The struggle across the Atlantic was HUGE…and UGLY! The New York Giants came away with a win over the Miami Dolphins. Somehow…

Eli Manning had the worst day ever completing only a handful of passes. 8 to be exact and 59 yards. Not a very good air show. The ground works were much better with a total of 189 rushing yards. The only touchdown scored by the Giants was on a 10 yarder by Eli Manning. The rest of the yardage was used up by the “2/3 headed monster” of Brandon Jacobs, Reuben Droughns. and even Jeremy Shockey!

It was all Giants early on. After the Giants kick off to start the game, the Dolphins move the ball downfield to the Giants 29 yard line and stall. Jay Feely misses a 48 yard field goal wide right. Yes, THAT Jay Feely who was so good for the Giants. From there the Giants took over the game.

The Giants take control and move the ball the other way for 4 minutes 47 seconds. Lawerence Tynes kicks a 20 yarder to put the Giants up for good. The Giants defense comes up big near the end of the first quarter with Gibril Wilson recovering a fumble thus allowing the offense back on the field. The Giants are unable to get a first down and have to punt…

With 1:09 left in the first half and the Giants at Miami’s 10 yard line, Eli Manning looks for Jeremy Shockey who is covered and runs to the left corner for the Giants only touchdown. Miami gets the ball on the ensuing kickoff. After 2 completions by Cleo Lemon for 12 yards and a first down, Giants defense comes up with another big play. Michael Strahan strips the ball from Cleo Lemon, picks up the fumble and rumbles for 4 yards. 2 incompletions by Eli Manning and an 11 yard run by Brandon Jacobs, Lawerence Tynes connects from 41 yards out. With no time after the kick off, the Dolphins enter their locker room down 13-0.

The second half was pretty much boring until the end of the third quarter. With 1:07 left in the quarter, Jay Feely connects from 29 yards to put Miami on the score-board. Now it’s the Giants turn once more. The move the ball from their own 35 to the Dolphin’s 11 yard line. Lawerence Tynes misses from 29 yards out wide left. My first thoughts were “Here we go!”

Sure enough…Miami is forced to punt after a 3 and out caused by the Giants only sack of the day. Fred Robbins sacks Cleo Lemon for an 11 yard loss. Miami punts, Giants ball with first and ten at their own 41. Very good field position is what I’m thinking now.

3 runs by Brandon Jacobs for 25 yards and 2 first downs in Miami territory at the 34 marker is even better. Here it comes……HOLDING, OFFENSE, 10 yards. 1st and 2. (The hold was at Miami’s 36) Incomplete pass to Plaxico Buress. 2nd down. Illegal block for 10 yards. 2nd and 32 now. Illegal substitution for another 5 yards. 2nd and way tooooo much at this point! Jacobs runs for 4 yards and Shockey catches a 10 yard pass. 4th and forever…Jeff Feagles punts the ball into the endzone for a touchback and it begins looking dim. Starting at their own 20, Cleo Lemon moves the Dolphins methodically down field. After a couple penalties, Unnecessary Roughness on the Giants and Intentional Grounding on the Dolphins, Miami has the ball on the Giants 21 after the 2 minute warning. Cleo Lemon hits some guy named Ginn and the extra point is good. 13-10 Giants!

1:54 left and Jay Feely attempts an onside kick which bounces out of bounds. Giants run out the clock to hold on and win!

My game thoughts. Yup, Eli Manning was horrible with only 8 of 22 for 59 yards. Some were Eli’s fault, some were the weather, and then others were the Miami defense. Miami’s game plan had Will Allen (Yes, THAT Will Allen) defending Buress and he did a FANTASTIC job on a couple of deep passes by Eli. The running game was nothing less than excellent, even with the mess they called Wembley. The DEFENSE was once again the reason for the win. They came up HUGE when they had to as well as play an entire game. SOLID, unbending, and BIG PLAY domination. GREAT JOB once more for the defense. I did see Aaron Pierce being held and turned around which was not called. It’s okay though since the next play the Giants got the ball back by Strahan’s fumble recovery.

Next up….THE COWGIRLS…I mean the Cowboys! Sorry, inside joke…We all know the Giants after a bye week. Their record is not so great. It’s time to start the chant, LET’S GO BIG BLUE! 2 weeks should help!

P.S. PLease let me know if you want me to continue the complete game rundown or just what I have done before. IE; just my comments on the game itself. Thanks!

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