The Half Way Point

6-2 at the half way point ! I'll take it ! If you told me after training camp that we'd be 6-2 I would have signed up for it in a heartbeat. Ever the pessimist that I am I predicted a 6-10 season, so this is like a bonus for me. Hopefully we will not follow the pattern that the 3 previous Tom Coughlin led Giants teams have: start off 5-2 and limp home in the second half.

For some reason I don't see the past failures of the previous 3 years affecting this team. New locker room leadership will see to it that the Giants stay the course.

Now onto the win across the pond in the UK. Most detractors will say that the Giants played poorly and barely held on to win vs an inferior opponent. I agree with those detractors, but choose to put a positive spin on this. Good teams still find a way to win these "trap" type games. No matter how ugly it looked they still won. A bad or mediocre team would have found a way to blow it. The weather was downright poor or should I say pour(ing). Balls were popping out all over the place. Receivers, even the sure handed Amani Toomer, were dropping balls left and right. My recommendation to the NFL: Stay out of the UK, unless you enjoy each week being a "mud bowl". It rains over there twice as much as it does in Seattle. Every now and then playing a muddy game is kind of fun I have to admit.

So we enter the bye week with a chance to practice up and even the score against the hated Cowgirls of Dallas. Way back in week #1 we lost to Dall-ass with a totally different team on the field. Ravaged by injuries and holdouts the G-men looked nothing like the way they look today. Take Osi, Jacobs and Strahan out of any lineup and that team is going to suffer. Not to mention that Eli had a separated shoulder and had to be replaced by the Pillsbury Throw Boy, and you have trouble. Still the G-men only lost by 10 on the road and were in it until late in the game, when Eli went down.

Dall-ass has a weak defense, highlighted by a weak secondary. They have narrowly won their last few games against bottom feeders, while the G-men have been crushing all (sans the British Invasion game).

Can't wait for the showdown in the Meadowlands !