Wow
Well, that win seems to have gotten peoples' attention.
Seems every paper in the country has now jumped on the Giants' bandwagon.
Rightly so. At 4-0 with the convincing win, the Giants are the best team in football right now. Of course, it's the right now that has the guys in the locker room shrugging. I mean literally shrugging. At one point yesterday it was jokingly (half-jokingly?) said to Justin Tuck that he should come out with a statement about how if the Giants play like this there's no one in the league who can beat them or some other verbal bravado. Up went his shoulders. Shrug.
Just about every question or theory I've posed to Antonio Pierce this season has elicited a response that begins with the word "No" but we do agree on one thing: That these first six games are really just the post-preseason.
"Things change. You see teams every year they get off to a great start and things happen. So for us this is about nit-picking away one game at a time. It sounds boring, but hell, it’s the truth," he said. "Honestly, when we get into the thick part of this division, the Cowboys and Eagles back to back, it’s gonna be tough. We have to have these games to build us for those games. Stepping stones."
Pierce, by the way, said he didn't even realize that the facemask penalty called against "an interior defensive lineman" was against him after he dove over the offensive line and grabbed Matt Hasselbeck.
"Was that on me? I hope not, that was costly. But I don’t know. They didn't block me. I was kind of shocked. It wasn't supposed to be like that. It was one of those things where obviously it was inadvertent. I asked if it was on me, he said he didn’t know."
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When the league got rid of the 5 yard facemask penalty, was the intent to make ANY touching of the facemask a 15 yarder? Or, was it to make what was formerly the 5 yarder into incidental (no penalty) contact? I thought it was the latter and not the former. Could someone clarify this?
The initial statement made it sound like how you're saying, but in every game I've watched it has been enforced with the perception that any facemask grab is a 15 yarder, even a mere brush like a few we've seen yesterday. Its happened in every NFL game I've watched so far, and even college has adopted it now and it is being enforced the same way - even a slight touch has illicited a 15 yarder.
I can understand it being called on quarterbacks, as you already can't hit their helmet, but incidental contact on other plays shouldn't be a full 15 yards its just ridiculous. Its one thing to make the call not as subjective, its another to over penalize someone for something that's just part of the game.