15. 1951 NEW YORK GIANTS at 2. 2010 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
2. 2010 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
Record: 14-2
Pythag: 12-4
Off: 1st
Def: 8th
1st AFC East
lost Jets Div Rnd 28-21
HC Bill Belichick
Gillette Stadium: 45 degrees
Gil Santos/Gino Cappelletti
Offense
QB Tom Brady All Pro
RB BenJarvus Green Ellis
WR Brandon Tate
WR Wes Welker
TE Aaron Hernandez
TE Rob Gronkowski
LT Matt Light
LG Logan Mankins All Pro
C Dan Koppen
RG Steve Neal
RT Sebastian Vollmer
Defense
LDE Vince Wilfork
NT Gerald Warren
RDE Ron Brace
LOLB Rob Ninkovich
LILB Jerod Mayo All Pro
RILB Brandon Spikes R
ROLB Jermaine Cunningham R
LCB Devin McCourty R
RCB Kyle Arrington
SS Patrick Chung
FS Brandon Meriweather
K Stephen Gostkowski
P Zoltan Mesko
KR Brandon Tate
PR Julian Edelman
3 Patriots squads - 2006, 2007, 2014 have already advanced - this 2010 team had the best offense in football. Brady's 33, All Pro, 37 scores and 4 picks (this game feels like an enormous mismatch) 25 year old BenJarvus Green Ellis ran for 13 scores. Rob Gronkowski is a 21 year old rookie, he had 10 TDs. And 28 year old Logan Mankins is also an All Pro. The defense is just okay, 24 year old Jerod Mayo was an All Pro, 23 year old rookie Devin McCourty had 7 picks.
15. 1951 NEW YORK GIANTS
Record: 9-2-1
Pythag: 9-3
Off: 6th
Def: 2nd
2nd NFL American
Did not make playoffs
HC Steve Owen
Offense
QB Charlie Conerly (30 Ole Miss)
FB Eddie Price All Pro (26 Tulane)
RB Joe Scott (25 USF)
RB Kyle Rote (23 SMU)
WR Bob McChesney (25 Hardin-Simmons)
WR Bob Wilkinson R (24 UCLA)
LT Tex Coulter (27 Army)
LG Joe Sulaitis (30 None)
C John Rapacz (27 Oklahoma)
RG Bill Murray (25 Purdue)
RT Herb Hannah - R (30 Alabama)
Defense
LDE Jim Duncan (26 Wake)
LDT Arnie Weinmeister All Pro (28 Wash)
MG Jon Baker (28 Cal)
RDT Ray Krouse R (24 Mary)
RDE Al DeRogatis All Pro (24 Duke)
LLB Ray Poole (30 Ole Miss)
RLB John Cannady (28 Indiana)
LDH Emlen Tunnell All Pro (26 Iowa)
RDH Harmon Rowe (28 USF)
LS Tom Landry (27 Texas)
RS Otto Schnellbacher All Pro (28 Kansas)
K Ray Poole (30 Ole Miss)
P Charlie Conerly (30 Ole Miss)
KR/PR Emlen Tunnell All Pro (26 Iowa)
The Giants look over their skis here - they're giving up 60 years to the Patriots and they didn't make the playoffs in 1951. They did have the second best offense in the league; 30 year old Charlie Conerly had 11 scores and 22 picks, the defense is middling but does have 4 All Pros, 28 year old Arnie Weinmeister, 24 year old Al DeRogatis, 26 year old Emlen Tunnell, who had 4 kick returns for scores, 28 year old Otto Schnellbacher. It would be a pretty good surprise if the Giants could hang with the Patriots today. Let's go to Gillette for the kick.
1st Qtr
Patriots at the 27.
1/10 - Tom Brady hits BenJarvus Green Ellis in the flat -- breaks a tackle, 13 yards to the 40.
1/10 - BGE gets a carry, stopped at the line.
2/10 - Brady looking downfield -- Wes Welker --- Intercepted by Emlen Tunnel! Tunnel picks off Brady - Tunnel will be tackled at the Patriots 39 yard line -- Emlen Tunnel intercepts Tom Brady and the Giants are into Patriot territory.
1/10 - Joe Scott for 4.
2/6 - Eddie Price picks it up and the Giants are at the NE 29.
The next 3 plays net 3 yards.....Poole hits the FG and it's 3-0.
Patriots at the 23.
3 and out including an Arnie Weinmeister sack -- Pats to kick - Giants will start in good shape at their own 40.
1/10 - Price gets 11.
1/10 - Price stopped.
2/10 - Price gets 15 -- Eddie Price getting some good yardage early on here and the Giants are again into NE territory.
The next 3 plays net 6 yards....this time Poole misses the FG and the Patriots regain possession at their own 35.
1/10 - Brady flips the ball to Danny Woodhead, he gets 9.
2/1 - Woodhead picks it up.
1/10 - Give to Woodhead - he busts it outside -- And Woodhead's got Open Field -- Danny Woodhead open Field -- Danny Woodhead will go 54 yards -- TOUCHDOWN PATRIOTS
Danny Woodhead runs 54 yards and.....Gostkowski misses the XP....so its 6-3 NE.
Giants take over at the 28.
1/10 - Price again, 9 yards.
2/1 - Incomplete
3/1 - Price....picks up the first down.
1/10 - Charlie Conerly completes his first pass of the day - 5 yards to Bill Stribling.
2/5 - Joe Scott picks it up and the Giants are across midfield.
1/10 - Price gets 10 more -- Giants ground game effective in the first quarter.
The next 2 plays net 5 yards, as the qtr ends NY has 3rd and 5 at the Patriot 34.
2nd Qtr: Patriots 6 Giants 3
A Tunnell pick set up the Giants to get some points; Woodhead countered with a huge TD run, Giants have a 3rd and 5 at the Pats 34.
They don't pick it up -- they go get a long Poole FG to tie the score.
Pats at the 30.
1/10 BGE gets 6
2/4 - Brady goes downfield - Brandon Tate for 25 -- Patriots at the NY 39 yard line.
1/10 - Woodhead gets 1
2/9 - Fred Taylor's first carry....he's hit in the backfield by Al DeRogatis...Fumble - Fumble -- the Giants will take over at their own 44.
1/10 - Incomplete
2/10 - Incomplete
3/10 - Conerly goes downfield -- Bob McChesney - 23 yards and it's a first down for the Giants at the NE 28 yard line.
1/10 - Price is Smacked by Vince Wilfork at the LOS -- fumble -- the Patriots force the fumble - the Patriots regain possession at their own 29 yard line.
1/10 - Taylor gets the ball again, 1 yard.
2/9 - Taylor again...No - it's a Reverse - to Brandon Tate -- Tate gets the edge -- Tate's got a step -- And Brandon Tate is Gonna Go -- Brandon Tate is Gonna Go -- 70 Yards to the House -- TOUCHDOWN PATRIOTS -- Brandon Tate with the 70 yard TD run and New England
goes up 13-6 with 8:34 remaining in the half. Two huge TD runs for the Patriots in the first half.
Giants at the 18. They get a first down on a 13 yard Price run -- but that's it -- and after the punt New England has good field position at their own 48.
3 and out. Nice defensive stand by the Giants to get the ball right back - NY at their own 23, under 6 minutes left in the half.
1/10 - Price gets 1
2/9 - Price breaks one -- Price goes 45 yards -- Eddie Price to the Patriot 31.
1/10 - Scott gets 3.
2/7 - Conerly in trouble -- broken play - Conerly able to keep it alive -- Conerly Looks to the End Zone -- Joe Scott! TOUCHDOWN GIANTS -- Joe Scott 28 yard strike from Charlie Conerly -- the Giants tie the score at 13.
Patriots get the good kick return -- they will start at their own 40, 3:37 left in the half.
1/10 - Brady - over the middle to Gro -- Intercepted! Otto Schnellbacher steps in front of Gronkowski and Intercepts Brady - its the Giants second interception of the half - the Giants are at the New England 38!
3 and out....Poole hits another long FG, Ray Poole with his third 40+ yard FG of the day and NY regains the lead.
Patriots at the 35, just before the 2 minute warning.
1/10 BGE loses 2 yards. 2 minute mark.
2/12 - Brady picks it up - finds Welker for 13 on the sideline. Pats at the 46.
1/10 - Brady to Welker, 8 yards, Brady quickly to the line.
2/2 - Give to Woodhead - he picks it up, Pats stop the clock here with a tick more than a minute left in the half, they are at the NY 41 yard line.
That's it - the next 3 plays net 7 yards...and Gostkowski....Misses...the FG. New York will run the ball a couple of times and go into the locker room with the 16-13 lead.
3rd Qtr: Giants 16 Patriots 13
Possible 15/2 upset alert - and if we said it's a widely outgunned New York Giants team who might be pulling it against the Patriots, that has a ring of familiarity. 3 Pats turnovers , 3 long NYG FG and New York has a 16-13 lead.
Giants start at the 37.
They get a first down, Conerly 14 yards to Stribling. But that's all - and after a good Julian Edelman return, the Pats start at their own 35.
They also get a first down, 3 short runs - but have to punt. Giants start at the 16, we're now halfway through the third.
2 first downs for NY - 14 yard Scott run, 8 yard reception by Stribling the big plays - but NY is still on their side of the field when they punt it back.
Pats at the 26. 3 and out.
Tunnell the good return now for NY - and they start at their own 40.
Just time for 2 plays before the half, two runs net 8 yards -- and we head to the 4th.
4th Qtr: Giants 16 Patriots 13
Strictly defense in the third - definitely a surprise that the best offense from 2010 just can't get anything going against a middling defense from 1951, but that's why the play the games. Giants still with the 3 pt lead and a third down near midfield.
3/2 - Price picks up the first down, Giants at midfield.
But that's it - the Pats get a Jerod Mayo sack and NY is punting. Patriots start at their own 6 yard line, trailing by a FG early 4th qtr.
1/10 - BGE loses a couple.
2/13 - Sammy Morris's first carry, he gets back to the original line.
3/10 - Brady finds Deion Branch - 26 yards Pats dig out of the hole.
1/10 - Woodhead stopped.
2/10 - Brady - Welk -- PICKED OFF -- EMLEN TUNNELL -- Tunnell is brought down at the 31 -- Emlen Tunnell with the third Giants interception of Tom Brady on the day - just an enormous effort by this Giants defense today - New York has the ball at the NE 31.
1/10 - Price - through the hole -- into the se-- PRICE IS GONNA GO! Eddie Price is gonna go 31 yards -- into the House -- TOUCHDOWN GIANTS -- The pick, followed by the run -- the Giants go up...just 9, as they miss the XP, so it is a 9 point Giants lead, 22-13, a little more than 9 minutes left.
And it's gotta feel like a bad dream for Brady - they were enormous favorites in this 2/15 matchup - but with a little more than 9 minutes left, they are down 9 points.
NE at the 25.
1/10 - Brady to BGE, 3 yards.
2/7 - Draw, Taylor, just 2.
3/5 - Brady to Kevin Faulk, he picks it up, Pats out to the 40 yard line.
But that's all. And at 4th and 6...the Pats choose to punt -- and NY has the ball, and a 9 point lead, at their own 21. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
1/10 Conerly play fake - finds Bob Wilkinson - 10 yards -- and the Pats are totally caught flat footed there - first down and the clock keeps ticking.
1/10 - Price gets 5. Tick, tick, tick.
2/5 - Price gets 3. Big third down for NE.
3/2 - Kyle Rote picks it up - Giants are at their own 42. Less than 4 minutes left - Pats need 2 scores -- this is done. The Giants pull the 15/2 upset, it's a shocker.
New England burns all 3 timeouts, they force the punt - the Pats get the ball back just before the two minute warning -- Brady throws a near inconceivable 4th pick, to Schnellbacher, and that's how the game ends.
Final: Giants 22 Patriots 13
What a way to end Region 7 - the biggest upset to date, and it's a Giants team beating a Patriots team. 4 Brady picks - 4 Brady picks and the Patriots go home. Just 10 first downs for the top offense from 2010. Stunning.
Conerly: 8 for 23, 107 yds, 1 TD
Brady: 8 for 19, 104 yds, 4 INT
Price: 31 carries, 211 yds, 1 TD
Woodhead: 7 carries, 65 yds, 1 TD
Scott: 2 catches, 43 yds, 1 TD
Tate: 2 catches, 31 yds, 1 carry, 70 yds, 1 TD
Mayo: 15 tackles
Tunnell/Schnellbacher: 2 INT
Player of the Game: Eddie Price
That wraps up round 1 for region 7. When we come back...
1975 Steelers v. 1968 Jets
1967 Rams v. 1996 49ers
1961 Packers v. 2005 Seahawks
1979 Chargers v. 1951 Giants
