It’s the hangover that never stops!! On Sunday, you’re still wondering why you even bother turning on your TV!!! You could always be doing something a little more constructive, couldn’t you? There’s buying Groceries, washing clothes, visiting your old friends, shopping for that new shirt you wanted, going to the movies, playing Arkham Asylum, buying Comics, looking into the Sun…etc etc
You then choose to turn it on for shits and giggles. Who knows? Maybe Mike Bush had the game of his life? Maybe Nnamdi received a gift and took one to the house?

You suddenly realize you should never should of awoke from your wonderful slumber.

For Heaven n’ Hells sake, why even hope? I suggest to all fans now…PLEASE bring a Newspaper or book to the game (away on the tube or home). It’s the only thing that makes the time move more rapidly than usual.

All jokes aside, maybe the team will improve dramatically with Cable locked up. I believe the team we’ll break on “I’ll f#!ing kill you!” in his honor.
Other thoughts:
Maybe we’ll get to see our team compete again in 2012? I think Al will grow tired of DuhMarcus by then.
Maybe that Monday night team was a figment of our imaginations..(at least those guys competed)
Maybe the old man should be looking at QB free Agents RIGHT NOW..
Maybe our young Receivers have ALWAYS been the root of the problem..
Maybe our injury prone O Line has regressed and will always be at the top of our priority list..
Maybe we all should do something different than suffer this week’s up and coming loss..most likely, in the rain, Homers..
Maybe not.
The Lord of the Sith shall forever be a glutton for punishment. I still await the day to be the lone soul in the Coliseum. I think that day may be coming in the not too distant future.
At least I’ll finally be able to sit anywhere I please! I can’t wait!!!!

Summary:
After taking the opening snap and making a play-action fake, Eli Manning dropped back, set up with a bounce on his right heel and fired a 9-yard pass to tight end Darcy Johnson.
Any concerns about Easy Eli’s painful right heel were answered on the first play of his 83rd consecutive start Sunday.
Manning threw two scoring passes and led the Giants on touchdown drives on their first four possessions in a 44-7 win over the hapless Oakland Raiders that has New York (5-0) off to its best start since winning the Super Bowl in 1990.
“At the end, it was picture perfect,” said Manning, who was 8 of 10 for 173 yards, needing to play less than a half in the rout. “Just get in there and score, score quickly, score a lot and then rest it and make sure you don’t put more strain on it or make it more sore tomorrow. It turned out really well.”
Manning led the Giants on scoring drives of 77, 79, 94 and 13 yards in what was easily his most effective performance this season.
His touchdown passes covered 30 yards to Mario Manningham and 9 yards to first-round draft pick Hakeem Nicks. He played one extra series before donning a baseball cap late in the second quarter for a well-deserved rest on a day the Giants gained 483 yards in total offense.
“We didn’t expect anything less out of him,” said defensive end Justin Tuck. “People were talking he might not play but we figured he was. It was good to see your starting quarterback be a tough guy like that and go out there and help his team win. That’s the leader he’s become.”

UGH…makes you wonder when we’re going to have that kind of leadership…possibly in the year 3000.

Backup halfback Ahmad Bradshaw also played a big role, rushing for 110 yards and scoring on runs of 1 and 9 yards.
Oakland quarterback JaMarcus Russell struggled again leading the league’s worst offense. He lost three fumbles and was 8 of 13 for 100 yards — not that he had any time. He was sacked six times as the Raiders (1-4) were limited to 124 yards of total offense.
MVP! MVP! MVP! (Most Valuable Pariah)

Their lone score — Michael Bush’s 5-yard touchdown run — came after the Giants’ Sinorice Moss fumbled on a punt return at his 15.
Ya’ll can thank the Force for that one…

“We thought it was an opportunity if we came out and got after him early, there would be a lot of chances,” defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka said of Russell. “He has flashes of greatness but we wanted to make sure he didn’t flash against us.”
The only thing Jam currently flashes is his platinum-ice earrings and necklaces. Lil Wayne and Jon should be envious.

Manning’s availability was the Giants’ biggest concern. He sustained a painful injury to his right heel in the win over Kansas City last weekend. The 2008 Super Bowl MVP missed two days of practice and then took half the snaps Friday, giving the indication he would go on Sunday.
Two hours before the game, Manning was on the field warming up, and he showed no ill effects of his injury.
“He wanted to play; he wanted to play all week,” coach Tom Coughlin said. “He has done a great job with the power of the will over these things a couple of times.”

Notes:

» The Giants outscored the Raiders, 31-7, in the first half and have outscored opponents 99-34 in the first half this season.

- Oakland became the first team since at least 1960 to have under 200 total yards of offense in four straight games.

-The Raiders fell to 5-27 in non-divisional road games since 2003.
Manning was 4 of 5 for 36 yards on the opening drive that Bradshaw capped by slamming in from a yard out on fourth down.
The next three Giants possessions were lightning fast. The second drive was three plays and 79 yards, featuring a 43-yard pass to Steve Smith and runs of 17 and 19 yards by Bradshaw.
The third score came on a five-play, 94-yard jaunt that featured a 55-yard screen pass to Bradshaw on third-and-24. Manning found Manningham in the right corner on the next play and the rout was on.
A sack by cornerback Terrell Thomas and a recovery by Tuck set up the three-play drive that Manning capped with his pass to Nicks.
“We couldn’t stop anything,” Raiders defensive end Richard Seymour said. “That’s a bad feeling when you are out there and they are running whatever plays they want to. The third or fourth quarter I think they had their backups in the game and they were still doing whatever they wanted to offensively. There is no excuse for that and everybody has to look themselves in the mirror and say, ‘I have to do a better job.”‘

I already looked, Richard. My image told me it’s going to be another loooooong season.
Keep your head up, Nation. Maybe the rain will stop sometime this century..
In the meantime? Buy a Newspaper and skip the damn sports section.

Have a nice week,
DR