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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