Day: October 10, 2018

I’m just going to talk about the Giants and the NFC east. I’ll begin with an allegory. My youngest plays for a 9u football team. He used to play for a 10u team but we moved him down in order to make a contribution for a team. He did. He’s scored basically every touchdown for that team since he arrived to the tune of twelve scores in four games. He began to emerge as the feature back because he was playing in his own division where the talent is comparable. His confidence built and he is starting to believe in his abilities again. This is also the story of the Giants. Over the last few games I’ve watched the piecemeal line come together and protect Eli Manning. Slowly I’m watching him emerge from his ‘dump it off’ mentality and take a few more chances downfield. Not a lot. Still, he’s connecting on 72% of his passes, has the highest QBR of his career, and is at the second highest YPG in his entire career. 

This week he lost to the Panthers in a game that should have been a win. Recently the league even admitted they got it wrong. The Panthers are in their league and it should’ve been a win. Now the Giants are about to face a team in their own division. It is going to be a win. On a short week where the emotions and energy are high and everyone is ready to break out, the Giants are about to take the defending Super Bowl champs to task. This is a must win game for the ‘G-men’, because with only one win on the schedule, they need to beat division rivals and win the division in order to make the playoffs. 

I predict the Giants will be a 9-7 team and make it to the conference championship. What happens next is anyone’s guess.

It’s Tuesday and tomorrow is Waiver Wednesday. I have a ton to say about the Giants, so we need to wrap this thing up tonight. Okay, here we go–recap: Joe and Jane are working to solve the problem while DARPA Dave (he has a name now!) is pursuing his own plan and is certain it will work. 

It won’t.

Dave refuses to accept this and when Joe becomes vocal about how much the world is in danger thanks to Dave, Joe is kicked off the project. This is basically the beginning of our dark moment. Joe is kicked off and decides that he is fine with that and is going to leave. Jane, who is beginning to have feelings for Joe, recognizes that he’s not the guy she thought he was, which causes the relationship black moment when she agrees that he ought to leave. Now they’ve fallen apart, DARPA Dave is about to screw everything up, and the Volcano is still going to end the world. 

Then it blows. Not entirely, but the meddling of DARPA Dave causes the side caves to flood with lava and Dave and his team die. It’s a terrible commotion and it prevents Joe from actually leaving. He comes back, finds Jane and tells her they have to execute the plan right away. The use her secret caves to get close to the thing and realize the only way to solve the problem is to get a crazy amount of water to the source right away. How do you do that? You blow up Lower Falls Waterfall. The resulting torrent of water will neutralize the active portion of the Volcano. 

They go to do it and there is some hair-raising action as they try to plant charges and escape. In the end the plan works and they narrowly escape. The Volcano blows, changing the landscape of Yellowstone forever, but the water changes how it erupts–no explosion, but there is lava runoff that spreads across the national park. In the end Jane and Joe are on an island with water rushing around them and into a wasteland of lava below. They kiss and that is the end.

A story handled in 40 minutes. Nothing left but the writing.