Your Giants/Vikings Wild Card Game Open Thread

It’s otherwise known as the Scotchy/Yeah right Darby For The Ages. I hope for the sake of his sanity that my esteemed opponent can get those visions of that 41-0 pasting out of his head. [giggles in blowout]

To The Game!

Giants/Vikes:

-Despite these teams being around for so long they’ve rarely met up in the playoffs. The Giants hold a 2-1 edge in games played.

-On the face of it Minny should be able to do anything they want in the run game. Cook averaged 4.5 ypc last time they played but that was under what NY usually gives up. Also, the Giants are 31st in pass defense DVOA vs tight ends-that was in evidence when Hockey went for 109 yards and two TD’s, further lowering the Giants stats in that category. And of course there’s Jefferson who is uncoverable at present and was earlier in the season flirting with Megatron’s total yards receiving record.

-So…what do the Giants bring to the table? Well, their run game has been extremely effective-they are ranked fifth in number of explosive plays and tenth in EPA per run play. They’re doing this out of base personnel (11 men) looks which usually means that an offense is going to pass. Because the D has to account for the possibility that Saquon might get the ball out of this set the revolving door of sub-average wr’s have been “functional”.

-The Giants don’t have a single player with an injury designation for the first time in my memory. They get back stating cb Adoree Jackson and starting safety Xavier McKinney.

-Minny is 11-0 in one score games but NY isn’t that bad either, going 8-4-1.

PAYDAY?: Daniel Jones argument for a multi-year contract keeps improving. The knock against him is that he doesn’t take chances-he has a 6.4 average yards per throw and a 76% completion percentage between the hash marks-but I’d argue that all those ‘dump off’ passes have been the plan all along as Daboll has had to build him back up from scratch.

-The knock on Cousins is that he’s quite flappable when pressure arrives-last year his passer rating was 72.5 under those circumstances but this year the stat sits at 83.4.

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herodotus450

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

THESE 2023 MINNESOTA VIKINGS I CALL THEM GEORGE SANTOS BECAUSE THEY SOMEHOW ASCENDED TO A POSITION OF POWER BEFORE BEING EXPOSED AS SOME OF THE BIGGEST FRAUDS IN HISTORY.

King Hippo

Justin Jefferson targets on the last drive (and maybe the whole Q4) – zero

King Hippo

I don’t call him the Good Hodgins JUST for the Curb reference!

King Hippo

post-game drinks are on Slayton!

Horatio Cornblower

Not very far, anyway.

King Hippo

thinking this bodes well for the N-GCp tomorrow. That division was “iron sharpens iron” this season.

Horatio Cornblower

Mike McCarthy: “The game’s TOMORROW!?!?

Gumbygirl

Giants have vanquished the fraudulent Vikings! Sorry, Yeah Right.

Brocky

That was Alex Smith esque

LemonJello

Odin, coming back to the tv after running to get some snacks:

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Spur

Throwing short of the 1st down, always a dumbass idea.

Doktor Zymm

Not the Dingliest berry Dingleberry has ever dingled, but dingley nonetheless!

King Hippo

and on the decisive play, the NOO YAWK FITBAW GIANTS actually DID cover the TE

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

BREAKING: Kirk Cousins has been elected mayor-for-life of Checkdown City.

Dunstan

Did Chad Henne die or something?

Don T

Alex Smith is still Prime Minister.

King Hippo

has a…leg up on his rivals

/ducks rotten veg

Spur

YES! Primetime Cousins Strikes Again

Sharkbait

4th and 8, lets throw it 6 yards!

NFL playcallers make the dumbest decisions sometimes.

King Hippo

CAPTAIN DINGLEBERRY Y’ALL

Doktor Zymm

The annoying thing about the last 2 minutes of the game taking 20 is that I’ll have to go airplane mode and miss what I assume will be a brutal Cousins turnover in the red zone

King Hippo

the checkdown on 4th and 8 was Peak Kirk

Doktor Zymm

I appreciate his timliness in dingling!

Brocky

Not quite

Redshirt

The end of Super Bowl LVI and that Roughing the Passer call is proof that BLEERGH has a personal vendetta against me.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Nah, it’s proof that the primary purpose of NFL officiating is to maximize drama.

Redshirt

It can be two things!

Brocky

Roughing the passer?

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Sharkbait

Weak rouging the passer is weak

King Hippo

borderline criminal

Mr. Ayo

Just a truly terrible call.

Dunstan

“Rouging the passer” is what Derek Carr does to himself when the mascara alone just isn’t cutting it.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Don’t look at me, these teams aren’t part of my script whatsoever.” – THE NARRATOR

Doktor Zymm

I think Danny has been putting in the hours watching Manningface tape, he’s getting decent at it!

Gumbygirl

The dumb look!

WCS

The Gints receivers know holding onto the ball is part of their jorb, don’t they?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Well, that drop preserves the possibility of the Vikings having their hearts ripped out somehow.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m thinking a touchdown to tie it and they Shan’Khor steps in.

King Hippo

Darius Slayton, HonoUrary Hobo

Redshirt

“Bet $10 on a +900,” I said. “It’ll be fun,” I said.

Sharkbait

Ice Giants lose to the Ice Allouettes. Booo

Brocky

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

…and six pints of Häagen-Dazs.

Dunstan

Things didn’t go quite so well for the Ice Giants today, who just lost to the Ice Alouettes

Sharkbait

Booo

Spur

Dont fuck this up Danny boy.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

He didn’t!

King Hippo

Saquon seems like he’d be an especially good “Bush pusher”

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Ah, I remember the days of pushing Bush…” – Paul Wolfowitz, daydreaming about invading another country

Horatio Cornblower

Danny Dimes is having an unusually cromulent game

King Hippo

This has been 5 games out of 5, in terms of entertainment value

King Hippo

(4 of 4 if Hippo could count)

LemonJello

That’s Other Hippo’s job.

King Hippo

yeah, and dat muthafucka HIGH

Brick Meathook

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Sharkbait

Oh, an Absolutely Fabulous reference. Deep cut.

Brocky

Unfortunately it was only in the 2016 wild card round

Doktor Zymm

It would suck to have someone cleat your bare foot there, good for him to keep going