Five Things: Giants Vs. Redskins Thursday Night Roundup
This Week 4 NFC East game felt like a must-win for both teams. The Giants played like it, dominating in a 45-14 win. The Redskins looked overmatched.
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This Week 4 NFC East game felt like a must-win for both teams. The Giants played like it, dominating in a 45-14 win. The Redskins looked overmatched.
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Local cable providers love to remind us that we have nine - yes, nine - professional sports clubs, a way of persuading us to click on this package or that so we can view the screen-in-screen horror we call baseball, football, and basketball.
The offense in Oakland is no great unit, but the Raiders will only go as far as their defense takes them in 2013.
For an NFL team to be playoff caliber, it needs to win most of its games at home and find victory half the time on the road: the Raiders are winless this year away from the Coliseum.
The Oakland Raiders had every chance to win Sunday in New York, but the offense really struggled when it mattered most in the loss to the New York Giants.
Oakland and New York take the field Sunday with a lot of injury questions and concerns, as both teams fight to keep their slim playoff hopes alive.
Sure, the New York Giants started 0-6, but they've won their last two games now, and coming off a bye week, they'll be ready to host Oakland.
"Pryor is always a threat. He's making some big throws, and I think that gives them a chance," John Madden told the KCBS Radio morning crew.
You laugh now, but there was a time, very recently, when it was a debate. There was a time, when we thought the kid had commandeered the throne. There was a time when, when we thought it was the dawn of one empire, and the dusk of another.
The Seattle Seahawks humbled the San Francisco 49ers in Seattle Sunday night, winning 29-3. "(Seattle is) a legitimate tough team, with a legitimate defense," John Madden told the KCBS Radio morning crew.
The Oakland Raiders are favored to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars in Oakland Sunday. "The one thing they can't be is overconfident," John Madden told the KCBS Radio morning crew. "You can't have a good loss on the road and get overconfident by it.
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The San Francisco 49ers depart Sunday for New Orleans., a full week after their victory in the NFC Championship. Why two weeks between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl? "When you win the championship game, you immediately go into the ticket business, and you go into the hotel business and you go into the airline ticket business," John Madden told the KCBS morning crew.
The Oakland Raiders lost their fourth straight Sunday, falling 34-10 to the Bengals in Cincinnati. Oakland's defense has given up 169 points in those last four games.
Phil Simms answers questions about the state of the NFL after seven weeks.
The New York Giants just put the rest of the NFC on notice. After dismantling the 49ers, who many believed to be the most complete team in the NFL, the Giants are back to the form that earned them a Super Bowl win last year. However, San Francisco can point to missed chances to at least keep the game close.
The Oakland A's got a standing ovation from fans at the Coliseum Thursday night after their loss to the Detroit Tigers in the division series ended their season. "It was a great ride," John Madden told the KCBS morning crew.
The match up to watch on Sunday will be Carlos Rogers vs. Victor Cruz. As with San Francisco and New York both are very talented and have developed a bit of a rivalry since Rogers mocked Cruz's touchdown celebration. This will mark the 3rd time the two have faced each other with both winning a previous meeting. Whichever player gets the better of their opponent Sunday will give their team a great chance at winning the game.
Quarterback Eli Manning completed 27 of 35 passes for 288 yards as the New York Giants dominated the Carolina Panthers in a 36-7 victory Thursday night.
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With a minute to go in the Super Bowl and the New York Giants trailing by two points, the New England Patriots let Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw score on a six-yard run to preserve time for a comeback. The Patriots lost 21-17.
Eli Manning and the Giants one-upped the Bay Area's Tom Brady and his Patriots again, coming back with a last-minute touchdown to beat New England 21-17 Sunday night for New York's fourth Super Bowl title.
Eli Manning leads upstart New York into Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium to face Tom Brady and New England in Super Bowl XLVI.
