T-Rock's Take on the Giants

So Todd Collins(!!!) beat the Giants last week, proving me very, very wrong. I am undeterred though.

Giants 16, Bills 10

Here's why:

-- When the Giants commit to running the ball, they usually win. It's hard to pin blame for last weekend's debacle on just one person. TC and Kevin Gilbride deserve a fair share, because the talk of "we only went nuts with the pass when we were behind" doesn't wash; they wanted to stretch the field into some single coverage that they expected with eight guys in the box, and the drops and the wind-blown throws and Eli's indecisions should have made the coaches adapt.

All that said, I can't see them doing it again, especially when the forecast for tomorrow is worse than Sunday's -- stronger winds, more rain, etc. TC would be signing his own pink slip if he comes out throwing.

-- Eli rebounds from bad games well. I believe I said this before and got smacked in the face with the first three quarters of the Chicago game, but the Giants won that one. Bottom line, the QB wins games more than he loses, no matter what you think of his ability.

-- The Bills are not much on offense. Marshawn Lynch is a good back, but they need some passing game to open things up. Don't see Trent Edwards heaving the ball down field a lot.

-- I expect Strahan to play big. Don't think he cares too much about Pro Bowl snubs, but in truth, I don't believe he's ever been snubbed -- he was always hurt the years he didn't get voted in. So I think he'll be out to show he's deserving of another bad, flower-print shirt, even if his peers and the fans didn't think so.

Those are admittedly thin reasons, I know. And 16-10 will have you all chomping your nails until the very end, so this is no lock. I don't sense the huge collapse, though.