We're actually lucky those guys are having monster years. Everyone thought Finley was the poised to be the "best TE in football." His asking price will keep going down. Hopefully his agent doesn't pull a Cullen Jenkins move (assume there is more money elsewhere + piss off [TT].

Finley is a great player, but his drops could have cost us games this year. Hopefully this game will serve as a wake up call for this team.

It's unfortunate that there was so many drops yesteday, could of kept our drives going and get us more points on the board. Also, if we kept going that would make our defense look much better, considering Eli kept getting the ball back.

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I must be fair to Finley, though. The Giants wanted to take away Jennings/Nelson on the outside, and Finley had the potential to dominate this game over the middle. Of course, that didn't really work out but the fact remains that he was often open, kept the defense honest, and was the primary target on many plays. Take him away, and that game becomes much more difficult. He may not be a Graham or a Grankoski, but he is still a great weapon in our offense. As mentioned, hopefully we can retain him at a reasonable price after his season. Of course, I'd be happy with him dominating the playoffs and getting a huge payday after a super bowl MVP as well. ;-)

As for Quarless, if he in fact only suffered a "knee sprain," he is very lucky. It may keep him out the rest of the season, but he should be able to recover from that. I'm sure that's some euphemism MM is using, but if it's not a broken bone or an ACL, it has to be considered a good thing given the circumstances.

While the stats say that ARod had his worst game of the year this week, I say that last week was worse. Both games featured a pick, last game had less yardage, and this game featured 6 official drops and a few more that were tough but I expect multi-millionaires to catch when they hit them in the hands. Take away most of those drops and suddenly the QB rating, yardage, and completion % go way up... Not nearly as many drops last week.

RE: OP's point about refs and football gods...

I don't worry about this *UNLESS* we get Hochuli or Triplette's crew in the playoffs. Especially the latter. I kept waiting for the bonehead call that would go against the Packers at the worst time, but every close review, etc this game seemed to go with the Packers. This will not happen with either of those two incompetent crews twice in a row.

By the way, is anyone else getting tired of Mike Pereira everywhere? I hate this legalistic turn the game has taken where everyone is trying to outdo each other in their "correct" interpretation of the rules.

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