Positives

The defense played well in the 2nd half..

Portis looked like he was a step away from breaking a few long runs..

The game looked spectacular in HD.

Rogers did have some really tight coverage at times and there wasn't much more he could have done. Well, except for catch the damn ball when it hits him in the hands but that's business as usual for him.Agreed - Rogers should be commended for coming back in 10 months from a torn ACL AND MCL. Some CBs would never be the same after that serious a knee injury. I wrote Rogers off as a nickel early on, but his coverage was actually pretty good considering that he had great chances at 2 INTs.

I don't know that you can take many positives from the D last night. Almost 400 yards given up, couldn't stop the run, couldn't stop the pass. They did pick it up a little in the 2nd half.

Blache: He's not exactly media friendly if anyone saw Comcast Postgame. I wouldn't want to ask him questions. He looks like he'd strangle you. It's early, but I think we might miss GW's this year.

Rock: Played really well.

another thing...and perhaps this is all really second to the posts above...i didnt really see and devastating hits or blows that would cause the recievers or runners to shy away from the next hit, i was hoping landry or someone would lay the wood. Also...was sad marcus got taken out of the game so much...

I'm really anxious to see Springs come back where we can really start bringing some pressure.

The offense calmed down and got better as the night went on. The defense calmed down and got better as the night went on. We held the world champs to 6 points after the 1st quarter, and scoreless in the 2nd half.

Good news is we have a week and half off leading up to two straight home games. Time to digest the ugly game film, time to get Jason Taylor back to 100%, time get Smoot and Springs healthy, time to man the F up and show something to the home crowd.

And Zorn needs to buy Clock Management for Dummies.

^^^ amen to springs coming back, by far our best cb.

You all really think that wasnt PI on smoot in the endzone? really?

looked like smoot got his hands in toomers chest well before the ball got there. Maybe if smoots head was turned towards the ball they could call it incidential contact, D player was just trying to make a play on the ball but smoot was staring directly in toomers chest. I am more upset about jacobs not getting a flag for slapping marcus in the head when the play before they were jawwin at each other. then the refs are trying to simmer things down. if you dont want a game to get out of hand, throw the flag when a guy slaps another on the head.

yikes how many effin times did they have to show that jacobs running over landry play.

defense held giants to 16pts is a positive. just need offense to get going.

I don't know that you can take many positives from the D last night. Almost 400 yards given up, couldn't stop the run, couldn't stop the pass. They did pick it up a little in the 2nd half.


They were able to stop the pass though, eventually. It seemed like there was a lot of confusion in the zone defense between Smoot, Rogers and Landry, and lot of that could be contributed to Landry's having missed the entire preseason and not having been on the field with those guys since January. By the 2nd quarter, those lapses in coverage were not nearly as bad.

As for stopping the run, it did get ugly, but the offense certainly wasn't helping out.

So, optimistically, if Landy and the corner's just needed a bit of work together, and the offense had actually had maintained a few extended drives that gave the defense a chance to rest, than the almost 400 yards (354 to be exact) could have easily been under 300.

As strange as it may sound -- I thought Moss and Randle El looked more involved and potentially explosive than anytime in the past couple years. They seem to be more comfortable in this offense. I can see a lot of production coming from these guys this season when the passing game gets more in sync. We just need fewer 7 yard routes on 3rd & 8.