Tense comeback win was tortourous

THE G-MEN might do well to adopt the moniker of their baseball-playing West Coast namesakes after another nail-biter this afternoon.

San Francisco’s World Series-winning run came with the slogan “torture” and the 24-20 win over the Jags at the New Meadowlands today felt just that.

The first-half was brutal – another frustrating outing with toothless offence in the red zone, dumb penalties, poor defence against the run, dropped passes and woeful coverage on third down D.

It had the depressingly inevitable feeling of “one of those days” (reminiscent of the Titans game from September) as everything seemed to be going wrong and the boo-birds were in full voice in the stands.

But Tom Coughlin must have given the team a right, royal rollicking during the half-time team-talk as a more aggressive but disciplined side came out for the second half to drive a tense comeback victory and keep the Giants‘ season alive.

The errors were eliminated and the defence stepped up. Kevin Boss had a shocking first 30 minutes (two penalties including one which wiped out a TD and dropped balls) but redeemed himself afterwards with some big catches. Super Mario made a pair of impressive catches to keep drives alive.

And the hitherto shaky defence stood firm with less than four minutes to go by holding off the Jaguars with three consecutive sacks (Tuck-Rolle, Jason-Pierre Paul and Terrell Thomas).

At the same time as the Giants D were shutting down the Jags, the Packers were losing to a last-seconds field goal to Atlanta so that should help the wildcard picture too.

Lets hope the Bears can do the business now against Philly.