Week 17 vs PATS - 2nd half

• A knee in the end zone from the Pats to start the half. Interesting. New England is running out of gas a little bit here.
• Surprised to see Ben Watson, I thought he wasn't going to play. All Giants' 1st stringers are on the field.
• That was almost an amazing catch by Randy Moss. But he didn't and that's 3 and out, baby. Punches are starting to fly. This kind of puts the whole "meaningless game" business to rest. Both teams are playing as if this was the playoffs. And why not? They get paid to play, despite what commentators say.
• Lots of RBs are described as "running over people" but Jacobs literally does it. Dude is big. Suddenly, NY has a running game again. Cris Collinsworth drools over Madison Hedgecock, the fullback. Heh heh. Hedgecock.
• Touchdown Burress! Holy crap. 28-16. At some point even Belichik has to give it up, right? No way Coughie pulls starters at this point. You can't. Too close, too much momentum.
  
• Brady just looks like he has no idea Strahan, Pierce and the rest are trying to kill him. He's good. Nice throw to Watson for a first down there, then a big pickup for Welker. See, even if the Pats score here, they're still down by two scores. Nice moves by Welker there for another 1st. Brady avoids some defenders but NY gets flagged with an interference call, which ain't good. Puts the Pats on the 1 yard line. Brady overthrows Vrabel, which might actually be a first - he usually catches those. Illegal formation penalty, which nobody seems to understand. Is it cuz Vrabel was in when he shouldn't have been? Don't matter cuz Maroney prances into the end zone to narrow the gap, 28-23.
• Let's play the Cris Collinsworth drinking game. "Unsung heroes" - take a drink.
  
• Big 1st down - Eli to Toomer. Oooo. Bad sack. Eli mostly just slipped on that one, he ran too far backwards. I do that in Madden some times. Of course, I'm not being paid a fortune to play. That makes it... 3rd and 22. U-G-L-Y, you ain't got no alibi, that's just ugleeee... Jacobs pounds out a few yards but it's not enough. Would've been without the sack.
• So if New England scores here, does Tommy C pull players and throw in the towel? I don't think so, although he's so weird, who knows. They stop Maroney for a loss. 3rd and 9, then 1st and 10. Everyone on the Pats plays hard and plays well. Play clock ran down; I thought maybe somebody jumped offsides but I guess not (or they did and nobody noticed).
  
• No 1st down that time. "A tad high," Cris? Come on.
• 3rd and 11, and the Giants don't convert. Neither team is doing much on offense right now. Bad throw by Brady, followed up by a really awful drop by Moss. He should've had that. Not easy, OK, but he would've waltzed right into the end zone. But then he does anyway on the next play. Ooops. And a two point conversion. And Brady breaks (Peyton) Manning's TD record. And Moss breaks Rice's record.
• Bad penalty for the Pats - 15 yards for hitting a player out of bounds. Nice run by Jacobs is coming back.
• Interception, 1st of the night for the Pats.
• That may have been it for any Giant momentum here. 38-28 Pats.
• Now the Pats are committing penalties for dumb things. How Shockey of them.
  
• 1st and goal, less than 2 minutes to go. Now is when the fact that they aren't well coached becomes a problem. They've wasted about 50 seconds on the last 2 plays.
• Touchdown #2 for Burress. FWIW, this is going to be down to the wire.
• That had to be Tynes' fault. Onside kicks aren't supposed to be in the air.
• No moral victories but the Giants played damn well tonight. That's it. Next week in Tampa Bay.