Week 13 vs Chicago - 1st half

Didn't post anything this week. Mostly absorbed the fulminating by NY media outlets over Eli's crappy Sunday, which was followed by the Knicks National TV collapse. Always fun in the big city.
And heeeere we go:

• Derrick Ward is in. He's pretty good. Not a world beater, but good. Good thing we had him, since BJ proved to be as injury prone as everybody thought.
• THERE you go. Urlacher. Interception. Right at the start. If he has another horrendous game, he's in biiiiig trouble.
  
• "It seems that there are a lot of miscommunications." Well, yeah. Although the point here is that it may not be Eli's fault, not entirely anyway.
• Beat Grossman! Can't stand the guy.
• Grossman plays better than Eli, a lot better, man oh man, is this gonna get ugly.
• I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if the receivers and the QB aren't on the same page in terms of route running, it's the coach's fault. Eli may be making poor decisions, but at the same time, if he really expects a guy to be in a certain spot and he's not, somebody has to address that.
  
• Love it when the home team boos a penalty that's against them. As if no one can dare rule against their team.
• Sinorice Moss is my co-pilot.
• Oh right. The punt to Hester or not punt to Hester thing. Just don't punt to him, you dummies.
• 3 and out, but no punt returned for a TD.
• Big Game - Bernie - BERRIAN! Oh, this looks really bad.
• Bears punt. Good.
• Some fighting there. To quote Wyclef: No Fighting!
• Over-under on stupid penalties by the Giants today (this isn't official, this is me making it up): 55 yards. I'd take the under, but barely.
  
• On the sidelines "Shockey was doing most of the talking," says Pam Oliver. Alert the media.
• I'm missing how this is in any way Burress' fault. I could be wrong here but I think he gets a lot of flack for missing practices - not flack exactly, but "maybe he shouldn't play if he can't practice" type of stuff. But Shock Man, who to my eyes seems to be running the wrong routes, doesn't get slammed by the commentators.
  
• False start, 69. That sounds dirty. Also a 5 yard penalty.
• I just remembered something from Francesca's show this morning. To paraphrase: Giants run ball well. Bears can't stop run. Giants run ball. Giants win. Capeesh? And yet, we see Eli throwing.
• At least they punted to Hester but pushed him out of bounds right away.
  
• COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS BULLSHIT. Just needed to get that out. Thanks.
• HA! Hester dropped a sure fire TD. HA HA! The not-so-funny part is that he was more open than Britney Spears after a few vodka and Red Bulls. The guy isn't a receiver, so you give him a break. YOU give him a break, not me.
  
• CHI leads the NFL in drops. And they just had a delay of game
• No safety? That was a safety. Wasn't it? They pushed Grossman back 20 yards. Nice punt block gives NY unbelievable field position - like at the 32 yard line. Then Ward runs it for 31 yards, with some nice moves, especially a few to stay in bounds. Droughns punches it in for a 1 yard TD. But Lovie challenges it. After the play. Excuse me? EXCUSE ME????
• I don't know what the result will be but that's bullshit. How do you accept a challenge after the freakin' play?
• And now they stop Droughns. That was crap. Replay shows that Lovie threw the flag too late. And the Giants, because they're really dumb, are just going to do the same play, whether it works or not. LAST CHANCE GUYS. Make it work.
• Hate agreeing with Joe Schmuck but he's right - "Justice was served." Ward punches it in. Right now, he looks much better than Reub, which means Reub will start getting more carries. I'd prefer to be wrong about that.
• Ward's a funny one. He's not a chugging type of back, but he's not exactly Warrick Dunn either. Size-wise I guess he's a little Jones-Drew type: 5' 11", 228 lbs. (MoJo is 5' 7", 208). BJ is 6' 4", 264 lbs (sheesh), Droughns is 5' 11", 220 lbs. It's funny, because Reub looks like a "chugging along" type of back, and Ward looks more sleek. But he's actually a little bit heavier.
  
• OK, penalty on Chicago. Illegal touch. Again with the dirty terminology. Football is a filthy, filthy game.
• Something weird is going on here. That was obviously a case where the Bears touched the ball first, and it took the officiants a week and a half to figure that out. What were they waiting for? Are they Bears' fans?
• McQuarters not so exciting on the return game but at least he didn't fumble.
• Chicago got some nasty weather on.
• Whoah. Derrick Ward is looking like Devin Hester Jr. Really finding the holes (which I guess you have to say the line and blockers opened for him), nice little cuts, good speed.
• Oh fuck. What the hell was that, Eli? That was horrible. Ball slipped out of his hand while throwing. That's baaaad. At least it was only a field goal but man, this isn't good.
• Here's my advice: turn 'em loose. Fuck it, let Eli go no huddle. OR just feed the ball to Ward. Do that. Ward's averaging 10 yards per carry. Are you kidding me? Come on, Cough.
• Hedgecock? Who the hell is Hedgecock? This is annoying.
• GUYS! No fighting! Wyclef said!
• If nothing else, NY is showing how to pin Hester back. They kicked it to the corner of the field, and then the Giants pushed him out of bounds at the 10. Take that, Sauerbraun.
• I know I said before that it wasn't completely Eli's fault. It's not. But it's kind of his fault. Rex Grossman is having a much better game than Eli.
• I'm glad it happened to the Bears (Desmond Clark called a time out) but I don't think players should be allowed to call time.
• This is an ugly game in terms of how the players are treating each other. Surprised there wasn't a foul called while Madison sat on Rasheed Davis for an extra coupla minutes.
• When Grossman's wrong, he's way wrong. He threw that ball to Wrigley Field.
• Peterson! What is it with guys named Adrian Peterson? What are the odds of two good rookie running backs with the same name? The Giants just didn't stop him.
• But man, when Rex throws it wrong, he really throws it wrong.
• And again, Rex is pounded into the ground a bunch of yards behind the line of scrimmage. Umenyiora, we like you. Sack number 11 for him, 5 sacks total today.
• Robbie Gould isn't Jewish, but he should convert. He made the FG, but that could easily have been a TD.