[RobH4413]

Well it's early Monday morning, and I woke up itching to take a look at the game film. I know this is no postgameheroes.com, but here's my little 2 cents on what occurred.

If you go back to the "Skins vs Giants" game thread, you'll see that I was begging for Campbell to step up and start making plays. I kept reiterating that it was time for Jason Campbell to grow up a little, step into the ever breaking down pocket, and deliver. I'll have to say that if there is one encouraging thing from this game (aside from special teams and defensive turnovers), it would have to be Jason Campbell's poised play. Did he play a flawless game? Hell no. But when the pressure turned up, and his number was called, he came out swinging. He's also learning how to move better in the pocket, and that's HUGE in his development.

Also, after initially overreacting due to the my frustrations of the game, I really am going to have to agree with Gtripp and the likes about the play calling. I felt there had to be some other explanation, and sometimes I too fall victim to the easy outlet of play calling. Forgive me, I am humbled.

For those of you still not convinced about the 2nd half play calling...
Here's my 2nd half break down.



Drive #1

1st and 10-
CP Run to the right. Gain of 3.
2nd and 7
12 yard pass, incomplete. Miss communication b/w Santana and JC (the holding up the number 6 play)
3rd and 7
Pass, behind moss. Errant throw. Way off.

Not bad play calling, poor execution.

Drive #2

1st and 10.
Swing pass to Portis, loss of 4.
2nd and 14
CP run for a gain of 8.
3rd and 6
Decent protection. Campbell probably chose to scramble too early. Maybe the coverage was there. I wish I had a blimp cam, because I couldn't see the receivers.
Punt.

You could make an argument either way, but Campbell kind of freaked out and started running in circles or something. Rob votes +2 poor execution.

Drive #3 (I didn't have video of this, so this is from NFL.com)
1st and 10
(12:25) 89-S.Moss left end to WAS 47 for 2 yards (29-S.Madison). End around
2nd and 8
(11:45) 26-C.Portis left tackle to 50 for 3 yards (91-J.Tuck).
3rd and 5
(11:08) 17-J.Campbell pass incomplete short middle to 26-C.Portis.
Punt

Bad play calling the end around. +1 Play calling.

Drive #4 (There's now 8:19 left in the game)
1st and 10.
Spread 4 WR's wide. Run up the middle gain of 1. Strahan abuses Todd Wade, pushing him back 2yds into the backfield, enabling him to practically close line Portis. Great play by a great DE.
2nd and 9.
Muffed hand-off. Portis fumbles.

Yeeeeeeeeeeah. +1 Poor execution. Score is 3 - 1, in favor of poor execution.

Drive #5
1st and 10
Play action, deep to Moss. Great ball, just a tad over thrown. Aikman brings up a good point. He says that Campbell's deep balls are a little flat. Basically saying, that his deep ball needs to be on the spot, because they provide little time for Moss to run under them.
2nd and 10.
Screen pass, gain of two.
3rd and 8.
ARE crossing route, Campbell throws a great ball under pressure and converts.
1st and 10.
Pass on the left sideline. Throws it up for ARE. He's covered well, Incomplete.
2nd and 10.
Play action, pass to Betts in the flat. Gain of 13.
1st and 10
Pass to Sellers on an out route. Too high.
2nd and 10
Mike Sellers whiffs on a protection block. Forces Campbell to pull the trigger. Incomplete pass down the field intended for ARE. Wade is abused again on the end. Strahan knocks down JC. Great Job by JC getting rid of the ball.
3rd and 10
Campbell drops back a tad to far. Pocket is there, but Campbell stumbles attempting to step into it. Strahan knocked down Cooley on the end, probably freaked out JC, and he fumbles. Cooley recovers. Strahan once again forces Campbell into a mistake.
Punt

+1 Poor execution. Not a bad drive, just can't control that d-line.

Drive #6
1st and 10
Campbell throws to a covered Betts. Great coverage by Giants. Campbell had plenty of protection.
2nd and 10
The defensive ends rape our o-line. Campbell steps up great in the pocket. Kiwanuka (sp) cleans up and makes a play. This seems to be a reoccurring theme here. Our o-line is over powered not letting this offense run. I don't care what you call, you cannot execute with these guys in your face.
3rd and 11
4 WR's spread wide. Campbell throws a short ball to ARE (mabye a catch, maybe not) Doesn't matter. Casey Rabach holds. O-line is overpowered once again, if he doesn't hold this is a sack.
3rd and 21
4 wide once again. Campbell with time. Steps up, drills Moss. Great pass, catch, timing. Campbell got rid of the ball quick, and beautifully.
4th and 3
False start. Rabach. Weird call, not sure I totally agree with this one. Whatever.
4th and 8
4 wide. Campbell throws to Moss. Complete, first down. Moss comes back limping.
1st and 10
Campbell drops the snap.
2nd and 10
Spike
3rd and 13
Down towards the middle, just shy of the end zone. Perfect pass to ARE. Great play.
1st and 10
Spike
2nd and goal
Campbell drops back. Fires to Sellers, throws a terrible ball. Way low. Sellers has no chance to catch this.
3rd and goal (Portis on sideline)
Betts drives down to the one,
4th and Goal
Giants defensive line consumes our o-line. This play is a microcosm of the 2nd half. I'm not going to even hate on this call, our o-line needs to make this play. We need to push here, and simply fail to do so.

Gotta go poor execution once more. Making the final score 5 poor executions, to 1 poor play calling.

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Hats off to the G-men. They came in, came back in the 2nd half, and dominated our o-line. Anyone having issues with the play calling needs to do what I did. Take a deep breath.

Go back to the film, and take a look at what actually happened. Poor execution, miscommunication, and fumbles, coupled with an o-line that got dominated. Earthquake probably got the gist of it in his initial list of reasons. The play calling wasn't stellar, but it certainly deserves little, if any blame on the outcome of the game.

This wasn't on the play callers folks. This was a great Giants defensive line dominating an injured, patchwork o-line. End of story.