Monday Night Madness: Cleveland Browns Soil the Giants' Perfect Start
The New York Giants looked like the best team in football the first four games of the season—particularly in last week's 44-6 destruction of the Seattle Seahawks (despite the absence of No. 1 receiver Plaxico Burress), en route to being the NFC’s only undefeated team.
That is until they faced the Cleveland Browns.
For those that do not remember, the Browns went 10-6 last season, yet just barely missed the playoffs in the tough AFC. This season, Cleveland got off to an 0-3 start, before defeating the win-less Cincinnati Kittens...er…Bengals.
So one would assume the Giants had this in the bag. Am I right?
WRONG.
The Giants' defense gave up 35 points to Derek Anderson, who before tonight had the lowest completion percentage among quarterbacks in the NFL—fewer than 50 percent. In addition to that, the men in blue did so with the Browns not having Pro Bowl tight end Kellen Winslow in the lineup.
I could give all the credit to the Browns for winning this game, but let ...
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