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As Beanie Wells danced into the end zone with 5:17 left to put the Cardinals up 27-17 with his third rushing touchdown of the day, all hope of a Giants victory seemed lost. The Pass protection was pitiful. The defense couldn't stop the run. The Giants offense looked flat and couldn't generate points.

But never say never.

Hope for a fourth quarter comeback is never just something to imagine when Eli Manning is you're quarterback. With some special teams help from Aaron Ross, Eli lead the offense down the field with only about a minute taken off the clock. After an amazing catch by Ballard the Giants still had a shot down 27-24.

Fittingly, the Giants defense rose up and Arizona had to give the Gmen the rock. Then would you look at that, Eli did it again. He led another drive down the field and found Hakeem Nicks with about a minute left in the ball game to take the lead 31-27. Just to make this game even more dramatic the Cardinals were knocking on the Giants doorstep after a drive of their own to the Giants 30 yard line. But after Osi Umenyiora's second sack of the day in his season debut, Corey Webster said NO SIR to Larry Fitzgerald on 4th and 2. Ball game. Giants win. Awesome.

With the game on the line, you will almost always get Eli's best game. Anybody that's ever had a problem with Eli, their argument (if they even still have one), is getting very thin. Here's a guy that had little to no pass protection the entire game. The run game was not having very much success either. Not once does he complain. Instead he bears down and finds a way to put a W on the board. And not once did he throw an interception despite the pressure the Cardinals were getting on him.

For all of you stat freaks out there, lets take a look a look at Eli's numbers for the first quarter of the Giants 2011 season:

Eli Manning: 8 Pass TDs, 1 Rush TD, 2 INTs, QBR 105.6

Right now Mr. Manning is on the pace to throw 4, 264 yards, 32 touchdowns, and 8 interceptions. This is all despite losing Boss and Smith to free agency, Domenik Hixon to injury, and all of the changes to the Oline. He's flat out getting it done. But hey, NEWSFLASH he always has. This doesn't come as a surprise to me one bit. Eli's a winner and we've done one thing since him and Coughlin came to our beloved franchise: we've won football games.

Lets keep the ball rolling. With our division rivals down in the dumps lets put our foot on the throat early. This is our division, this is Giants football.

Time to fry us up some Seahawk next week...