May 13, 2024 • 27 mins
What is the greatest play in Giants history? Bob Papa and John Schmeelk debate the matchups in the Blue Bracket. Voting is now open at Giants.com/bracket, presented by Hackensack Meridian Health
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Greatest Plays Bracket podcast, brought to by
Hackensack Meridian Health Keep Getting Better. I'm John Schmelt, joined
by the Voice of the Giants Bob Popa. Is part
of the Giants one hundredth anniversary celebration. Are panel of experts,
Bob of which was one of them, have gone back
and selected the sixty four greatest plays in Giants history
to give the fans a chance to vote as to
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which one they think is the best. We've broken into
four sixteen play brackets. This is the Blue bracket. Bob,
Let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And the first of all, it was hard to get sixteen.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We'll talk about it. I mean, we could have.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Easily for each of these brackets. We could have easily
come up with another four or five plays for Beach bracket.
So what we tried to do is we tried to
distill it by great individual performance, heroic performance, and then
maybe significance of the performance when it happened, where it happened,
the significance of the game, which I think led us
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to be able to get it down the sixteen seeds
in each bracket. But trust me, there were way more
than sixty four greatest plays in Giants' history.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And we've tried to touch as many eerrors as we
can as well in great players as we've gone through these.
So the interesting thing about the blue bracket, Bob, is
the first five seeds are all offensive plays for a
franchise that's known for their defense.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, well, offense sales tickets, Johnny, No. But I mean,
I think that's one of the things that gets sometimes
forgotten about the Giants is if you think about the
history of the New York Football Giants.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You could make the case that three of the greatest
pass plays in the history of the Super Bowl, not
the Giants, are plays from the Giants. Whether it's the
helmet catch, whether it's a play that's in this bracket,
which is the second seed, the mark Ingram third and
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thirteen catch in Super Bowl twenty five again against the Bills,
or it's the Mario Manningham catch against the Patriots. I mean,
some of the most iconic plays in Super Bowl history
pass plays are from New York Giants.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It is amazing. And let's start, Bob, because you mentioned well, go,
let's go one and two seeds first. Here they're two
plays in very important games you mentioned the two seed.
You have the Ingram third and thirteen play in Super
Bowl twenty five where he makes about six guys miss
on a short pass to get a first down, unbelievable
run after catch. Let's start with that one.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, actually, if you think about plays one and two
in this bracket, because play one is the Bavarro play
against the forty nine ers on Monday Night Football on
eighty six, if you think about it, I mean those
are individual performances. I mean mark Ingram makes almost the
entire Bills team miss and Bavarro carried the entire Niners team.
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So it's not just that the play was so unbelievable.
It's not like they were incredible catches. But what makes
them great plays are the individual effort by the player
themselves to elevate these two epic plays in Giants history.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
All right, and then let's go and match up. Now
for the first one, you have the Bavaro play. You
guys have all seen it. Catches over the middle against
the forty nine ers. Guys jump on his back. He's
carrying them down the field, games in their fifteen or
twenty yards after the catch. Despite the fact Niners are
hanging off of him and Bob He's going against Jimmy Patton.
He'd a kick and punt return in the same game
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for touchdowns. He was the first player to ever do
it against rival Washington back in nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, obviously, Jimmy Patton was one of the great Giants
of all time and was part of that defense in
the nineteen fifties that people forget that aren't old enough
to remember. But the Giants defense was the toast of
the town. Every Giants fan could rattle off the starting
Giants defensive unit, and in fact, the defense would be
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introduced first at home game a lot of the time,
so they were sort of the toast of the town.
They were the ones that everybody knew, and Jimmy Patton
was part of that great unit. And anytime you can
get a fifty yard pick six against Pittsburgh is a
very significant play. But the significance of the Bavaro play
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is something that you have to really dive into and
take yourself back in time, because the Giants and Niners
at this point in time are becoming almost like division rivals.
The Giants, who were up and coming in eighty four
lost the playoff game in San Francisco against the Niners,
and then the Giants beat the Niners in the eighty
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five playoffs, and everything was setting up for there was
gonna be another playoff showdown. And it felt like these
teams met every year in the regular season, and there
was a commonalty, and there was a rivalry between these
two teams West Coast, East Coast. If you remember at
that time, it was Boston against LA and basket ball,
and it was New York against San Francisco in football,
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and there was this rivalry that was building between two
teams that played different styles of football. The Niners were
known for their offense, although their defense was very underrated,
and the Giants were known for their defense. And this
is on Monday Night football, and you know, the Giants
are getting destroyed at halftime, they're getting beaten alive. And
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remember back then, Monday Night football started at nine o'clock,
so by the time you got to halftime, especially if
you were a little bit younger, I'm sure there was
some TVs clicking off and Bavarro gave the Giants life.
And this is a play that I think not only
spearheaded them to another playoff win, against San Francisco later
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on at Giants Stadium. But I think this really cemented
the rivalry between the Giants and the Niners between nineteen
eighty four and nineteen ninety season.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, and a very important game, Bob, And I think
the way you characterize the two teams I think was good.
Where the Niners were that West Coast offense Bill Walsh
kind of finesse team and the Giants with a blue collar,
rough and tough team. And that's Bavarro, right, he was
the personification of that type of Giants persona. And him
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just running over and through a forty nine Ers defense,
I just think really encapsulated how the two different, how
the Giants fan base really thought about the matchup.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well, I think it sent a message to the team
as well, because again they were getting smoked at halftime,
I mean, the Niners were having their way with them,
and I think this just woke everybody up and realize, hey,
we're not going down lightly. We may lose this game,
but we're not going down without a fight. And of course,
the Giants went on to win the football game.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And to your point, they would later take on the
forty nine Ers and the playoffs and then of course
have a chance to go to the Super Bowl. All right,
so let's go on order. Now, the winner of that
one to sixteen matchup, Bob, will take on the winner
of the eight to nine match up. Here. Now we
have some defensive plays into the mixyear, and we'll get
to the rest of those offensive plays as we move along.
You have Osia Minora's sixth sack September thirty a two
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thousand and seven Eagles on a fourth and eighteen OCE
sacks McNabb nine yard sack forces fumble team record six ZAC.
Giants win that game sixteen to three, and that goes
up against maybe one of the great individual matchups of
yesteryear between two Hall of famers.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yes, Sam Huff stopping Jim Brown at the goal line.
The Browns have to settle for a field goal in
that game, and the Giants wound up winning the football
game thirteen to ten points. Where at a premium, Tom Landry,
who was the Giants defensive coordinator at the time, came
up with the Umbrella defense, the four to three defense,
and it was designed specifically to stop Jim Brown because
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he was the greatest player in the NFL at that
point in time, and in order to run this defense,
you needed a middle linebacker, and the Giants had one
in Hall of Famer Sam Huff. So this was my
amano Huff stopping Brown at the goal line. They each
had their wins in the battles against each other, but
I think this kind of epitomized what the Giants of
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that era were all about.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
No question. And I think that OC six sac game,
with the way that Giants front dominated in that era
in two thousand and seven, epitomize what that Giants team
was all about. Poor Winston Justice was all over the
highlights of that night. Just couldn't block those Giants defensive ends.
And OC, who is the quintessential speed rusher if you
talk about all time NFL let alone, just Giants, was
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the dominant player in that game.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's almost as if this was
this play is really it's more of a moment right
where you're getting six sacks in a game. The set
of franchise record that's had some great sack artists, starting
with Lawrence Taylor, who happened to be in the building
that night, and of course Michael Strahan. So some of
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these are individual performance is that was the greatest plays
all wrapped up in one for oci. But this is
a really tough matchup with two great defensive plays.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It is absolutely all right. Let's jump to the next one, Bob,
the five and the twelve, and we go back to
Homer Jones here. This is that fifth offensive play we
talked about in the top five, a ninety eight yard
touchdown catch Earl Morale. In that game, the Giants were
down fourteen to the fourth quarter. They scored two touchdowns
to come back and win. And I love the stat
line from Homer Jones in this game two catches, one
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hundred and seventy three yards and eighty sixty and a
half per catch average with those two touchdowns. Of course,
Homer Jones also invented the spike, Bob, So it just
this epitomizes Homer Jones and what he could do in
one game.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Wasn't there It was only two at the time, But
it begs the question if there were sports talk radio
back then, if he had two catches for how many yards.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Was it it was one hundred and seventy three.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Why didn't you throw it to them more? Yeah, but
he was a dynamic player. He was a Pro Bowl player.
This record of ninety eight yards stood until two thousand
and eleven when Victor Cruz broken on Christmas Eve against
the Jets. Truly a great performance by Homer Jones. So
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you know you got to throw that up in there.
It goes against the defensive play though, Yeah, goes against
the defensive play, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah. Absolutely, Mark Haynes end zone fumble, gets the touchdown,
gives the Giants a twenty seven to twenty seven to
seven lead and win over the Eagles on December twenty seventh,
nineteen eighty one, and the Giants' first playoff game in
eighteen years. One of John Mara's favorite Giants teams.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, you know, it's interesting. Mark Haynes had a really
good Giants career. He spent six years with the Giants,
and he was not there for Super Bowl twenty one,
But I mean, the guy made three Pro Bowls. He
was the first team All Pro twice. He was a
really good football player. And this is very interesting because
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you know, growing up being from the Bronx originally and
hearing about the fifties Giants and all that other stuff.
My youth was the late sixties and the seventies, so
not the best. No, So I saw a lot of
losses as a kid, and it was a very frustrated
Giants fan.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
As a kid.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And to see them get in the playoffs. Rob Carpenter
was the running back for the Giants to first breakthrough
and even get in and then this improbable end zone
fumble recovery that the Giants actually took a dominant lead
against an Eagles team that was really good coached by
Dick Formil. They were in the Super Bowl the year before,
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having lost to the Raiders, and the Giants weren't expected
to win this football game, especially on the road in Philadelphia.
So the Marcaines fumble recovery was very significant because it
got the Giants out to a big lead and they
wound up advancing.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Now, whenever you can beat the rival Eagles in a
playoff game, and this play was a big part of that.
That's and the Eagles had to come back. They came
back to twenty seven and twenty one, but the Giants
held on for the victory. All right, let's go to
that four to thirteen matchup, Bob. This is one of
those five offensive plays in the top five. Here the
Keen Knicks hal Mary going down to the end of
the first half in the twenty eleven NFC Championship game
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against the Packers back to throw Eli Manning the key.
Nicks goes up and gets it, and it helped the
Giants pull away in a game where they ended up
winning fairly comfortably, but at that point the game was
still very much in doubt.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, and remember the Packers were the number one seed
that year fourteen and two, if I remember, they were
one of the Yeah, they were the best team in
the NFC. And there was a play that happened before
this play that was significant because Eli Manning late in
the first half kind of checks down to Amad Bradshaw.
And how many times did you see a guy turn
up field, see some daylight and tries to get more Bradshaw,
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who always played with an it's optionally high football IQ,
doesn't try to get more yards. He knew I had
gotten enough yards to get us in position to try
a hail mary, and then he just makes a b
line to get out of bounce to stop the clock,
which then sets up this play. And it's clearly kind
of interesting because when you watch most hail mary's there's
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a lot of pulling and fighting and tugging. Not really
sure what the Packers were doing there, because Nicks was
able to go up pretty cleanly and make the play.
But you're right, it started the route. And this game,
really in the second half wasn't as close as the
final score would indicate. There was a horrible roughing the
passer call against the Giants, and you know Rogers got
attack on touchdown to make the score close. But that
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really did send the number one seed back to the
locker room at halftime, knowing they look beaten when they
went back to the locker room. And you don't really
hear a lot of booze at lambeau Field, but there
were some booze at lambeau Field that day.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
And I just want to throw on top of this too.
It underlines what an unbelievable play off run Hakeem Nick
sad And of course Eli Manning is well in twenty eleven,
but Akeem Nicks, this is when he was at his
full powers. He had not dealt with a lot of
those lower leg and foot and ankle injuries that really
took the juice out of his legs. At the end
of his career. He was dominant in all the playoff
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games that year. Nobody could cover that game.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, I mean he was the guy. Victor Cruz was
the guy during the season that made a lot of
the big splash plays and hit the home run balls.
But in the postseason, Hakeem Knicks made big play after
big play after big plays, starting with the Falcons game
with the cross and where he took off and went
for the touchdown to hail Mary like this. He was
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a dominant figure in that postseason. Now it's going against
the Sneakers game from nineteen thirty four. Think about this,
Think about what the equipment was like in nineteen thirty four,
and think about the field conditions. You know, now, the
field conditions are all perfect. They're inspected by the league,
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and when there are problems with a field, you know,
a lot of it is kind of nitpicking, you know.
But these were like bad fields. These were games played
in baseball stadiums. They didn't have the techniques to re
sod and everything else. And the Giants, because of their
connection with Manhattan College, they were able to go get
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some Sneakers because the ground was frozen to get better
traction and Ken Strong going forty two yards on frozen
dirt and whatever was left of the grass at the
Polo Grounds in nineteen thirty four at this time of year,
good luck. That has to be one of the greatest
performances ever.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Giants win thirty to thirteen. Is another second Sneakers game
a little bit later on as well. All right, let's
go to the next match of Bob. We have lt
sacking Gary Danielson, who some fans might know is more
as a broadcaster now than a quarterback against the Lions
on Thanksgiving, and he's going up against Melt Triplett's seventeen
yard touchdown run that help start a forty seven to
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seven route of the Bears in the nineteen fifty six
NFL Championship.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, Sneakers game two and again put on a pair
of basketball sneakers and go run on frozen dirt and
grass and you're going against the Bears in the NFL
Championship game. This one was played in Yankee Stadium. Nineteen
fifty six was the Giants first year in Yankee Stadium.
And when you have a seventeen yard touchdown run that
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kicks off a forty seven to seven route, certainly one
of the greatest plays. And then well, this play of
Lawrence Taylor just signifies everything because one hand and just
one hands, the one hand and he throw. I mean, remember,
these are grown men. It's not like when you're playing
with your kid and you're playing nerve football or something
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like that. But that's what it looked like around exactly.
It was the brilliance of Lawrence Taylor. Truly one of
the greatest plays in Giants history. I mean, just one
hand on Thanksgiving, he slammed them down like a turkey.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Leg just took him, slung him around in a circle
and flung him down to the ground. Unbelievable play by LT.
All right, let's go to the number three seed, number fourteen.
See the three seed Bob might be a play that
Giant fans have seen before. Odell Beckham Junior a big
one handed catch back in twenty fourteen on the sideline
against the hated Dallas Coupa.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well, yeah, I mean this is this is significant play
for a zillion different reasons, right, I mean, emojis have
made up of it. It sent Odell into a whole
different stratosphere with just this one play. The thing about
the play that is really so impressive is the fact
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that Odell was fouled, he was interfered with, and while
being interfered with, he's able to make the catch over
his head while horizontal, but he doesn't fall out of bounds.
He doesn't lose the football as he makes contact with
the ground. And there were a lot of people that
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were watching in real time. They're like, oh, I think
he caught it, and then it was like, oh, yeah,
and he even scored a touchdown out of it. From
an individual greatest play standpoint, it certainly is one of
the most athletic dynamic catches in the history of the
National Football League.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And we had seen one handed catches in the NFL
before that, Bob, but it was oftentimes guys cuffing the ball,
cupping the ball. This was the first time, really with
the new era, in these new wide receiver gloves that
are extra sticky, where the guy catches it like a baseball.
He caught the football like a baseball one handed in
his fingers. And now all wide receivers try to do
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that sort of stuff now, but this was really the.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
First wide receive a wide receiver. Yeah, how about like
kids playing flag football still try to do the Odell,
which I would not recommend for your kid whose hands
not big enough to try to do the Odell and
they try to do it and they usually drop it.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I feel like you've had that conversation with your son before, Bob,
my Son's yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I mean, it's an incredible, unbelievably gifted play. The Giants
didn't win that game, and you know it turned out
to not be a playoff here or anything like that.
But from an individual greatest play, it certainly deserves its
place in this bracket.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
But a tough matchup against another significant play, this one
a game winner, Eli Manning a two yard touchdown pass
to a Moni tumb with five seconds left to beat
the Broncos twenty four to twenty three October twenty third,
two thousand and five a Giant Stadium, the last game
Wellington Mara would be able to watch before he unfortunately
passed away.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And everybody knew it. Everybody knew that mister Marra was sick.
I think this game has such elevated significance. I mean,
the Odell play is the Odell play, and it's one
of the great individual plays. But now when you take
a look at this game winner in the context of
what was happening. This is Eli's first year as the
starting quarterback. The Giants are in position to get to
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the play else for the first time with Eli Manning
as the starting quarterback. The Denver Broncos were a very
good football team, and this is almost history redone because
of the Kent Graham to Amani Tumor touchdown pass a
couple of seasons earlier, when the Broncos were undefeated. I
think the significance of this play with five seconds remaining,
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and the fact that Tumor, who had beaten the Broncos
a time before the touchdown catch, and it's Eli's first year,
and obviously with mister Mara being sick and everybody knowing
that he was going to pass short, you know, at
pretty close. I think the significance of what this meant,
and the fact that it happened in a home game
at Giants Stadium, pretty significant play in Giants history.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
No question about it. Let's jump to the next matchup here,
Bob the seventh seed Rosie blocks three men. Rosie Brown,
one of the greatest Giants in history, dominating the Eagles
in this matchup. A nineteen seventy five for Football Hall
of Famer Bob one of the best value draft picks
in the history of the NFL, a twenty seventh round
draft they turned into one of the best offensive tackles
of all time.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
The two different era matchup because it's going against number
ten mel Hines fifty yard picked six against the Green
Bay Packers, the only touchdown of his fifteen year career.
Because the guy played center. But by the way, he
did more than that.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Though he played all over the field, he played defense.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Too, right, well, I mean back then they played both ways.
First of all, let's start with Roosevelt Brown, because not
only is he one of the greatest Giants of all time,
but he's one of the greatest left tackles in the
history of the sport. You know, if you break it down,
obviously the size and the guys are much bigger and
stronger and faster now, but when you put it in
relative terms from a technique standpoint, Rosie Brown is mentioned
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not only in Giants circles, but he's mentioned in NFL
circles when people talk about the greatest offensive lineman. And
Rosie spent a long time with the Giants as part
of the organization being a part of the coaching staff.
And then, I mean, what do you say about mel
hin He's a Hall of Famer as well. This is
a battle of Hall of famers and in an era
where a guy's played both ways and a guy that
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was not necessarily known for his speed fifty yard pick
six against the Green Bay Packers back in thirty eight
when the Packers and Giants were always contending for championships.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Enough set, I admit I was not as familiar as
I as familiar with as I should have been with
Melhin Bob. I'm sure younger Giant fans have probably heard
the name, but they don't understand how great of a
player he was. Can you put Melhine into context for
maybe some of the younger fans out there.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Well, I mean, he's when you get into the Hall
of Fame and like the first class of the Hall
of Fame, that means something. And he was a dominant player. Again,
the game was so different back then, and you know,
most of the guys had to play two ways. But
you know, he was a star in a young National
Football League and a guy that helped the Giants be
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one of the prominent teams in the National Football league
and win in early championship.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
All right, our final matchup to two and fifteen seed, Bob,
we already talked about the two seed. The mark Ingram
third and thirteen catch against the Bills in Super Bowl
twenty five. Really unbelievable play that sets up Otis Anderson's
touchdown run. And that's taking on Amani Tumor's toe drag
play against Green Bay. Really and I had forgotten about
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this play, Bob. Then I watched a video of preparation
for this. It's that NFC Championship game in the cold
weather against the Packers in two thousand and seven. Diving
play over the sideline, not to the sideline, over the sideline.
As he gets to the ground, he gets that second
toe in to catch the pass on the sideline. Unbelievable catch,
especially given the conditions.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yeah, I mean it's not like he just dragged his
toe and got it in. Amani was horizontal and it
looked like the one toe wasn't going to get in.
But to have the body control, and I know Amani
worked very hard on his conditioning. I know he had
used more martial arts earlier in his career for body control.
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And when you think about the significance because every possession
counted in that game, every possession was so critical, and
that when you take a look at the weather conditions,
what he was about to land on a frozen field
and then to have the wherewithal to be able to
get that second toe down.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I mean, it.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Truly is one of the great individual plays, especially when
you think about the significance of it with it happening
in an NFC championship game with a chance to go
to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And maintaining control too. You mentioned he lands arms first.
That's the first thing that hits the ground that I
played in his arms which are cuffing the ball, and
he holds onto it despite the fact that ground was
like concrete.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, he had it locked in. I mean he was.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I'm listening.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
He's the Giants all time and leading receiver for a reason.
And again, significance I put into this significance when he
did it, where he did it, what was at stake
elevates it for me, elevates it for me. But I
think the matchup that he's going against is a pretty
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tough one because again the Giants Number two is mark
Ingram's third and thirteen conversion in Super Bowl twenty five,
which we touched upon at the beginning. It sets up
Otis Anderson's touchdown run. But really, if you think about it,
the Giants game plan. They had the ball for forty
minutes in that game. Everybody knew about the k gun
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offense and the Buffalo bills and keep the ball away,
So the Giants kept the ball away and had the
ball for forty minutes. So every third down conversion was
critical because if you don't convert, you're giving them the
ball back. And at this point in the game they
hadn't figured out yet that let's see, the Giants really
don't have any d linemen in the game, and maybe
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one guy's hands in the dirt, maybe we should try
to run it. Fortunately for the Giants, Buffalo never picked
up on that queue until the end of the game
when it was too late. But this was significant. I
mean again, every possession keep away and Ingram's individual effort
on this play, eluding tacklers, darting, dancing, but then the
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whole end of the play where he's being grabbed around
the ankle and like you would a little kid trying
to hold onto your leg as you drag him across
the carpet. He's dragging and hopping on one leg to
get what was needed for the first down. Truly, in
my opinion, one of the most incredible plays in Giants systry.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, and I love this brack of Bobby because you
mentioned there are so many games that have significance in
it NFC title game with the tumor toe drag Ingram
in the Super Bowl Triplet's fifty six title game touchdown play.
You have the Sneakers game in here, right. You have
the Wellington Matra his final game that he's able to
watch in here, the Rivalry game, and the Monday night
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game with Bavarro against San Francisco Rivalry win with OCI
against the Eagle stopping Jim Brown, a championship game. I mean, yeah,
so many games of significance.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, I mean, because the Giants and Browns are playing
week after week. Here, they're playing at the end of
the season. They're playing in the postseason with the right
to go to the championship game. You know, in the
Eastern Conference, the road went through those two teams, so
that the significance of the games in this bracket are
pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
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Welcome to the Greatest Plays Bracket podcast, brought to by
Hackensack Meridian Health Keep Getting Better. I'm John Schmelt, joined
by the Voice of the Giants Bob Popa. Is part
of the Giants one hundredth anniversary celebration. Are panel of experts,
Bob of which was one of them, have gone back
and selected the sixty four greatest plays in Giants history
to give the fans a chance to vote as to
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which one they think is the best. We've broken into
four sixteen play brackets. This is the Blue bracket. Bob,
Let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And the first of all, it was hard to get sixteen.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We'll talk about it. I mean, we could have.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Easily for each of these brackets. We could have easily
come up with another four or five plays for Beach bracket.
So what we tried to do is we tried to
distill it by great individual performance, heroic performance, and then
maybe significance of the performance when it happened, where it happened,
the significance of the game, which I think led us
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to be able to get it down the sixteen seeds
in each bracket. But trust me, there were way more
than sixty four greatest plays in Giants' history.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And we've tried to touch as many eerrors as we
can as well in great players as we've gone through these.
So the interesting thing about the blue bracket, Bob, is
the first five seeds are all offensive plays for a
franchise that's known for their defense.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, well, offense sales tickets, Johnny, No. But I mean,
I think that's one of the things that gets sometimes
forgotten about the Giants is if you think about the
history of the New York Football Giants.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You could make the case that three of the greatest
pass plays in the history of the Super Bowl, not
the Giants, are plays from the Giants. Whether it's the
helmet catch, whether it's a play that's in this bracket,
which is the second seed, the mark Ingram third and
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thirteen catch in Super Bowl twenty five again against the Bills,
or it's the Mario Manningham catch against the Patriots. I mean,
some of the most iconic plays in Super Bowl history
pass plays are from New York Giants.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It is amazing. And let's start, Bob, because you mentioned well, go,
let's go one and two seeds first. Here they're two
plays in very important games you mentioned the two seed.
You have the Ingram third and thirteen play in Super
Bowl twenty five where he makes about six guys miss
on a short pass to get a first down, unbelievable
run after catch. Let's start with that one.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, actually, if you think about plays one and two
in this bracket, because play one is the Bavarro play
against the forty nine ers on Monday Night Football on
eighty six, if you think about it, I mean those
are individual performances. I mean mark Ingram makes almost the
entire Bills team miss and Bavarro carried the entire Niners team.
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So it's not just that the play was so unbelievable.
It's not like they were incredible catches. But what makes
them great plays are the individual effort by the player
themselves to elevate these two epic plays in Giants history.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
All right, and then let's go and match up. Now
for the first one, you have the Bavaro play. You
guys have all seen it. Catches over the middle against
the forty nine ers. Guys jump on his back. He's
carrying them down the field, games in their fifteen or
twenty yards after the catch. Despite the fact Niners are
hanging off of him and Bob He's going against Jimmy Patton.
He'd a kick and punt return in the same game
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for touchdowns. He was the first player to ever do
it against rival Washington back in nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, obviously, Jimmy Patton was one of the great Giants
of all time and was part of that defense in
the nineteen fifties that people forget that aren't old enough
to remember. But the Giants defense was the toast of
the town. Every Giants fan could rattle off the starting
Giants defensive unit, and in fact, the defense would be
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introduced first at home game a lot of the time,
so they were sort of the toast of the town.
They were the ones that everybody knew, and Jimmy Patton
was part of that great unit. And anytime you can
get a fifty yard pick six against Pittsburgh is a
very significant play. But the significance of the Bavaro play
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is something that you have to really dive into and
take yourself back in time, because the Giants and Niners
at this point in time are becoming almost like division rivals.
The Giants, who were up and coming in eighty four
lost the playoff game in San Francisco against the Niners,
and then the Giants beat the Niners in the eighty
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five playoffs, and everything was setting up for there was
gonna be another playoff showdown. And it felt like these
teams met every year in the regular season, and there
was a commonalty, and there was a rivalry between these
two teams West Coast, East Coast. If you remember at
that time, it was Boston against LA and basket ball,
and it was New York against San Francisco in football,
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and there was this rivalry that was building between two
teams that played different styles of football. The Niners were
known for their offense, although their defense was very underrated,
and the Giants were known for their defense. And this
is on Monday Night football, and you know, the Giants
are getting destroyed at halftime, they're getting beaten alive. And
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remember back then, Monday Night football started at nine o'clock,
so by the time you got to halftime, especially if
you were a little bit younger, I'm sure there was
some TVs clicking off and Bavarro gave the Giants life.
And this is a play that I think not only
spearheaded them to another playoff win, against San Francisco later
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on at Giants Stadium. But I think this really cemented
the rivalry between the Giants and the Niners between nineteen
eighty four and nineteen ninety season.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, and a very important game, Bob, And I think
the way you characterize the two teams I think was good.
Where the Niners were that West Coast offense Bill Walsh
kind of finesse team and the Giants with a blue collar,
rough and tough team. And that's Bavarro, right, he was
the personification of that type of Giants persona. And him
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just running over and through a forty nine Ers defense,
I just think really encapsulated how the two different, how
the Giants fan base really thought about the matchup.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well, I think it sent a message to the team
as well, because again they were getting smoked at halftime,
I mean, the Niners were having their way with them,
and I think this just woke everybody up and realize, hey,
we're not going down lightly. We may lose this game,
but we're not going down without a fight. And of course,
the Giants went on to win the football game.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And to your point, they would later take on the
forty nine Ers and the playoffs and then of course
have a chance to go to the Super Bowl. All right,
so let's go on order. Now, the winner of that
one to sixteen matchup, Bob, will take on the winner
of the eight to nine match up. Here. Now we
have some defensive plays into the mixyear, and we'll get
to the rest of those offensive plays as we move along.
You have Osia Minora's sixth sack September thirty a two
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thousand and seven Eagles on a fourth and eighteen OCE
sacks McNabb nine yard sack forces fumble team record six ZAC.
Giants win that game sixteen to three, and that goes
up against maybe one of the great individual matchups of
yesteryear between two Hall of famers.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yes, Sam Huff stopping Jim Brown at the goal line.
The Browns have to settle for a field goal in
that game, and the Giants wound up winning the football
game thirteen to ten points. Where at a premium, Tom Landry,
who was the Giants defensive coordinator at the time, came
up with the Umbrella defense, the four to three defense,
and it was designed specifically to stop Jim Brown because
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he was the greatest player in the NFL at that
point in time, and in order to run this defense,
you needed a middle linebacker, and the Giants had one
in Hall of Famer Sam Huff. So this was my
amano Huff stopping Brown at the goal line. They each
had their wins in the battles against each other, but
I think this kind of epitomized what the Giants of
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that era were all about.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
No question. And I think that OC six sac game,
with the way that Giants front dominated in that era
in two thousand and seven, epitomize what that Giants team
was all about. Poor Winston Justice was all over the
highlights of that night. Just couldn't block those Giants defensive ends.
And OC, who is the quintessential speed rusher if you
talk about all time NFL let alone, just Giants, was
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the dominant player in that game.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's almost as if this was
this play is really it's more of a moment right
where you're getting six sacks in a game. The set
of franchise record that's had some great sack artists, starting
with Lawrence Taylor, who happened to be in the building
that night, and of course Michael Strahan. So some of
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these are individual performance is that was the greatest plays
all wrapped up in one for oci. But this is
a really tough matchup with two great defensive plays.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It is absolutely all right. Let's jump to the next one, Bob,
the five and the twelve, and we go back to
Homer Jones here. This is that fifth offensive play we
talked about in the top five, a ninety eight yard
touchdown catch Earl Morale. In that game, the Giants were
down fourteen to the fourth quarter. They scored two touchdowns
to come back and win. And I love the stat
line from Homer Jones in this game two catches, one
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hundred and seventy three yards and eighty sixty and a
half per catch average with those two touchdowns. Of course,
Homer Jones also invented the spike, Bob, So it just
this epitomizes Homer Jones and what he could do in
one game.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Wasn't there It was only two at the time, But
it begs the question if there were sports talk radio
back then, if he had two catches for how many yards.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Was it it was one hundred and seventy three.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Why didn't you throw it to them more? Yeah, but
he was a dynamic player. He was a Pro Bowl player.
This record of ninety eight yards stood until two thousand
and eleven when Victor Cruz broken on Christmas Eve against
the Jets. Truly a great performance by Homer Jones. So
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you know you got to throw that up in there.
It goes against the defensive play though, Yeah, goes against
the defensive play, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah. Absolutely, Mark Haynes end zone fumble, gets the touchdown,
gives the Giants a twenty seven to twenty seven to
seven lead and win over the Eagles on December twenty seventh,
nineteen eighty one, and the Giants' first playoff game in
eighteen years. One of John Mara's favorite Giants teams.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, you know, it's interesting. Mark Haynes had a really
good Giants career. He spent six years with the Giants,
and he was not there for Super Bowl twenty one,
But I mean, the guy made three Pro Bowls. He
was the first team All Pro twice. He was a
really good football player. And this is very interesting because
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you know, growing up being from the Bronx originally and
hearing about the fifties Giants and all that other stuff.
My youth was the late sixties and the seventies, so
not the best. No, So I saw a lot of
losses as a kid, and it was a very frustrated
Giants fan.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
As a kid.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And to see them get in the playoffs. Rob Carpenter
was the running back for the Giants to first breakthrough
and even get in and then this improbable end zone
fumble recovery that the Giants actually took a dominant lead
against an Eagles team that was really good coached by
Dick Formil. They were in the Super Bowl the year before,
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having lost to the Raiders, and the Giants weren't expected
to win this football game, especially on the road in Philadelphia.
So the Marcaines fumble recovery was very significant because it
got the Giants out to a big lead and they
wound up advancing.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Now, whenever you can beat the rival Eagles in a
playoff game, and this play was a big part of that.
That's and the Eagles had to come back. They came
back to twenty seven and twenty one, but the Giants
held on for the victory. All right, let's go to
that four to thirteen matchup, Bob. This is one of
those five offensive plays in the top five. Here the
Keen Knicks hal Mary going down to the end of
the first half in the twenty eleven NFC Championship game
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against the Packers back to throw Eli Manning the key.
Nicks goes up and gets it, and it helped the
Giants pull away in a game where they ended up
winning fairly comfortably, but at that point the game was
still very much in doubt.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, and remember the Packers were the number one seed
that year fourteen and two, if I remember, they were
one of the Yeah, they were the best team in
the NFC. And there was a play that happened before
this play that was significant because Eli Manning late in
the first half kind of checks down to Amad Bradshaw.
And how many times did you see a guy turn
up field, see some daylight and tries to get more Bradshaw,
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who always played with an it's optionally high football IQ,
doesn't try to get more yards. He knew I had
gotten enough yards to get us in position to try
a hail mary, and then he just makes a b
line to get out of bounce to stop the clock,
which then sets up this play. And it's clearly kind
of interesting because when you watch most hail mary's there's
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a lot of pulling and fighting and tugging. Not really
sure what the Packers were doing there, because Nicks was
able to go up pretty cleanly and make the play.
But you're right, it started the route. And this game,
really in the second half wasn't as close as the
final score would indicate. There was a horrible roughing the
passer call against the Giants, and you know Rogers got
attack on touchdown to make the score close. But that
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really did send the number one seed back to the
locker room at halftime, knowing they look beaten when they
went back to the locker room. And you don't really
hear a lot of booze at lambeau Field, but there
were some booze at lambeau Field that day.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
And I just want to throw on top of this too.
It underlines what an unbelievable play off run Hakeem Nick
sad And of course Eli Manning is well in twenty eleven,
but Akeem Nicks, this is when he was at his
full powers. He had not dealt with a lot of
those lower leg and foot and ankle injuries that really
took the juice out of his legs. At the end
of his career. He was dominant in all the playoff
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games that year. Nobody could cover that game.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, I mean he was the guy. Victor Cruz was
the guy during the season that made a lot of
the big splash plays and hit the home run balls.
But in the postseason, Hakeem Knicks made big play after
big play after big plays, starting with the Falcons game
with the cross and where he took off and went
for the touchdown to hail Mary like this. He was
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a dominant figure in that postseason. Now it's going against
the Sneakers game from nineteen thirty four. Think about this,
Think about what the equipment was like in nineteen thirty four,
and think about the field conditions. You know, now, the
field conditions are all perfect. They're inspected by the league,
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and when there are problems with a field, you know,
a lot of it is kind of nitpicking, you know.
But these were like bad fields. These were games played
in baseball stadiums. They didn't have the techniques to re
sod and everything else. And the Giants, because of their
connection with Manhattan College, they were able to go get
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some Sneakers because the ground was frozen to get better
traction and Ken Strong going forty two yards on frozen
dirt and whatever was left of the grass at the
Polo Grounds in nineteen thirty four at this time of year,
good luck. That has to be one of the greatest
performances ever.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Giants win thirty to thirteen. Is another second Sneakers game
a little bit later on as well. All right, let's
go to the next match of Bob. We have lt
sacking Gary Danielson, who some fans might know is more
as a broadcaster now than a quarterback against the Lions
on Thanksgiving, and he's going up against Melt Triplett's seventeen
yard touchdown run that help start a forty seven to
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seven route of the Bears in the nineteen fifty six
NFL Championship.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, Sneakers game two and again put on a pair
of basketball sneakers and go run on frozen dirt and
grass and you're going against the Bears in the NFL
Championship game. This one was played in Yankee Stadium. Nineteen
fifty six was the Giants first year in Yankee Stadium.
And when you have a seventeen yard touchdown run that
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kicks off a forty seven to seven route, certainly one
of the greatest plays. And then well, this play of
Lawrence Taylor just signifies everything because one hand and just
one hands, the one hand and he throw. I mean, remember,
these are grown men. It's not like when you're playing
with your kid and you're playing nerve football or something
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like that. But that's what it looked like around exactly.
It was the brilliance of Lawrence Taylor. Truly one of
the greatest plays in Giants history. I mean, just one
hand on Thanksgiving, he slammed them down like a turkey.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Leg just took him, slung him around in a circle
and flung him down to the ground. Unbelievable play by LT.
All right, let's go to the number three seed, number fourteen.
See the three seed Bob might be a play that
Giant fans have seen before. Odell Beckham Junior a big
one handed catch back in twenty fourteen on the sideline
against the hated Dallas Coupa.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well, yeah, I mean this is this is significant play
for a zillion different reasons, right, I mean, emojis have
made up of it. It sent Odell into a whole
different stratosphere with just this one play. The thing about
the play that is really so impressive is the fact
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that Odell was fouled, he was interfered with, and while
being interfered with, he's able to make the catch over
his head while horizontal, but he doesn't fall out of bounds.
He doesn't lose the football as he makes contact with
the ground. And there were a lot of people that
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were watching in real time. They're like, oh, I think
he caught it, and then it was like, oh, yeah,
and he even scored a touchdown out of it. From
an individual greatest play standpoint, it certainly is one of
the most athletic dynamic catches in the history of the
National Football League.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And we had seen one handed catches in the NFL
before that, Bob, but it was oftentimes guys cuffing the ball,
cupping the ball. This was the first time, really with
the new era, in these new wide receiver gloves that
are extra sticky, where the guy catches it like a baseball.
He caught the football like a baseball one handed in
his fingers. And now all wide receivers try to do
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that sort of stuff now, but this was really the.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
First wide receive a wide receiver. Yeah, how about like
kids playing flag football still try to do the Odell,
which I would not recommend for your kid whose hands
not big enough to try to do the Odell and
they try to do it and they usually drop it.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I feel like you've had that conversation with your son before, Bob,
my Son's yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I mean, it's an incredible, unbelievably gifted play. The Giants
didn't win that game, and you know it turned out
to not be a playoff here or anything like that.
But from an individual greatest play, it certainly deserves its
place in this bracket.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
But a tough matchup against another significant play, this one
a game winner, Eli Manning a two yard touchdown pass
to a Moni tumb with five seconds left to beat
the Broncos twenty four to twenty three October twenty third,
two thousand and five a Giant Stadium, the last game
Wellington Mara would be able to watch before he unfortunately
passed away.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And everybody knew it. Everybody knew that mister Marra was sick.
I think this game has such elevated significance. I mean,
the Odell play is the Odell play, and it's one
of the great individual plays. But now when you take
a look at this game winner in the context of
what was happening. This is Eli's first year as the
starting quarterback. The Giants are in position to get to
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the play else for the first time with Eli Manning
as the starting quarterback. The Denver Broncos were a very
good football team, and this is almost history redone because
of the Kent Graham to Amani Tumor touchdown pass a
couple of seasons earlier, when the Broncos were undefeated. I
think the significance of this play with five seconds remaining,
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and the fact that Tumor, who had beaten the Broncos
a time before the touchdown catch, and it's Eli's first year,
and obviously with mister Mara being sick and everybody knowing
that he was going to pass short, you know, at
pretty close. I think the significance of what this meant,
and the fact that it happened in a home game
at Giants Stadium, pretty significant play in Giants history.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
No question about it. Let's jump to the next matchup here,
Bob the seventh seed Rosie blocks three men. Rosie Brown,
one of the greatest Giants in history, dominating the Eagles
in this matchup. A nineteen seventy five for Football Hall
of Famer Bob one of the best value draft picks
in the history of the NFL, a twenty seventh round
draft they turned into one of the best offensive tackles
of all time.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
The two different era matchup because it's going against number
ten mel Hines fifty yard picked six against the Green
Bay Packers, the only touchdown of his fifteen year career.
Because the guy played center. But by the way, he
did more than that.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Though he played all over the field, he played defense.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Too, right, well, I mean back then they played both ways.
First of all, let's start with Roosevelt Brown, because not
only is he one of the greatest Giants of all time,
but he's one of the greatest left tackles in the
history of the sport. You know, if you break it down,
obviously the size and the guys are much bigger and
stronger and faster now, but when you put it in
relative terms from a technique standpoint, Rosie Brown is mentioned
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not only in Giants circles, but he's mentioned in NFL
circles when people talk about the greatest offensive lineman. And
Rosie spent a long time with the Giants as part
of the organization being a part of the coaching staff.
And then, I mean, what do you say about mel
hin He's a Hall of Famer as well. This is
a battle of Hall of famers and in an era
where a guy's played both ways and a guy that
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was not necessarily known for his speed fifty yard pick
six against the Green Bay Packers back in thirty eight
when the Packers and Giants were always contending for championships.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Enough set, I admit I was not as familiar as
I as familiar with as I should have been with
Melhin Bob. I'm sure younger Giant fans have probably heard
the name, but they don't understand how great of a
player he was. Can you put Melhine into context for
maybe some of the younger fans out there.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Well, I mean, he's when you get into the Hall
of Fame and like the first class of the Hall
of Fame, that means something. And he was a dominant player. Again,
the game was so different back then, and you know,
most of the guys had to play two ways. But
you know, he was a star in a young National
Football League and a guy that helped the Giants be
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one of the prominent teams in the National Football league
and win in early championship.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
All right, our final matchup to two and fifteen seed, Bob,
we already talked about the two seed. The mark Ingram
third and thirteen catch against the Bills in Super Bowl
twenty five. Really unbelievable play that sets up Otis Anderson's
touchdown run. And that's taking on Amani Tumor's toe drag
play against Green Bay. Really and I had forgotten about
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this play, Bob. Then I watched a video of preparation
for this. It's that NFC Championship game in the cold
weather against the Packers in two thousand and seven. Diving
play over the sideline, not to the sideline, over the sideline.
As he gets to the ground, he gets that second
toe in to catch the pass on the sideline. Unbelievable catch,
especially given the conditions.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yeah, I mean it's not like he just dragged his
toe and got it in. Amani was horizontal and it
looked like the one toe wasn't going to get in.
But to have the body control, and I know Amani
worked very hard on his conditioning. I know he had
used more martial arts earlier in his career for body control.
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And when you think about the significance because every possession
counted in that game, every possession was so critical, and
that when you take a look at the weather conditions,
what he was about to land on a frozen field
and then to have the wherewithal to be able to
get that second toe down.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I mean, it.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Truly is one of the great individual plays, especially when
you think about the significance of it with it happening
in an NFC championship game with a chance to go
to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And maintaining control too. You mentioned he lands arms first.
That's the first thing that hits the ground that I
played in his arms which are cuffing the ball, and
he holds onto it despite the fact that ground was
like concrete.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, he had it locked in. I mean he was.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I'm listening.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
He's the Giants all time and leading receiver for a reason.
And again, significance I put into this significance when he
did it, where he did it, what was at stake
elevates it for me, elevates it for me. But I
think the matchup that he's going against is a pretty
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tough one because again the Giants Number two is mark
Ingram's third and thirteen conversion in Super Bowl twenty five,
which we touched upon at the beginning. It sets up
Otis Anderson's touchdown run. But really, if you think about it,
the Giants game plan. They had the ball for forty
minutes in that game. Everybody knew about the k gun
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offense and the Buffalo bills and keep the ball away,
So the Giants kept the ball away and had the
ball for forty minutes. So every third down conversion was
critical because if you don't convert, you're giving them the
ball back. And at this point in the game they
hadn't figured out yet that let's see, the Giants really
don't have any d linemen in the game, and maybe
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one guy's hands in the dirt, maybe we should try
to run it. Fortunately for the Giants, Buffalo never picked
up on that queue until the end of the game
when it was too late. But this was significant. I
mean again, every possession keep away and Ingram's individual effort
on this play, eluding tacklers, darting, dancing, but then the
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whole end of the play where he's being grabbed around
the ankle and like you would a little kid trying
to hold onto your leg as you drag him across
the carpet. He's dragging and hopping on one leg to
get what was needed for the first down. Truly, in
my opinion, one of the most incredible plays in Giants systry.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, and I love this brack of Bobby because you
mentioned there are so many games that have significance in
it NFC title game with the tumor toe drag Ingram
in the Super Bowl Triplet's fifty six title game touchdown play.
You have the Sneakers game in here, right. You have
the Wellington Matra his final game that he's able to
watch in here, the Rivalry game, and the Monday night
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game with Bavarro against San Francisco Rivalry win with OCI
against the Eagle stopping Jim Brown, a championship game. I mean, yeah,
so many games of significance.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, I mean, because the Giants and Browns are playing
week after week. Here, they're playing at the end of
the season. They're playing in the postseason with the right
to go to the championship game. You know, in the
Eastern Conference, the road went through those two teams, so
that the significance of the games in this bracket are
pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
It really is Bob awesome stuff. Always fun to catch
up on the Greatest play So stay tuned to everything
we're doing with the hundredth anniversary podcast, folks and all
of our celebrations social media, Giants dot com, the Giants App,
and of course stay tuned to all of the Giants
social media channels. Go to Giants dot com, Slash podcast,
the Giants App for all the Giants podcast offerings. For
(27:43):
Bob Papa, I'm Josh Milk. Thanks for being with us
on the Greatest Plays Bracket podcast brought to you by
Hackensack Meridian Health. Keep getting better.
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