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Eagles Domination of the Giants: A Look Back
by captain nodar on Jun 25, 2011 5:10 PM EDT
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Print Eagles have won 6 straight against the Giants. Most of those games have been nail biters, with plenty of 2nd half drama.
We start off by taking a look at the last time the Giants beat the Eagles. I include this only because it sets the stage for the next victory, as the Giants would be atop the power rankings until the showdown in NY on week 14.
Week 10 2008 Giants(8-1) 36 - Eagles(5-4) 31
This was a close game in Philly. We took the lead in the 3rd, but just could not contain the Giants rushing attack, which went for 219 yards. Brandon Jacobs was 22/126 and 2 TD's. On the flip side, McNabb was our leading rusher with just 35 yards. Still, this game was down to the wire and I am certain it caused me to break something in the house.
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The Streak Begins
Week 14 2008 Eagles(7-5-1) - 20 Giants(11-2) 14
This was a hard fought game in NY. The Giants come in at 11-1, unbeaten at home and ranked #1 in the NFL in every major power ranking. The Eagles took the lead 3-0 in the 1st with a rare good use of a timeout by Reid so Akers could kick with the wind at his back as the 1st quarter expired. The Eagles never gave up the lead and rode Brian Westbrook to victory, giving NY their first home loss of the season. Westy's stat line: 33/131 1 TD, 6-72 1 TD. Yardage for the game - Westbrook 203, entire Giants offense 211. Though there were many memorable Westbrook games vs the Giants, this was his last great performance, and he would bequeath the title of "Giant Killer" to a young Desean Jackson.
Note - On Westbrook's 40 yard TD catch in the 4th, he surpassed Harold Carmichael to become the Eagles all-time leader in yards from scrimmage.
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Divisional Playoffs 2008 Eagles(9-5-1) 23 - Giants (12-4) 11
Giants take the lead in the 1st and again in the 3rd on a Carney FG, but that would be the last Giants score. The Eagles went 10 plays for 63 yards ending in a 1 yard TD to Celek to end the 3rd. The Eagles D would then stop Eli on a 4th and inches sneak, and on the next possession stonewall the Giants on short yardage rushing attempts on 3rd and 4th down to force consecutive turnovers on downs. Q's pick of Eli with 3 minutes left sealed it. Fantastic road playoff win vs the #1 seeded Giants. It felt absolutely awesome to gloat in work at the jints fans on Monday after this win.
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Week 8 2009 Eagles(5-2) 40 - Giants(5-3) 17
Total domination. As in the previous playoff game, Eli once again stunk, while McNabb was just flat out awesome, going 17-23 for 240 and 3 TD's with a QB rating of 146.7. Eli's line - 20-39 222, 1 TD 2 INT (both in the first half) with a rating of 55.7. This game was over at halftime, with the Eagles scoring 4 TD's to go up 30-7.
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Week 14 2009 Eagles(9-4) 45 - Giants(7-6) 38
Going into the game, the Eagles are 8-4 and the Giants are 7-5. This is an absolute must win division game for both teams. While the Eagles won, this was not like the previous game. As good as Eli was (27-38 391 and 3 TD's), the Eagles D were equally sloppy. Eagles were up 30-17 at the half, but would lose the lead towards the end of the 3rd as the Giants went up 31-30 on a Hixon 61 yard TD grab, during which the Eagles D put on a clinic of how not to tackle. However, the Eagles answered right back with a 60 yard TD to DJ. More poor tackling in the 4th as Bradshaw takes a little shovel pass in the backfield and turns it into a 31 yard gain. (I specifically remember being sooo pissed at that play) Giants then convert a 4th and 4, get penalized making it 1st and 20. Manningham is wide open in the endzone and catches what appears to be a TD, except his toe was out. Giants eventually score with 1:30 remaining, kick it out of bounds, force the Eagles to go 3 and out and get the ball back, but Darren Howard stripped Eli from behind, ballgame Eagles. DJ was outstanding, finishing 6-178 1 TD, and a 72 yard punt return for a TD.
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Week 11 2010 Eagles(7-3) 27 - Giants(6-4) 17
This was a close game. There was sloppy play on both sides. Avant dropped a TD that hit him right between the numbers, Eli threw 3 picks, Vick fumbled for his 1st turnover of the season, Bradshaw fumbled and Asante fumbled on an interception return (that play really pissed me off, as I absolutely despise when players fumble int or fumble returns). The Giants take the lead in the in the 4th, but the Eagles answer on Shady's 50 yard TD run on 4th down with 4:25 remaining. With 3 minutes left, Eli has a nice run, but slides head first, is untouched by the D and fumbles. Just an absolutely boneheaded turnover. Shady rips off another long run and Akers adds a FG to seal the win.
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Week 15 2010 Eagles(10-4) 38 - Giants(9-5) 31
MM2. Eagles and Giants both enter the game with a 9-4 record. Just like last year, this is an absolute must win division game for both teams. As many times as I am sure you all watched this comeback, the game needs no further description.
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Ahh yeah some good times lol... So weird seeing how much the Eagles have changed over the last few years.
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
The funny thing about this streak – after the first Giants game in ‘08, the Giants had a winning streak over the Eagles at 3 games. Two and a half years later, they still haven’t beaten the Eagles again.
NFL is a funny place.
RIP Jim Johnson, best ever.
"To catch theme is my real test, to train them is my cause."
I remember the 40-17 game so well
Two minutes before halftime, the score was 16-7. I took a quick piss, then got some Doritos, which apparentally was upstairs. When I came back. 30-7 halftime. I thought it was a typo.
Rivals beware
For eagle's fan's sake
I hope the streak continues.
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
Thanks.
For your sake I hope 6 years from now New Jersey will get lucky and turn things around
"What a gorgeous dog. What do you feed him?"
New Jersey is a fine state as I'm sure 95% of Eagles fans will attest
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
by Rorschach44 on Jun 26, 2011 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions
Maybe week 17, when the Eagles are already in and the _____ are out on the sidewalk, so to speak.
"What a gorgeous dog. What do you feed him?"
Meant for Rorschach44
"What a gorgeous dog. What do you feed him?"
The Eli face never disappoints
"Get 'Em"
by FlyEagles15 on Jun 27, 2011 11:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Whats up all of a sudden with these Giant bashing posts lol?
is it b/c the Cowgirls and Lolskins suck that bad?
"if you’re going to act like bitches, then I will treat you like bitches". - AR
Do you hear that? That's the sound of the media ramming the Miracle at the New Meadowlands down your throat for the rest of your life...BAHAHAHAHA....
yea..I thought the Eagles were supposed to be in the Giants' head
if no one brings up the Eagles, most Giants fans don’t even give a shit
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
Real LT was a tool
But he was right on one front, they do seem obsessed with the G-Men around these parts.
LOL, I mean really? Who are we supposed to focus on? You're the only Rival who's good,
us talking about you should make you feel good because is you were like the redskins or the jokeboy’s you’d hardly ever be mentioned.
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
It is a sad state of affairs
when your most skilled rival is a team your boys can beat with relative ease.
Yup the first 3/4s
of the last game we was just chillin for dramatic effect right?
Η κόλαση δεν έχει μυστικά
"Do you know where we are going?" she said.
"To solve the mystery of the eternal hereafter, I imagine," I replied.
-- _The Gods of Mars_
Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.
-Glen Cook The Black Company
Honestly
After that I believe the Eagles can do whatever they want and win. Until the Giants bother to show up for a whole game, they will lose, simple as that.
Haha, I wish we could do whatever we want and win...
that game was amazing from our end.. and even as a football fan (fan affiliation aside) you can’t say that game wasn’t amazing.
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
Can't honestly say it
Those types of things always make me feel for the losing side as opposed to celebrating the ridiculous comeback. Experiencing it as a Giants fan just made it even more so… so much so this is why the Giants can not beat the Eagles ever again from my viewpoint, no matter how ridiculous that may be to say. I have 0% confidence they can beat the Eagles for the foreseeable future (say next 5 years, since eventually they might fluke a victory or the Eagles have a really bad 60 minutes of football).
God damn,
are you really this torn up about it?
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
Wouldn't you be?
That was a brutal loss from this side… for you guys it was great. I would try to compare it to some other loss, but getting blown out doesn’t come near to a brutal finish as that. Add to that you lost the division to the most recent closest rival, and it just shreds the heart.
It also killed what little pride the Giants seem to have, as they proceeded to sleepwalk through the GB game, and then limp through a bad final game versus the Redskins.
Yeah I guess you have a point there.
But still I wouldn’t lose all hope my team could win, I’d be just as confident we’d win as before the shitty ass game.
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
I think you guys misinterpret BBV
we have our irrationally confident members, but most of us Giants fans expect to lose, more often than not… often in the most comically devastating ways possible. I definitely fall into that range, and that game just pretty much broke the hope part of the brain as well. I can safely say 2008 is the only year of my Giants fandom I felt so sure they could and would win every single week, right up to the play-off debacle.
Oh well that sucks..
I just keep hope, even when we lose I’m sure we’ll win the next week.
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
Pretty much lol.
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
Thats Cool Matching band
Desean simply owns the Giants …… WHY WHY WHY do they KICK THE BALL TO HIM ?
WHY Kick it to Jackson????
Rivals beware
by starship 007 on Jun 29, 2011 11:04 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Giants must be dumb
Even a child learns by this point to stop getting burned by the stove.
I just wanted to say your avatar is awesome.
King Diamond FTW!
I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds.
-Duke Leto Atreides
by peytonsurdaddy on Jun 29, 2011 10:05 PM EDT reply actions
Thanks. I am actu
ally surprised by the amount of football fans that recognize him.
Not King Diamond or MF, but relative to the quote in your sig, and an awesome tune – He is the Kwizatz Haderach, he is born of Caladan and will take the Gom Jabbar. He has the power to foresee or to look into the past he is the ruler of the staaarrr-rrrrssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dream theater actually covered it, but as much of a fan as I am of DT, I thought it could have been better.
Go Eagles
by captain nodar on Jun 30, 2011 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes Maiden for the win!
I thought DT’s cover of “To Tame a Land” was awful from the terrible guitar tone, to LaBries voice (you can’t mess with Bruce) on it even Portnoys playing. I hated it and Im a fan of DT though there latest album kind of sucks. I think they have fallen off a bit.
King Diamond is the shit, and Conspiracy is one of their best.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.-Oscar Wilde
"I would go to battle any time with these guys"-MV7
Being an Eagles fan is so awesome, even Giants fans want to be one.
Giants are a disaster in division games
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no. Just a disaster facing the Eagles
We’ve got a 6 game win streak of our own against the Redskins, and have won 4 of the last 6 against the Cowboys.
Keep Jose Reyes, Trade Fred Wilpon
by BigBlueIntervention on Jul 5, 2011 12:51 AM EDT up reply actions
a 6 game win streak against the Redskins is like beating up a retarded child, fixing the boo-boo's then
wailing on it again.
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
Didn't the retarded child...
beat the Eagles last year? Not sure if that says worse about the Eagles or the Giants (since they can’t beat the guys who got beat up by a retarded child).
Read below bud.
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
I'm not your buddy, guy!
And I can say that, what with my flapping Canadian head and all.
my point being a response against the claim that we're a disaster in division games
when in the last three years we are 10-8 in them.
Keep Jose Reyes, Trade Fred Wilpon
by BigBlueIntervention on Jul 5, 2011 8:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Oh bro, I'm 100% kidding lol
I’m just taking friendly shots
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
A win against an NFC East Rival is a win..
even if the Redskins suck they always put up a fight, any one of our teams could be 0-whatever and play like a superbowl team against one of the other 3 just out of spite.
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
yessssir
Keep Jose Reyes, Trade Fred Wilpon
by BigBlueIntervention on Jul 5, 2011 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions
So very true
thats what makes division games exciting everytime. No matter what you are always going to have a pretty damn good game to watch.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.-Oscar Wilde
"I would go to battle any time with these guys"-MV7
Being an Eagles fan is so awesome, even Giants fans want to be one.
bingo lol.
Defensive player of the year for 2011 is...
Wild_Eagle!
Yes, Wild_Eagle's infamous reputation did help him get this award. But he shows that he walks the talk that he serves...with his keyboard. Wild_Eagle protects the motherland (BGN) from the evils of noobs, douche-bags, and other assholes. Although he may be crude and unnecessary, all great defenders draws the yellow flag from time to time.
-Awarded by Number5
Wild_Eagles’ Heart is scarier than Hell, you lose. - d-jackfan10 at the troll known as vicksuck!
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