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10 Facts, Stats, & Records (either tied or broken) in the Giants 41-27 win over Cleveland

Posted by fantasyfurnace on October 8, 2012
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Every so often a regular season NFL game comes along with an inordinate amount of interesting and little known facts accompanying it. Thus was the case in the Giants 41-27 defeat of the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. At least five records were either tied or broken at Met Life Stadium on a rainy & chilly October afternoon. Here are some of the more interesting stats that we were able to extrapolate from this game…

1. The Giants came into this game averaging 89.5 yards on the ground per game. Sunday they had 243 rushing yards on the day.

2. RB Ahmad Bradshaw rushed for a career high 200 yards.

#44 RB Ahmad Bradshaw, after fumbling on the Giants first drive of the game, went on to rush for a career high 200 yards on 30 carries and a TD. Photo: Nick Laham/Getty Images)

3. Cleveland has now lost 11 games in a row dating back to last season.

4. RB David Wilson collected his first NFL touchdown.

5. WR Victor Cruz had a career high three touchdowns in one game.

#80 WR Victor Cruz had a record setting afternoon vs the Browns on Sunday, scoring a career-high 3 TDs. Photo by Elsa/Getty Images

6. With just under four minutes left in the 1st quarter, the Giants scored on a 92 yard drive; their longest of the season.

7. RB Trent Richardson became the fist rookie to score five touchdowns in his first five games in franchise history.

#33 RB Trent Richardson set a franchise record with five TDs in his first five games. Photo: Image source: Browns Facebook page

8. RB Ahmad Bradshaw became the ninth 200 yard rusher in franchise history.

9. The Giants 41 points were the most scored in a regular season game since their 41-7 win over Seattle on 11/7/10. The last time they scored over 41 points in a regular season game was on 12/21/09 in a 45-12 victory over the Redskins in Washington.

10. The S.F. 49ers and the N.Y. Giants scored a combined 86 points in their games on Sunday. They will face each other in week #6…

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Fantasy Football: Week 2 Studs and Duds

Posted by fantasyfurnace on September 18, 2012
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There were many outstanding performances in week #2, some were even record-breaking. Some with names that you probably don’t even have on your roster. And then there were those that disappointed the owners who drafted them so soon (and in most cases so high) on draft day. Here is a list of both studs and duds that stood out last week:

  • STUDS

Eli Manning-QB-Giants- Against a pretty good defense that had given up only 10 points to Cam Newton and the Panthers a week earlier, Eli and the Giants teed off for quadruple that amount on Sunday at Met Life Stadium. Down by as many as 14 at one point, Eli threw the rock 51 times for 520 yards eclipsing the previous record held by Phil Simms who set it in 1985 with 513 passing yards. The only other Giants QB to pass for 500 or more yards in a game was Y.A. Tittle; 505 yards in 1962.

#10 Eli Manning joined the 500 yard club in Giants Franchise history with his come-from-behind win over Tampa Bay. Photo: celebs101.com

Donte Rosario-TE-Chargers- How many of you had him on your roster? QB Philip Rivers has his number in the red zone several times on Sunday as Rosario had four receptions for 48 yards and three touchdowns. Here’s a guy that hadn’t scored a touchdown since he was with the Panthers in 2009! In fact he had never scored more than 2 TDs in one season in his five-year career! Antonio Gates (sore ribs) is expected back this week so don’t go & grab Rosario up off of waivers just yet.

Reggie Bush-RB-Dolphins- The former 1st round second overall pick of the Saints in 2006, lit it up yesterday with 26 carries for 172 yards and two touchdowns. After that performance Bush became the second leading rusher in the league behind C.J. Spiller.  Bush rushed for 71 yards with one fumble in a 24-6 loss to the N.Y. Jets in week 5 last year. He’ll face the Jets at home next week.

Hakeem Nicks/Victor Cruz-WRs-Giants- These two receivers were the recipient of the majority of Eli Manning’s passes collecting a combined 371 receiving yards between them and two touchdowns. Nicks (199 yards) was targeted a team high 15 times while Cruz (179 yards)  caught 11 passes and then acknowledged his Grandmother after scoring his lone TD as she was the one responsible for him learning his now famous Salsa endzone dance.

  • DUDS

Chris Johnson-RB-Titans- Another lackluster day for the former 1st rounder. The Titans had to play catch-up for most of the game once again but C J’s 8 rushes for 17 yards brought his two-week total to 19 carries for just 21 yards; a 1.1 YPC average. At this point most of Johnson’s owners are scratching their heads as his numbers continue to slide. In his 1st two weeks of the season last year he had 77 rushing yards, 2010 176 yards & 2 TDs, and 2009 254 yards & 2 TDs. Not a good sign.

#28 RB Chris Johnson’s numbers have been plummeting for the past 4 seasons and owners are growing impatient. Photo: sportsillustrated.com

Tim Tebow-QB-Jets- The talk around the Jets camp before the season started was that Tebow was to be in 15-20 plays per game. He came in for 9 plays in week 1 and just 3 on Sunday, all in the 3rd quarter. He has 33 rushing yards in the 2 games and has no completions. It would be hard to believe that he will be back next season if this trend continues, especially if Sanchez stays healthy.

Jamaal Charles-RB-Chiefs- Charles, who blew out his knee (torn ACL) on Sept. 18th last season re-injured his surgically repaired knee during Sunday’s game but prior to that his 6 attempts for 7 yards were nothing to write home about. For the season he has 22 carries for 90 yards and no touchdowns. Another reason why we always are a little leery of drafting players coming off major injuries.

Kevin Ogletree-WR-Cowboys- Feel bad for the over 2 million owners who ran to the waiver wire to grab this potential stud after his amazing first game vs the Giants when he caught 8 passes for 114 yards and 2 TDs. Week two was a completely different story. Tony Romo threw 40 passes but only one to Ogletree for 26 yards. We would recommend that you keep him on the bench for another week until or unless he proves his worth.

Cruz, Wilson, & Karma make for a bad night at Met Strife Stadium

Posted by fantasyfurnace on September 6, 2012
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There’s a joke going around Twitterland that WR stud Victor Cruz saw the Giant’s team physician after the game on Wednesday night who told him he had a very high immune system and that if it didn’t change it would mean that he wouldn’t catch anything!

WR #80 Victor Cruz had three drop passes and two penalties in a game he’d like to forget. Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty Images

I don’t have the statistics right in front of me but if I were to venture a guess, I would say that Cruz had three drops in all of last season; and I would be close. Did his three drops on opening night in E. Rutherford, N.J. cost the N.Y. Giants the game? No. They only lost by a touchdown. But they were costly nonetheless.

What could have been more costly over the course of the game was rookie David Wilson’s 1st quarter fumble. Wilson, who electrified the crowds and Offensive Coordinator Kevin Gilbright in the pre-season, never lined up in the backfield again after his blunder causing the G-Men to go exclusively with Ahmad Bradshaw the rest of the game. He ended up fighting for every inch of the 76 yards he did manage to roll up.

Even the Karma wasn’t very good. The Cowboys didn’t play a ‘great’ game ; the Giants played a worse one. Dallas was called for double-digit penalties (13), was devoid of a running game the entire the first half, and had a Romo pass intercepted by LB Michael Boley for a 52 yard return.

#85 Dallas Cowboys WR Kevin Ogletree scores on one of his two touchdowns vs the Giants. Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty Images

Queens native WR Kevin Ogletree, perhaps the Victor Cruz of the 2012 season, caught 8 passes for 114 yards and two touchdowns. Not Austin Miles, not Dez Bryant, not Jason Witten; none of them. In his first three seasons, Ogletree had caught just 25 passes and had zero touchdowns…Can you spell K-A-R-M-A? If you can’t, I can tell you that the Cowboys had plenty of it on the field on Wednesday night vs the Giants- their first Wednesday night game since they defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 14-12 on Oct. 3rd, 1934.

And then there was the Giants depleted secondary; no Thomas, no Prince, and even replacement Michael Coe went down with a hamstring injury during the game. An ineffective 4th stringer forced the Giants staff to look through the stands for a healthy concessions staffer to help out, but the beer sales were too brisk for the guy to suit up!

Give credit to the ‘Boys (hard as that might be to do for some fans of Big Blue), but they seemed to want this game more than the defending Super Bowl Champions. That was clear. It was also clear that Kevin Ogletree is fast becoming Tony Romo’s favorite target. Until, of course, he plays a team with a healthy secondary.We’ll see…

Meantime, given the Giants’ second half schedule, one of the worst in memory, they need to focus on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers-a game that already can be classified as the obligatory ”must win”. The Bucs come in to Met Life Stadium on Sunday September 16th which will give Victor Cruz about 10 days to fix his immune system…