SNF Live-Blog: Panthers @ Giants, 2nd Half
Sunday, December 21, 2008
I didn't want to re-use a photo of Abby Manning, but I couldn't find one without her dopey husband in it.
Mark Jones takes the kickoff up to the 33 yard line, as Andrea tells us about Justin Tuck suffering from the flu. DeAngelo Williams gets five yards on first down, then gets six more to move the chains, as he's flipped over. Jonathan Stewart comes back in and crosses midfield by gaining six or seven yards. Good coverage on 2nd down, as Delhomme aims for a check down, but it's incomplete. Nearly throws a pick on 3rd down as the Giants blitz, and Baker will be on to punt. R.W. McQuarters fair catches the ball at about the 10.
Jacobs gets 3 on first down. He's the recipient of the next short pass, and he has to reach down to grab it. Manning out of the shotgun, incomplete to Domenik Hixon over his back shoulder. 4th down. Feagles shanks it, and Carolina will start at the Giants' 48. Williams gets a yard after they fake the end-around to Steve Smith. Stewart gets up to the 43. 3rd down throw to Muhammad over the middle is broken up by Corey Webster. Baker to punt. McQuarters downs it at the Giant 16.
Eli goes to Kevin Boss to start, who gets up to the 20. 2nd down gets a yard, Eli gets a delay of game on 3rd and 5, turning it into 3rd and 10. Manning finds Boss, who gets more than that 10 and a first down. Next pass goes to Hixon for another 10 yards up to the 41. Jacobs gets three more on the next carry. Ward busts it to the outside once again after cutting through the line, 22 yard gain to the Carolina 33. Manning hits Amani Toomer for his first catch of the day at the 21. Manning hits the fullback Hedgecock, who gets inside the 10 yard line for a first and goal.
Jacobs gets the carry and heads to the 2 yard line, but gets hit hard behind the line of scrimmage on the next carry.
"Sinuses are cleared." - Al
"A lot of things of cleared." - John, after Chris Harris' hit on Jacobs
Manning drops back and hits Kevin Boss coming across the end zone for the touchdown. They kick the point, and it's 21-20, Panthers.
I hate this Diet Pepsi Max ad now, although it's nice to know that Chris Kattan is getting some form of employment. Mark Jones returns the kick to the 36. Delhomme looks deep for Steve Smith, but his pass is incomplete. Williams gets six yards on the carry. Delhomme spots Muhsin Muhammad at midfield and hits him to move the chains on the last play of the third quarter.
Antonio Pierce gets some nice penetration on the running play and brings Williams down for a 1-yard loss. Williams gets that yard back and one more; 3rd and 9. Delhomme hits Dwayne Jarrett, who gets airborne to bring the ball down at the 31 of New York. Williams gets the carry, gets to the outside -- and breaks it all the way for 30 yards for the score! Add the XP, it's 28-20, Carolina. Fourth TD of the day for DeAngelo Williams!
Bradshaw brings the ball out to the 23 this time. Manning's brought down by Tyler Brayton for a 9-yard sack on first down. Jacobs gets back all the way out to the 30, catching the Panthers in nickel coverage. Ward gets to the outside again and is sprung free by a block all the way to the Carolina 33 for a 37 yard carry. Jacobs up to the 31. Eli doesn't like the defense and calls time. Jacobs' hands of stone drop the pass from Manning on 2nd down and 7. On 3rd down, Manning gets shellacked by Julius Peppers from his blind side. You could hear that from miles away.
It knocks the G-men out of field goal range, so Feagles punts, and the Giants bat it out at the one-yard line to pin the Panthers in. Williams gets a yard on the next two carries. He gets up to the 4 yard line on 3rd down. Baker's punt is good; McQuarters runs out of bounds at the Carolina 44.
Hixon gets 13 yards after an initial loss on a penalty. 2nd and 2 after the catch. Derrick Ward gets stopped for a loss of a yard. Manning hits Toomer on the right side, he gets extra yardage by breaking tacklers and is down at the 22. Ward gets two yards on the carry, then grabs three more on the shotgun draw play. 3rd and 5 -- over the middle to Kevin Boss, and he runs to the five before he's brought down. First and goal.
Manning goes for Hixon in the end zone, and it's broken up -- but they call pass interference on Ken Lucas, Carolina's first PI flag all season. Resets the down to first and goal at the 1. Brandon Jacobs rumbles through the line for a touchdown, and the Giants are going for two.
Incredibly good fake to Jacobs out of the shotgun on the conversion, and Manning hits a wide-open Hixon. 28-all! Damn, this is a game we got here.
Another good return by Mark Jones, who is tackled at the Carolina 38. Delhomme to Stewart over the middle, and he crosses midfield to move the chains. Stewart gets a yard on the next play. Two minute warning.
Great break-up of the pass to Steve Smith by Corey Webster, making it 3rd and 9. But Muhammad is there on 3rd down, crossing the marker and being tackled at the 37. Delhomme drops it, but picks it up and hands it off to Williams, who gets 10 yards and a first down -- depending on this flag -- and it's a holding call on Steve Smith. That'll be coming back to the Giants 47.
"That's a good hold. That's a doggone takedown." - John, on Smith's holding penalty.
I believe Steve Smith could make a very good wrestler, even at his tiny size. Williams gets up to the 40.
Glad we got that shot of Justin Tuck being, as Al said, "sick with the flu". - Mal
Donovan McNabb understands Justin Tuck's pain. DeAngelo Williams out of the Wildcat formation, he rushes up to about the 33, getting out of bounds. 3rd and 6, Williams gets two yards, and Kasay is going to try a 50 yard FG.
Kick is up....and WIDE LEFT! We're gonna have us some OT!
Giants get the ball to start, winning the coin toss.
"Looks like Eli Manning said, 'Oh my goodness.'" - John
"Or a reasonable facsimile, when we come back." - Al
Giants' offense starts at the 20 after Bradshaw takes a knee on the kickoff. Ward starts off with a six yard carry, he's over 130 yards rushing on the night. Eli's pass is a bit high for Domenik Hixon. The pass for Toomer is also too high, and the Giants will go three and out.
Feagles punts it to Mark Jones, who's tackled after making it to the 38 yard line of the Panthers. Jonathan Stewart gets six yards on his first OT carry. They go back to Stewart for 2 more yards.
"You how you say key third down? Every third down is a key third down in overtime." - Al
Delhomme's 3rd down pass is tipped and incomplete but Kevin Dockery, and the Panthers will have to punt as well. Baker punts to McQuarters, who muffs it, but is able to fall on it at the 13 yard line. Near disaster right there.
Ward gets a massive hole through the middle and runs right through it all the way to the Carolina 36! Jacobs takes the next carry 3 yards up to the 33. Manning throws behind Hixon on the play. Another shotgun draw to Ward, who is up to 198 rushing yards after taking that play to the 19.
Ward is INSANE, getting to the outside again!
"On a windy night, it's Wind of Earth, Wind, and Fire. 216 yards!" - Al, after Derrick Ward runs another 18 to the outside. First and goal at the 1 -- and BRANDON JACOBS ICES HOMEFIELD WITH THE TOUCHDOWN! 34-28, GIANTS!
301 yards on the ground total for the Giants. Great, great game. Thanks for joining me. I'll be driving to L.A. tomorrow as I'm on vacation this week, so if I get there in time, maybe there might be a Monday Night Football live-blog.
115 Comments:
Cowboys @ Eagles confirmed to be on at 1:00 PM ET.
"To use 1 back you need 2 or 3" - Madden using some circular logic
There's no Thurs. or Sat. games for the final week?
Still snowing outside and now we may get over 1 foot of snow in the flatlands...
@ Walnuts: Nope. After last year's debacle with the Giants-Pats game, they've gotten rid of the NFL Network games the last week of the season.
Stay classy, 9;58 PM.
And no, Paulie Walnuts, no Thursday games this week. I would have scheduled Tennessee-Indianapolis for an NBC Christmas night special and given ESPN the Redskins-Giants opener in exchange (at least for 2008) dropping the MNF opening doubleheader and let Broncos-Raiders be played as the only game allowing the Packers moved to Sunday on Fox.
Unlike Steelers/Titans, this game has been great.
Could Boss be anymore wide open?
Is that Joe Buck in that Diet Pepsi commercial?
If so, he is unbearably creepy.
Well Steelers-Titans were exciting for three quarters until the Steelers were nabbed for faking the snap count and got an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. that was what killed them.
No, SSReporters, you were thinking about last year's Super Bowl XLII ad. That was a shorter version.
I was hoping they would say "ball sack" instead of pouch.
@ James, that guy with the mustache looked like Buck........not the Super Bowl XLII commercial.
Get your mind outta gutter, Paulie Walnuts!
Upon further review, it wasn't Joe buck, but that was a bad combover.
I guess Kremer must need to write things down if she's cut the tips off her gloves.
"You talk about loading the box." - Madden
DeAngelo for MVP.
I would agree about adding a Christmas game and removing the second MNF game. The three years they've had a doubleheader has resulted in a shitty late game and even worse is sufering with the Mike and Mike and Mike announcers.
"You think you have [DeAngelo Williams] and he runs right through you, or around you." - John Madden who remembers that Williams, even though he's a great running back, is not superhuman.
Has the entire schedule for next week been released yet?
That baby puking in the commercial is discusting.
Oh come on, everyone loves Ditka grabbing his crotch.
2 more TDs and Williams will have a double hat trick.
DeAngelo Williams 28, Giants 20.
Was Ditka playing pocket pool?
Well Mr. Walnuts, hindsight is always 20/20. I expected that to happen, but however, it wasn't the case, especially with the conventions this year. I say NBC will get an additional preseason game next year out of this because they only had two.
"Not a good down to run on, but a good situation to run." - John WTF ?
By the way, did anyone notice on the broncos-Chargers promo that they used the old Bolts wordmark?
@ James, more like making an "on-the-ball adjustment".
"Tha udder team's kwadderback must go dahwn and he must go dahwn hahd."
Channeling my inner Olbermann as Al Davis.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Panthers challenged that. It looked to me like he was in the endzone.
And John Fox would have channeled his inner Norv Turner.
BTW, what's the line about "Be a man. Buy the musical"? Please hand in your macho card at the counter, please.
NBC may have had only one preseason game this year because of the Olympics. I figured they had a week off during the middle of the season bc they have the super bowl this year.
All I want for Christmas is to never see Santa Claus dance like that again.
And also, the Broncos have not had a national OTA game this year IIRC. They had the Pats on ESPN.
Paulie, they had two. You forgot the Hall of Fame game.
James, the Broncos also beat up the Raiders on MNF the first week of the season. Still, no national broadcast games.
I would have laughed if Madden included Reid when he mentioned these two as the best coaches in the league.
David Diehl "or No Diehl".
Oh, if Chris berman knew the way I do nicknames.
It's not a Toom-ah!
Did Madden just realize tonight that teams run out of shotgun. He's obssessed with it.
Giants 28, DeAngelo Williams 28.
This is a fantastic game, Manning had a fantastic play-action.
Can we get some OT?
"This is a big play here." - John as the Giants line up for two pt conversation.
DUH!
"Hixon for the touchdown." - Al Michaels.....FAIL.
Did anyone see the story in Kissing Suzy Kobler?
"You Stay Classy, Fatback Who Rides The Coattails of Reggie Bush And Chris Johnson."
I'd like to sue them for gimmick infringement.
See, he fakes it here. Madden, master of the obvious
And if this game ends in a tie, Donovan McNabb's head a-spolde!
Is Hochuli the lead ref for next Sunday night's game?
Are we sure McNabb understands the OT procesure yet? I doubt Reid know it either.
Glad we got that shot of Justin Tuck being, as Al said, "sick with the flu".
I don't think Eddie Hercules will ref that game, Mal.
And Paulie, the Cincinnati Bengals still don't get the overtime tie thing, either.
Smith earned that penalty
"Tom Coughlin chewing yellow gum." - John Madden
Not only did we not need to see that, but what on earth made John Madden think that was worth mentionning?
Also liked Madden pointing out that Coughlin was chewing yellow gum.
Wqell, penalty flags are yellow.
@ James Craven: I saw that and thought of it myself. And I also love how Pittsburgh fans got all riled up about that.
I hope he misses so this goes to OT.
ONIONS! HE MISSED IT! OVERTIME!
Andrea: "The wind is blowing toward the Panther sideline, but it will be at Kasay's back". Huh????
Can you imagine if myron Cope were still living how pissed he'd be? he's call for the Steelers to literally kill LenDell White.
OT much?
Fitting that a kicker from a team in ACC country would miss wide left
Al: "Andrea goes to the weather channel hall of fame after that call". I think I'll take Stephanie Abrams instead.
"Andrea Kremer gets into the [NBC] Weather Channel Hall of Fame."
-Alfalfa explaining the sibling channel reference.
Weather channel hall of fame? really? Everytime we go to OT, do we now have to allude to McNabb not knowing OT rules?
And for the first time in the history of NBC SNF, we have overtime.
"It can end in a tie. We've been through that this year." - Al Michaels
Please don't remind me.
Will the same team get to receive the kick-off in the second overtime?
"Looks like Eli Manning said 'oh my goodness'" - John Madden
"Or a reasonable facsimile thereof." - Al Michaels
"Howie do it"=cancelled in two months
BTW, plans are underway to rebrand The Weather channel with the NBC name as the NBC Weather Channel in the first quarter of 2009. they're closing down Weather Plus as a result of that and replace it with Local WeatherScan as of 1/1/09.
Can we get a "Manning face"?
Thanks for that info, James.
Now comes the patented "lose the game in OT prevent".
@ James Craven: Will Jim Cantore make a guest appearance on Heroes?
Oh, almost! Panthers almost had the easy win.
@ James Craven: I don't know if this has anything to do with that, but The Weather Channel has already changed the look on parts of their sight (more specifically the hour-by-hour forecast).
My guess: Smith will get the winning TD for the panthers.
walnuts 11:18
Two weeks at most
"Every 3rd down is a key 3rd down." - Al Michaels
Thanks Captain Obvious!
I have Weather Channel in a box set with the Phillies, JFein.
Who gets HFA on a tie?
Check that. Weather Channel Desktop set to the Phillies.
And R.W. McQuarters was nickeled and dimed there on the muff.
2 3-and-outs to start this thing? Damn. I figured someone would drive down the field and end this thing quickly.
Oh, R.W. McQuarters nearly became the goat of all goats in New York! So lucky for him that he got it back.
If they tie, who gets homefield advantage?
That might be a moot question.
Hey, anon 11:26 PM, McNabb's head would a-splode...
Seriously, it'd be going down to tiebreakers.
RW McQuarters Luckiest man on earth
@ Anon @ 11:26: I think New York. They are currently credited as #1 and the Panthers #2. I assume I tie would not change that.
Another board said that in a tie, the Giants would get homefield advantage; but it's probably a moot point now.
At what point will see John Carney?
JFein, you should never assume because it makes an ass|u|me.
Our first SNF on NBC OT game.
So can this game end in a tie
If there is a tie, they could have the games someplace in the middle.
Actually, if they do tie (which is probably a moot point right now) it would come down to Week 17. Giants have the Vikings and Panthers have Nawlins. The Giants are currently the #1 seed, so, I guess they would still have it...
Get this game over I need to go to bed
Like DC or Virginia would be in the middle.
Aw, that might just do it...and it did.
So - does that TD cover the spread?
TOUCHDOWN NEW YORK! And the Giants have homefield advantage.
What a game.
Game. Maybe these guys will meet again in the NFC championship game.
Oddly enough, on NFL.com's game center, it shows this as being the "First Overtime".
So, aren't they going to kick the PAT? I'm confused here.
Huge ratings for NBC
Hey, S2N, I think SSReporters will have it on his site tomorrow.
Even though I'm an Eagles fan and I have an obvious dislike for the Giants, let me tell you what, in big games they continue to perform well and earn my respect more and more. They are a really damn good team. Congrats to New York on winning home field advantage and may we see the re-match in the NFC Title game.
By the way, everybody should tune into the New Orleans Bowl on ESPN now, as it's tied at 27 with 44 seconds left, and we may get another OT game.
spread was 3.5. Going for the TD instead of the safe play FG was the difference in covering and not. But nobody on the field pays any attention to such things.
@ S2N: Tomorrow night's game should be a jewel to live blog. Single-digit temperatures with Dr. Tony Kornheiser. I can hear the complaining from here...
If this goes to OT, it would REALLY confuse McNabb
JFein - then hope I get to L.A. sometime before 4 PM Pacific, which is totally doable. It's a three hour drive for me. I've not done an MNF game in quite some time.
Hey folks, there's overtime in the New Orleans bowl! Join me in the new post!
Those Southern Miss' uniforms are hurting my eyes!
she wants my dick inside her vagina to keep her wet and warm.