of the other things I talked about while we were predicting division
collapses two weeks ago was how I felt the Redskins had the potential to get
hot and steal a playoff spot from somebody. The other thing I thought about,
but didn’t mention on the air, was that if this does happen, I feel they can
steal a playoff win from any team they wind up playing against… except the
Giants.
RG2+1
seems like he’s going to have a great career (Not to say he’s gonna pull a Cam
and slump for most of next year but weren’t we all saying the same thing about
Cam at this time last year even though his team hadn’t won as many games? Just
something I thought would be worth mentioning). The ESPN folk were jizzing themselves
over the fact that he won the first rematch he ever had in his career (while failing to mention that he lost the first time he played us when he came to Giants Stadium. But why would the ESPN folk ever mention that and portray RG2+1 in any sort of negative light?)
Joy
Freakin Rapture. Let him have this one. Once he beats a division rival in a playoff
game, whether it’s at home or potentially at Giants Stadium in potential
30-degree and/or snowy and/or rainy weather, then I’ll acknowledge that he
could go on to have a great career. I’m not saying he can’t pull it off. I’m just saying he
hasn’t done it yet. And if he does it in his rookie season, I'll be a believer.
As
good as RG2+1 has been, as much life as he’s given this franchise, and as much as I actually like him because he hasn't acted like an asshole, I just don’t
feel that he’s ready to lead this team to a championship yet. Sure you have to
at least make it to the playoffs to have a chance to make a miraculous run, but
the fact is they aren’t there yet. And until they get there, I’m not going to
worry too much about it. Especially if we get a third chance to show him
exactly what a real, battle tested, championship-winning,
tailor-made-for-the-playoffs defense is.
By the way, I'm pretty sure that the Redskins don't control their own destiny just yet as RG2+1 said last night. There still are a few teams ahead of them in the standings and a lot that needs to happen for his team to make the playoffs besides them winning out.
Looking
ahead to the rest of the week to the things I’m most and least looking forward
to.
Things
I can’t wait for:
-Not being sick anymore.
-Being able to feel my legs after some exhilarating flag football action this past Sunday morning.
-Wrestling this Saturday night for NWA On Fire in Parsippany, NJ after having to travel to Maine a few times this summer to wrestle for them.
-To
be able to brag on the next Pondcast about how my fantasy basketball team for our Pond Scum Sports
league is now in SOLE POSSESSION of first place bitches!! I might as well brag
about it now before I inevitably choke the lead away.
-To be the first PSS'er to win a third game of Around The Horn style "let's make everyone think we know what we're talking about when it comes to sports" game on this week's Pondcast.
Things
I CAN wait for:
-Having to cover our pool at my house which is still open. It's freakin December.
-Chopping more firewood.
-Having to take these Wellness Formula pills to help me not be sick anymore. They taste like sadness with a twinge of asshole.
-To
hear Kyle jizz in his pants over Greg McElroy. Granted the kid has lost three
football games since the eighth grade, but still. If the Jets were playing
anyone other than the only other team in the league with a QB situation worse
than the Jets (KC doesn’t count anymore because Brady Quinn won a game. Doesn’t
mean Barkley or Geno Smith won’t be a Chief next season), there would be no
jizzum getting spilled over the Jets’ third string QB (although I feel this is
a spot where I should mention that Ryan Fitzpatrick saw his first NFL action as
a third stringer in St Louis and won a game. Just some food for thought).
We
end the festivities with a rant that I posted on Facebook yesterday morning.
Fact:
You’re not a fan of a football team if you don’t watch their games or make an
effort to, “didn't realize they were playing last night until someone at work
told me this morning,” or make no effort to know anything about any of their
players other than the ones the media shoves down your throats. The only thing
worse than these people are the people who talk about the sport like they’re an
expert and try to disprove all of your opinions about their team while telling
you every reason why your team is playing poorly, all while you’re listening to
them knowing full well that they have no idea what in the burnt sienna hell
they’re talking about.
And
it’s a burnt sienna hell because blue hell is beaten into the ground… or sky…
depending on which way you want to look at it.
Deuces,
-Ray
Ray Marz-
(Current,
Record-Obliterating FIVE-TIME BWO United States Champion)
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