Maybe I'm this forum's only Giants fan, but:
September 22, 2013
Giants embarrassed 38-0 by Panthers
By Bart Hubbuch
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – There are losses, and then there are completely embarrassing debacles that have to make an NFL franchise rethink every single thing its doing.
Sunday’s 38-0 debacle at the hands of the previously winless Panthers has to qualify as the latter for the Giants, who left Bank of America Stadium dazed, humiliated and staring at an 0-3 start to a season that already looks lost.
What was billed as the “Desperation Bowl” between two struggling teams that began the day a combined 0-4 played out with only one of them showing any sense of urgency – and it wasn’t Tom Coughlin’s club.
Thanks in large part to an inept offensive line, Big Blue had its doors blown off so completely the final 13 games already look like one long evaluation period for the 2014 NFL Draft.
How bad was it? With 13 minutes left in the third quarter, the Panthers had more points (24) than the Giants had total yards (1
.
With alleged franchise left tackle Will Beatty leading the way, the Giants’ line was completely overrun, allowing a 26th-ranked Carolina defense that began the day with four new starters to tie the franchise record with seven sacks of Eli Manning.
With no time to throw and no one open enough to throw it to, Manning suffered though a miserable afternoon. He ended up completing
12 of 19 passes for 119 yards and an interception when he wasn’t being broken in half by the Panthers’ jailbreak pass rush or running for his life.
Manning was mercifully lifted for Curtis Painter late in the fourth quarter, and Painter – predictably – threw an interception.
Carolina and Cam Newton, meanwhile, were simply running wild against a Giants defense that still can’t rush the passer, still can’t cover anybody and still can’t stop the run.
The embattled Newton quieted his critics with a huge day, completing 15 of 27 passes for 223 yards and three touchdowns, including a gorgeous, 47-yard scoring strike to Ted Ginn just than two minutes into the fourth quarter that made it 38-0 and had the crowd streaming for the exits.
And when Newton wasn’t riddling Perry Fewell’s hapless secondary, the Panthers’ star and running back DeAngelo Williams were savaging the Giants’ on the ground.
Newton ran seven times for 45 yards, nearly matching his rushing total for the first two games combined, and the much-maligned Williams applied the knockout punch with 120 yards on 23 carries as the Panthers had their way all day.
But the Giants’ defensive performance wasn’t nearly as horrifying as the play of their offense, which was shut out for the second time in six games dating to a 34-0 loss at the Falcons in Week
15 last season.
Not only did the Giants give up sacks on three of their first nine snaps, but Manning has to scramble and throw the ball away under pressure on two others plays in that stretch.
Big Blue was so inept offensively that it couldn’t even get points despite being gifted the ball at the Carolina 17 in the second quarter after Aaron Ross intercepted Newton.
The Giants appeared to take advantage of the turnover to tie the game 7-7 on a David Wilson 17-yard touchdown scoot around left end, but Beatty was callled for holding and Josh Brown badly yanked a 38-yard field goal try three plays later.
The loss ended a remarkable streak in which Coughlin’s teams had started 5-2 every year since he was hired in 2004. His woeful club looks like it will be fortunate to win five games total this season.
My posts are for CONSERVATIVE PATRIOTS ONLY. If you are a liberal, socialist, communist, democrat, media parrot or sympathizer with the above, then your opinions are neither welcome nor worthy.
| 
