Giants Will Try To Eliminate Late Game Struggles Against Redskins On Thursday

And yes, the Cowboys are 2-0, but they’ve lost the two best players in the division to serious injuries.

It’s been a rough two weeks for the Giants, who have blown 10-point fourth quarter leads on their way to a third straight 0-2 start to a season.

The NFC East landscape has changed dramatically in the first two weeks of the season.

Special team points have helped St. Louis in the past to win games, but Washington did a good job preventing kickoff and punt returns. The Eagles (0-2) look dismal on offense.

Carolina is 2-0 after a home victory over the Houston Texans this past Sunday. More alarmingly, he has been prone to some poor execution down the stretch. And he might have been understating things.

Unfortunately the Giants are much too creative in finding ways to lose: Eli Manning ordered Rashad Jennings not to score last week when he lost track of how many timeouts the Cowboys had left. “Obviously he’s not going to win games the same way Tony’s going to win games”.

“My entire strategy to compete in the playoffs this year: Just don’t get eliminated”, he said. Manning acknowledged that his 12th edition of Giants football is “a young team” and “we’ve got to make sure guys stay strong”.

“(A win) is everything”, said linebacker Jon Beason. I need to hit this. In winning, the Cowboys have also loss.

“Sure, of course”, said Stephen Jones, when asked if Romo’s injury wiped out some of the thrill of victory. But beating the Eagles is a big deal. If this team gets it together, they’re going to be just fine. But in Dallas, the gloom at least has a silver lining.

Philadelphia’s DeMarco Murray, the reigning National Football League rushing champion, rushed for just 2 yards on 13 carries against his former team as the Eagles fell to Dallas 20-10. Quarterback Kirk Cousins completed 23 of 27 passes for 203 yards and one touchdown to lead the Redskins. And that’s kind of a crucial detail on the road to success. Murray is averaging 1.6 FEET (not yards) per carry in two games with the Eagles.

Um, Trent, sorry but you’re mistaken. In two games, the Giants have scored four touchdowns and kicked six field goals. The Bills (1-1) aren’t ready to topple New England, but they can contend for a playoff spot. But they rarely back up all that chatter with a win.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. “The information comes forth from the sideline, you have “X” amount of time to digest it all, but then you have to go pull the trigger”. The Giants lead the series, 97-65-4, and the two teams have a combined seven Super Bowl trophies. The first game we didn’t have many plays or many possessions. There are no moral victories or medals for getting close.

And they have to do it on a short week. Until that trend finally gets turned around, Buffalo should have precious little to say about the Patriots. Since 2010, the Giants have beaten the Redskins in seven of 10 games and look to try to improve on that record on this week.

And despite plans to bolster what was a sagging secondary last season by acquiring Maxwell and Walter Thurmond in free agency and drafting Eric Rowe, five different Falcons and Cowboys have recorded at least 40 receiving yards against them. The latter, Jones said, because after all, no team in this division seems prepared to grab the division and run away from the pack. Quarterback Eli Manning passed the ball 36 times and he still couldn’t get over 200 yards with just 193.

The Redskins are the first team since the 2006 Chargers to have two backs each gain at least 100 yards on the ground in a season’s first two games. If so, Baltimore’s in for a very long year. “But there are a lot of things we’ve been doing well that we’ve got to keep doing well”. His 2015 Giants give every early indication of being mediocre once again. Head coach Chip Kelly said that everyone in the offense will be evaluated this week in practice as they have looked pitiful outside of a handful of drives against the Falcons Week 1. Jones isn’t resting on his laurels now that he’s earned his big new contract. Matt Ryan is more efficient game manager than Newton, and has more weapons on offense.

On paper, Washington has no business being in the conversation for a chance at the NFC East divisional title. With an aging Marques Colston, no Jimmy Graham, a mediocre at best defense and no Brees, the Saints may end up in the cellar of the division. If Atlanta can make it 3-0, Quinn will be your leader in the clubhouse for NFC Coach of the Year honors.

“I think they won today”, Williams mentioned, “if I’m not mistaken”.

After investing a 2014 first-round pick in him, Cleveland needs to find out one way or another what it has in Manziel, and sending him back to the bench once McCown is healthy only delays that discovery once again.

Cleveland built a 21-0 lead and hung on for just its third home-opening win since 1999, 28-14 over Tennessee.

OVERREACTION: This is the best Gang Green defense in Jets history. In the first game of the season, Alfred Morris of the Redskins ran for 121 yards and, in the second, Matt Jones ran for 123 yards. “We were on the field all day”.

He did hang in there though, finishing 21 of 37 for 252 yards and two touchdowns, making the Browns sweat things out in the fourth quarter.

NFL.com has the Redskins at 20th overall in its power rankings through two weeks.

As far as Washington goes, they had a great week, but my message to fellow Redskins fans would be to relax and brace for the fall. What a maddening team to try and figure out.

Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers, passed for 369 yards and three touchdowns in Pittsburgh’s 43-18 win over San Francisco.