Giants' Jacobs on 'lucky' Eagles; Reid on McNabb
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Giants' Jacobs on 'lucky' Eagles; Reid on McNabb
Daily News staff
The Giants had been a dominant rushing team in the weeks preceding last Sunday's game against the Eagles.
And then things changed. The Giants ran for 100 yards on 31 rushing plays, an average of 3.2 yards per carry. Five of those plays went for negative yardage. Of their 20 first downs, only three came on the ground.
Ahmad Bradshaw had 66 yards on 19 carries and Brandon Jacobs has 34 yards on 12 carries.
The reason?
"It’s a division opponent," Jacobs said yesterday. "They know what we do and we know what they do. They dialed up the right things at the right time. It’s kind of like Tecmo Bowl when you press the same button as your opponent and everything breaks down. They had the right blitzes dialed up against the right runs, and they got lucky."
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Eagles coach Andy Reid was asked on a conference call with Minnesota reporters what he thought of the current situation involving Donovan McNabb in Washington.
"This is one of my all-time favorite guys," Reid said. "The things he did for this organization, for all of us here in this organization here, are just unbelievable. I wouldn’t ever have guessed that this would have taken place or expected it to take place, but it has and he will do like he does with everything and handle it peacefully and he’ll come out on the upper end of it."
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And, here is Michael Vick on the prospect of an 18-game regular season:
"I totally disagree with it. Sixteen games is enough as it is and I think it’s not good for the players. I think it would only be detrimental for us and it would be tough."
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So, by Jacobs' reasoning, the Giants "got lucky" for 52 minutes, since they were destroying the Eagles, and THEY STILL LOST! He comes across like a big *%$&#-ing crybaby. I'd hate to see what happens when he doesn't get what he wants for Christmas.— uncle meat
really uncle meat, eagles scored 28 points in just over 8 minutes. how is that lucky? was the catch Tyree made lucky?— Richard Saunders
Would be kinda fun to see them again in the playoffs.— gho_matt- Good thing Brandon Jacobs can play football to feed his family....not expecting him to make a run for the Nobel Prize anytime soon.— PhillyExcitement
All week the crying from those beouches from NY. Shut the he!! up and Merry Christmas from Philly!!!— Flyboy24- Winning a coin toss is lucky. Stopping the run isn't. The Eagles are mentally tougher, made superior in-game adjustments, and have better overall team speed. Blown punt coverages aren't luck - they're a failure to execute the fundamentals, and facing someone as fast as D. Jackson doesn't help either. Statements like Jacobs' are indicative of the environment under Coughlin - a lack of team discipline. It also reflects on how Jacobs deals with failure. He denies accountability by chalking it up to bad luck. By the way, Reid consistently outcoaches Coughlin.— p-diddy
- Jacobs rant reminds me of how the Republicans acted when they were swept out of office in 2008. Sore losers that couldn't stand that a black President energized the nation against Republican tyranny, wasteful spending, and fealty to Big Oil and Haliburton.— eldiablodelsol2009
- Yeah...right....and exactly how did that election work out for you...or the millions that are still unemployed two years later. Keep your politics off the sports pages moron. I want to be entertained...no lectured...Oh by the way...did you notice the last election...you know...the one that just took place...the people have spoken...looks like they didn't feel energized. — ceocreates
- Lucky??? Stuffed him and Bradshaw 2 games straight and we were lucky... I guess the teams they have played before weren't as lucky... What a moron... Suck it up.... Admit defeat... you will feel better in the morning...— tiredofthewhining
- Brandon jacobs is a smacked a--.— Bob1
- Andy Reid is a classy guy, recognizing another classy guy, Donovan McNabb. Well done.— andrewfrombrooklyn
- Glad to see Jacobs' comments. The Birds will need some bulletin board clippings if we have to play the Giants in the playoffs. For now I'll agree we were lucky, and hope to hold him in the 3rd game to 34 yards, either through luck or tackling.— tacklinjoe
- +1 for the tecmo bowl line
-2 for being a crybaby— qwerty83 - luck: n. (lûk) good fortune or prosperity; a shEli qb throwing a blind pass to a receiver who miraculously traps it to his helmet.
CANT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS ny rb "looks like tarzan plays like jane vs. Eagles!— pellelindburg - Jabocs..... The Biggest Kid in the School Yard whining, unbelievable.— Dexter
