John Clayton - reality?

We can beat any team in the league if we play our game. It doesn't have to be perfect but it can't be as bad as it was last week. The worse game we've played otherwise was week one adn we barely won. Other than that we really haven't played fantastically except the 49er game. To me that shows we are a good team who does not need to be perfect to win. Plus what the heck is "perfect" anyways? Perfectly execute the gameplan or perfectly execute the gameplan that all the "experts" think we should be using? My guess is that they are often very different.

Great points - I agree that we don't have to play out of our gourd to get the win. Maybe he just wasn't really thinking about it when he wrote it, but his statement seems to imply he thinks we do.

Last weeks game was a Fluke.

The Giants come into the game with a lot of emotion coupled with the fact that because of Pearse they have a better idea of our game plan then most teams.

So we get behind early. Because of that we throw the game plan out the window. Now the defense knows exactly what we are going to do every play.

In the second half any time we were about to establish a little rhythm to get moving either a penalty brought it back or a fumble turned it around.

It was a game where everything went GOOD for the Giants and everything went BAD for us.

[QUOTE=dblanch66]The Giants are a good team. Stats mean diddly. 5-2 speaks louder than, "number 31 ranked defense". That "lower rung" defense pretty much took care of our offense last week, so we have no crowing room. Of course, they still have to come into Fedex in December and we'll see who the good team is on that day.[/QUOT

As I said to a Giants fan who now is predicting a Superbowl victory after one game, " You don't have enough old owners to die each week for the emotional win you had against the Redskins." I said that based on my knowledge of the inconsistent emotional rollercoaster the Giants have been on for the last two seasons. They were 5-2 last year what happened? Record 6-10. One of those losses were against us 31-7. Try 2003, 4-4, they didn't win another damn game. (4-12) And of course we were apart of that losing streak. Lastly, Eli Manley is 0-5 on the road. Is that a fluke or is there a serious problem with him leaving his comfort zone? I predict that this 2-5 San Francisco team will beat them by pressuring Eli and forcing turnovers. The 49ers are not the same team at home as they are on the road and with NFL sack leader Brayon Young And former Redskin Derek Smith running around, anything is possible.

Last year we lose in Dallas on a bomb and it's validation that they are better than us, even though we had been beating their brains out all day.

I understand your point, but ... we weren't exactly beating their brains out in that game. Our only touchdown to make it 10-6 didn't come until there was 6:44 left in the game. So prior to that Dallas was ahead the entire game.

The Giants are a good team, and we played the absolute worst I've seen us play in a LOOOOOONG time. But we dont have to play a perfect game to beat good teams. I think everyone would say Seattle is a pretty good club, we didnt play nearly a perfect game there. Chicago while not a great team, still a very solid one at this point, and we didnt play all that well in that game either. So to discredit Clayton, I disagree on this one.