Giants-Redskins Preview: The Giants Must Feature a Balanced Attack

I have never wanted the New York Giants to shut someone up more than I want them to shut up Albert Haynesworth. I can't wait to watch O'Hara and Snee pound him into the ground.

Now that I've caught your attention, allow me to share with you the comments made by Haynesworth:

"I really don’t care what they do,” Haynesworth said. “If they’re going to run the ball, that’s fine with me. That’s easier on the pass, so I don’t know, it’s OK with me. I don’t care what they do. I’ve played a lot of teams that ran the ball and ran the ball well and we played against it and we stopped it, so I expect the same thing here."

Gee Albert, thanks for that brilliant insight into your game plan—stop the good running teams from running the ball. Ask the Baltimore Ravens how that went last year.

He also went onto say:

"It doesn’t really matter,” Haynesworth said. “What is he, 250? I weighed 250 when I was in the 10th grade." Not something I would particularly brag about.

As if the Giants needed extra reasoning to pound the Redskins into the ground; now they have bulletin board material to boot.

There was a great comment made on an online article from the Daily News (who also reported the Haynesworth story) that said "[there is always eight] men in the box against Brandon Jacobs, [and] only one comes out, and he's wearing blue."

I couldn't have said it better myself. Teams prepare for Jacobs all the time, and their efforts are nearly always futile.

That being said, the Giants and Eli Manning cannot rely on him the entire game, especially when the defense may not be at full strength—Aaron Ross and Kevin Dockery missed practice this week.

The passing game must have even a small measure of success for the team to do well. Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw can only lead them so far, the passing game will have to pick up the rest of the slack.

The team is confident in the current receiving corps, but that is not a shared feeling around the league. That, in and of itself, is enough motivation for anyone.

In the preseason, Eli Manning developed an encouraging rapport with Mario Manningham and Hakeem Nicks. If these two can prove they are worthy of being the split wide outs, then they could slip Steve Smith back into the slot where he is much more comfortable.

It will be exciting to see the different packages the Giants throw at the 'Skins. With Sinorice Moss, Travis Beckem, and Ramses Barden on the bench, one has to assume they will be implemented into the game plan.

The past few seasons the Giants seemed to have thrived under the assumption that they were just an average team.

If that is the case again this year, they wouldn't have it any other way.