Friday, November 30, 2007
Giants Gear Up For a Motivated Bears Team
Let me first say that all of us here at the Big Blue Review want to send out
our condolences to Sean Taylor's family and friends, team mates and the
thousands of Redskins fans for this week's tragic event that claimed Sean's
life. Although the Giants and Redskins are rivals, lets not forget that it
is just a game, and when something like this occurs it affects all players,
teams and personnel.

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It was the game that we all want to forget, especially Eli Manning. Four
times the Giants were driving down the field to put the Vikings away, and
each time Minnesota came away with interceptions, three of them returned for
touchdowns.

Everyone has bad games. For Eli Manning, and hopefully Giants fans
everywhere, this is as bad as he will ever get, and hopefully, we will never
see it again.

For the past three games the Giants offense has been sputtering. Obviously
not all Eli's fault, but the line has been playing mediocre as of late, the
receivers can't seem to get open, and when they do, they either don't catch
the ball or the fumble it.



Until last Sunday's game against the Vikings, these problems and issues were
well hidden by the fact, the defense played extremely well, including two
late picks against Detroit to seal the victory. The Giants defense didn't
get the chance to bail the offense out this time as Manning made sure of
that by hitting wide open Vikings players four times, twice inside the red
zone.

Fast forward to this Sunday and the game against the defending NFC champion
Chicago Bears. The Bears are struggling this year in all facets of the game,
except for Devin Hester, who I believe can return a kickoff for a touchdown
even if you had 100 guys trying to stop him. The guy is unbelievable and the
Giants know it all too well. Let us not forget the 108 yard return for a TD
off of a missed field goal, or as a Giants fan, maybe we should.

The Bears are coming off of an emotional win against the Broncos, but the
2007 Bears are not the 2006 Bears. This team is mediocre this year, and it
took an overtime field goal to beat a Broncos team that just isn't that
good.

As we saw against the Vikings, no game is a gimme. However, this is a game
the Giants should win, and win fairly handily. There are questions though
about Big Blue and that is, can the offense get back to where they were
earlier in the year? If so, they should easily put this game away early. If
not, the Giants could be in for another long game.

I think the Giants will win this game. This isn't the team of the last
couple of years, when they seemed to collapse at the end. This team, for the
most part, is healthy. Tom Coughlin's style of coaching and discipline have
finally set in after four years. I also believe that loss against the
Vikings, may have been the best thing to happen to this Giants team. It
exposed their struggling offense, and now the coaching staff and the players
must work harder to right the ship.

Regardless of the outcome, and the fact the Bears are struggling this year,
this a great match up, with two of the league's storied franchises.

About the Author:
Michael C. Podlesny is the co-host of the Big Blue Review, a weekly podcast
featuring the latest news on The New York Giants. The podcast can be
downloaded from Michael's blog at http://BigBlueReviewPodcast.Blogspot.com.



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