T-Jack actually started the game fairly well. He was making short, quick, crisp throws that were pretty much on target. However, with the Giants stopping the run so effectively, they took us out of our game plan and started covering all those short passes T-Jack was making in the first quarter. Once that happened, and T-Jack had to hang onto the ball longer, it was downhill from there. I wish he felt he had the freedom to take off and run more.
It's also worth noting that besides Favre, we were also without Percy Harvin and our best offensive lineman, Steve Hutchison. It's rare to beat a play-off caliber team like the Giants when you're missing key players like that.
I think there's also something to be said about the circumstances of the game. For the Giants, other than a full day of travel (instead of a few hours), it was just another game on the road. For the Vikings it was clearly a disadvantage going from a home game to a neutral site game.
Don't get me wrong, the Giants outplayed the Vikings and deserved to win. There weren't any blown calls that cost the Vikings a chance to win, or a situation where "if only this had happened," but things were certainly stacked in favor of the Giants going into the game.
