Quote (xnozx. @ Sep 6 2013 02:06am)

We better get with this "hurry up" pace offense trend this season... I swear we are the slowest freaking team in the league.

Gilbride better get the fucking plays in faster this season.

Makes no sense.



http://boards.giants.com/showthread.php?33357-A-big-trend-in-the-NFL-is

Quote (Grizzy_Green @ Sep 6 2013 10:11am)

Dude look at our quarterback. Slow quarterback = slow offense. I'm 100% fine with it rofl, as long as he keeps winning.

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How many times have you seen Eli with his hands up in the air while facing the sideline waiting for instruction?

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09/05/2013  Posted by Patricia Traina Articles

Running back Da’Rel Scott spent last Saturday with his family, trying desperately to assuage any concerns he might have had about potentially losing his roster spot with the team that made him its seventh round draft pick in 2011.

“You all know my situation,” Scott said referring to his on the bubble status that was suddenly solidified when André Brown broken his left leg. “I had my family here to keep my mind away from whether I got the call. I definitely had strong support from my family and kept praying that I’d be here on Monday.

Turns out that Scott’s prayers were answered, as the Giants kept him ahead of veteran Ryan Torain on the 53-man roster.

Scott, who  said he didn’t learn of his fate until his brother went online after the 6:00 cut down deadline to check out the official Giants roster, cleared that first hurdle. Now he’s hoping to clear another hurdle by showing the coaches that they made the right decision in keeping him.

He’ll get his chance too, as offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride confirmed that the plan is to get Scott, who in two seasons has appeared in 15 games and who has 11 rushes for 25 yards and two receptions for 13 yards.

“I have an opportunity to let the organization know that they don’t need to bring anyone else in,” said Scott, who finished the preseason with 15 carries for 37 yards, including a strong showing in the finale against the Patriots where he carried the ball four times for 25 yards.

“We’d like David Wilson to go a bit more than we’ve done in the past, but D-Scott will play,” said Gilbride.

Just how much Scott, who missed 12 games last season with a knee injury, will play remains to be seen, though whatever his snap count ends up bring, his goal is to show the organization that he can be a viable option while Brown is sidelined.

“Play well when the opportunity comes, like he did the other night,” said head coach Tom Coughlin of what Scott needs to do to continue to be in lien for an increased role in the offense.

Scott believes he can do just that.

“I just have to have faith and prove to them that they don’t need to bring in anyone else in,”  he said.

So far he’s impressed David Wilson, the man he’ll relieve on Sunday night.

“He’s definitely stepped up in these last few practices,” Wilson said. “Seeing that burst out him again. He’s a guy who always knew the playbook and knew what he had to do, and could go out there any execute, so that’s a good running back we have.”

Scott said he’s been knee-deep in his playbook trying to prepare for what might come, but that he still has a lot more work to do.

“I always prepare myself, just like any other game,” he said. “I have to prepare some more, there are a couple of days before Sunday night, so I gotta stay in the book and stay in the iPad and stay as prepared as I can.”

Even when Brown does come back, Scott is hoping that these opportunities that are ahead of him turn into something that quiet his critics.

“My mindset is that I want to play every game. Whether I’m third, fourth in the rotation, or first or second, I prepare myself the same way just because of the situation, so I have to make sure I’m on top of it, make sure I prepare myself and make sure they trust me in the game.”

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EAST RUTHERFORD – Jason Pierre-Paul believes he has seen the best of Will Beatty just about every day in practice over the last year or so.

“Going against Will Beatty gets me better [because] it’s game mode every day,” Pierre-Paul said after practice Wednesday. “If he can stick with me, he can probably stick with anybody.”

So what about Beatty’s upcoming assignment Sunday night in the Giants’ season opener, when he’s expected to be heads-up against Cowboys All-Pro DeMarcus Ware?

You know, the star pass rusher who has sacked Eli Manning more times (13½) than any other quarterback in his nine-year career, including three in two games last season.

“Oh yeah, definitely can stick with DeMarcus,” Pierre-Paul said. “No doubt about it.”

The Giants expect Beatty to be up to the challenge, as does he, which is a stark difference in expectations at the start of this season compared with last. Now Beatty is a cornerstone of the offensive line, the franchise’s future at left tackle, having been given a lucrative five-year commitment worth as much as $38.5 million. That’s a far cry from where Beatty was a year ago: one of the biggest question marks on the roster with limited action in the preseason because of a back injury, and concerns as to whether he ever would reach his full potential.

Beatty started against Dallas in the 2012 season opener, and that was as an extra blocker. He played just five snaps before starting the second meeting and playing all 61 snaps.

“He’s our left tackle. We’ve made quite a statement to that effect,” Tom Coughlin said of Beatty, the Giants’ 2009 second-round selection out of Connecticut. “He’s had a good preseason. He’s fought through everything and not missed anything with regard to [injuries, specifically a detached retina in 2011 and a sore back in 2012].

“He’s gonna be ready to go. Great challenge, but he’ll be ready to go.”

Since the NFL officially started recording sacks in 1982, there have been 12 instances in which a player has registered more than 19 in a single season. Ware is the only player to have done it twice, collecting 20 sacks in 2008 and 19½in 2011, both times falling short of Michael Strahan’s sack record (22½) set in 2001.

The Cowboys have switched fronts from a 3-4 with Ware playing outside linebacker to having his hand on the turf in a 4-3 look, which should mean a matchup primarily against Beatty all game long.

Asked if Ware could flip sides – which he has not done all preseason — and try to test rookie right tackle Justin Pugh, Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said: “We’ve come up with a plan to try to figure out what the best matchups are. Obviously he’s a highly regarded rookie. He was taken in the first round and was a pretty darn good player coming out.”

Of Ware’s three sacks versus the Giants last season, two came against David Diehl, who was playing right tackle.

“I give up one sack, it’s a bad day,” Beatty said with a laugh. “But that’s the position. That’s the job you take on; that’s the glory in it. You do well and people don’t talk to you. You’re talking to me now because of the d-end [Ware]. It’s not what I’m doing; it’s what can he possibly do.”

“He wants to beat me. I want to shut him down,” Beatty said. “You know what he can do. You know how he can destroy a team. You want to make sure that you try to prevent that as much as possible.”

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Perry Fewell paused a moment before the answer came to him.

How does a defensive coordinator react to a defense that finishes 31st in total defense?

How do you move on from being No. 28 against the pass (254 yards/game)? How do you forget about being No. 25 against the run (129 yards/game)?

Analytical sites ranked their pass coverage among the most suspect in football. Sack numbers dropped as injuries mounted. The Giants gave up more than 30 points four times and surrendered more than 300 passing yards on three occasions. Needless to say, Fewell remembers.

"It never goes out of my mind," he said. "You never want to be ranked last or near last in anything you compete at and as a professional, you want to improve each and every year. We’re very motivated to erase that number and be a top defense in the league."

Enter Dallas on Sunday, a team that registered a season-high 415 passing yards against the Giants in a 29-24 shootout win for Fewell and Co. last year.

In both matchups against their division rivals, they gave up more than 430 total yards. In one, they gave up 18 catches to tight end Jason Witten, the most in the modern era for a player at that position, and the third-most for one player in NFL history.

Throughout the offseason, he’s watched the team load up the defensive line, adding Cullen Jenkins, Shaun Rogers, Mike Patterson and Johnathan Hankins to stop the run. They brought back Aaron Ross and Terrell Thomas on defense and snagged a safety late in the draft.

All of this in hopes that last year was an aberration.

"For us as a defense, it’s quite motivating," Fewell said. "We feel like we can definitely improve on that and we will improve on that."

From the inside, Justin Tuck could see the intensity fade after a bad game. One loss might spawn another. One negative story might linger longer than it should have.

"We need that first-game enthusiasm every week," Tuck told The Star-Ledger. "We let whatever parameters around the game, whatever was in the news for us that week, weigh on us a little more than it did in the past instead of going out and saying, ‘You know what? Whatever happened last game happened last game.’ "

Fewell, from his perspective, saw it both ways. Schematically, the Giants have experimented with more defensive fronts and formations this preseason.

Tuck has been used as a stand-up linebacker in some looks, and Keith Rivers has hugged the line in others, mimicking a traditional 4-3 under look.

Mathias Kiwanuka was moved back to solely playing defensive end, and the coaching staff has toyed around with more effective ways to mix in their new reserve of big-bodied tackles alongside their speed rushers.

"We’ve got bigger butts," Fewell said. "Shaun Rodgers is in there. Cullen Jenkins. The butts are a lot bigger. So yeah, it looks different."

All of it, in an effort to avoid feeling the way they did once the season ended, as unforgettable as that might be.

"We have to do better than we did last year," Tuck said. "Good or bad (against the Cowboys) we have to focus on Denver, we can’t focus on what happened in Dallas. We can’t be focused on what happened in New England two weeks ago."