Giants' Line Woes Continue

Problems continue to hinder the New York Giants on both sides of the football.

After the Colts lost in Houston last week, I knew that the Giants were walking into a lions' den this week at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Unfortunately for Big Blue, I was right.

From the outset of tonight's game, Indianapolis showed early on that they had no intentions of a repeat performance of last week.

The Colts began the game on offense, and Peyton cranked the machine up quickly to give the Colts an early 7-0 lead.

Then Indy came out on defense and completely smothered Eli and the rest of New York's offense. Eli had no protection, and the running game could not establish anything.

In a nutshell, that's the way that the rest of the game went, as the Colts built a huge 24-0 lead by halftime.

Nothing worked for the Giants tonight, other than a few inspirational runs by Ahmad Bradshaw.

The offensive line could not block for either the run or the pass, as was evident by Dwight Freeney camping out in Eli's back pocket. Freeney made New York left tackle David Deihl look like a rookie.

But Diehl was not alone, by any stretch of the imagination. The Colts came from all angles, and from both ends of the line.

Four sacks in all were totaled for the Indianapolis defense, and the Giants simply could not get any rhythm offensively.

On defense, the news wasn't much better.

Peyton picked apart the Giants' soft defensive backfield, carving them up for over 250 yards and three TD's.

New York's run defense wasn't any better, as Brown and Joseph Addai combined for more than 150 on the ground.

So, they couldn't stop the run, the pass, or Indianapolis' defense, which all adds up to one thng: an embarrassing 38-14 loss that wasn't even that close.