VrabelJr

It's as simple as that. So far in the playoffs against the Giants Atlanta, Green Bay, and San Francisco ran the ball against them 21, 23, and 28 times respectively. SF almost managed to beat them.

Lets look at the Giants 7 losses during the regular season:
Washington - 26 rushes
Seattle - 29 rushes
San Francisco - 20 rushes
Philadelphia - 33 rushes
New Orleans - 30 rushes
Green Bay - 28 rushes
Washington #2 - 40 rushes

While not every single game they lost supports my argument you can certainly see a trend. Everyone knew going into the season that the Giants vulnerability was the run game due to injuries and lack of experience at the LB positions. All of a sudden teams decided to stop attacking this.

We have two All-Pro Guards, two great TEs that can block, a Center who has really surprised a lot of us, an RB that knows how to run hard and another RB that is small and elusive. If we don't run the ball that just lets Umenyiora, Tuck, and Pierre-Paul pin their ears back. By running the ball 30+ times we can make them pay for over-pursuing and also set up our passing game. This will also wear out their defense for later in the game and at which point we can really start throwing the ball.

It's time to go old-school in this one, folks. Beat the Giants with the type of game that they used to win championships back in the day. I'm setting the number at 20 rushes. If we have 20 rushes by half time we can do whatever we want to their defense in the second half.

PatsBoy12

Mark my words: That WILL NOT happen. Sorry, but the Pats are just not that kind of offense and BoB is not that kind of play-caller.

makoute

I for one would be shocked.

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VrabelJr

Oh, and in the Giants 9 regular season wins teams only rushed the ball more than 30 times twice.

VrabelJr

I never said we would do this. I just said if we do, we will win.

TheGodInAGreyHoodie

Hasn't the "establish the run" myth been beaten to death already.

Most teams throw the ball more when they are behind then when they are winning.

Yes, if we run the ball 30 times we will win the game especially if the last 15 of those running plays are in the last 10 minutes of the 4th quarter with a 21 point lead.

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PatsBoy12

And I never said that you said it would happen. You made a proposal and I gave you my opinion. Nobody knows what either team's game plan will be.

VrabelJr, I was not attacking you in any way, so there is no need to get defensive. I was merely saying that I do not believe this is something we will see from this offense.

Spiral

I hope Vollmer is back. I'd love to see Vollmer as RT and Solder and Gronk as TE's, with BJGE ramming it down the throats of the Giants DL. That would set a completely different tone for this game.

VrabelJr

I'm not getting defensive. But I must say you nearly using my post title accompanied with bolded remarks to reply to me is a pretty ********ed move. I have thicker skin than that though. 99% of people on here are just benefitting from internet courage. But anyway...

VrabelJr

I'll agree we shouldn't be overly infatuated with total rushing numbers. However, at the bottom of my post I also indicate that if 20 of those come before the half we'll be in much better shape. The best way to slow a pass rush frenzy team down is to run the ball against them.