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New York Giants (1-0) at Los Angeles Rams (0-1)

(Monday Night Football — ESPN/ABC)
 
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I didn't see enough of the Giants/Cowboys game to know how they might match up against us.
 
I didn't see enough of the Giants/Cowboys game to know how they might match up against us.
Stylistically on offense they aren’t all that dissimilar from SF. Heavy fullback usage, lots of running the ball, mobile QB, the bulk of the passing game is quick and short.

They can flat out take the air out of the football. Dallas had two total possessions in the 2H the other night because the Giants kept sustaining 9, 10 min drives.
 
I didn't see enough of the Giants/Cowboys game to know how they might match up against us.

The Cowboys defense didn't really come to play, similar to ours and Denver's (i.e. missed tackles and assignments) - I won't even comment on if our defense plays like last week, goes without saying that would be a big problem.

That said, Skattebo is a problem to tackle. You can bet after how we performed last week, they will be lining up to run the ball down our throats. I also suspect their gameplan will be similar because the Cowboys offense was potent, so their goal was to shorten the game. Lots of run, play action, short game and run again. Or run, run run.

In their passing game, Likely looked like a true breakout star. Kittle was not 100% last week, so to me how we defend him will be a question mark. Nabers is good on the outside and they will take their shots, but in theory our secondary matches up well against their WRs.

For us on offense....I don't know what to expect after last week's turd of a performance, but on paper they shouldn't be able to stop us much. Their DTs are not good, the edge rushers are but I trust McVay to scheme around that, and would expect us to have success running the ball.

This is all assuming we show up....there is every chance that we don't or experience some kind of hang over. Its unfortunate, but if we lose that's pretty much a wrap.
 
Hard for me to get a handle on Monday Night.

Cowgirls defense looked like last year's - horrible.

Giants offense looked "efficient". They took advantage of breakdowns in the Cowgirls defense repeatedly (Cowgirls fault, but smart of Giants to see it and keep going to that well).

Nearly impossible to say what Rams team shows up Monday. I want to believe all the warts will have been treated but... that's why they play the games.

One thing for certain: After the game, we'll have a better understanding of who these 2026 Rams are all about.
 
We always seem to have trouble with the Ginas, and if we dont blanket their receivers and make Dart hold onto the ball longer than hes comfortable with, its going to be a long game.
 
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Week 1 - 4 are often not the real picture of who NFL teams are. I think NY is improved, but by how much? If you stop their running game, can Dart put the team on his shoulders like Lamar used to? We'll see.

Rams need to come out and play solid ball, if they don't then we'll be 0-2

Also, don't expect to see the Rams run any Man 2 man coverage this game, because Dart will make you pay.
 
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That said, Skattebo is a problem to tackle. You can bet after how we performed last week, they will be lining up to run the ball down our throats.
:bullseye:

He's a load and if he gets into our secondary with big holes like we gave SF our defense is going to tire. Guy like him needs to be stopped before they get rolling.

He went 18 for 81 yards in game one. Harbaugh probably will be looking to get him into that 25+ range vs our defense. So we either need to shut him down, or our offense needs to play lights out and hang a bunch of points on them early to eliminate their run game.
 
Their pass rush got a ton of pressure on Dak, who is far more mobile than Stafford. The offensive line needs to come way more prepared than they did on Thursday.
Run. The. Ball.
......... Until you score.
That will cool off the NYG pass rush. Dallas had a total of 69 rushing yards in that game.
Dak throws it up when he's facing game long pressure, so Harbaugh likely figured that into his defensive game plan.
 
Run. The. Ball.
......... Until you score.
That will cool off the NYG pass rush. Dallas had a total of 69 rushing yards in that game.
Dak throws it up when he's facing game long pressure, so Harbaugh likely figured that into his defensive game plan.
Correct. Everything we do well depends on running the ball and play action.
 
We do, since when?
Well the Giants were an absolute dumpster fire in 2023 and yet we only won by 1 pt. We blew them out in 2021 but in 2020 the score was 17 to 9 and they still sucked ass back then and we only put up 17 pts. Then you have the Fisher era that was always a close game and a literal bench clearing brawl when we faced them, and thats really all my memory seems to remember accurately, but i think more than 10 yrs worth of games is enough to make a reasonable conclusion. Lol
 
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Well let's forget about the niner game. It's their Super Bowl plus they were more rested probably. Not even going to factor that into what this team is going to be this season. Next games are home against the Gmen, then mile high against the broncos. An early east coast game against Philly, tough one, then home against the Bills. I picked a hell of a month to quit sniffing glue. Yeah that doesn't look easy.
 
RUN THE FUCKING BALL! The Game last week would have been different if they didnt abandon it. Let Kyren and Corum run all over them! they wanted to Against SF, so Let them kill Giants! 2.46 Yards before being Touched is Crazy. Those two were about to Rip Huge Runs off of 9ers! Instead they force it to Adams and Puka.