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Giants fall on their faces in shocking loss to Seattle

SEAHAWKS 36
GIANTS 25

So much for all that good feeling that the Giants developed over the past two weeks. The Giants put together a bush-league performance against the hapless Seattle Seahawks; Pete Carroll's crew came into the MetLife Stadium and smacked the Giants in the mouth in a 36-25 drubbing that was really never close.

The blame for the latest Giants disaster falls at the feet of Big Blue's offense and quarterback Eli Manning, who couldn't throw a football accurately if his life depended on it. It was the kind of performance we have gotten used to from the Giants during the Tom Coughlin era anytime this team seems to be on the move to bigger and better things. Instead, the Giants came out flat, unmotivated, and, as a result, were totally outplayed by Seattle.

From the outset, trouble was on the horizon.

The Seahawks opened the game with a long opening drive, culminating in a Travaris Jackson 11 yard touchdown pass to Ben Obomanu (not Obama ;P) to give Seattle a 7-0 lead.

Even though the Giants answered with a 12 yard score from Manning to Jake Ballard to tie the game, the Giants offense couldn't move the ball with any consistency. For a better part of the first half, Seattle forced the Giants into three-out-ands and even sacked Manning on a couple of occasions and forced him to fumble the ball at one point.

In the third quarter, the ineptitude of the Giants offensive line continued. On a first down inside the Giants own five yard line, Seattle blew through the Giants offensive line and tackled D.J. Ware in the end zone for the safety giving the Seahawks a 16-14 lead.

The game would continue to become bizarre. Trailing 19-14, the Giants turned around their fortunes when Manning's tipped pass ended up in the hands of Victor Cruz who dashed 68 yards for the touchdown. The Giants then converted a two point conversion to take a 22-19 lead.

Then the Giants offense coughed it up again when Cruz fumbled the football on the Giants next possession, giving Seattle great field position. The Seahawks kicked a field goal and tied the game at 22.

Then a long Giants drive resulted in a Lawrence Tynes field goal to make it 25-22, but the Giants defense had no answer and couldn't shut the door. Charlie Whitehurst completed three passes for 52 yards to move the ball to the Giants 27 yard line and hit a wide open Doug Baldwin for a 27 yard touchdown to retake the lead 29-25.

Still the Giants weren't out of it. Manning hit Cruz for 41 yards to the Seattle 24, then he hit Cruz again for 19 more to the Seattle six-yard line. It appeared the Giants were about to score the game winning score, erasing a haunting day of football, but the ghosts wouldn't go away. Manning was picked off by Brandon Browner who scampered 94 yards for the touchdown to ice the game for Seattle.

It was a horrible afternoon for Big Blue, a huge step backwards after their great 2-0 road trip against Philadelphia and Arizona. Manning was awful, one of the worst performances of his career and continues to prove that he is not and never will be an elite quarterback in this league.

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