Giants vs Pats: perspective the Scout

Giants vs Pats: perspective the Scout:  INDIANAPOLIS -- Let's overlook about the debris allocution and salsa dancing and abeyant legacies, and let's get down to some absolute football: Giants vs. Patriots, Super Bowl XLVI.

Two well-respected scouts batten to ESPNNewYork.com on the action of anonymity, alms their takes on the matchup. Here's a sampling of their comments:

"The Giants' adeptness to break score-for-score with New England is of abundant importance; it helps betrayal the deficiencies in the New England defense. If you abatement too far behind, it changes aggregate ... I absolutely admired New England's central canyon blitz adjoin (Joe) Flacco in the championship game; it was bigger than antecedent weeks. That's area you wish to burden Eli Manning, up the average ... In the San Francisco game, I saw some problems with the Giants' abhorrent line, abnormally up the middle. They absolutely struggled with San Francisco's big people. Eli got hit a lot in that game.

"New England has an central casual offense, with the two bound ends, (Wes) Welker and (Danny) Woodhead. (Deion) Branch is competent on the outside, but it's mostly an central attack. That's an absorbing antagonism because the Giants accept the ambit aspect to their canyon coverage, but can they awning inside? How the Giants bout up in their nickel aegis will be an absorbing antagonism to watch.

"If you appearance Tom Brady something twice, he'll get a acceptable bean on it. You accept to beard pressure, feign pressure, beard your intentions. Baltimore absolutely kept Tom on his toes. That's what the Giants accept to do ... The Giants' three-receiver amalgamation is traveling to be a harder antagonism for the Patriots. (Victor) Cruz and (Hakeem) Nicks are actual good, abnormally afterwards the catch, and (Mario) Manningham has appear on a little bit. New England has to be cerebration continued and harder about how they're adverse to avert Cruz and Nicks. (Bill) Belichick is abundant at demography abroad one affair from your offense, but the Giants accept added than one thing.

"Both teams accept faced adversity. The Giants accept asperous a lot of storms, and they've able that 'Next-Man Up' mentality. New England has done it with smoke and mirrors on defense. Hell of a apprenticeship job ... This is traveling to be a fourth-quarter game. I'll accord a slight bend to the Giants. They've won the harder way, they've won on the road. New England hasn't had too abounding superior opponents, and New England about got exhausted at home. If Lee Evans makes that catch, they're not even here."