Do you remember us completing a Hail Mary at any time in all the years we've been watching the Jets? I think Marcus Coleman caught one in 2000, that's maybe it. The Giants have advanced on a Hail Mary and a dropped punt, yet they want to claim there is no luck involved? Please.
1991 vs. GB at the end of the first half, I think it was Burkett who caught the tipped HM but I can't think of ever seeing one HM completed in a possteason game.
The Jags completed one against us in that 1998 divisional game, Brunell of all people to cut our 17-0 lead to 17-7, but that was pretty much the only highlight of that game for them. It just speaks to the luck of the Giants, extra home games every year or two, a guy trapping the ball against his head, the Saints losing at SF, you name it. Regarding New England getting in on a missed FG, how's this stat--only ONE missed FG vs the Jets all year, including a bunch of 50+ yarders.
The Jags one wasn't a real HM though, Smith just beat our Dbs down the sideline. Brunell didn't just throw it up for grans and hope for luck. add in being 9-7 and getting a home game in the WC rd so they only had to win 2 road games this postseason.
I'll give them credit where it's due, beating Green Bay up there, although they got some breaks. But there's no way if that was our road last year we don't make it through. Atlanta at home and at SF? Really? The Saints destroyed the Giants and then they don't have to play them at all. Going back through history it's always been that way for them. In 2000 they had two easy home games to get in, in 1986 the Bears were upset by Washington after a 14-2 season and the Giants had a walk through to get to the Super Bowl. When we get in it's always at Pittsburgh, at Indy, at San Diego, at New England, even when we win one or two nobody ever gets upset along the way to pave the road for us like the Giants get. A lot of that is having New England in our division so we never get a home game, don't we have the record now for ten straight away playoff games? It's a credit to the Jets that we keep getting in even with NE in our division, but always from the bottom.
Also, maybe it's me but Coughlin always looks like the country club just misplaced his putter and he's teeing off with the judge in ten minutes.
You guys are so sad. You are the same kind of people who include Sanchez's rushing TDs for his total, but not his fumbles. Every team gets breaks and we have been one that has had our share the previous 2 years. We didn't make it because we were not good enough. Not because we didn't get the lucky breaks the Giants got.
Name me the game where a PR muff/fumbled twice including setting up the GW FG in OT? name me the game where we fumbled only to be rescued by the refs whistle? Every team gets breaks, some teams make their breaks and the Giants have played really well putting pressure on their opponents so they get credit BUT the quick whistle on the Bradshaw fumble which likely ends the game for them was complete BS.
The PR muff was a mistake by the other team just like missing 2 easy FGs was a mistake by the other team for us in 09. We wouldn't have even made the playoffs in 09 had it not been for the Colts resting their starters in the 2nd half. Those are lucky breaks and every team gets them. The Bradshaw fumble was the correct call as his forward progress was stopped before the ball came out. The Giants didn't make it to the Super Bowl from lucky breaks. They made it because they outplayed every team they have faced in the playoffs. It sucks to see the Giants in another Super Bowl, but when people whine and cry that they got lucky it just makes us Jets fans look bad. They are in the Super Bowl. Take it like a man. Our time will come and I am sure some Giants fans will be saying the same things. I don't think very highly of those who do so.
The Bradshaw fumble was not the correct call, they never blow the whistle that quickly and didn't earlier in the game when the Giants were on D. I give the Giants a ton of credit for playing as well as they have but it was frustrating seeing them win the way they did in SF.
I'm not a Giants fan, but I have to be fair and say it was the correct call. If it were the Jets would you say it was a fumble? I doubt it. You may get on the officials for not being consistent, but it was the correct call. His forward progress was stopped by the second defender, and then the 3rd defender came in and stripped the ball when he was falling backwards. It is frustrating to see the Giants in the Super Bowl again period. We don't need to make excuses to try to take credit away from them. I don't like it when people did the same to us, so I'm not going to do it to the Giants. A ton of other fans were frustrated when the Colts didn't play their starters in the 2nd half against us, and when the Chargers missed a couple easy field goals in the playoffs. Colts fans were whining that they weren't healthy in 2010 and only lost to us by 1 point. That is the way the game goes sometimes. The Giants are in the Super Bowl becasue they played better than their opponents. Period.
It was absolutely w/o a doubt a fumble, 99 out of 100 times they call that a fumble but this time they blew the whistle almost immediately. Isn't it amazing how they allowed NYG defensive players to try to strip SF players for much longer when their forward progress was stopped? It was a very lucky break. Sometimes teams don't play their starters late in the year, Ten made it a couple of years earlier, in '93 we LOST to Houston backups, in '04 Buf lost to Pitt backups. That's very different than a blown call. Again, I credit the Giants for playing very well but they got breaks along the way.
You are being biased. It wasn't immediately. It was after a third guy came in to try and strip the ball when his forward progress was already stopped. It is the NFL rule. It wasn't a blown call. I am sure you were one of the guys who was crying about Sanchez fumble against the Steelers last year huh? Both cases were close calls, but both were the right calls.
Those two plays accounted for half the Giants points. Also, Manning threw at least two ducks that should have been easy int's that the DB Goldson messed up by blowing up his teammates.
It was one of the quickest whistles I have ever seen for a play like that. It may be the rule but it's never called and wasn't called multile times earlier w/ the Giants on D/ If they are calling it both ways that's on thing why was the Giants D allowed to pile on and try to rip the ball loose and SFs wasn't? it wasn't a long scrum, it was a legit fumble that was killed b/c of an ultra quick whistle. The Sanchez play was incredibly close as was the Bradshaw, the difference btw us winning and the Giants winning was the call went in favor of NYG and against NYJ. Both calls easily could have gone the other way.
It was a quick whistle, but it should have been blown since it was defender # 3 that was coming in to strip the ball. What do you think it was? A conspiracy against the 49ers? The Giants won that game because they outplayed SF. SF got the ball back after that call and had a chance to win it and had another chance in OT. The Jets fumble was not the reason we lost to the Steelers. We were down 24 to 0. We got outplayed. Even if you take away the fumble return for a TD, we still lose that game. When Pitt was running out the clock in the 4th they were in FG range, so even at 19 to 17, they still kick the FG and win the game. I honestly don't think it would have even come to that as I believe the Steelers played different in the 2nd half since they were up 24-0, but even if everything played out the same, we still lose 20 to 19. The better teams won in both cases, so stop whining about blown calls. They were the right calls, but even if they weren't, those are not what won or lost the games.
I don't know what game you were watching, but I certainly don't think the Giants outplayed the 49ers. They went 3 possessions without coming close to scoring before they got the fumbled return already in scoring position. And the guy who recovered it did not attempt to get back in bounds immediately after being pushed out. He ran down the field quite a ways before attempting to get back in bounds. The rules state that you must immediately attempt to get back on the field. I have seen this called in the past. And there was a play just a bit earlier in the game from the "non" fumble by Bradshaw that Gore was ridden back almost 12 yards with no whistle. There needs to be some sort of consistency with that stuff.
I don't think it was a comspiracy, just a horrible call that gave the Giants a huge edge. If they make the call they always make in that situation SF has the ball in chip shot range w/ a chance to win in regulation. The fumble gave Pitt a huge edge, instead of being just 17 pts at the half or 14 pts if we kick a FG it was a 21 pt lead. That's a huge difference, was that play the difference btw winning and losing? I don't know but it didn't help. It gave us a smaller margin for error in the 2nd half and we wound up losing a close game. You can't say the scored would have been 19-17, the 2nd half likely plays out totally different. Why would we have kicked an OS kick up 19-17? that's the reason Pitt was in FG range running out the clock. We don't know if the better teams won, 2 incrediblt close calls that could have gone either way which definitely would have sent SF to the SB and likely would have sent us to the SB.
