Was Elam ok or could the Giants just not take advantage of him?

[GreggTX]

Elam drew a pass interference penalty early on, but I hardly noticed him after thar, though I did see him on the field several times. Is he starting to turn it around or were the Giants just inept?

Edited October 16, 2023 by GreggTX

[dave mcbride]

Just to note that the end zone PI prevented a TD, and the Giants walked away with zero points.

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

1 minute ago, GreggTX said:

Elam drew a pass interference penalty early on, but I hardly noticed him after thar, though I did see him on the field several times. Is he starting to turn it around or were the Giants just inept?

 

I'm sure he was targeted as the nearest defender a few times, but we played pretty soft in zone.  I saw him in there making some tackles in run support.  

 

End of the day - he played every snap and we allowed 9 points so he couldn't have been that bad.  

[Success]

I was happy to see that he was step for step w/ the receiver on one of the long pass attempts they had near the end.  Like you said, I didn't notice him otherwise, which is probably good.

 

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

6 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Just to note that the end zone PI prevented a TD, and the Giants walked away with zero points.

 

Its a good call, but if tyrod throws elsewhere they probably don't throw a flag. 

[dave mcbride]

1 minute ago, Bleeding Bills Blue said:

 

Its a good call, but if tyrod throws elsewhere they probably don't throw a flag. 

It was definitely PI. Sometimes PI is the right thing to do.

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

Just now, dave mcbride said:

It was definitely PI. Sometimes PI is the right thing to do.

 

Been there.  He bit on the back line in, and wouldve been burned on the double move.  Everything looked fine contact wise til he turned him.  

[Johnny Hammersticks]

I see Elam getting bashed today on social media.  He didn’t stick out to me as playing poorly.  

[K D]

Quick, name the receivers on the Giants besides Waller. The Giants probably have the worst receivers in the league 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

Ehh. So hard to tell. The Giants weren’t even running an offense with that OL. 
 

I feel like we should’ve been tighter in coverage sometimes to force Taylor to hold the ball. But if we did get tighter Taylor was just throwing the quick go route.

I don’t know if we can grade that performance.

 

[mrags]

6 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

I see Elam getting bashed today on social media.  He didn’t stick out to me as playing poorly.  

He gave up a good gain early but other than that I didn’t notice him much. Played decent enough imo. 

[Xerx]

5 minutes ago, KDIGGZ said:

Quick, name the receivers on the Giants besides Waller. The Giants probably have the worst receivers in the league 

 Iasaih Hodgins, I've been told on this board many times that he's amazing and we shouldn't have let him go

[Beast]

He played decent. He should get significant playing time in the future even with Jackson returning.

[Captain Hindsight]

14 minutes ago, KDIGGZ said:

Quick, name the receivers on the Giants besides Waller. The Giants probably have the worst receivers in the league 

Isiah Hodgins!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

 

Future league MVP!

[Dopey]

11 minutes ago, KDIGGZ said:

Quick, name the receivers on the Giants besides Waller. The Giants probably have the worst receivers in the league 

How did he do to you? I think that was the question. Let me check. Yep, that was the question alright.  

[MAJBobby]

IMO he was OK.  Wasnt great, wasnt the dumpster fire he was in London. 

 

Though Nothing with his play screamed to me We dont need to look into this position at the Deadline. So my priorities for the deadline still remain

 

CB

WR

DT 1 Tech

 

[BuffaloBillyG]

Collinsworthless made a point to say the Giants were picking on him as the weak link so I'm sure you'll see that repeated here today some.

 

In reality he gave up a couple plays and he made a couple plays. He looked very much like a CB that is young and hasn't seen much playtime. 

 

The coverage on the deep ball was very good...but the play he made that stuck out to me was very late in the game. On the last drive Taylor completed a pass to the right side. He made an excellent tackle that prevented the WR from getting out of bounds and stopping the clock. Thought that showed some real good awareness. 

[Yobogoya!]

I've still yet to see him turn around and play a ball this year... 

 

Maybe ever? 

 

Can't recall specifically last year, but this year I've yet to see him to do so, going back to preseason. If he's trailing in coverage, he's probably drawing a flag. 

[Einstein]

Elam had a couple really solid tackles. One of them was late in the game and kept the clock running.

 

However, in coverage, he was pretty bad again. 

 

You just didn’t notice him much because… well… Tyrod Taylor.

[PayDaBill$]

Looks to me like a young inexperienced player with ability that needs more time to develop.