By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY- Let’s cut right to it: there is an air of uneasiness and uncertainty surrounding the New York Giants this season. Las Vegas odds-makers have them at 100-1 to win Super Bowl LIV- the same as their MetLife Stadium roommates, the New York Jets. For whatever reason, the…
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A LOGICAL 2019 NEW YORK GIANTS DRAFT STRATEGY
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- Since December 29, 2017, since his tenure in New York began, New York Giants’ general manager Dave Gettleman has traded Jason Pierre-Paul, Damon Harrison, Eli Apple, Olivier Vernon, Odell Beckham, Jr. and has allowed Landon Collins to walk. In allowing six starters, including his defensive captain, to play on…
WEEK 10 PREVIEW: NEW YORK GIANTS @ SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- This certainly was not the matchup the National Football League had in mind when scheduling the New York Giants at the San Francisco 49ers on Monday Night Football in week 10 of the 2018 season. Instead, the Giants, at 1-7, are coming off a bye week…
NEW YORK GIANTS: Beyond Eli Manning and the 5 Stages of Grief
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- In her book On Death and Dying (1969), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified a model to explain, what she calls, the Five Stages of Grief. Although Eli Manning, the person, is alive and well, the model is directly applicable to his career as the starting quarterback of the New York…
Week 8 Recap: NEW YORK GIANTS Offense Continues to Sputter, Defense Can’t Make Crucial 4th Quarter Stop
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- The gray, damp, chilly weather at MetLife Stadium matched the mood of the New York Giants this Sunday afternoon. It was much of the same from the New York Giants sputtering offense. The Giants had a chance in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter to tie…
Week 5 Recap: Odell Beckham, Jr.’s Comments Point Out Obvious and Giants Lose Heartbreaker
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.– “How come we can’t throw the ball more than 20 yards?” Beckham asked in an NFL Sunday Countdown interview with ESPN’s Josina Anderson. “How come we don’t attempt to throw the ball for more than 20 yards? Those are questions that we have to figure out.” Beckham’s…
Week 5 Keys to Victory: NEW YORK GIANTS @ Carolina Panthers
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.– Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday afternoon: 86 degrees with scattered thunderstorms and 74% humidity. Hardly “football weather” for October 7th, but here we are. The Carolina Panthers (2-1), coming off a bye-week, will be refreshed to take on the desperate-for-a-win New York Giants (1-3). NEW YORK GIANTS…
NEW YORK GIANTS Week 1 Recap: Already Time to Supplant Flowers, Omameh
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. – If you were paying attention in any shape or form to the New York Giants’ week one matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars, you saw, on display, the same old problem had once again plagued Big Blue: the offensive line. Granted, 80% of its personnel is…
2018: The Year of “Renaissance Manning”?
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- Since 2004, Eli Manning, with one of the punniest names in New York sports media history, has many monikers: “Super Manning”, “Eli-te”, “Easy Eli”, even “E-Lie”. I have a new nickname for the longest tenured starting quarterback in Giants history: “Renaissance Manning”. While Il Rinascimento, the Italian…
New York Giants: Most Iconic Catch in Team History?
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to rumble! New York Giants fans, it is time to settle this once and for all- which player had the iconic catch in team history: Odell Beckham, Jr. or David Tyree? 2014: In the first corner, wearing a blue jersey…
2017 NFC Wild Card: New York Giants at Green Bay Packers
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan – Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, NJ- For the third time in nine years, the New York Giants’ road to the Super Bowl will run through Green Bay, Wisconsin. Big Blue Nation is hoping history can repeat itself, as they defeated the Green Bay Packers, at Lambeau Field, in January of 2008 and of 2012….
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