Giants Today

The Giants are set to kickoff their season at home against the Skins later today. For the Skins it will be a time to start finding out if Albert Haynesworth can change their fortunes in the NFC East. For the Giants it will be a time to see how falling short last year felt to them. The pundits are predictably questioning the Giants WR corps. I think they will actually start impressing as soon as today. Plax, Toomer and Shockey were effective players and big targets, but very often they made the wrong reads, ran lousy routes and dropped passes. The younger receivers are faster and run better routes, and in the cases of Nicks and Barden (who will probably be inactive today) have GREAT HANDS. In other words, Eli will be fine.

On O, I expect the Giants to come out fast, possibly in the no-huddle, in an effort to tire out Haynesworth and get Eli off to a fast start with the new receivers.

On D, I expect to see the Giants really clog up the run, and force them to pass. Chris Canty will be making his Giant debut and that should be interesting.

If the Giants look explosive early, that will be a sure sign they are on a mission again. In any event, they should dominate.

Go Giants!