Post by prossman on Dec 4, 2009 8:21:10 GMT -7
NYDN:Chris Snee "We will see who delivers the knockout punch"
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New York Giants know NFC East is at stake as Dallas Cowboys come to town
BY Ralph Vacchiano
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Thursday, December 3rd 2009, 4:00 AM
McGrath/Getty
Michael Boley and the New York Giants are fired up to play the Dallas Cowboys.
The Giants know another loss would damage their playoff chances and all but eliminate them from the NFC East race. And they are sure the Dallas Cowboys would love to be the ones to put them out of their misery.
But they are refusing to go quietly. In fact, they're not ready to give up on this season at all.
"They're looking to deliver the knockout punch," said Giants guard Chris Snee. "We'll see who delivers the knockout on Sunday."
Maybe it's a just an act of defiance, but the reeling Giants expressed confidence yesterday as they began preparing for their must-win, NFC East showdown with the Cowboys at the Meadowlands on Sunday. They have lost five of their last six games and are two games behind the Cowboys (8-3) with just five games remaining.
Yet their belief still seems to be as strong as ever. The Giants (6-5) seem to have no intention of conceding the NFC East.
"This division is wide open," said linebacker Michael Boley. "At this point in the year with this many games left it's up in the air. It's a crapshoot. I'm not going to say they're the team to beat. Anybody has a chance to win this division. It's all about how you finish."
Of course, at the moment, the Cowboys seem to be primed to finish strongly. They have won six of seven to seize control of the division, and they are coming off a 24-7 Thanksgiving Day win over Oakland. They seemed to fix their offensive problems after scoring just two touchdowns in the previous two games.
Meanwhile the Giants have gone in the opposite direction ever since they threatened to run away from the pack with a 5-0start that included a 33-31 win over the Cowboys in Dallas on Sept. 20. Despite that, defensive end Justin Tuck said earlier this week that, on a scale of one to 10, his confidence is an "11". And his teammates seem to feel the same way.
"It's hard not to lose a little confidence when you're on a losing streak like this," said tight end Kevin Boss. "But I think we've kind of got to refuse to feel that lack of confidence and just remember how we started the season. There's no reason why we can't win these next several games and give ourselves a legitimate shot at making a run in the playoffs."
"Despite the way we played last week we're not out of it by any means," Snee said. "I know we didn't show much last week to prove otherwise, but we're very much in the thick of things. You have to think that way. You have to think that you're going to be in it at the end."
But do they really believe that? The Giants are only one game back in the wild-card chase, but all the losing the last two months has surely taken its toll.
Even Tom Coughlin admitted, "Naturally they are down. Everywhere they look they're being beaten down. We're trying the best we can to get the spirits back up."
A win over the Cowboys might be enough to do that. It would leave the Giants just one game back in the division race and give them the tiebreaker over Dallas. And with the outside world already writing the Giants off, it would be a major statement that their season is far from over.
"We haven't been winning lately so people are going to write us off and that's all right with us," Boss said. "We still believe in each other."
"Listen, we're one game back in the wild card," Snee said. "If people want to count us out, that's fine. We're not counting ourselves out."
Well there you have it. The giants and the NY media, typically its their number 1 cheerleader ralph vacchiano turning the giants poor play into them being disrespected. Just like always, they have managed to create the atmosphere that they are not being given respect and that wait till sunday we will show them.....This is what they always do up there and the media goes right along with them.
And that snee quote is typical Giants players. That is a response to bradie james. Had a Giant said what james said the Dallas media would have said he is right, but in NY the media runs to their players and tells them they are disrespecting you and plays the party line.
We had better pound these big mouths.
and from tim smiths article in the NY DN
Guard Chris Snee realizes the magnitude of the game.
"This is a huge game," Snee said. "Everything I've been reading coming out of Dallas is they've been saying they want to deliver the knockout punch on us. We'll see who delivers the knockout punch. In this one the more physical team wins."
see what they do? They are obsessed and watch everything that is said and they use it like they are disrespected. Yet since 03 they have said everything under the sun about Dallas and players individually, yet none of the ny or Dallas media talks about it.....
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www.nydailynews.com/sports/fo...e_to_town.html
New York Giants know NFC East is at stake as Dallas Cowboys come to town
BY Ralph Vacchiano
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Thursday, December 3rd 2009, 4:00 AM
McGrath/Getty
Michael Boley and the New York Giants are fired up to play the Dallas Cowboys.
The Giants know another loss would damage their playoff chances and all but eliminate them from the NFC East race. And they are sure the Dallas Cowboys would love to be the ones to put them out of their misery.
But they are refusing to go quietly. In fact, they're not ready to give up on this season at all.
"They're looking to deliver the knockout punch," said Giants guard Chris Snee. "We'll see who delivers the knockout on Sunday."
Maybe it's a just an act of defiance, but the reeling Giants expressed confidence yesterday as they began preparing for their must-win, NFC East showdown with the Cowboys at the Meadowlands on Sunday. They have lost five of their last six games and are two games behind the Cowboys (8-3) with just five games remaining.
Yet their belief still seems to be as strong as ever. The Giants (6-5) seem to have no intention of conceding the NFC East.
"This division is wide open," said linebacker Michael Boley. "At this point in the year with this many games left it's up in the air. It's a crapshoot. I'm not going to say they're the team to beat. Anybody has a chance to win this division. It's all about how you finish."
Of course, at the moment, the Cowboys seem to be primed to finish strongly. They have won six of seven to seize control of the division, and they are coming off a 24-7 Thanksgiving Day win over Oakland. They seemed to fix their offensive problems after scoring just two touchdowns in the previous two games.
Meanwhile the Giants have gone in the opposite direction ever since they threatened to run away from the pack with a 5-0start that included a 33-31 win over the Cowboys in Dallas on Sept. 20. Despite that, defensive end Justin Tuck said earlier this week that, on a scale of one to 10, his confidence is an "11". And his teammates seem to feel the same way.
"It's hard not to lose a little confidence when you're on a losing streak like this," said tight end Kevin Boss. "But I think we've kind of got to refuse to feel that lack of confidence and just remember how we started the season. There's no reason why we can't win these next several games and give ourselves a legitimate shot at making a run in the playoffs."
"Despite the way we played last week we're not out of it by any means," Snee said. "I know we didn't show much last week to prove otherwise, but we're very much in the thick of things. You have to think that way. You have to think that you're going to be in it at the end."
But do they really believe that? The Giants are only one game back in the wild-card chase, but all the losing the last two months has surely taken its toll.
Even Tom Coughlin admitted, "Naturally they are down. Everywhere they look they're being beaten down. We're trying the best we can to get the spirits back up."
A win over the Cowboys might be enough to do that. It would leave the Giants just one game back in the division race and give them the tiebreaker over Dallas. And with the outside world already writing the Giants off, it would be a major statement that their season is far from over.
"We haven't been winning lately so people are going to write us off and that's all right with us," Boss said. "We still believe in each other."
"Listen, we're one game back in the wild card," Snee said. "If people want to count us out, that's fine. We're not counting ourselves out."
Well there you have it. The giants and the NY media, typically its their number 1 cheerleader ralph vacchiano turning the giants poor play into them being disrespected. Just like always, they have managed to create the atmosphere that they are not being given respect and that wait till sunday we will show them.....This is what they always do up there and the media goes right along with them.
And that snee quote is typical Giants players. That is a response to bradie james. Had a Giant said what james said the Dallas media would have said he is right, but in NY the media runs to their players and tells them they are disrespecting you and plays the party line.
We had better pound these big mouths.
and from tim smiths article in the NY DN
Guard Chris Snee realizes the magnitude of the game.
"This is a huge game," Snee said. "Everything I've been reading coming out of Dallas is they've been saying they want to deliver the knockout punch on us. We'll see who delivers the knockout punch. In this one the more physical team wins."
see what they do? They are obsessed and watch everything that is said and they use it like they are disrespected. Yet since 03 they have said everything under the sun about Dallas and players individually, yet none of the ny or Dallas media talks about it.....
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