The Giants and Eli Manning were happy to just be able to celebrate a win once again. The last six weeks have been frustrating, not like anyone is counting or anything like that. Manning said, it’s been a very long time. Our last win came 42 days ago. It did feel that long. With 3:54 elapsed in overtime, Lawrence Tynes booted through a field goal from 36 yards, making up for a miss earlier in the game to give the Giants a 34-31 win on Sunday over Atlanta. The victory snapped the Giants’ four game losing streak and came after New York’s defense blew a lead of 14 points during the fourth quarter.
The Panthers may finally have found a way of solving the woes of Jake Delhomme: controlled chaos. Matt Ryan and Atlanta miscues helped as well. On Sunday Carolina unleashed their no huddle offense with the plays being called by Delhomme. The Panthers quarterback connected on two touchdowns with Steve Smith and didn’t have any turnovers during Carolina’s 28-19 win over Atlanta.
Chris Redman, backup quarterback for Atlanta, threw a touchdown pass of 5 yards over to Roddy White on Sunday with just 23 seconds left to play, as the Falcons eked out a 20-17 win over Tampa Bay after their offensive stars Michael Turner and Matt Ryan left the game due to injuries.
After they built up a lead of 21 points, the Falcons allowed the Redskins back in the game on two second half touchdowns. To stretch the lead back to 14 points, it took a Michael Turner touchdown run of 58 yards, fueled by LaRon Landry’s shoddy play. If Atlanta’s defense hadn’t stiffened, the game might have gone right down to the last minute.
On Monday night in the Superdome, the Saints were able to hold on and defeat the Falcons 35-27 in front of 70,088 fans. The 7-0 Saints are the only NFC team left that is still undefeated. With nine games left to play, the Atlanta Falcons’ record dropped to 4-2, putting them three games back of the Saints.
Mike Smith, head coach for the Falcons, said he planned to use their extra time this week to consider some potential changes in personnel. This week Atlanta has an extra day for preparing for their very important NFC South game versus the Saints next Monday night in New Orleans. Their most recent loss left the Falcons (4-2) trailing undefeated New Orleans by two games. Atlanta really can’t afford letting the deficit get bigger.
Atlanta, in a defensive clunker of a game, got pummeled by Dallas on Sunday 37-21 at the new stadium for the Cowboys in front of 81,521 extremely happy fans. Atlanta’s secondary, which was reeling already from losing cornerback Brian Williams last week to a knee injury ending his season, was thoroughly shredded by Tony Romo (21 of 29 on passing for a total of 311 yards), Cowboy’s quarterback, and Miles Austin (6 catches, 171 yards, 2 touchdowns), wide receiver.
On Sunday night the Atlanta Falcons defeated the Chicago Bears 21-14, but in the process lost a key defensive player. Brian Williams, starting cornerback, has a torn ACL and is lost for the rest of the season.
The Bears made three critical errors inside the red zone, and Atlanta was able to hold on and get a 21-14 win. The game will be remembered for a series of gritty defensive stands and all the opportunities that the Bears missed.
The leader of the San Francisco 49ers knows he lost all his cool during the game.
Mike Singletary got so frustrated with the poor play of his team that he just had to respond to Harvey Dahl, former 49er and offensive lineman, when he responded to Singletary near the sideline of the 49ers while Atlanta was once again driving downfield.
