Wow.  What a great game.  The Giants beat another very good team and moved to 2-0 in this difficult 2nd half of the season, and 9-1 overall.  That’s awesome.  I couldn’t be happier where this team is right now.  Here’s my take:

The good:
-Brandon Jacobs and the rushing attack.  They dropped 207 yards on the league’s #2 rushing defense, including a bruising 73 yard and 2 TD performance by Brandon Jacobs.  This offensive line deserves a lot of credit too.  They are an amazing run-blocking group.
-Plaxico Burress is back to making a difference.  He only had 4 catches for 47 yards, but they were big catches.  He also had his numbers dropped a little because the run game was working so well.
-Eli Manning looked great to me.  He had a few silly passes that weren’t even close, but I’ve learned that it sort of comes with him and it’s never going to go away.  Kind of like Ben Rothleisberger and his holding onto the ball too long.  You better get used to it because it’s not going away.  But Eli’s ability to step up in the pocket in this game was incredible.  He had guys coming at him from all angles, and all Eli did was take a step or two forward, and everyone went around him.  He never took his eyes off the receivers, and that’s a great thing.
-Ahmad Bradshaw.  I am now totally confident that if Brandon Jacobs goes down, which he’s somewhat prone to doing, that this team won’t be at exactly the level of rushing it was, but they will definitely be fine until he comes back.  Ward and Bradshaw are incredibly competent, and they can fill in fine.
-The blocked field goal.  How awesome was that?

The bad:
-The defensive line.  2 straight games without a sack, and I’m starting to get a LITTLE worried.  Little is in caps because it’s not really that much of a concern here, but it is in the back of my mind.  The box score says Kiwanuka had a sack, but I can’t remember it, and I can’t find it in the play-by-play log.  So it’s going as zero sacks in my book.
-The kicking situation.  Lawrence Tynes wasn’t any better than Carney on kickoffs, and Tynes had a botched extra point.  I know it was a problem with the snap and hold, but you never know what caused that.  It could be a timing issue with using Tynes for the first week.  I want John Carney back.

The ugly:
-Since there’s nothing really from this game that was ugly on the Giants, I’m going with CBS’s coverage.  They had moments during the game where the broadcast stopped for a few minutes, and they cut away from the game at the end to show us Atlanta-Denver.  WHO CARES!? I want to see my Giants! I’m in New York for christ’s sake, nobody is going to want to watch Atlanta-Denver.  And in addition, we didn’t even get to hear Phil Simms.  Just an awful job by CBS overall.

Recap show coming tomorrow.