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The Giants were totally manhandled yesterday which is just about the only good thing about this football season

Interesting comments coming from barber that I heard that one of the many reasons the Giants lost were that the Giants were outcoached-nice respect for your coach Tiki

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NY POST

JINTS RIP COACHES

By PAUL SCHWARTZ

Standing behind a lectern, analyzing a game he wanted to forget, Tiki Barber, in full public view yesterday, stated, "I think in some ways we were out-coached," and later willingly explained precisely why.

A few minutes later, off to the side, after posing for pictures, greeting family and friends and receiving a big hug from his wife, Ginny, Barber was asked again about his critique of the Giants coaching staff.

"It was obvious," he said. "They knew what we were doing. We didn't adjust."

It was the most stinging but hardly the only abuse heaped on the strategies employed by the Giants in their desultory 23-0 playoff loss to the Panthers at Giants Stadium. Players far and near in the locker room sprinkled frustration with their own shoddy performance along with disgust at the game plan they were handed, and the inability of the Giants to alter an approach that clearly wasn't working.

"We knew they were going to try to stop the run," Amani Toomer said. "I just felt like we didn't adjust quickly enough. I don't know what happened."

The worst game of the season for Barber (13-41) came after the Panthers, predictably enough, brought safety Mike Minter near the line of scrimmage, adding an extra defender to contain a running back who gained 1,860 yards and finished fourth in the league's MVP voting. As a result, Toomer and Plaxico Burress were often left in single coverage against the talented Carolina cornerbacks.

Burress did not have a catch and was thrown to one time.

"That's just a testament to our game plan not being the right one," Barber said.

Knowing Panthers coach John Fox

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