So, I watched some college football yesterday... Can someone explain to me why college officiating is so bad? Maybe I should as Abramson. He knows that game.
Latest example: Punt-returner's interference in the Auburn-Florida game. Luckily it didn't cost Auburn anything, but still. If the returner doesn't call for a fair catch, he's fair game once the ball gets into his arms, right? Right? Sheesh.
Anyway... On to the pros, where the refs don't normally make at least one bonehead call a game.
Giants-Eagles. What do we have here?
Eagles: Brian Westbrook isn't 100 percent healthy, but I suspect he'll play. Same for Brian Dawkins. But with Lito Sheppard out, the corners are vulnerable. So is the offensive line if Steve Spagnuolo can find room for all his pass rushers.
Giants: No Brandon Jacobs (not official, but when has TC ever just plugged someone in coming back early from an injury?), but Derrick Ward should be out there. Running game is huge tonight -- Philly will be making sure to have bodies in the secondary on Burress, Shockey and Toomer, so there should be room to run. We'll see if Omar Gaither reacts to Ward the same way Jeremiah Trotter used to react when Tiki ran near him. Methinks not.
Not saying the Giants have arrived, but the Eagles haven't either. They had one TD in the first two games after piling em up on the lousy Lions.
Giants, 23-21.
Inactives tonight.
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Not only is Jacobs not playing, most recent update is Ward not playing either. Sure looks smarter than ever that we have Droughns. Oh man. He's been sorta our utility back so far this year. Sure hope he still has some vision left. KEEP YOUR LEGS PUMPIN RD! Take your vitamins, bro! :-(
As much as I hate to say it, the Eagles on paper just simply look stronger comming into tonight's game. Westbrook will be out there and will be a force. We don't know if the Giants D will carry over from last week's 2nd half. And I don't feel Lito Sheppard's absence will make any difference possitivly for the Gmen. My heart says the Giants but reality tells me
EAGLES 34
GIANTS 22
Arthur, didn't see the Florida-Auburn game, nor the highlights, but from what you described it sounds like Auburn violated the fair-catching zone. Unlike in the NFL, where the coverage team can be right on top of the returner as soon as he makes the catch, in college there is a certain amount of space (I think it's a yard, might be 2) that the punt returner must be provided while attempting to catch the punt.