Giants and Eagles are preparing for another big weekend of football, the tight competition in the NFC east has made each week critical, especially after the fiasco last week at Lincoln Financial Field. The Eagles have taken over control of the division after a pretty complete performance by the Eagles and the Giants once again shooting themselves in the foot with turnovers and penalties. They’ve lost control of the NFC east and they now lead the NFL in turnovers. They actually contained Vick better than any team thus far this year and they completely blew it with stupid turnovers on offense. Ahmad Bradshaw lost another fumble, Eli threw 2 more picks and of course his pathetic attempt at a dive/slide to cough up the ball after getting one of his picks recovered because of an Asante Samuel fumble. I’ve been defending Eli all season blaming the majority of his interceptions on some unsure hands in the Giants receiving core, but it keeps happening. It’s kind of like Derek Jeter and his seeing eye singles, if you only watched 100 Yankee games in your life you would say Derek Jeter gets a lot of lucky hits, but if you watch the Yankees enough, you see that Jeter has got hundreds of those hits in his career, something that happens frequently enough isn’t luck, good or bad. Besides cleaning up the interceptions Eli has to learn how to slide. Its utterly insane that a professional athlete cant master this simple athletic feat accomplished by thousands of little leaguers each spring and summer. I’m a big Eli fan and it annoys me when people don’t give him his proper respect as an elite NFL quarterback, however when he does stuff like stumble to the ground like a drunk girl and cough up the ball at a critical time in the game after throwing a pick, it gives people ammunition to call him a chump, and that makes me mad at him. A lot of the time Eli looks like Peyton Manning’s brother but once in a while he looks like Matt and Tim Hassleback’s little brother. Make no mistake, this is a must win for the G Men, the comforting thing is that after the last two performances Coach Coughlin will have the Giants focused, he is already shaking things up by giving Brandon Jacobs the start at running back after Ahmad Bradshaw fumbling another two times against the Eagles.
The Eagles on the other hand will be playing the Bears who are on fire right now. Vick will have another tough test this week as he goes from one top defense to another, only this time he will be playing on the road which will make things even tougher. Asante Samuel will be out for the game against the Bears which should make Jay Cutler happy, the Bears are a tough team if their offense plays decently, and the keys to that are Cutler avoiding interceptions and Mike Martz running the ball on a somewhat consistent basis. This could be my bias talking but I think the Giants will bounce back this week at home and the Eagles will slip up on the road.
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