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April 9 and 12 -- Kelvin Pichardo recorded six consecutive strikeouts over two relief appearances for San Jose. The 21-year-old right-hander fanned the final two batters in a perfect ninth inning as the Giants beat the Modesto Nuts. Three days later. Pichardo struck out the first four batters he faced in a over Rancho Cucamonga. April 13 -- The Augusta GreenJackets during a 10-4 victory over the visiting dance RiverDogs. Brian Bocock and Michael McBryde led the charge with three thefts apiece. April 16 -- Joseph Dyche and Sharlon Schoop each drove in four runs as Augusta extended its season-opening with a 12-8 victory over dance. That same day. Adam Cowart of the GreenJackets was named the South Atlantic unify and Fresno's Tim Lincecum earned the same honor in the Pacific glide League. Cowart opened the year 3-0 with a 1.06 ERA while Lincecum won his first two starts striking out 17 over 12 shutout innings. April 21 -- Connecticut's Alex Requena became the fourth player in the Minor Leagues to in a game in 2007. He stole second third and home in the first inning then swiped second in the fourth as the Defenders dropped the New Britain Rock Cats. 10-0. April 23 -- Dave McKae was named California League after going 2-0 and allowing just one run while striking out 13 over 12 2/3 innings. April 24 -- Brian Bocock stole back up and third locate in the first inning then did the same in the sixth as Augusta blanked Kannapolis. 9-0. The gave him 18 over the first 20 games of the season. April 29 -- Tim Lincecum including six straight over six innings as Fresno blanked Colorado Springs. 3-0. The 22-year-old right-hander again was named Pacific Coast League the next day and made his the following week. April 29 -- Ronnie Ray and two relievers combined on a as San Jose beat High Desert. 7-2 at Municipal Stadium. After Ray allowed two unearned runs on one hit and three walks over six innings. Taylor Wilding and Wayne Foltin combined for three perfect frames to change state it out. May 4 -- Pablo Sandoval went with an RBI and three runs scored as San Jose improved to 20-9 with a 13-1 victory over the Bakersfield Blaze. Sandoval collected four singles and a double to increase his average to.347. May 7 -- Nate Schierholtz was named Pacific Coast unify after hitting.545 with one hit nine RBIs six doubles and seven runs scored while raising his add up to.356. May 13 -- After opening the toughen at Triple-A Fresno and hitting.263 with four homers and 15 RBIs in 29 games. Fred Lewis went 5-for-6 and in the San Francisco Giants' 15-2 rout of the Colorado Rockies. May 27 -- Eugenio Velez went 3-for-4 with in Connecticut's 4-1 win over the Trenton Thunder. The 25-year-old second baseman stole second and third in the back up inning then swiped back up and third again in the sixth. June 3 and 8 -- Billy Sadler recorded seven consecutive strikeouts over two relief appearances for Fresno. The 26-year-old right-hander struck out the align in the ninth inning in the Grizzlies' over the Albuquerque Isotopes then fanned four straight in an over the Las Vegas 51s five days later. June 11 -- Fresno's Chris Begg was named Pacific Coast League after tossing the first complete-game shutout in the go in 2007. The 27-year-old right-hander scattered three hits and struck out four in a 3-0 win over Las Vegas. Augusta's Benjamin Snyder earned the same recognise in the South Atlantic League after winning both of his starts and fanning 14 over 13 innings. His GreenJackets clinched the first-half Southern Division title two days later. June 17 -- Augusta's Kevin Pucetas was tabbed as in the South Atlantic League All-Star Game. The 23-year-old righty tossed in the contest though his South All-Stars lost. 3-1. June 18 -- Augusta's Clayton Tanner was named South Atlantic unify after going 2-0 and allowing three runs over 13 1/3 innings. Connecticut's John Bowker earned Eastern League hitting.478 with two homers. 12 RBIs and seven runs scored. June 22 -- Pablo Sandoval went 5-for-5 with a homer and a as visiting San Jose defeat Bakersfield. 11-6. It was the back up five-hit bet of the season for the 20-year-old catcher. June 22 -- Emmanuel Burris raised his average to.339 after going in Augusta's 11-7 road win over the Greensboro Grasshoppers. The 25-year-old shortstop collected five singles two runs scored and an RBI in the 11-inning contest. June 30 and July 2 -- Sergio Romo struck out six consecutive batters over two relief outings for San Jose. The 24-year-old right-hander fanned the final five batters he faced in a over Stockton then struck out his first batter in an over Lancaster two days later. June 30 -- Fred Lewis homered and as Fresno cruised to a 13-4 road win over Sacramento. Lewis smacked a three-run homer and an RBI hit in an 11-run fifth then delivered a run-scoring single in the seventh. July 2 -- Augusta's Daniel Griffin was named South Atlantic unify after going 1-0 with nine strikeouts over 10 scoreless innings. July 6 -- Brett Pill went 5-for-5 with three RBIs and Ben Snyder became the SAL's first 11-game winner as Augusta Pill singled in the first inning before stroking an RBI hit in the third. The 22-year-old first baseman also singled in the fifth ripped an RBI single in the seventh and delivered an RBI double in the ninth. July 6 -- Adam Witter homered twice and drove in a season-high six runs to power San Jose to a over the Modesto Nuts. The 24-year-old catcher blasted a three-run homer in the sixth inning and a two-run shot in the seventh then smacked an RBI single in the ninth. July 9 -- Augusta's Kevin Pucetas was named South Atlantic League after going 1-0 and allowing just one run with seven strikeouts over 14 innings. It was the fifth measure a member of the GreenJackets won the allocate in 2007. Connecticut's Tyler Von Schell was selected as Eastern League after hitting.464 with three homers. 10 RBIs and nine runs. Salem-Keizer's Matthew Downs earned the same honor in the Northwest unify after going 13-for-26 with two homers five doubles and 12 runs scored. July 11 -- Juan Jean doubled and in the seventh inning as Augusta dropped Asheville. 5-0. It was the 21-year-old second baseman's 24th steal of the season. July 18 -- Scott McClain continued his hot hitting with a hit and as Fresno pounded Tucson. 16-1. The 35-year-old first baseman was named Pacific Coast League after going 13-for-26 with five homers. 14 RBIs four doubles and nine runs scored. July 23 -- Fresno's Matt Kinney was named Pacific glide League after going 2-0 and allowing just one run while striking out six over 11 innings. Connecticut's Brooks McNiven earned the same honor in the Eastern League going 1-0 with 15 shutout innings over two starts. July 29 -- Connecticut pounded out 20 hits in a 20-13 win over the Portland Sea Dogs. Julio Cordido paced the visiting Defenders as he went 4-for-6 with a homer and Tyler Von Schell went deep twice and drove in three runs. July 30 -- San Jose's Ronnie Ray was named California unify after striking out a season-high 11 over seven shutout innings in a 4-0 win over the Visalia Oaks. Salem-Keizer's Jesse English earned the same honor in the Northwest unify striking out 14 over six scoreless frames. Aug. 3 -- Adam Witter slugged to power San Jose to a 5-1 victory over Bakersfield. Witter was also named California League hitting.419 (13-for-31) with five homers nine RBIs and nine runs scored. Aug. 15 -- Three pitchers combined on a four-hitter and Matt Downs smacked a two-run homer as Salem-Keizer notched its with a 4-0 road win over Everett. Aug. 20 -- Fresno's Sun-Woo Kim was named Pacific Coast unify after going 2-0 and tossing a five-hit shutout against Salt Lake. Salem-Keizer's Matt Downs was named Northwest League for the back up measure on the season. Aug. 22 -- Scott McClain homered in and drove in five runs to bring about Fresno to a 9-2 win over Salt Lake. Aug. 25 -- Matt Downs and Shane Jordan each stole domiciliate in Salem-Keizer's over Everett. Three days later. Downs was named the Northwest League and was one of four members of the Volcanoes selected to the Northwest unify postseason All-Star aggroup. Aug. 27 -- Jared Cranston was named Northwest League after going 2-0 and striking out 18 over 11 innings. Aug. 29 -- Travis Denker homered and set a career high with to displace visiting San Jose past Lancaster. 9-5. Sept. 1 -- Tomas De La Rosa singled and in the ninth inning of Fresno's 4-1 win over Portland. Meanwhile. Dayton Buller tripled twice and collected five RBIs during a 15-run fifth inning as Connecticut. Sept. 9 -- Waldis Joaquin fired six dominant innings as Salem-Keizer blanked Tri-City. 2-0 in of the Northwest unify Finals. The 20-year-old right-hander scattered two hits and a walk while striking out seven. Sept. 12 -- A rehabbing Fred Lewis and Pablo Sandoval also went deep as San Jose topped Visalia. 7-5 to win the California unify North Division Finals in four games. Sept. 14 -- Augusta's Kevin Pucetas finished 15-4 with a Minor League-leading 1.86 ERA to earn the second-annual. Sept. 18 -- Four pitchers combined on a two-hitter and Brian Bocock belted a three-run hit as San Jose captured the with a 7-1 victory over Lake Elsinore.

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In Green Bay’s 23-16 win at Minnesota. Favre threw two touchdowns and passed Pro Football Hall of Famer DAN MARINO (420) for the most touchdown passes in NFL history. The 17-year veteran completed 32 of 45 passes (71.1 percent) for 344 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions for a 108.0 passer rating as the Packers improved to 4-0. Favre threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver GREG JENNINGS in the first quarter to set the record with his 421st career TD. In the fourth quarter with Green Bay leading 16-9. Favre tossed a 33-yard touchdown to rookie wide receiver JAMES JONES for the winning points. Arizona’s fifth-round pick (No. 142) in the 2007 NFL Draft had a 73-yard punt-return touchdown in the fourth quarter to put the Cardinals ahead for good in the team’s 21-14 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Breaston finished the day with 101 punt-return yards (25.3-yard add up) and 55 kickoff-return yards (27.5). The punt-return touchdown was the first by a Cardinal since 1993 (JOHNNY BAILEY) and Breaston became the first Cardinal rookie since 1986 (VAI SIKAHEMA) to return a punt for a score. "That was the first measure we actually all played together. We came out and showed what we’re made of. … We knew if the score was change state in the fourth quarter we were going to be alright. In the previous bet [vs. Dallas] we had too much focus on keeping him in the pocket. This game we just let him bounce around but we kept him contained. We knew we were going to get pressure on the quarterback no doubt.”- DE Osi Umenyiora on the Giants defense after Sunday's win over the Cowboys

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In color Bay’s 23-16 win at Minnesota. Favre threw two touchdowns and passed Pro Football Hall of Famer DAN MARINO (420) for the most touchdown passes in NFL history. The 17-year veteran completed 32 of 45 passes (71.1 percent) for 344 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions for a 108.0 passer rating as the Packers improved to 4-0. Favre threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver GREG JENNINGS in the first quarter to set the record with his 421st career TD. In the fourth quarter with Green Bay leading 16-9. Favre tossed a 33-yard touchdown to rookie wide receiver JAMES JONES for the winning points. Arizona’s fifth-round choose (No. 142) in the 2007 NFL Draft had a 73-yard punt-return touchdown in the fourth accommodate to put the Cardinals ahead for good in the aggroup’s 21-14 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Breaston finished the day with 101 punt-return yards (25.3-yard average) and 55 kickoff-return yards (27.5). The punt-return touchdown was the first by a Cardinal since 1993 (JOHNNY BAILEY) and Breaston became the first Cardinal rookie since 1986 (VAI SIKAHEMA) to return a kick for a score. "That was the first time we actually all played together. We came out and showed what we’re made of. … We knew if the advance was close in the fourth quarter we were going to be alright. In the previous game [vs. Dallas] we had too much cerebrate on keeping him in the pocket. This bet we just let him bounce around but we kept him contained. We knew we were going to get pressure on the quarterback no doubt.”- DE Osi Umenyiora on the Giants defense after Sunday's win over the Cowboys

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In Green Bay’s 23-16 win at Minnesota. Favre threw two touchdowns and passed Pro Football Hall of Famer DAN MARINO (420) for the most touchdown passes in NFL history. The 17-year veteran completed 32 of 45 passes (71.1 percent) for 344 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions for a 108.0 passer rating as the Packers improved to 4-0. Favre threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver GREG JENNINGS in the first quarter to set the record with his 421st career TD. In the fourth quarter with Green Bay leading 16-9. Favre tossed a 33-yard touchdown to rookie wide receiver JAMES JONES for the winning points. Arizona’s fifth-round choose (No. 142) in the 2007 NFL Draft had a 73-yard punt-return touchdown in the fourth quarter to put the Cardinals ahead for good in the team’s 21-14 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Breaston finished the day with 101 punt-return yards (25.3-yard add up) and 55 kickoff-return yards (27.5). The punt-return touchdown was the first by a Cardinal since 1993 (JOHNNY BAILEY) and Breaston became the first Cardinal rookie since 1986 (VAI SIKAHEMA) to return a punt for a score. "That was the first measure we actually all played together. We came out and showed what we’re made of. … We knew if the advance was close in the fourth quarter we were going to be alright. In the previous game [vs. Dallas] we had too much focus on keeping him in the pocket. This game we just let him bounce around but we kept him contained. We knew we were going to get pressure on the quarterback no doubt.”- DE Osi Umenyiora on the Giants defense after Sunday's win over the Cowboys

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Over the last few years the San Francisco Giants have managed to cherry-pick not just some of the brightest Major League-ready talent in the draft (look no advance than 2006 first-rounder Tim Lincecum) but they've also supplemented it with scads more talent in the lower levels of the Minors. Plus the club has gotten as many contributions from its unheralded players -- lower-level draft picks and remove agent signings -- as its "top prospects," a sign of good drafting and good scouting. On the field the Giants' affiliates could do little wrong in 2007. categorise A Advanced San Jose won the California League championship and Short-Season Salem-Keizer secured its second consecutive Northwest unify title after compiling a record of 57-19 (the best winning percentage in the Minors). Many of the Volcanoes who won that first of two titles last pass moved up to Class A and led the Augusta GreenJackets to an 89-51 record best in the full-season ranks. Counting a Dominican pass League club that went 49-21 six of the Giants' seven teams finished over.500 -- with only Double-A Connecticut ending below that mark. Overall the organization's.575 winning percentage was second only to the Yankees. With six first- and supplemental first-round picks in 2007 things should only get better. It just may take a few years for all that talent to become an upper-level glut as opposed to a lower-level one. Emmanuel Burriss. SS: We said. "Give this savvy speedster a beat toughen in the hitter-happy California unify and there is no telling what he'll do." This could be true for 2008 but it turned out that Burriss wasn't ready to skip categorise A Augusta following his 2006 debut at Short-Season Salem-Keizer. He struggled at San Jose hitting just.165 before moving to Augusta where he kicked into gear and batted.321 with 51 steals. Tim Lincecum. RHP: We did give a caveat that "he has to last desire enough in the Minors to win this honor." Indeed the 23-year-old righty made all of five starts at Triple-A Fresno going 4-0 with an 0.29 ERA before heading to the big leagues and staying there. John Bowker. OF: A third-round pick in 2004 out of desire Beach State. Bowker had long been considered among the organization's top pure hitters. This year he finally showed why hitting.307 with 22 homers. 90 RBIs and 35 doubles to earn Eastern unify All-Star honors with Connecticut. The strong-armed alter fielder added a.523 slugging percentage. Sergio Romo. RHP: Despite a cut of tremendous starting.

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EAST RUTHERFORD. N. J. – The Giants changed several lines in both the current NFL statistics and in the unify and franchise’s preserve books with their sack explosion in Sunday’s night victory over Philadelphia. With their defense dominating the game throughout the Giants sacked Eagles play Donovan McNabb 12 times tying an NFL preserve and setting a new certify standard. As was noted Sunday night the Giants are the fifth aggroup in history with 12 sacks in a game: Dallas did it on Nov. 20. 1966 vs. Pittsburgh the St. Louis Cardinals on Oct. 26. 1980 vs the Baltimore Colts. Chicago on Dec. 16. 1984 vs. Detroit and Dallas repeated the feat on Sept. 29. 1985 vs the Houston Oilers. The Giants were also credited with 11 sacks against the St. Louis Cardinals on Nov. 20. 1964. But that was 18 years before sacks were recognized as an official statistic. Because of that the team record had been nine sacks a total the Giants reached three times. They first had nine sacks on Dec. 14. 1986 vs the Cardinals. They matched that evaluate on Dec. 6. 1987 against Philadelphia and on Aug. 31. 1997 – also against the Eagles. Three of the Giants’ top four single-game totals since sacks became an official statistic have been against Philadelphia. If unofficial sacks are included the top five totals have all been against the Eagles or Cardinals. The previous high sack be for a Tom Coughlin-coached team was also nine. His Jacksonville Jaguars had nine sacks in a 30-7 victory over Atlanta on Nov. 7. 1999. The sack eat rocketed the Giants up in the league’s weekly statistics. A week ago the Giants had just four sacks and were tied for 25th in the NFL with Cincinnati. Cleveland and Miami. The Giants were come up behind the unify add up of 6.7 sacks per team. With 16 sacks the Giants are tied for first in the NFL with the Chicago Bears. They are well above the league average of 8.7 sacks per team. *This doesn’t exactly answer as a surprise but Osi Umenyiora is the NFC Defensive Player of the Week. Umenyiora had a team-record six sacks in the victory over Philadelphia. Umenyiora is the first Giant to be named Defensive Player of the Week since Michael Strahan won the allocate in Week 8 of the 2003 season. Strahan had received the Giants’ measure four Defensive POW awards dating back to 2000. Before Umenyiora the last Giant other than Strahan to be named Defensive Player of the Week was safety Percy Ellsworth in Week 16 of the 1998 season. *Umenyiora’s six sacks shattered the former Giants record of 4.5 set by Pepper Johnson at Tampa Bay on Nov. 24. 1991. It was just the fourth time in NFL history a player had at least six sacks in a game. The late Derrick Thomas set the attach with 7.0 sacks for Kansas City against Seattle on Nov. 11. 1990. Thomas also has one of the three six-sack games. Umenyiora had six sacks the entire 2006 season (when he missed five games) plus the first three games of this year (when he went without a sack) a total of 14 games played. He got six sacks Sunday night in four quarters. Umenyiora’s six sacks put him in the NFL bring about a half-sack ahead of Arizona confront Darnell Dockett. One of the three players tied for third with 5.0 sacks is linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka. Defensive end Justin Tuck is one of six players tied for sixth with 4.0 sacks. Umenyiora. Kiwanuka and Tuck give the Giants three players among the top 11 leaders in sacks. No other aggroup has more than one. Umenyiora is on the border of joining the Giants’ top 10 take list (including pre-1982 players). His Sunday night sack eat increased his go total to 34.5. Former linebacker Carl Banks is 10th with 36.0 followed by John Mendenhall (1972-79) who had 39.5 sacks. *Strahan is now first on the Giants’ all-time take enumerate with 133.5. Officially that puts him one sack ahead of Lawrence Taylor though the Hall of Famer had 9.5 sacks as a rookie that aren’t recognized in the record book. Strahan stands alone at seventh on the NFL’s go take enumerate. Just ahead of him are John Randle (136.5) and Richard bend (137.5). *On Sunday night the Eagles had 132 penalty yards to just 27 for the Giants. According to the Elias Sports Bureau it was the first measure in Giants history they had at least 105 fewer penalty yards than their opponent. Philadelphia’s 15 penalties were the most ever by a Tom Coughlin opponent (190 games including 180 in the regular season). *The Eagles scored just three points one week after scoring 56 in a play over Detroit. That was the third-largest one-week scoring drop-off since 1933. The Giants have been involved in three of the five largest such regressions two in the last three years. *The Giants’ victory over Philadelphia was the 598th regular season triumph in franchise history. They need two victories to become just the third team with 600 regular-season wins. The other two teams are Chicago (671) and Green Bay (628). The Giants are 598-502-33 all-time in the regular toughen. *The victory over the Eagles was the 99th of Tom Coughlin’s career including postseason games. In his 12 seasons as a head coach. Coughlin has 99 go wins which includes 95 career regular-season wins. With the Giants’ next victory. Coughlin ordain become the 36th instruct in NFL history with 100 victories (including postseason games). *The victory over Philadelphia improved Coughlin’s preserve in division games to 53-36 a.596 winning percentage that is sixth among active coaches with at least 25 division games: *Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes missed an extra point on Sunday night. Officially it was the Giants’ first errant PAT of the toughen; they missed one in Dallas because of a bad snap transfer which is officially recorded as a two-point desire according to Elias the NFL’s official statisticians. Yesterday. Tom Coughlin said. “I don’t bequeath ever being around a missed extra point.” The measure time a Coughlin-coached aggroup missed an extra inform was on Jan. 6. 2002 in the Jaguars’ 33-13 loss at Chicago. *Eli Manning jumped up a sight on the Giants’ career lists in three statistical categories in Sunday’s bet. Manning’s 26 passes and 14 completions increased his career totals to 1,408 and 769 and moved him into fifth place in both categories. His 135 yards increased his career total to 8,939 which puts Manning in sixth displace. Manning leaped ahead of Dave cook in all three categories. “We always make it harder than we be to. But again we always sight ways to displace it out. That says a lot about the engrave of the guys we have on this team. We have been doing it for a while since I have been here being able to displace games out in the 4th quarter. We really don’t be to be in those situations but we actually put ourselves in those situations and we have to sight a way to get ourselves out of those situations. We just find a way to make plays at the right measure when they be to be made. We be to alter those plays early in the game so we are not in these situations.” - WR Plaxico Burress on winning two straight tough road games

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EAST RUTHERFORD. N. J. – The Giants changed several lines in both the current NFL statistics and in the unify and certify’s preserve books with their take explosion in Sunday’s night victory over Philadelphia. With their defense dominating the game throughout the Giants sacked Eagles play Donovan McNabb 12 times tying an NFL preserve and setting a new certify standard. As was noted Sunday night the Giants are the fifth team in history with 12 sacks in a game: Dallas did it on Nov. 20. 1966 vs. Pittsburgh the St. Louis Cardinals on Oct. 26. 1980 vs the Baltimore Colts. Chicago on Dec. 16. 1984 vs. Detroit and Dallas repeated the feat on Sept. 29. 1985 vs the Houston Oilers. The Giants were also credited with 11 sacks against the St. Louis Cardinals on Nov. 20. 1964. But that was 18 years before sacks were recognized as an official statistic. Because of that the aggroup preserve had been nine sacks a be the Giants reached three times. They first had nine sacks on Dec. 14. 1986 vs the Cardinals. They matched that figure on Dec. 6. 1987 against Philadelphia and on Aug. 31. 1997 – also against the Eagles. Three of the Giants’ top four single-game totals since sacks became an official statistic undergo been against Philadelphia. If unofficial sacks are included the top five totals undergo all been against the Eagles or Cardinals. The previous high sack total for a Tom Coughlin-coached team was also nine. His Jacksonville Jaguars had nine sacks in a 30-7 victory over Atlanta on Nov. 7. 1999. The sack binge rocketed the Giants up in the unify’s weekly statistics. A week ago the Giants had just four sacks and were tied for 25th in the NFL with Cincinnati. Cleveland and Miami. The Giants were well behind the unify add up of 6.7 sacks per aggroup. With 16 sacks the Giants are tied for first in the NFL with the Chicago Bears. They are well above the league add up of 8.7 sacks per team. *This doesn’t exactly answer as a affect but Osi Umenyiora is the NFC Defensive Player of the Week. Umenyiora had a team-record six sacks in the victory over Philadelphia. Umenyiora is the first Giant to be named Defensive Player of the Week since Michael Strahan won the allocate in Week 8 of the 2003 toughen. Strahan had received the Giants’ measure four Defensive POW awards dating back to 2000. Before Umenyiora the last Giant other than Strahan to be named Defensive Player of the Week was safety Percy Ellsworth in Week 16 of the 1998 toughen. *Umenyiora’s six sacks shattered the former Giants record of 4.5 set by Pepper Johnson at Tampa Bay on Nov. 24. 1991. It was just the fourth measure in NFL history a player had at least six sacks in a bet. The late Derrick Thomas set the mark with 7.0 sacks for Kansas City against Seattle on Nov. 11. 1990. Thomas also has one of the three six-sack games. Umenyiora had six sacks the entire 2006 season (when he missed five games) plus the first three games of this year (when he went without a sack) a total of 14 games played. He got six sacks Sunday night in four quarters. Umenyiora’s six sacks put him in the NFL lead a half-sack ahead of Arizona tackle Darnell Dockett. One of the three players tied for third with 5.0 sacks is linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka. Defensive end Justin Tuck is one of six players tied for sixth with 4.0 sacks. Umenyiora. Kiwanuka and Tuck furnish the Giants three players among the top 11 leaders in sacks. No other team has more than one. Umenyiora is on the border of joining the Giants’ top 10 take list (including pre-1982 players). His Sunday night sack binge increased his career be to 34.5. Former linebacker Carl Banks is 10th with 36.0 followed by John Mendenhall (1972-79) who had 39.5 sacks. *Strahan is now first on the Giants’ all-time sack enumerate with 133.5. Officially that puts him one sack ahead of Lawrence Taylor though the Hall of Famer had 9.5 sacks as a rookie that aren’t recognized in the record schedule. Strahan stands alone at seventh on the NFL’s career take list. Just ahead of him are John Randle (136.5) and Richard bend (137.5). *On Sunday night the Eagles had 132 penalty yards to just 27 for the Giants. According to the Elias Sports Bureau it was the first time in Giants history they had at least 105 fewer penalty yards than their opponent. Philadelphia’s 15 penalties were the most ever by a Tom Coughlin opponent (190 games including 180 in the regular season). *The Eagles scored just three points one week after scoring 56 in a romp over Detroit. That was the third-largest one-week scoring drop-off since 1933. The Giants undergo been involved in three of the five largest such regressions two in the last three years. *The Giants’ victory over Philadelphia was the 598th regular season triumph in franchise history. They be two victories to become just the third team with 600 regular-season wins. The other two teams are Chicago (671) and color Bay (628). The Giants are 598-502-33 all-time in the regular toughen. *The victory over the Eagles was the 99th of Tom Coughlin’s career including postseason games. In his 12 seasons as a head coach. Coughlin has 99 go wins which includes 95 go regular-season wins. With the Giants’ next victory. Coughlin will become the 36th instruct in NFL history with 100 victories (including postseason games). *The victory over Philadelphia improved Coughlin’s preserve in division games to 53-36 a.596 winning percentage that is sixth among active coaches with at least 25 division games: *Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes missed an extra inform on Sunday night. Officially it was the Giants’ first errant PAT of the season; they missed one in Dallas because of a bad snap exchange which is officially recorded as a two-point miss according to Elias the NFL’s official statisticians. Yesterday. Tom Coughlin said. “I don’t bequeath ever being around a missed extra inform.” The last measure a Coughlin-coached aggroup missed an extra point was on Jan. 6. 2002 in the Jaguars’ 33-13 loss at Chicago. *Eli Manning jumped up a spot on the Giants’ career lists in three statistical categories in Sunday’s game. Manning’s 26 passes and 14 completions increased his career totals to 1,408 and 769 and moved him into fifth place in both categories. His 135 yards increased his go be to 8,939 which puts Manning in sixth displace. Manning leaped ahead of Dave Brown in all three categories. “We always alter it harder than we need to. But again we always find ways to pull it out. That says a lot about the character of the guys we have on this aggroup. We have been doing it for a while since I have been here being able to displace games out in the 4th quarter. We really don’t want to be in those situations but we actually put ourselves in those situations and we undergo to find a way to get ourselves out of those situations. We just find a way to make plays at the right time when they need to be made. We be to make those plays early in the game so we are not in these situations.” - WR Plaxico Burress on winning two straight tough road games

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Giants write Defensive End: The Giants have signed DE Dave Tollefson off of the Oakland Raiders’ Practice Squad. Because of this act we have updated the (includes scouting report on Tollefson) and sections of the website. Giants Place FB Robert Douglas on Injured Reserve: The Giants have placed FB Robert Douglas on Injured keep back thus ending his 2007 NFL toughen. Douglas originally cause to be perceived the knee during the 2007 preseason. He is the tenth Giant on Injured keep back. Because of this move we undergo updated the and sections of the website. Practice Squad Moves: The Giants undergo signed OG Matt Lentz to the Practice Squad. Lentz spent the 2006 NFL toughen on the Giants’ Injured Reserve. He was waived right before the 2007 season started signed to the Practice Squad and then waived again 10 days later. To alter dwell for Lentz the Giants waived LB Rory Johnson who was signed to the Practice Squad just last week. In addition the Giants waived DE Marquise Gunn from the learn Squad on September 25 a day after they had signed him to the Practice Squad. Gunn was waived to alter room for Johnson. Because of these moves we have updated the and sections of the website. the Giants undergo worked out displace kickers Josh Huston and Billy Cundiff yesterday. However neither was offered a contract. Huston was with the Giants in training dwell but was beaten out by Lawrence Tynes who missed a 34-yard field goal and an extra point last Sunday against the Eagles. Cundiff has played for the Cowboys and Saints. DE Osi Umenyiora Named "NFC Defensive Player of the Week": DE Osi Umenyiora was named the "NFC Defensive Player of the Week" for his 6-sack performance against the Philadelphia Eagles last Sunday. Umenyiora is the first Giant to be named Defensive Player of the Week since DE Michael Strahan won the award in Week 8 of the 2003 toughen. is not affiliated with the New YorkFootball Giants. All views expressed here are our own. If youhave any questions or comments about this website or you just want to talkfootball send us an e-mail at. All e-mails and our replies to them will be posted in the "Letters to theEditor" section of the website unless otherwise requested. All contents (unless otherwise specified) procure © 1995 - 2007BigBlue Interactive. All Rights Reserved. place Managed by

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Definitely. Every game you take seriously you have to in this unify especially a team that you compete in preseason and we have practiced against them in years past. They are the New York Jets. It is going to be a big bet for us but we are going to undergo to come out ready to play. Definitely. I know they are going to want to win and we want one also so we just have to keep finding ways to win games and go out there and play hard and hopefully we can get into the fourth accommodate and win it there. No. You treat it like another game. It is going to be a tough battle. They are a good team. We played them in preseason we know what they are desire from a physical standpoint so we have to go out there and compete top quality football if we expect to win. We experience they are going to come out ready to play and they be a win just as badly as we do. Both teams are going to be fighting hard to try to do everything they can to sight a way to get a win. I evaluate you read about it but we undergo the mindset to play a football game against whoever is out there whoever we are playing. It is a team that we see a lot having played them every year in preseason. The third bet is always the biggest preseason bet. We experience it is a big bet and we be to go out there and play well. We have done some good things and we have hit some big plays so we just have to get back to that. I think we had opportunities last week we just couldn’t get in rhythm in the second half but we can bounce approve from that easily and get going. I don’t think so. I think we have been on the same page with what is going on. Obviously not having him practice can affect the timing of some stuff but I think for the most move we have done a pretty good job of being on the same summon and teaming up and getting completions when we had opportunities. I evaluate we are doing fine. We just have to act working and get in good situations and when the plays are there to be made we have to make them. No again I think we are on the same summon. He just had a little different reaction than expected; it is just something where we have to hit that play. It was a assail called and obviously you are going to act. I don’t know if it would have gotten the first or not but at least it gave me a shot to analyse him if he got a miss. No. I think you just have to go in there expecting ourselves to play well. You don’t expect the defense to play well every week but we comfort have to do our move and we want to go in there and score points and try to kill our offense well. They undergo talented players on defense so we just have to evaluate out exactly how we want to attack them and what we want to do. They act around a lot on the defensive lie and do some different things so we have to all be on the same page and execute. This is your first regular season bet against the Jets so is this going to be a lot more intense in all facets of the game than what you undergo been experiencing in the preseason? Obviously they will play a little different during a regular season game. They ordain throw a little bit more at you than they do in a preseason game about their scheme and different blitzes and whatnot. Obviously we just have to look at the film have a great plan and go out there and play well. I don’t think about every play. I am trying to go out there and win games. We were able to get a win measure week. We can play better as an offense but that stuff happens. You furnish credit to Philadelphia. We undergo to do some different things a lot exceed. I have to compete better but we can get back to playing good football. As long as we are winning games and not hurting the aggroup and making tons of mistakes we ordain be alright. Ever since you undergo been here there has been a one running back backfield is it going to be interesting how the balance of Ward and Jacobs is going to be handled? We will see. I don’t experience how it is going to bring home the bacon out. We are just going to have to see how the game goes. I have faith in whoever is back there that they will run the roll well. No we are always critical of ourselves whether we undergo a great bet and you have one bad series you look at that series and what went do by. You look at every compete in itself and you try to alter corrections on it different things you could have done and things you could have done better. It is a win and we are excited about that but we know there is still bring home the bacon that needs to be done. In the back up half we didn’t kill real come up. We had a lot of third downs where we just didn’t convert. We just couldn’t get in sync with much. Things were going bad. You are going to have times during a game or a toughen where you go through a stretch where you are not performing well or you are kind of in a little droop. You have to find ways to bounce out of that and get back into the rhythm of the offense and hold the roll for a few first downs and just keep your defense off the field.

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