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Giants' all-around strong play saves Manning from criticism

By Bill Barnwell
Football Outsiders

Monday, November 3, 2008

Eli Manning's performance on Sunday was absolutely freaky. Not freaky good or freaky bad, mind you -- it's just strange that a quarterback could manage to have so many mitigating issues or excuses for both the good things and bad things he did. If you start by mentioning the result, it's an inane argument. The Giants won 35-14 against the Cowboys, but it was at home, against an injury-riddled shell of a team, and if you break the game up into the four quadrants (offensive and defensive pass ...

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