I am bothered by all the HOLDING their DBs (coached to do, obviously) got away with all game.

How is kneeling ruled to be down? All other plays the opposition must touch or tackle the ball carrier or go out of bounds to rule the play dead on a run. This kneeling with no touch doesnt follow any of the other rules.

Spiking should be intentional grounding also. How isn’t it?

Play the game hard all the way to the whistle and dont complain because the other team doesnt want to rollover and hand you the win.

The time to get feisty is not with 5 seconds on the clock and Eli taking a knee. The time to get feisty was when you had 4 minutes left, an 8 point lead and were 4th and about 1 yard to go on the Giants side of the 50 yard line. Instead Schiano was throwing a fit at Mike Williams for not getting the 1st down on the previous play.

If you had gone for it on 4th down and made the first down, you could have run another minute off the clock and possibly driven down into field goal range. With an 11 point lead and less than 3 minutes you would have likely gotten the W.

I put this loss squarely where it belongs, on the Head Coach. You don’t hand the ball back to the World Champs with 4 minutes left, especially when your defense was getting torched on the pass all day.

Great game but the refs blew too many calls. Yes talib held a lot but martin got his face masked pulled in the 4th qtr and no flag, V Jackson got hit from that Dude launching himself and a helmet to helmet but no flag.

As a bucs fan I’m ok with this loss. We went toe to toe with the champs! Schiano is an ex linebacker and will knock coughlin out, 1 hit.

GO BUCS!
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you were only IN the game because of the non-calls on holding. Ken Phillips’ hit was the biggest hit this season that was actually clean. Get over it. You got a pick 6 as a RESULT of a blatant hold that wasn’t called. The WRs still had 400 yards receiving DESPITE being held on 3/4 of all passing plays. You didn’t stand toe to toe. The Giants spotted you points with uncharacteristically sloppy play early. The final 20 minutes of the game were more indicative of what the game would have otherwise been.

As a bucs fan I’m ok with this loss. We went toe to toe with the champs! Schiano is an ex linebacker and will knock coughlin out, 1 hit.

GO BUCS!

As for the last play Josh Freeman will now pay for his coaches calls.

30 other teams now see what the bucs are all about

510 pass can you say Elite with saying Eli

And with all these people all on here complaining the refs missed penalties on the Bucs. What about the blatant facemask on Doug Martin that would have put us on the Giants 35? Instead we had to punt. That could have changed the entire complexion of the game. What about the phantom hold on Talib that resulted in a Bucs pick? Could have changed the game again. The helmet to helmet on Vincent Jackson? The Giants got the call on a less obvious play in the first half. On top of that I saw several holds by the Giants O-line that went unnoticed.

At the end of the day we lost and our secondary got absolutely embarrassed in the second half. Moot!

Seems to me Schiano wanted to send a message that when you play the Bucs, it’s for 60 minutes.

I missed the play. What,exactly, happened? No mention of what the incident was. I guess maybe a D lineman tried to tackle Eli on a kneeldown…?
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On the final play of the game (5 seconds on the clock), the Giants lined up in kneel-down formation. When the ball was snapped, the Bucs rushed the line and Eli fell backwards, prompting some pushing and shoving as the Giants took exception to the move… it’s considered professional courtesy to not rush a kneel-down.

It’s standard practice for the O-line and D-line to verbally acknowledge it’s a kneel-down, and the O-line usually just stands up and makes a half-hearted “block” to the equally half-hearted “rush” by the D-line, as they’re not bracing themselves for an actual play. That’s why Coughlin was mad because his O-line could have been rolled up like Diehl had been earlier in the game.

Pass defense was bad but Mike Williams had 3 chances to make a huge play and failed twice. And the two times he did fail were plays that should be made with ease.

If Mario Manningham drops that ball in SB 46 after catching and getting both feet down, then the Giants don’t win last year. But he maintained possession, and it WAS a catch. Today, Williams dropped the ball. Know the rule before you comment.