My thoughts on regular season wk 8

1. We lose quite a bit on the ground with Russell Wilson, but what we gain through the air more than makes up for it

2. Najee with 3 straight 100 yd games...

3. Calvin Austin came up huge

4. Love Wilson's long ball element, but the te's need a lot more work

5. Watt and Highsmith lived in the backfield

6. Overall defense got gashed on the ground and in the middle of the field

7. This game should've been a big blowout..... We shot ourselves in the foot in the 1st half.....

8. Beanie Bishop is starting to become a big play machine

9. Broderick Jones senior yr at Georgia.. 1,000 snaps ... 1 penalty...... 2nd yr pro.... 1 penalty or 2 per game

10. Mason McCormick and Ryan McCollum got an important lesson from Dexter Lawrence

11. Thank you Brian Daboll for whatever that was on the 2 pt conversion

 

After seeing how well Najee runs with a FB, I say go out and sign another Watt. Derek Watt!

 

Great win. The officiating wasn't great. Fortunately, we were in the plus side in that category. Could have easily been us beeyatching about getting hosed by the refs. I didn't like the challenge on the Pickens TD / not a TD - lost a challenge and a TO. Great effort by Watt to get the strip sack recovery to stop a drive where they were carving us up. Same thing on the last drive. The secondary has a long way to go. Nice to see CA3 put some points on the board. Saw some good things that they should continue to build on. Some things that need to get fixed.

 

Great points! Couple more points, maybe we don’t need to trade for a WR. Get the TEs going more and maybe WRs gain more confidence. I loved that Tomlin didn’t shut it down early in the 4th quarter, played to win the game. Also punt on 4th and 2 was right call, make them drive the field with no timeouts. 6-2 bye, now rest and get healthy.

 

He's the 3rd player to do it on Monday Night Football along with Dez Bryant and Devin Hester.

 

Agreed. There is the potential to be so much better, but they have some things to fix on both sides of the ball. Hopefully, they will get Frazier back after the bye. McCollum was fine last week, but Lawrence kicked his ass.

 

Was tough to watch at times in the 1st half. 2nd half provided more glimpses of Russ' long ball accuracy, albeit a couple under thrown. Also showed that Russ definitely shouldn't run with the ball anymore. Glad they got the W and now for a nice break before they face some really tough games.

 

Lawrence kicking McCollum's ass was expected, but Lawrence didn't totally wreck the game.

 

This O line needs to get healthy.

Giants gave us all we could handle in the trenches.

i think the difference was our passing game special teams and TJ

 

Is Cam Sutton back on the team now? I thought his suspension was 8 games.

 

Najee with 100 yards rushing in three consecutive games for the first time in his career .

 

He should be eligible to come back after the bye week, Beanie might keep Sutton on the bench .

 

Comming into the game the Giants were leading the league in sacks, so a long night was to be expected for this patchwork O-Line.

 

The only help they are going to get up front is Frazier. Don't get me wrong. That is big. McCollum wasn't terrible last week, they missed Frazier tonight.

 

Can the Steelers get Giants WR Darius Slayton to just stay in Pittsburgh, make the deal Khan.

 

Great write up as always. I wanted to hit “agree” for every line item

 

12. Another disaster for Mike Tomlin on the Challenge Call.
Previous week Mike Tomlin threw the Challenge Flag late, because he was still trying to see the replay on the Stadium Screen.

After the Game this week: When asked about his challenge in his post game interview, Mike Tomlin said "He did not know they (the NFL) uses replay assist." Why doesn't Mike Tomlin get someone to help his with the Replays and the replay rules?



The Ravens hired an ex-NFL official to sit in the booth for them and be in charge of the Challenges. Not on the field hoping that they get a good view of the play on the Stadium Replay.

 

I think they need to reconsider any pitch play to Warren and Harris. Those plays really demonstrated the difference between the Giants run defense and the Steelers. The Giants lber core were able to resist the urge to fly at the line of scrimmage and wait until the rb had the ball and the attacked. The Steelers immediately charged the line once the ball was snapped and ended up getting swallowed by blocks or opening up a hole for the Giants to run through. Buck and Aikmen said Elliott was the only that could have stopped him but failed to see Queen flying into a block and then impacting his teammates and knocking them out of position.

 

So coaching does matter?!?!


Who would have thought?!?!

 

Agree with all of them minus number 10... though for another reason.


It wasnt that Mason McCormick and Ryan McCollum getting schooled by Dexter Lawrence be the takeaway here. The takeaway should be Dexter Lawrence's name being brought into the DPOY has serious validation. Hell, even if Zach Frazier was in there, I doubt he would have done any better. Why?!


As it stands currently, there isnt an NFL IOL that can go toe to toe with Dexter Lawrence 1 vs. 1. Even double teams are no match for him. If anything, Dexter Lawrence kept New York in this game far more than his box score would indicate.

 

Washington had a big play early on and then no other targets - wish they'd use the guy more. Boz 4 field goals had a long of 31 - red zone should be Washington time.

 

Say it again for the coaching staff and nay sayers in the back!

 

I hate that 4 trips inside the 10 only resulted in FGs.

That is some Cower boring Martyball safe playing in your fears stuff. I sure hope that knowing the opponent was the hapless NY midgets with a very good D line we’re the only reasons they try at least ONE 4th down play for a TD.

That stacking of 3 points aren’t going to play well against the more high powered O’s on the post bye week schedule.