Noles look to bounce back/Eagles look to take down Giants

Have to be honest last week I sort of expected Florida St to loose, something just kept telling me they wouldn’t get the job done.  Now they have to find a way to shake off a poor effort and sloppy execution to take on the Clemson Tigers.

Now while Clemson is not having anywhere near the season anybody thought prior to the season Florida St can not take them lightly either.  As we saw last week Florida St like many others have flaws and there are just some weeks you can’t cover all of them up no matter what you do or what personel you use in those efforts.

Keys to the game:

Sustain offensive drives if not to build confidence and obviously to score points but to wear down the defense and to get them frustrated in to making bad plays and turning on each other.  It’s already been a rough season that shouldn’t take much to accomplish this task.

Regroup as a defensive unit and come back angry, upset, & fired up that what happened the previous week will not happen this one and every chance you get you make the Clemson team pay for even gaining 6 inches.   This is especially kep with the weapons the Tigers have in their lineup.

Prediction:   Florida St 30 Clemson 20

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Eagles try to slay Giants.

 

Let’s the hate begin between these 2 teams.

I’ll be honest I don’t like any team in the NFC East much at all other then the obvious Eagles.  So this will be a game that normally is one each fan of these teams loves to watch, be at, or just be apart of in anyway.

If McNabb and company take the field with the offensive effort they have put up to many times already this season in wins or losses they will not get to far in this game.  From watching the games I have scene of the Giants they have a team that is every bit as dangerous as one can be in the NFL.

I will be bypasing the normal keys to the game to just focus in on match-ups in this one.

Samuel vs Burress

We know the height advantage is one of the keys here but it might only be that big of a key if they are doing fade patterns or intentionally running passes where that can be used.  I think this will be where Samuel gets very phyiscal and try’s to get Burress frustrated.  

Eagles O-Line vs Giants D-Line

Oh was this a sort topic of discussion for me last year & thank god I was in Italy and didn’t have to see Andy Reid hang Wiston Justice out to die.  I just had to hear about it which didn’t make me feel any better.  For the birds to get anything done Sunday night it is key to how they handle whatever is tossed their way from the front 4 and even at time front 7.   They maybe the heaviest line in the league but if they stuggle early it could be a long night.

McNabb vs Manning

Here I think Manning for sure has the edge with overall talent he has to work with executing his game plan.  McNabb will have to be more efficent in the early going then he was in Seatlle to get something going as often as they can, especially say going down field which hasn’t been done much at all and will need to be to clear out somethings behind the linebackers.

Prediction

Eagles 20 Giants 16

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