Eli-the cameraman is not on your team

dumb penalty.

No excuse for that penalty with the freaking play clock 15 feet in front of your face.

Why in the world do you throw a pass to someone three or four yards away from the end zone with no blockers in front of him? I have never understood that...

Of course I've never understood Eli Manning either.

That's a big hold by the Bucs' D; if they'd gone down by two touchdowns, they'd have been in deep shit.

Steve Smith continuing the proud tradition of former USC WR's.

"There is no rule in the rule book that says the offense has to score a touchdown in those situations" - TA

We know what he is getting at, but huh?

I can't wait for Cloverfield

I love this UPS whiteboard guy. Great ad.

For sideline reporters - Oliver and Myers are pretty good. Not nearly as annoying as most.

I think Buck is starting to have detrimental affect on Aikman.

Doesn't every play "depend on the spot?" Why do announcers say that? Maybe I'm over-analyzing...

put a skirt on garica.

Even though there's no reason for this to matter me, I'm excited for the River from Firefly to be in the Terminator series.

Roughing the passer?

Fuck that. If you're going to call that shove roughing the passer, put the QB in a non-contact jersey or a dress.

Jesus. He hit him high, but not helmet-to-helmet.

Mal said...
put a skirt on garica.

I'm sure he'll be glad to take you up on that offer

I love all of the Terminator movies but my expectations are tempered for this new "series" thing.

I can't see any good coming from it. Especially without the governator.

he is a bit swishy isn't he

He does have a hot beard, err, wife, i mean.

Anybody else think there might be a time share/RB switch in Tampa next season?

Weak looking arm on that one.

Horrid pass. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Throw it with your purse next time, Jeffy.

So much for the Bucs never turning the ball over

Pretty good analysis on the Cloverfield stuff, I must admit.

I just hope this isn't another pathetic attempt at Godzilla.

@ jd - probably - Cadillac and Graham in a split-time deal might help Cadillac stay healthy.

Garcia limp-wristed that pass.

That drive could usher in "Bad Eli"

mal

Yea I don't even pretend to know the Bucs contract situaitons but I would have to think that would be the best situation for the two, right?

If Graham hasn't proven that he can shoulder the Bucs RB position I don't know what else it would take.

Eli Face on the replay!

"They (Seahawks) will be facing Brett Favre" - Joe Buck


Anyone else hear of this team vs. man playoff game?

who are these losers and retards in the burger king commercials? did they film these things outside area 51 or something?

Every game vs. Brett Favre is team vs. man! There is nothing som much like God on earth (in Joe Buck, Peter king, and John Madden's eyes) as Brett Favre on a football field.

(That's all the Bear fan bile for today, I promise.)

no huddle from Bucs.

LOL. I don't laugh at many football games outright but that pass by Garcia is gonna be bringing on some more comments, I feel it.

I hope for Garcia's sake that was just a poorly run route

Nice stand from the Giants. They need to get the running game rolling at some point though.

I'm thinking that Joe Buck doesn't actually like sports. He likes the life — he learned that from his dad, and he can recite from his notes with the best of them (and then some), but I don't think he actually likes sports (the game on the field). He got into this because it was the family business.

OPI called two days in a row. It's a festivus miracle.

If it's a penalty for Pax, the it's a penalty for Moss, but the NFL has let Moss get away with the same thing for the entire season.

(cue vociferous Masshole backlash)

That replay of the third down pass to end the third quarter confirmed it for me:

Eli Manning = Special Ed from Crank Yankers

"I'm thinking that Joe Buck doesn't actually like sports."

I'm more of the mind that Joe Buck doesn't really get sports and is running the family business into the ground.

Joe Buck only likes Joe Buck people. Oh and Bud Light and Holiday Inn.

Love it when the players keep grinding after they lose their helmets.

So Joe Buck=fredo?

Tough run by Bradshaw

Fredo! Hilarious.

Sam,

Fredo. Perfect analogy. Except for the cocktail waitresses two at a time. No way a limpdick like Buck pulls that off.

Perfect pass from Eli on the comeback route, you can't have better timing

Tampa Bay is getting hammered, Giants/Cowboys.


So as things stand, the NFC looks like this:

Seattle/GB - Kenny Albert, Moose, Goose

Giants/Cowboys - Buck and Aikman

Bradshaw is playing like tiki.

"The problem isn't with Moss getting away with it, it's with virtually every receiver getting away with it."

Too true. Chambers got away with a bad one last week, as well, and then there was Hines Ward's facemask-a-go-go las night...

You think they'd rather have Buck and Aikman slobber over Romo than Favre?

And that's your game.

This has been an 8 minute drive that ends in a TD. Bucs are done.

Stick a fork in Tampa Bay, great drive by Eli/Bradshaw

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAnnnnnd scene. To quote Dandy Don, "Turn out the lights, the party's over."

Game over.

Buck and Aikman never leave the NFC East unless they have to.

Tampa Bay's diagnosis of Amani Toomer: not benign in any way.

Sam, the Cowboys will be on FOX for the 10th time, 9 games have been called by either Joe Buck or Kenny Albert and Troy Aikman, and one game involved Kenny, Moose, and Goose. All 10 games done by FOX have had at least one former Cowboy in the booth.

-1 to S2N for the groaner pun of the day.

Hope this shuts up those know-it-alls at ESPN saying that the Giants would get drilled because they played balls to the wall against the Pats last week.

http://www.armchairgm.com/Article:FOX's_NFC_East_Lovefest

Here is one link Sam.

Yeah - a Jumper promo. I almost forgot when it comes out.

Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but now that you notice it it will torment your enjoyment of any broadcast featuring Troy. He doesn't speak in sentences, he speaks in clauses. His conjunction of abuse is criminal.

example: "Yeah, I don't want to overstate this drive by any means Joe, BUT y'know that's a heck of a job right there by Eli Manning AS you said directing this drive, getting them down here into a position to throw the touchdown pass AND you know, who knows, whatever happens BUT we may be looking back at some point and time on this drive for Eli Manning and say, "You know what? that's when he really grew up."

egads.

I'm still trying to decide if the Giants are a good team or if Tampa Bay is really that bad. I mean, if throwing at people's ankles and shins counted as receptions, Eli would have been the league MVP, not Tom Brady.

I have to say I'm impressed that Eli hasn't thrown any demoralizing interceptions. The Giants are still winning without any major yardage from Plax and only 1 sack from the defense.

As a Giants fan, I'll take it.

sorry, conjunction abuse, not "conjunction of abuse" whatever the heck that is.

That Jumper movie looks so bad (and that's coming from someone who saw The Covenant at the movie theater).

for the next week only, I'll be a Giants fan since I hate the Cowboys, and hope the TV analysts all pick Dallas next week too

Buck fails to recognize the stark difference between "hobble" and "jog"

"Conjunction abuse"? didn't Michael Irvin get busted for abusing conjunction while he was TA's teammate at Dallas?

Wait...that was coke Irvin was on then. I always get those abuses confused.

Mal - I believe the word you're looking for is "construda."

That's just the problem with Buck: he thinks he's got dramatize every single moment. He can't just call the game straight and let what goes on on the field be the story; he's got inject himself into the moment, or, if the moment isn't there, he tries to create it. He's a hack.

And that was so grounding on Garcia right there.

I feel a crippling turnover coming...

That pirate ship would be more exciting if it fired real cannon balls at the crowd.

Hmmm. Too little, too late, or are the Bucs going to make a game of it?

That pirate ship needs to have hotties in pirate wench outfits like at Treasure Island in Vegas.

Ooooh.....let's take 18 minutes to drive when there's only 7 minutes left.

Pirate wenches firing cannonballs in the broadcast booth. Now THAT would be interesting.

Please Giants, beat Dallas.

Please Seattle, beat Green Bay.

Result
________________________________

Giants @ Seahawks in NFC championship game.

Two episodes of American Dad? What did I ever do to you, Fox?

"Too bad U2 did write a song called 'It's a Humid Day'" - Buck. What a tool.

Are you kidding me Joe Buck...."Humid Day" by U2????

And "Both teams gasping for breath."?

The word air would have sufficed....god I hate him.

Nice to see Family Guy putting the lines they lift straight from the Simpsons in their promo's now. They're not even ashamed of their baldfaced plagiarism now!

What a sissy call. Get the first down.

Coughlin not making friends with this play-calling...

Just because Peyton didn't win his first three playoff games doesn't mean Eli is anywhere close to Peyton.

If Buck had his own talk show....


"So a jew, a muslim, and a priest walk into a bar....oh wait, that's my writing staff as they drink their miseries away"

*crickets*

But wait, Joe Buck has to be The Guy who called The Game where Eli Manning ascended, in glorious victory, to the plateua of the greats, so the Joe Buck's voice will be The Voice of the The Guy who called The Game.

Joe Buck is the biggest douchenozzle to set foot on planet earth.

And the game is over.

Great camera work on that one. Garcia limp-wristed that rainbow of a pass.

Nice sally toss by Jeffy-poo.

So.....the NFC Championship Game called by Buck and Aikman will be guaranteed to have an NFC East team involved.

Garcia's mascara is running.

In other news: Giants fans boycott playing home games.

How unusual to see a Barber standing on the sideline of the losing team.

And by unusual I mean common.

The NFL Today has Charlie Casserly sitting at the main desk with everyone else this week, extending it to six. Further proof that there is way too many people on pregame shows.

Thanks for the Buck links

Damn the Giants defense has been playing well
Don't forget that the game in Dallas was closer than people remember
Let's hope this next game is somewhat close

I'd be more willing to buy a Mac if instead of a hipster, the Mac was represented by an 18 year old Alyssa Milano.

Not sure how you could make that work, but with science, anything is possible.

Bradshaw doing the highlights...every play they showed Bradshaw said "Giants...on the road...." Duh, Terry! You only need to say the once.

Good God! Listening to the post game show you'd think the whole future of the NFL hinges on the play of Eli Manning. They are almost creaming their jeans over the fact that "he" won a playoff game.