Brandon Jacobs: Get the Ball to Him Early and Often

With the Giants 2008 season ending unceremoniously with a home playoff loss to the rival Philadelphia Eagles, the Giants will need to find new ways to move the football for 2009.  After Plaxico Burress was suspended, the Giants offense struggled. My solution to this, give the football to Brandon Jacobs early and give it to him often.  With Jacobs, it's not about the yards per carry, even though that number has been consistently around 5.0 for his career but rather about him tiring out opposing defenses. Everyone has seen Jacob's size enable him to simply get a carry and fall forward for three yards and make a positive gain out of a seemingly dead play. When December comes around (think Week 16 2008 against Carolina) no one wanted to tackle Brandon Jacobs, which helped pave way for Derrick Ward to rush for 216 yards on only 15 carries.  With Jacobs bull-dozing would be tacklers, opposing teams will have to try and stack eight defenders in the box. This would then open up the ... (link)