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First Half Performance: Underachieved
Chance of Making Playoffs: Unlikely
Breakout Player: WR Reuben Randle
Summary: Before the season, the G-Men were thought to be either the first or second best team in the NFC East. But through the first half of the season they are one of the worst teams in the league. The Giants lost their first 6 games by a total of 106 points.
The Giants knew going into the season that the aging and perennially banged up offensive line was going to struggle. To help with this, they drafted Tackle Justin Pugh, who has been playing better each week. However by week one they were already missing two starters due to injury, meaning the line is even worse than before.
A poor offensive line was expected, but nobody expected every other aspect of the team to be terrible as well. 2x Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning leads the league with 15 interceptions. Running back David Wilson, the Giants' first round pick in 2012 was supposed to have a breakout year. Instead, he fumbled twice in the season opener, and is now out indefinitely with a neck injury. The running game is now relying on unproven guys and washed up free agents. The secondary is still doing what they do best: being mediocre. The defensive line that was once the pride of the league is putting no pressure on opposing quarterbacks and is dead last in the league with just 10 sacks. The linebacking corp got an upgrade by adding former Panther Jon Beason, but they are still just average.
But there’s still hope! The Giants won their last two games without allowing the opponents to score an offensive touchdown. And they are still in the playoff race! The Cowboys are the only team in the (awful) NFC East that are over .500, and the Giants are 3 games back from them. Their schedule, however, isn’t exactly favorable. They face some tough teams like the Packers, Seahawks and Lions.
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After a poor Game 1 in which he committed 2 ugly errors, the shortstop stepped up his game and made this nice bare-handed play in the seventh. He also scored the tying run while pinch running.
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His sacrifice fly to left in the seventh allowed two runs to score after this throwing error by pitcher Craig Breslow.
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Due to a weird bounce, Matt Holliday hit a #rare center field triple to lead off the 4th inning. He later scored on a Yadier Molina grounder.
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Gomes isn’t known as a particularly good fielder… But he came up big on the big stage with this great diving catch in the 5th. (But later in the inning he made an error)
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Napoli and his beard drove in three runs with this shot to center field in the first inning, and the Cards didn’t look back.
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The best play of the game by the Cardinals was also the worst for them. Carlos Beltran, who is tied for 8th all-time with 16 postseason home runs, robbed Big Papi of a grand slam in the second inning, but in the process badly bruised his ribs and had to leave the game to go to the hospital.
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The current Bears QB doesn’t do anything that you should specifically hate… he just seems like a generally hate-able guy.
The base for most of the hatred is that has an aura about him that screams “I don’t give a shit!” He seems to not care whether or not his team wins or loses, which is equatable to being a serial killer to most die-hard NFL fans.
He came under a lot of fire after being forced to sit out the remainder of the 2010 NFC Championship game after hurting his knee in the third quarter. In such an important game, the general consensus among NFL players is that unless you are dying, you need to be out there playing. A lot of criticism came his way from other players and sportscasters after the situation, but it turned out that it was all for no reason, as coach Lovie Smith made the choice to keep Cutler out for the game.
BUT HOW CAN YOU HATE A GUY WHO IS THE STAR OF SUCH AN EXCELLENT MEME????
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The third USC Trojan to appear on this list (with Mark Sanchez and Carson Palmer), and another semi-surprising choice. Reggie Bush has done nothing on the field to warrant hatred – he has had a fairly decent NFL career and won a Super Bowl ring – but has had off-the-field issues, mainly regarding his time at USC.
Bush won the 2005 Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious award in college football, but has since lost it. The NCAA investigated him and the school, and found that Bush received numerous gifts from his agent. They stripped him of the Heisman and imposed sanctions on USC, including bowl game bans, loss of scholarships, and vacation of wins.
It’s hard to believe that he cracked this top 10 due to simply receiving gifts in college. This issue is coming up more and more often, including issues with other high-profile players such as ex-Auburn star Cam Newton and current Texas A&M offensive machine Johhny Manziel.
Perhaps this has something to do with his past relationship with reality queen Kim Kardashian?
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Introducing the golden boy of America’s Team, Tony Romo!
(Pictured here after fumbling the hold on a 19-yard field goal in the first round of the 2006 playoffs that would have given the Cowboys the lead with 1:19 to play. They lost the game)
There are no shortage of reasons to hate this guy
He’s the fourth-highest paid player in the league (6 years, $108 million), only below three Super Bowl-winning Quarterbacks. Meanwhile he has exactly 0.
The perception that he cares more about his girlfriends than football. Most famously he and girlfriend Jessica Simpson went to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico during the Cowboys' bye week in the 2007 Playoffs. Dallas lost their next game to the Giants on a last-minute Tony Romo interception in the end zone.
Most importantly, he has only one playoff win in three appearances.
The Quarterback of “America’s Team” with probably the biggest fanbase in the league just hasn’t performed when it has mattered. And he is getting paid absurd amounts of money to do so.
