Giant Pride
By SuperFan
Adversity can do one of two things to a team. On the one hand, it can expose serious flaws, and create internal damage to a team’s core. On the other hand, if the team can rise above it, well, it can expose true greatness. And that’s what we all saw last Sunday as the Giants put a pounding on the Washington Redskins.
Everyone, myself included, seemed pretty worried going into the game that the whole “Plaxico situation” would be too much of a distraction for the Gmen to overcome. Not so much!
This team is too full of talent and too well-coached to let something like this effect them. That’s why we’re the defending Super Bowl champions, and on pace to have an opportunity to repeat again this season. Ironically, it was the Giants’ defeat of the Patriots in the Super Bowl last February that has seemed to desensitize fans from how unbelievable of a season we’re having. We’ve played twelve games, and won eleven of them. Wow. That’s already more wins than last year’s regular season!
Eli is finally getting some MVP consideration, and deservedly so. People are beginning to understand that numbers aren’t the only thing that make a player great. His value to this team is arguably greater than any other player in consideration.
I must say I’m really glad NFL Network is on the air, so fans aren’t relying on ESPN all the time to get their sports fix. Why is that, you might ask? Because unlike ESPN, the NFL Network’s main focus is on SPORTS! Here’s what I mean: I woke up this morning and turned on Sportscenter, and all I saw for the first twenty minutes of the show was “analysis” of the Plaxico Burress situation. I understand it’s a big story, but what does it have to do with what happens on the field?? No offense, Plax, but I think the gmen have proven that your absence hardly makes a difference. Now, I switched back to NFL Network, and they were wrapping up last Sunday’s action. THAT’S FOOTBALL. A player being escorted to a precinct (by the way, how ironic is it that he went to the 17th precint!?!?!) – that’s an off-field issue. Let Jim Rome go to town on it.. You can easily update us on the situation with a quick telling of the facts (five minutes at the most). Why you feel it necessary to have a legal analyst come on the show and blab on about things that have nothing to do with the impact on the team, I can’t understand.
Fortunately, the team did the right thing and put him on the non-football injury list, pretty much ending his tenure with the team. Good. Let’s close the book on this and be done with it – the team’s certainly been able to.
Remember before the Seattle game, when everyone was saying how it was a good thing to test the team’s waters without Burress just in case God forbid something were to happen? Well, “God-forbid-something-happened.” And Giants fans can rest comfortably knowing this team has the depth and the ability to win, just despite it all.
What I’m most worried about is the situation surrounding Antonio Pierce, however I’d like to believe that he’s a smart enough guy to know how to deal with the situation in the right matter.
As for the state of the team, well, I’m really getting low on adjectives. You look at the numbers, and they’re staggering. Every week people are waiting for the wheels to fall off, and when we face our most distracting challenges, we prevail incredibly. Every player is contributing, and every decision being made by the coaches is working. This is the kind of team you show a person who’s never really heard of football and say, “you want to know what a great football team looks like? It looks like THIS!”
I have no doubt that we’ll be able to continue this top-notch play for the rest of the season and right on into the playoffs. Yes, Plaxico had a huge game against the Packers last January, and obviously had the game-winning TD catch in the Super Bowl, but this team will be able to adjust to his post-season absence appropriately. As I heard a Giants’ fan say calling into a radio station, “Are we a better team with Plaxico on the roster? Yes. Are we a worse team with him off it? No – we’re just a different team.” Well said.
Putting this behind us, let’s get ready for a huge game this weekend against the Eagles. It’ll be for the season sweep against them, and all but clinch the division. In our house. BRING IT ON!!
I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving – I know I did (although I did miss the warm weather a whole lot – glad to back out west). If you want to contact me to discuss the gmen, this week’s game against the Eagles, or even tell me a funny Thanksgiving story (I promise I’ll attempt to respond with a good one of my own), the address is gmensuperfan@gmail.com. Until next week, GO GMEN!!
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