Giants inspired by JPP returned to form and with a 32-18 victory against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. JPP played solid playing in 46 of 63 defensive snaps (73 percent). The numbers show he had two solo tackles, but this does not account for his pressure on Tampas’ quarterback Jameis Winston.

“We definitely made him uncomfortable, He is a good quarterback,  he can run, he can scramble. A couple times he got out (of the pocket) and scrambled on us, but we kept our composure and played some good football.” said Pierre-Paul

Coach Coughlin was happy to see JPP back on the field, and felt he was a critical addition to the struggling Giants defense.

“I think the players were excited to have him as a part of our team and have him active tonight, I think he made a couple of outstanding rushes, particularly at the end, when the quarterback was forced to roll right and heave the ball up.  That was critical at that time. We didn’t get a sack, but we did pressure. He needs to get his timing down, obviously.  He made a couple real good rushes coming up and under. So I think he is just going to get better and better.” said head coach Tom Coughlin

In one of Bucs last possession, they started on their own 20-yard line with 7:18 remaining. They ran eight plays and gained a total of 31 yards, Giants defenders with the hep of JPP pressure they were forced to punt. 

“It’s time to win the game,”When it comes down to the fourth quarter, you just have to give everything you got. You got to give everything you got in the game.” JPP said.

With this win the Giants were able to keep their lead in the NFC East. Hopefully G PP can continue to strengthen this Giants defense and hope for a run into the playoffs. Eli Manning felt JPP was disruptive against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and happy to see him out there.

“It was just fun seeing him out there chasing the quarterback,” quarterback Eli Manning said. “We wanted him to get a sack … I definitely saw him chasing the quarterback around, and getting him out of the pocket and making him move. So he was a presence and that’s just after two weeks of practicing. The more practice that he gets, getting back in the lineup, getting more game playing time, will help him, but he was definitely disruptive today and it was good to see that.”

Next week the Giants will play New England which will surely bring up memories of prior Super Bowls. Please leave a comment and feel free to share! 

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The Giants came away with a key victory against The Buffalo Bills at Ralph Wilson Stadium 24-10. The Giants now stand at 2-2 and are in a three way tie for the NFC East.

We knew it was going to be a tough game. They’re a good team. They played very well. They’re the number one rushing team in the league. We knew all those things. We knew it was going to be a battle, and it was a battle. I thought the offense did a great job in the first half. I thought the defense did a great job throughout the game. We didn’t get the big break on field position today, but we hung in there and we did our job on special teams as well – we eventually covered well. Our punter did an outstanding job. Our kicker came back on that last kickoff and kicked it out of the end zone, so I was pleased with that. The atmosphere out there; the environment was super. I thought it was an electric environment prior to the game. It was an exciting time, a great place to be and I was just thankful to win

The Giants were fueled by an amazing goal line stance that finally shifted momentum their way. Head coach Tom Coughlin saw that as a tremendous series.

No question there because there was plenty of time. There was time left to do whatever they needed to do. I wasn’t pleased with us not getting a first down, but when you’re back against the wall, you’re careful about what you do there. There’s no question about it, it was a tremendous series right there.

Coughlin Looking at the NFC East standings knows the Giants are right in the mix now.

It’s wide open. It’s still too early to say anybody is the favorite, which is a good thing. You start off 0-2, it’s tough to stay in the race, especially when you lose a divisional game, but we’re just excited to win this game and now all the focus is on the 49ers.

This past win was probably one of our biggest in the past two years, but now we welcome San Francisco to MetLife Stadium.

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As I stand amongst my family and friends dressed in my favorite blue and white jersey with the name Strahan written across the back, I stare ever so patiently watching the empty tunnel on the field that will soon be filled with the mighty men that make up my favorite team the New York Football Giants.

As I wait I think about the anticipation that I feel to watch the Giants play, then I feel anxious. Anxious that the game isn’t going to turn out in favor of the Giants, then it happens! I see the team that I love leaving the tunnel. I can see the players dressed in the same blue and white jerseys that I wear and at that moment all I feel is pride!

All of the anxiousness that I once possessed is gone in that moment. The mere sight of this team and the amount of passion that I feel for them, in that instant everything else is obsolete. I know that with every completed pass and every run that converts to a 1^st down it takes the Giants one step closer to that end zone. And when they make it down that long field into that end zone and I see the ref signal that there is a touch down the elation that I feel consumes me!

Every play that is called and is executed perfectly from beginning to end shows me the amount of skill and talent that this team truly does posses. I know that every play won’t be successful, but it’s the fight and will that the Giants have to always improve that makes me love and respect them so much. Even when they have played a terrible game where hardly anything has went their way they always strive to improve, and us as fans have to always stand behind our boys in blue and white and support them in every way that we know how.

It’s the fans that drive the Giants to constantly want to fight harder and do better. They know the undying love that their fans have for them, and they never want to disappoint us or ever let us down. We all stand together as one unit fighting towards the same goal, to be Super Bowl Champs once again!

As the offseason ends and the start of a new season begins, we are all very excited and anxious to see what kind of season that Big Blue will have. After a few seasons of disappointment for this team and their fans, we all hang on to the hope that this upcoming season will be an outstanding one for the G-Men. Last season was squandered with many low scoring games and a team that was just racked with injuries. Even being down so many players, by the end of the season we all still saw the Giants fighting and improving. This is a team that will never give up. It’s for our love of the Giants why this team will keep on striving for greatness and will one day be champs once again!

“For the Love of the Giants” was written by Guest blogger Mandy Moses Please leave feedback in the comment field below, I would love to know what you think.

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Now that the Giants season is over for this year many fans are wondering, what will the Giants season look like in the upcoming year? After three seasons with subpar records for the Giants many fans have been left with the question if the Giants will have a winning record in the follow season. In my opinion my reply is YES!!!!!!!!

At the start of last season Giants fans had a great deal of disappointment. With an 0-6 start to the prior season it didn’t leave us fans with much to cheer about. This past year the team was wracked with injuries to many key players who were out for the season (Victor Cruz was a huge loss for the G-Men). A new offensive scheme that really didn’t seem to be catching on. It made us all wonder if the Giants would even win a game (I know that I became extremely concerned that there was a slight possibility that might happen).

Then a great light hit the Giants with the return of rookie WR Odell Beckham Jr.! No fan had really had a chance to see his skills in the Giants offense previously, but when we did finally see Beckham Jr. in action the sight of his amazing athletic abilities left everyone speechless! When we saw Odell make that astonishing one handed three fingered catch against their rival Dallas it was a sight of pure beauty. I refer to that catch as the catch that was heard throughout the world. Not a person that saw it (Giants fan or not) will say that it was an amazing moment in football. After the loss of Cruz for the season, the beginning of Beckham Jr.’s  professional career was exactly what the offense needed.  Looking forward into next season, I can see many awe-inspiring catches and touchdowns in store for Beckham Jr. and the Giants once struggling offense.

Besides Odell and his many talents Eli Manning’s stats became increasingly better and his passes much more accurate by the end of the season. I believe with Manning on track, and with the return of a healthy Victor Cruz, who will be playing up to the caliber that us fans are already accustom to it will help the offense immensely. Then we add in Odell Beckham Jr. to play opposite Cruz the outcome will be magnificent! The offense will look like the Giants of old. Fans will see a fast moving high scoring offense that will leave us all chanting GO Big Blue!

The defense was in the average last season I would say. They had games where their great strengths had kept the Giants in the fight. Also there were games where the defense just couldn’t stop the oncoming offense. Like the offense, the Giants defense was also wracked with quite a few injuries this season, which makes it harder for the defense to stop some of the outstanding offensive talents that the Giants have faced this past season. I think that everyone would agree that the Giants schedule was not the easiest last season. However, with the recent rehire of the Giants previous defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo (He coached the Giants D to their last Super bowl Title in 2011) and a strong and healthy defense I can see next season going much smoother for the team.

With many decisions still left to be made this off season regarding trades and also the upcoming draft in May we still don’t have all of our answers set in stone. All I know is that after watching the Giants improve greatly by the end of the season. The offense was really starting to come together with Ben Macadoo’s new scheme for them and with smart changes being made on behalf of the owners, GM, and coaches I can already see the upcoming year being a winning one for Big Blue. Hopefully fans will see our G-Men fighting for another Super bowl title next season!

The Giants Return. was written by Guest blogger Mandy Moses Please leave feedback in the comment field below, I would love to know what you think.

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Veteran quarterback Eli Manning, who will enter the 2015 season at age 34. Unless changed he will start the 2015 season with one year remaining on his current contract. He is scheduled to make $17.5 million next season and will count $19.75 million against the salary cap next season. He’s more than willing to enter 2015 without an extension that guarantees his job security past next season

“I don’t mind playing on the final year of the contract. It does not bother or me or make me worry about one thing,” Manning said.  NJ Advance Media

However, the Giants should sign him to a contract extension.

Despite the 6-10 record of his team, Manning was one of the few bright spots. Statistically this year was one of the best seasons of Manning’s career despite learning a new offense for the first time since his rookie season. He finished with 30 touchdowns and 14 interceptions in the first-year offense coordinated by Ben McAdoo. The 30 touchdowns and 4,410 yards passing were also the second most of his career. Despite attempting the most passes of his career, he threw the second fewest interceptions in his career, only behind 2008 when he threw only ten. If the Giants intend for Manning to be their quarterback for the foreseeable future, which is in the best interest of the team, it would befit them to sign him to an extension. The additional years would allow them to lower his salary cap number considerably and allow for the team to address glaring needs on defense in free agency.

Manning and the Giants offense improved considerably as the season went on. They averaged 29.8 points over the final five games and won 3 of those contests. Manning averaged 315 yards passing in those contests, and looked substantially more comfortable in the West Coast-style offense. In one of the wins, they scored 37 points and gained 514 total yards against a stout Rams’ defense that was one of the best in the league. In that game, Manning threw for 391 yards and 3 touchdowns without throwing a single interception.
He has also developed great chemistry with young stud wide receiver and Offensive Rookie of the Year favorite Odell Beckham Jr. They have developed great trust in one another despite only playing three-quarters of the season together. This chemistry will continue to progress for years to come. Manning will also have a full offseason to perfect his understanding of the intricacies of the offense heading into 2015, unlike last offseason where he had to start from scratch.

Manning is clearly the best option at quarterback for the Giants moving forward. Coming off of the worst season of his career in 2013, there was uncertainty if he was the Giants’ best option for the present and future at quarterback. But, his 2014 campaign hushed all of the concern. Eli Manning gives them the best chance to win over any replacement they may acquire. The 2-time Super Bowl winning quarterback who has started 167 straight games is still the Giants’ franchise quarterback and should be the franchise quarterback for the foreseeable future.

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The momentum is with the Giants:

The Giants offensive system is finally working:

The Giants want revenge: 

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A pride is a group of lions who are willing to defend their territory from any intruders. These magestic and loyal animals will protect the other members of their group at any cost. Every member of the pride is equally important and they all work together as one unit. Lions in the wild have adapted these traits as a means of survival. Lions are also one of the most powerful and intellegent animals on the planet. Working as a “team” is imparititve to the prides survival. Like the lions, professional football players have also conformed many of the same traits as these mighty animals, but the New York Giants have adapted the word pride as part of their motto.

Giants pride is a phrase that many football fans have most likely heard, however only Giants fans truly know what the phrase means. This team has made this phrase part of who they are and what their team stands for. Not any one individual on that team is anymore important then any other member. Each of those men will protect the others to the best of their abilities. Also, the pride means to have feelings of self-respect and personal worth. In the case of the New York Giants every person on that team must have “pride” in themselves and their individual skills that they bring to the team, but at the same time they need to be part of the “pride” and work together as one unit.
As the Giants prepare to take the field every week not one practice will end nor will one game begin until every person on that team has tapped the sign on the wall to their right that reads Giants Pride. This simple action symbolizes that every member of that team is willing and ready to protect any other member to the best of their abilities, and every person is completely prepared to give it everything that they have. They win as a team and they lose as a team. They have and always will stand as a united front.

This is why I am such a dedicated Giants fan. When I hear the phrase Giants pride I know what it stands for. When I see the members of the team that I love tap that sign it brings tears to my eyes. The act itself is just so inspiring. At that point, win the game or lose the game, it doesn’t really matter. Of course you always want to see them be victorious, but it is the teamwork and respect that they have for each other that makes the New York Giants such an inspiration to watch. Giants Pride each and everyday!

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My All Time NY Giants Team

Hello Bleed Big Bluers…

I was recently asked by our fearless leader Marco here at Bleed Big Blue to put together my All Time Giants team.  That leaves a lot of room for debate among anyone who Bleeds Big Blue, I mean we are a pretty passionate bunch to say the least.  So I decided to stay true to myself.  This is my All-Time Giants Team right?  I’m pretty sure every fan of every team has an all time greatest team. So you make yours, but this my friends, is mine.

Lets start with this…

Got chills?…We all have a passion for this team and the memories they have brought us.  No matter your age, if you are a fan, you have an idea in your head of who the greatest players in said teams franchise history are…Let the debate rage on….

Coach – Bill Parcells – Coughlin gets a lot of consideration, but let’s not forget who taught him.

Offensive Coordinator – Tom Coughlin 

Defensive Coordinator – Vince Lombardi 

Offense:

QB – Phil Simms – I know all about Eli, but I’m a Simms guy, and I still say if he had as many WR’s to throw to as Eli, or even Kerri Collins for that matter, Simms might have a Bust in Canton. The other thing is, with the personalities I have on this team, I need a QB who isn’t afraid to grab a guy by the face mask and curse him out every now and again. #22of25

Back-Up QB – Eli Manning – This is probably the area of the team where I will be most criticized,  Eli is in the midst of probably, if not already, becoming the Giants greatest QB of all time.  He handles himself  with class and I’m proud that he is the face of this franchise today.  He is the only Giants QB with two Super Bowl MVP’s and has accounted for some of the most memorable plays of our history of our storied franchise,  and in only the last decade…I get the argument here….but again, I’m a Simms guy.

RB – Tiki Barber –  I have a genuine dislike for Tiki Barber, but hard to argue with what he did on the field.  The numbers speak for themselves…We forget how good he was.

Goal Line RB – O.J. Anderson – Add Super Bowl 25 MVP Otis Anderson, with Tiki,  and you got a pretty wicked ass Thunder and Lightning pair in the backfield.

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3rd Down RB – David Meggett – Frank Gifford got some consideration here but I took points away from Gifford for marrying Kathy Lee.

FB – Maurice Carthon – The definition of a full back.

WR – Homer Jones – Jones finished his career with 224 receptions for 4,986 yards, an average of 22.3 yards per catch, and 38 touchdowns (36 receiving, one rushing, one kick return). His yard per catch ranks number one for all N.F.L. players in a career with at least 200 receptions. Homer Jones also was the first player to “spike” the ball after a TD.  BooYah!

WR – Armani Toomer – Toomer was Mr. Dependable for a long time for Big Blue, and made clutch catch after clutch catch through out his career.

WR – Victor Cruz – Hard to leave this salsa dancer off the list…his age and talent can move him to the top of this list in years to come.

4th WR in my Sub packages — Plaxico Burress – I  know…he shot himself and more than likely cost us back to back titles…but try winning in 2007 without this beast.

TE’s – Mark Bavaro and Howard Cross – It’s fucking Rambo…enough said. And Cross to block in 2 TE’s sets…phenomenal run blocker, who had good hands that he wasn’t asked to use much.

ATTENTION: Adrien Robinson, Larry Donnell and Xavier Grimble…watch this!

Offensive Line:

LT – Jumbo Elliot – Ask Bruce Smith how good Jumbo was.

LG – Brad Benson – Versatile linemen that can play any spot on the line at an All-Pro level.

C – Bart Oates – Smart, tough and dependable. Edges out Mel Hein because of his rapport with Simms.

RG – Chris Snee – For a decade he’s been a force on the line…and has 2 rings to show for it.

RT – Roosevelt Brown – Hall of Famer and the anchor for the Championship Giants teams of yesteryear.

Back-Up O-Line – G/T = Eric Moore, C-G Brian Williams,  C – Mel Hein

Defense:

LE – Michael Strahan – Played the run as good as he rushed the passer, and after years of disappointments, won a ring in his final game.

DT – Roosevelt Grier – This big defensive tackle is a 2-time Pro Bowler and was a first-team All-Pro with 1956 NFL champs… He is drafted in the third round out of Penn State… Rosey makes 5 playoff appearances and wins one title.

DT –  Jim Burt – Can still see him climbing into the stands after the Super Bowl 21 victory over the Broncos.

DE – George Martin – Any Giants fan my age remembers Mr. Martin picking off a pass to the flat by John Elway and chugging 60 yards for a TD, only to be tackled by Lawrence Taylor. One of the defining plays of the Super Bowl season of 1986.

DE – Jason Pierre-Paul – As long as JPP keeps his head on straight and can stay healthy, he’s on the team. We don’t win the division in 2011 without him.

DE – Leonard Marshall- Marshall sent Joe Montana to the sidelines in the 1990 NFC championship with what is still one of the most vicious hits ever seen. I think he’s still bouncing up and down on the Candlesticks sideline screaming “A minute away from Tampa Bay“.

DT – Keith Hamilton – The Hammer, was a monster on the D-line and enjoyed punishing opposing offenses.

OLB – Lawrence Taylor – #TheG.O.A.T. #GreatestOfAllTime,  Which leads me to my next point, kids, don’t smoke crack.

ILB – Harry Carson – Hall of Famer and a leader among Giants.

ILB – Antoni0 Pierce – Sideline to sideline defender who loves blowing up screens and taking on 3 blockers at a time.  One of the biggest plays in Giants history.

OLB – Carl Banks – If he wasn’t in LT’s shadow, Banks would be talked about a lot more often for how great of a player he was.

Back up Backers – OLB Jesse Armstead,  ILB Gary Reasons and ILB Pepper Johnson

CB – Jason Sehorn – Stop shaking your head.  Before Jim Fassel put Sehorn back to return kicks (#moron), Jason was on the fast track to becoming the best corner in the league.  Rare combination of size, speed and intelligence.  Could have been one of the great ones if not for an ill fated preseason kick-off return against the Jets.

CB – Mark Collins – Tough and physical.  Helped pound Bills WR’s all day in Super Bowl 25

CB – Corey Webster – He fell off of lately, but the runs he had during the playoffs in 2007 and 2011 helped the Giants hoist the Lombardi Torphy.

FS – Antrel Rolle – Leader of men.  All he wants to do “at the end of the day” is win, and will do whatever is asked of him to accomplish that goal.

SS -Greg Jackson – Unheralded but always seemed to be in the right place at the right time, also wasn’t afraid to knock a WR’s head off coming over the middle.

Back-up Secondary — CB/S – Everson Walls, S/CB Perry Williams

Punter – Sean Landeta – No questions about this one. Hopefully he doesn’t miss any punts like in Chicago in “85…still having bad dreams about that one.

Kicker – Matt Bahr – Matty was Money!!

KR/PR – Dave Meggett – Miss hearing Chris Berman shouting “And look at the little Meggett run”

Hopefully my selections got you talking, and I know the highlights got you ready for the season to start.

Let the debate commence Bleed Big Blue nation.  What say you?

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