3* play in regular season is just a normal play but in preseason we release all plays as 1*, so this fits the bill as our top play in preseason.
The Giants are coming off of a horrible performance against the Bears last week. Not to make excuses but that was off of just 5 days rest after playing Carolina on Monday Night. Both teams starters are expected to play the whole first half. The Giants caught their performance in their ear big time after a horrible showing in Chicago from Coach Coughlin. The players all seem to be responding to their coach and his criticism this week very well. Eli Manning said that this being the final week the starters will get to play extended time they are focused to come out to play their best. He even said the offense is doing a little game planning, watching film on the Jets preseason games and preparing for their schemes. Even center Shaun O'hara said "I know we'll be ready for this game."
The Giants plan is to air it out, depending on the weather. Their will be a chance of showers tonight but it's not supposed to be as bad as earlier expected with rain ealier in the day and may not rain at all by kickoff. The Giants plan on gauging their Wide Receivers; letting rookies Ramses Barden and Hakeem Nicks work with Manning and the first team along with Steve Smith, Domenick Hixon, Mario Manningham, and Sinorice Moss. Barden a 6 foot 6 rookie from Cal-Poly and first round pick UNC grad Hakeem Nicks have practiced with Eli and the first team all week and Coach Coughlin felt the progress was positive and the chemistry looked good between the three.Former Giants QB Phil Simms who spoke with several Giants players and coaches this week said to New York reporters "The Giants are going to be ready to run through a wall on Saturday night."
Rex Ryan and the Jets are coming off of a short week of preparation after a Monday Night game in Baltimore. Ryan has had a laid back approach to this game and admitted last week was a big game for him but said their hasn't been much chatter about this game with Giants in locker room he said. Rookie Mark Sanchez will be in the spotlight against a Giants defense who looks like they will get starting Corner Back Corey Webster back but still will be without leader Antonio Pierce. Sanchez looked shaky in his first start where he went 3-for-8 for 43 yards with an interception that was returned for a touchdown. There were also two delay-of-game penalties, a missed communication issue with Jerricho Cotchery and a dropped interception by Ray Lewis which would've been returned for a TD. The Jets first team was trailing 21-7 to Baltimore at half time last week and were leading 10-9 vs. a not so talented Rams team which played pretty vanilla on both sides of the ball in their first week.
We are playing this as a first half play only because the Giants reserves have looked questionable all preseason and we don't trust them throughout the final stretch of the game and the Jets pulling off a backdoor cover like last week isn't far-fetched. We expect a motivated Giants first team to come out and handle business in the first half of this game against a Jets team who is coming off of a short week and didn't prep for this game.
*Note*: We have seen this line mostly at -1.5 and -2.5 at most books, there were only a couple of -3 out there so we advise you to shop for the best price you can find under -3.
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