Giants: No Playoffs. Book it. Done.
A modest prediction
The fact that Eli Manning has a Super Bowl title almost ruins the prestige of the highest honor of American football. Hell, Mark Rypien and Jeff Hostetler have one. The NFL barely escaped further degradation of the title of World Champions when the Falcons and Seahawks fell short in their one and only shots. All this proves of course is the blind squirrel indeed does find a nut every so often and sometime that nut is named after the *most overrated football mind of our time.
That’s why the Giants will join the likes of The 2003 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the 2003 Oakland Raiders, the 2004 Carolina Panthers and the 2005 Philadelphia Eagles among others as one off Super Bowl contenders that failed to make the playoffs the following season.
Yeah, that’s right. The Super Bowl Champion New York Giants will fail to make the playoffs. What could I possibly be basing this on, you ask? We could certainly start with Osi Umenyiora’s season ending surgery and the departure of Michael Strahan. We could base it on the fact that the demonstrative windbag and woefully overrated Jeremy Shockey was unceremoniously let go before the season began. We could mention that the upright and punishing running style of Brandon Jacobs puts a shelf life of about 8 weeks on his season. This list could go on for days, however there is only one real reason the Giants won’t make the playoffs. They’re just not that good.
B..b…b…but last year’s playoffs!!!
Ah, yes where they ran into those perennial buzz saw Buccaneers and dispatched them easily, then took it to the Cowboys in Texas Stadium. You know the Cowboys right? That’s the team that hasn’t won a playoff game since when, the fabled Barry Switzer era? Let’s just say that team is not living up to expectations and shuffle along from there.
B…b…b…but the Packers game!
When the Giants were sent to the Super Bowl by playing a tough game and by Bret Favre’s heroic choke? Leaving the only post-season game the Giants truly outplayed their opponent. Super Bowl XLII (or 42 for the Roman numeral illiterate) saw a team that both overestimated their ability to chuck the ball all over the place and underestimated a hungry opponent. The Giants saved their best game for last and that’s to their credit. In virtually every facet of the game they had a pretty tight grasp, and still needed the most remarkable play in Super Bowl history to give them a chance at the lead. One can watch the David Tyree play a thousand times and wonder how, first that slack-jawed yokel got away from the most pressure he’d seen all day then how the hell DT stuck that ball to his helmet. It nearly shut down the entire region of New England for a month. It still stings fans of the most hated team in the NFL.
So again I conclude, the Giants simply are not a very good team. They are a team that got hot at the right time last year and since then lost some pretty serious players. But look on the bright side Giants fans – Eli will still pout like Mr. Missississy when he throws a pick, and that’ll be enough for it to become as funny to you as it is to the rest of America.
*Yes, Vince Lombardi is the most overrated football mind of the modern era. I’ll elaborate on that as the season progresses.
2 comments:
Keep telling yourself that Teddy, thats a good story you have told. I hope you fall alseep dreaming of NY Giants failure. You have lots of faith in your thinkings.
I bet you had the same self confidence right before kickoff of the Super Bowl last year.
LOL
Nice post, cant argue with a thing...except for the Giants no making the playoffs part.
Well done, its going to be a great year
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