Comments on: This is Disturbing

By: howieroark

howieroark — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:22:07 +0000

McCarthy is still a fairly young man. Admitting one’s mistakes, especially a few days after a major loss, I think will come with maturity. He seems to me to be pretty “quick study” on things he doesn’t know. Hopefully he uses this game to propel the team next year. The misty eyes in the press conference Sunday night, if they are indeed a window to the soul, showed me a guy who hates to lose.

But damn, they get the ball on their own 20 or so with 6 minutes to go, come on…..at LEAST get it to the 50 for a good punt in the field possession game. That was inexcusable.

By: sfhayes

sfhayes — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:34:09 +0000

JB, I remember that play. It was awful. I remember thinking it was an inexplicable call…except that it was one in a long line of such playcalls.

You question is a good one: I wonder if Al Harris would have wanted an adjustment. He’s good but he strikes me as a little too confident in his abilities. I’m guessing he might have opted to stay one-on-one covering Burress, if just to make up for being so badly beaten in the first half. I could be wrong. McCarthy says they switched to a “cloud” cover in the second half and brought some help for Harris. It wasn’t obvious and I’d argue that the relative lack of production in the second half had more to do with the fact that the Giants coaches understood their advantage in time of possession and sought to keep it going.

I don’t mind the initial mistake so much as I mind the unwillingness to fix it.

By: Josh B

Josh B — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:43:33 +0000

SFH, great post. I still can’t believe they threw that flat screen on third down in the 4th quarter. I think it was 3rd and 5 and they lost 7 yards on the dumb play (Mason drilled the ensuing FG, which was nice). I bet if McCarthy would ask any of the Packers DB’s, they would voted for adjustments to be made.