Brandon Jacobs No Longer The Right Fit?

     Last week's debacle in the midwest raised some questions about a few things happening in East Rutherford these days.  That is, with the New York Football Giants and the on-field troubles.  Not the 3 ( I'm sorry, ONE ring ) circus that resides in the same stadium.  Although Brandon Jacobs and the slippery helmet tried his best to compete.

     Brandon is a rare breed for a HB, we all know that.  Very few men his size have run with their reckless sherman-tank like abandon very long before they slow down due to physical wear on there bodies.   When he was drafted, his job was to replace the dissapointing Ron Dayne in the short yardage, and goal-line situations.  After Tiki's unexpected retirement, he became the primary back in 2007 as the Giants went on a late run to an NFL championship.  this lead to arguably the best backfield in NYG history, Earth (Jacobs) Wind (Ward) & Fire (Bradshaw).  And for 2 years the ran havoc on the NFL.  

     Think of the "big" ball carriers that did not last long in the NFL.  Cristian Okoye, Earl Campbell, ect.  Injuries took horrible tolls on these players.  only Jerome Bettis lasted a long period of time because the Steelers have ALWAYS had a good-to-great O-Line.

     In this writer's opinion, the aging O-line has made Brandon a bad fit for this team.  The line cannot blow holes open like they had in 2007 & 2008 to allow Brandon to run over smaller DBs and LBs for those clock-grinding first downs.  And being Brandon is a volitile personality, he gets frustrated too easily to focus on his game.  The helmet throwing incident is a sure-fired example of this.  Ahmad Bradshaw has the skills needed to slash through narrow openings and create yardage out of nothing.  This allows #44 to be more versitile as even a screen-pass target., the play I feel the Giants should run more often.   Brandon had a huge screen pass TD last year, and he could probobly find more touches that way.

     The offensive line hasn't looked this offensive since the Dave Brown days.  David Diel looked like an undrafted rookie trying to block ANYBODY in front of him.   Pass rushers were hitting Eli all night, which leaves me to believe that he might be on borrowed time this year if things do not change.  Boss' injury at tight end does not help the pass blocking situation either, where the recievers will have no time to run their deep routes.  When Eli came out to finish the game in the late 4th qtr last week, I felt Tom Coughlin had put him in a dangerous situation.   I think a wild-cat package would not hurt either.