the giants didn't screw up because plax wasn't there. They messed up because they had to put up with a lot of crap and were often disturbed by the press during pratice to ask about plax
If that's truly the case, then they failed as professionals and deserved to lose that game out of principle. When you work for the best company in your industry, the best is expected from you, especially when what is "distracting" you happened weeks ago and you've had time to deal.
But it's not the case. The fact is that the Giants have no other receiver as good as Plax, and in the past, they were able to run rampant on the Eagles because we couldn't put 8-9 men in the box to stop the run to respond to the threat that Plax was. Without his dynamic presence in the lineup, who's the Giants' best receiver? Kevin Boss? Steve "o hai, the wind made me fumble" Smith? Methuselah Toomer? Do any of those names strike fear into your heart if you're an opposing defense?
Without Plax, stopping the Giants' offense is alot easier than it is with him. Yeah, Jacobs and Ward broke off some nice runs, but all in all, they were contained very well and were a batted pass and fat guy INT from only scoring 6 points on offense. Part of that is because our defense is playing lights out, but the other part is we were able to key in on the run game, especially in short yardage situations. It forced Eli Manning to beat us, and as usual, he reverted to his old, lemme throw a bunch of picks self.
The funny thing is, they gave him a 7 year, $110M extension in the face of his worst performance of the year. The Giants organization must either have seen something that I didn't, or they really don't think Plax is going to jail and are intending on bringing him or a receiver of equal caliber into the fold.
