Week 10 vs Cowboys - 2nd half

• And the 2nd half starts with a blow to the face from the Cowboys. Wow. I guess they watched film of the Week 1 game and decided to emulate the Giants.
• Apparently the Cowboys said they were going to double cover Shockey on every play. NOT WORKING!
• Before NY tied it up with the FG, the update was going to be "The Giants need a big play to get the lead back." But that's still what they need.
  
• OK, Tony Romo looks too damn happy. Somebody smack him in that dopey smile of his.
• Aside: it'll kill fantasy players but most teams are going to be going with a 2 or even a 3 back system. It works. I don't know why but it seems to work. You need two backs that are good, of course.
• Crayton again? Dammit.
• Still tied. On the surface these teams aren't really that evenly matched but in reality they are. DAL has the edge on receivers, NYG has the edge on defense, running game is a draw (maybe a little edge to DAL). QB you'd say Romo but Eli's good too.
  
• OK, so they got Witten's number today but Crayton is having a field day. What the hell?
• FUCK! Really great pass from Romo to Owens. Sam Madison blows the coverage. That's the big play that the Giants haven't made today.
• Whoah. That was some return by Bradshaw for the Giants. But it's coming back - holding on the Giants. A backup Tight End. Why? Why? Why?
• Shockey is having an incredible day. 11 catches so far. He still falls down whenever he catches the ball but if he catches it this much it's not that big a deal.
• Not a Toomer? Oh, but it is a Toomer. 23 yard catch right over the middle.
• OK, this is a nice drive so far.
• Droughns gets the first down. He's kind of a poor man's Jerome Bettis.
• Weird pass to Toomer doesn't quite make it in.
• Jacobs pounds it in... but there's a holding penalty and it gets called back.
  
• Delay of game? DELAY OF GAME????? Eli's been cutting it way too close all game. Now they're back at the 16 yard line.
  
• Please don't let this be the beginning of the Giants Second Half of the Season Meltdown.
• A nice drive ends in a pile of penalties and a FG instead of a TD. Tom Coughlin looks like he's about to start flapping his arms again. Don't do it Tom! Keep it together! Remember, the "we're not thinking" penalties are YOUR fault, not theirs.
• Romo moves away from Kiwanuka and manages to get a pass off, which falls incomplete. Still, it's not a sack and he didn't fall apart under pressure.
• I think it's safe to say that these two teams dislike each other quite a bit.
• Hands to the face, NY. Look at that. So sloppy. No reason to put your hands there, man.
• Well, they have shut down Barber. And Witten. It's the rest of the team they need to start worrying about.
• Spoke too soon. There goes Barber who makes NY miss. Barber leads the league in breaking tackles (according to Aikman) and you can see why. The guy looks like he's solid muscle top to bottom.
• HUGE touchdown to TO. Well, that's not good.
• Now it looks more like the Giants team from Week 1. Confusion, blown coverages, bad plays, awful penalties. One more penalty and Coughlin might flap his arms so hard he flies away.
  
• Tank Johnson with a sack. Isn't he supposed to be in jail?
• Three and out. Need a big defensive play. They'd better have it in them or this game is ov-ah.
• The penalties are not only unforgivably bad, they seem to demoralize the team in a really bad way. This, again, is Coughlin's fault. Even Joe Schmuck is pointing out that under Coughlin's "discipline" approach, NY has been the most penalized team in the league.
  
• They are stopping Braber for the most part. But TO has 124 yards and 2 TDs.
• Lots of jawing between the two teams. Most of it doesn't result in penalties but the Giants could use a few more Dallas screw ups to get them the ball back with a short field.
• Aside: The Bengals win today but they definitely get the vote for most disappointing team. Their shot was a couple of years ago when Palmer got his knee blown out in the playoffs. Who knows what would've happened but I think they beat Pittsburgh then go on to win it all.
• False start? Dallas? Come on, ref, talk to me...Whoo-hoo! 5 yards, 1st down. We'll take it.
• Now Shockey's not making those catches. Oh wait, yes he is. First down. OK, I'll start mocking him again, it seems to help him play better. HEY! J-SCHMO! YOU BANGED TARA REID! SCHMENDRICK!
• Some anonymous white guy gets his first catch of the year, and Jacobs pounds his way to a first down. The guy plays hard.
• ANOTHER delay of game? Coughlin looks like he doesn't understand. I mean, it's Eli's fault but somehow I still blame Coughlin.
• Fourth and 4 and an incomplete pass. That's it. The delay of game penalty did them in. That's really pathetic. It's not so late in the game that Dallas can run out the clock but it's close. Now they try to hold the game with time outs.
• It was all going so well. Aikman hits it right on the head - how will the team come off of this loss? I have no idea what Coughlin is like in the locker room but he doesn't appear to know the right things to say to get the Giants to push this kind of stuff off, get past it and win the next game.
• T.O. is a great receiver, but if you watch him shouting after big plays (or small plays), I really think he might be mentally ill.
• Joe Schmuck is blaming it all on Eli but he seems to be forgetting the rest of the team. Yes, Eli screwed up more than once, and fell apart in the second half. But so did everybody else. And ultimately, the fish stinks from the head - Coughlin, Coughlin, Coughlin.