Skins vs. G-Men Gameday Thread

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The last botched play was bad, and there's blame to go around -- JD5 should have known to spike it or throw it out of bounds quickly. Bad coaching to not have him ready for situational football like that.

But to me, the bigger sin is not calling for the FG the play immediately beforehand. We had the ball at the 26 yard line with :55 seconds left and White ran for 2 yards (and didn't get out of bounds). The next play (with :12 left) should have been a FG try, or a call to spike the ball to set up the FG unit. It's sudden death -- you aren't worried about leaving time on the clock because if you make the kick, it is over. Unless JD5 overrode the play call, which I highly doubt, this was probably the worst coaching gaffe I have ever witnessed (which, as a fan of this team since 1974, is saying something).

After losing a 2 TD lead in the 4th quarter and after forcing Skattebo to fumble (on a play that the Giants shouldn't have run -- those idiots should have kicked the FG too), that was about as dispiriting a way to not win as one could conjure up.

They ran for > 200 yards, won the turnover battle, the Giants kicker has 3 missed FGs, and we managed not to win. So many missed opportunities -- including Reaves having a game sealing interception slip through his hands, multiple game-altering calls against us (again), etc. BTW, Daronte Jones -- they had 2 receivers -- Likely and Nabers combined for 22 of the 33 receptions and 215 of the 326 yards thrown -- that is what we needed to defend today, and we couldn't manage it. If you cannot show any killer instinct for a divisional rival at home where you're up 2 tds in the 4th, I've got nothing for you.

I bought tickets for the Eagles game on Nov. 1 (and they weren't cheap). And I am having trouble right now being excited about it. They are going to get walloped by SF next week and fall to 1-4-1 before the bye. Then they have the Eagles (home), Rams (home), Giants (away), Bengals (home), Cards (away), Titans (away), Houston (home), Atlanta (home), Minn. (away), Jax (away), and Dallas (home). After today, I have a hard time imagining more than a few more wins -- maybe AZ and Tenn.

AP deserves some blame here, of course -- the OL plan was a disaster (Coleman was horrid today); the Giants had 3 sacks in 4 games and had 5 today.

I could see us sitting at 1-8-1 by the time we play AZ, and that would be a frigging disaster. And that seems like the most likely outcome after today.