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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- New York Giants fans have had enough of the losing. Even before they saw their team drop an eighth straight game, a plane flew over MetLife Stadium with a banner imploring ownership to get it together.
"MR MARA ENOUGH - PLZ FIX THIS DUMPSTER FIRE," the banner read, addressing Giants president and CEO John Mara.
Then the team went out and found a different way to lose, this time getting a game-tying field goal blocked in the final seconds of a 14-11 loss to the New Orleans Saints.
:-) we have NYG fans reading our forum and taking a play from our playbook?
Originally Posted by VAChief:
I would think OBJ would count as a dynamic talent when he was with them.
Originally Posted by Mecca:
They had Beckham and they currently have Nabers.
These are good observations, but at the same time Beckham may be the very proof of my concept. He did indeed have four good seasons with the team (and a few games in a fifth), and is apparently second all-time on their receiving yards list - with 5,476 yards. He trails only - you guessed it - Amani Toomer.
So 5,476 yards is second all-time for a 100+ year franchise. That's pathetic.
The Chiefs franchise is half the age of the Giants, and 5,476 yards would rank Beckham 10th on our list, just barely ahead of Eddie Kennison and behind Chris Burford who was playing 12-game seasons. So the second-best receiver in Giants history is the equivalent of Eddie Kennison for the Chiefs.
Now, I'll grant that Beckham did it in five total seasons, as opposed to seven for Kennison, but that says a lot about the Giants franchise.
Nabers looks pretty spectacular right now, so I suspect that he's got potential to rank high, maybe even as high as Amani Toomer some day. [Reply]
But they're supposed to lose so they get a good pick. They already shit canned Daniel Jones. It's not like the team might bring him back next season. I'm not sure what they're wanting him to do. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I've never figured out how the Giants operate. I know they've won some Super Bowls thanks to Spagnuolo and maybe Lawrence Taylor, but they never seem to have any dynamic talent on their team.
Quick, name the five most exciting players on the Giants team in the past 30 years.
There are none. The Giants never have exciting players. Is Victor Cruz their most dynamic player of the last 30 years? Yeah, they had Barkley, but what did they do with him? Maybe Tiki Barber sneaks into that time frame, but raise your hand if you're wowed by a holy trinity of Cruz, Barkley, and Barber.
And it's not even the past thirty years. Boring is in that team's DNA. Here's the team's own list of its 100 greatest players. https://www.giants.com/100/top100players . Check it out. Amani Toomer is in their top 20. Amani Toomer. This is a team that's over 100 years old, and Amani Toomer is one of the 20 best players in their history? You can scroll down further and see such luminaries as George Martin, Chris Snee, Brandon Jacobs, and yes, that's Lawrence Tynes listed as their 91st-best all-time player.
If that franchise wasn't grandfathered in, the league would replace them.
The guy who flies the plane for this banner should offer the Jets and Giants fans a discount if they both go in for it and he can just do it for whomever is home each week.
(For the Jets the banner should just say "Sell the team") [Reply]
Clay took a post from X (i think), changed some words and applied it to Humphries and how great he was doing in practice. A few people took the bait and Clay ended up explaining the joke.
Check the Humphries thread from post #1153 on.
Then whenever someone overreacts or copies something, you just say "It's a copy pasta. Relax." [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I think it's geography related. If you live within four miles of downtown Cincinnati, it's not gross. Outside that radius, it is gross.
Hmm. You may be on to something. I live about 2 miles from the river. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I've never figured out how the Giants operate. I know they've won some Super Bowls thanks to Spagnuolo and maybe Lawrence Taylor, but they never seem to have any dynamic talent on their team.
Quick, name the five most exciting players on the Giants team in the past 30 years.
There are none. The Giants never have exciting players. Is Victor Cruz their most dynamic player of the last 30 years? Yeah, they had Barkley, but what did they do with him? Maybe Tiki Barber sneaks into that time frame, but raise your hand if you're wowed by a holy trinity of Cruz, Barkley, and Barber.
And it's not even the past thirty years. Boring is in that team's DNA. Here's the team's own list of its 100 greatest players. https://www.giants.com/100/top100players . Check it out. Amani Toomer is in their top 20. Amani Toomer. This is a team that's over 100 years old, and Amani Toomer is one of the 20 best players in their history? You can scroll down further and see such luminaries as George Martin, Chris Snee, Brandon Jacobs, and yes, that's Lawrence Tynes listed as their 91st-best all-time player.
If that franchise wasn't grandfathered in, the league would replace them.
What's even more amazing is their championship teams didn't just skate by with cheap wins, they beat some the best teams in history. The 1990 Giants had a backup Jeff Hostetler at QB and an old Ottis Anderson at RB and they took out the back-to-back champion Niners who were loaded, then beat one of the best offensive teams of all time in Buffalo. They did have a legit great defense though.
Then the 2007 team was a wild card team, middle of the pack in everything, and they ended up beating undefeated NE who was maybe the greatest regular season team of all time. Then 4 years later they get back as a 9-7 team with one of the worst defenses in the league, and they go into Green Bay who were 15-1 and defending champs (with a top 5 all-time offense) and they thump them. Then they go beat Tom Brady again. Not sure there's another franchise quite like them. [Reply]
