Busy week for me, so won't be posting much. I will be a force in the weeks to come. As the resident stats guy I offer only 1 stat that that pretty much explains the loss.
Here was the results of the first 6 times that the Giants were faced with a 3rd and long.
7 yd pass, 1st down
25 yd pass, 1st down
17 yd pass, 1st down
7 yd pass, 1st down
10 yd pass, 1st down
30 yd pass, Touchdown
The d-line and linebackers played their guts out (right Gibbs?), but when responsibility was turned over to the secondary they played terribly. 6 consecutive conversions on 3rd and long?
Props to the rest of the defensive front that no matter how poorly the secondary played, and no matter how many times the offense 3 and outed to put the defense right back in, they never gave up and continued to sustain excellence to the closing whistle.
1st week MVP - Defensive Line + Linebackers
At one point during the game London Fletcher had 15 tackles. So much for him being on the downside of his career.
Agreed. The Manningham TD was just about the most digusting thing I've seen from the Redskins D in the past three years.
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