Game?......What game?

It has taken four days but I’m finally ready to talk about the Giants losing this past weekend. It was a sad, sad day in the Allweez household. Ok maybe not the household but definitely for the daddy part of the house. My wife and son were oblivious to the fact that my favorite team was getting their taints handed to them by the Eagles. I knew I wasn’t over the game on Monday when I picked up my son from his daycare and saw that one of his classmate’s parents had on an Eagles jersey and I immediately wanted to punch him in his neck. And I would have done it if he wasn’t about 5 inches taller and 80 lbs heavier than me. All I could muster was “Aww man take that jersey off, ha ha ha”. Ha ha ha my ass. My pops had been warning me since week 14 of the NFL regular season that he didn’t want to see the Eagles in the playoffs and I told him to basically shut it, the Giants will handle it. I’m almost positive my Pops jinxed the game five weeks in advance. Thanks Pops.

I knew we (the Giants) were in trouble when Eli Manning turned into Eli from 2006 and threw his first pass of the game 5 yards short of wide receiver Steve Smith. We ended up kicking a field goal and losing the momentum we had from the long opening kick off return. It was all downhill from there. I have to pin most of the blame on this loss on Eli anyway. And don’t hand me any bull about it being a windy day and that affected his throwing. Donovan McNabb played with the same conditions and he played like it was 80 degrees out. It was funny hearing the commentators and various people talking about how Eli misses Plaxico Burress. NO SH*T! He’s 6’5 and can jump, you take him away and Eli can no longer just throw it up and have Plax go get it. Neither Smith, Domenik Hixon nor Sinorice Moss are game changers and Amani Toomer runs like he’s 50 years old at this point. Even before the playoff loss I though Plax should be brought back next year and this only reinforces that point but he would definitely be on a short leash. One man is not bigger than the team. With Osi “Five Hour Energy” Umenyiora coming back from knee surgery the defense will be strong again next year. I swear if I see that damn 5 hour energy commercial one more time I’m going to.........buy it. Many people will argue this but I believe Brandon Jacobs has to go. I like the way the offense flows with Derrick Ward starting and Ahmad Bradshaw coming in off the bench. Ward is a much better pass catcher and to me he runs just as hard as Jacobs and he’s 40 lbs. lighter. We’ll be alright. And I guess I’ll be alright also. I think I, like other Giants fans were spoiled after last years magical run and all the excitement that came with it. There’s nothing like having people congratulate you on your team’s victory because they know that was your team from the beginning and you didn’t just jump on the bandwagon. I hate people like that! I guess I’ll just have to sit back and see if Donovan McNabb can take “us” to the Super Bowl. Go Eagles!