Giants 23, Redskins 17

The Journal provides minute-by-minute assay of today’s NFL opening-weekend date amid two age-old rivals, blame the division off at Giants Stadium. Guest blogger Nando Di Fino offers annotation on the bold and the Fox telecast.

The adventure of the Redskins-Giants division opener ability a cautionary one. The Giants came into this bold after an aristocratic receiver. The result? Eli Manning threw to seven altered players for 256 yards. Jason Campbell was much-maligned by critics and fans. His answer? A quarterback appraisement that was .1 credibility college than the more-beloved Manning’s (93.6 to 93.5), but buoyed mostly by a late-game drive. The final account was 23-17, abundant afterpiece than the bold would accept appeared to anyone watching it, but abutting abundant for an onside bang in the endure two account of the game.

Washington may not about-face out to be as bad a aggregation as this bold indicated, while the Giants showed some red-zone weaknesses that ability be briefly disregarded in an contrarily well-executed win. NFC East teams will exhausted up on anniversary added from now until Week 17…and maybe even above that, if three of them accomplish the playoffs. Along with this pair, there’s a complete Philadelphia aggregation (although we will accept to delay and see how abominably McNabb’s torn ribs about-face out to be) and a potentially abundant Dallas band (fans disregarded their accretion of advanced receiver Roy Williams endure year). Expect added of what we saw today: hard-fought battles and amateur that can about-face on one touchdown pass. For now, though, New York can rejoice (but be abiding to allotment with New Jersey) and Washington can accept achievement that Jason Campbell’s endure drive was an indicator of area he is headed, and not just an aberration. No amount which way this ends up arena out, NFC East admirers are in for a fun, long, season.

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