In one half of play in Monday night's game between the New York Giants and the Chicago Bears, the Giants were miserable on two of three sides of the football.
Luckily for them, there are three sides to football teams: offense, defense, and special teams.
New York has been miserable on both offense and special teams (if you can call them that), as there has been horrible punting, a missed field goal (from less than 30 yards), and a very stagnant offense that has no answer for Chicago defensive end Julius Peppers.
Yet, on defense, New York can do no wrong. They have set an NFL record by sacking Bears quarterback Jay Cutler nine times, and until the final two minutes of the half, Chicago had a dismal 11 yards of total offense.
The Giants should be leading this game by a score of about 21-0 right now, but instead they lead by a mere 3-0, which means that thet are playing with fire. Everyone knows that in most sports, if you let a team hang around long enough on the scoreboard, it often comes back to bite you...right in the win column.
Tom Coughlin et al better come up with some kind of offensive game plan so that this defensive effort doesn't go to waste.
