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Give the Manning brothers this: n deadpanned that Drew Brees had ended the happiest stint of his life by breaking his career passing yards record Monday night B.J. Goodson Color Rush Jersey , and Eli had his own crack when asked about Odell Beckham Jr.’s scathing interview in which he criticized his quarterback, his city, his team and his coach, to name a few.When Brees broke his record for most career passing yards Monday night in the Saints‘ 43-19 rout of Washington, a congratulatory message from Peyton, a New Orleans native whose father, Archie, starred for the Saints, played on the Superdome’s video boards.Shown slicing tomatoes, Manning said with a straight face that his time as the career yards passing leader had been “the greatest thousand days of my life.”“Thanks to you, that’s over now,” Manning continued as the laughter erupted in the stands. “You’ve ruined that for me.“Also, let this serve as the congratulations for the touchdown record because as you can see I’m very busy,” Manning added. “I don’t have time to keep doing these videos for you.”Brees has 499 TD throws, one fewer than Tom Brady and 40 fewer than Peyton, who wasn’t able to make it to New Orleans on Monday, a day after cheering on the Colorado Rockies in the NL Division Series at Coors Field.Earlier Monday, Eli made it clear he hadn’t seen the interview ESPN played Sunday morning in which Beckham, sitting next to rapper Lil Wayne in an odd optic, steamrolled the Giants, the city, his coach and his quarterback.Manning was asked for his reaction Aldrick Rosas Color Rush Jersey , Eli said, “I don’t watch Lil Wayne much.”Like his brother, who turned serious in congratulating Brees, Eli went on to say he thinks his relationship with Beckham is fine and he was glad the star receiver had addressed the team the night before their game against the Panthers.Beckham has taken a lot of heat for his comments but said he doesn’t regret anything he said.And he had a breakout game against Carolina, catching eight passes for 138 yards and a touchdown and throwing a 57-yard TD pass to running back Saquon Barkley after receiving a lateral from his quarterback.Eli Manning led the Giants back from an 11-point, fourth-quarter deficit and put them ahead with a last-minute score only to watch Carolina’s Graham Gano kick a 63-yard field goal with 1 second remaining to send the Panthers to a 33-31 win that left the Giants at 1-4.Beckham had complained that the Giants don’t throw the deep pass, but they had six pass plays longer than 20 yards against the Panthers, including Beckham’s long TD throw to Barkley and his 33-yard TD catch from Manning.NBC analyst Rodney Harrison suggested Beckham shouldn’t be criticizing his coach and his quarterback after signing a five-year extension in the offseason that could be worth up to $95 million.“You pay a guy $65 million guaranteed, you expect him to be a leader,” Harrison said, “Or at least a positive influence in that locker room.”Other takeaways from Week 5 included T.J. Watt’s second three-sack performance of the season, Marshawn Lynch again getting ignored at the 1-yard line and watching his team pay the price and Steelers coach Mike Tomlin lashing out at the league after the roughing-the-passer tally topped 50 for the season. BIG LIL BROTHER T.J. Watt’s move to the left side of Pittsburgh’s defense has made all the difference for the younger brother of Texans star J.J. Watt.On Sunday, the second-year linebacker sacked Matt Ryan three times, had three tackles for loss among his team-high eight stops and forced a fumble.Then, he went home and tuned in to watch his big brother record a sack and a tackle for loss in the Texans’ 19-16 win over the Cowboys. DEJA VU Now both the Seattle Seahawks and Oakland Raiders have done it, although on very different stages.With the Raiders at the Chargers’ 1-yard line, Derek Carr was intercepted by Melvin Ingram.“I done seen it happen to me on the game’s biggest stage,” Lynch told ESPN. “Now it’s happened in a regular season game.”In Super Bowl 49, Russell Wilson was picked off by Malcom Butler from the 1 with less than 30 seconds left when the Seahawks decided to throw the ball instead of handing off to Lynch while trailing the Patriots 28-24. FLAG FOOTBALL With Watt and Jon Bostic getting whistled for roughing the passer in the Falcons-Steelers game, Tomlin has had it with the league’s emphasis on protecting the passer this season, an effort that has resulted in inconsistent calls and game-changing flags on seemingly textbook tackles .“We’ve got to get better as a National Football League,” said Tomlin Janoris Jenkins Color Rush Jersey , who serves on the league’s competition committee that sought ways to better protect QBs this season. “Man, these penalties are costing people games and their jobs. We’ve got to get them correct.”Tomlin could face a fine over his criticism of those calls. The New York Giants, and their fans, are riding high after beating division rival Washington Redskins 40-16. Moving on from that win, the Giants face an interesting matchup in the Tennessee Titans. In some ways, this is something of a “mirror match” (to borrow a term from fighting games in which the player has to fight the same character as they are playing, only with a different color palate) as the Titans run a similar defensive scheme.Their defensive coordinator, Dean Pees, has about as an attractive coaching pedigree as you could possibly ask for from a defensive coordinator. In the college ranks he twice coached under Nick Saban (as a position coach and defensive coordinator), and in the NFL he was a defensive line and later linebackers coach, then defensive coordinator for Bill Belichick, and was the defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens. Pees calls a “multiple” blitzing defense in the same vein as the Giants’ James Bettcher. It is a defense with players and wrinkles for which the Giants will need to be ready, but it is also a defense with matchups the Giants can exploit.Stats that matterGiants’ offenseTitans’ defenseGet the passing game going earlyThe talk this week has been that the Giants’ offense now runs through Saquon Barkley, and the rookie has certainly stepped up recently. With Odell Beckham Jr. perhaps missing another game this Sunday, Barkley will again be the focal point. That being said, the Giants need to get their passing game going early. While the Titans have one of the league’s best pass defenses in terms of raw stats, ranking eighth in passing yards per game, Football Outsiders ranks them as one of the worst teams in the league at covering wide receivers. Tennessee ranks a poor 25th in the league against “number two” receivers, and 24th against “all other receivers”. However, against “number one” receivers — of which the Giants have one of the very best in the league — they rank dead last at 32nd. Meanwhile, the Titans rank 13th in the league in run defense, and fourth in the league in covering passes to running backs. Unfortunately Riley Dixon Color Rush Jersey , Beckham’s presence on the field is in serious question with him seeking a second opinion on his bruised quad. If Beckham doesn’t play, we can expect some combination of Sterling Shepard, Evan Engram, Saquon Barkley, and Corey Coleman to try and pick up the slack. As mentioned before, Tennessee is not great at covering secondary receivers, which bodes well for Shepard and Coleman (as well as Bennie Fowler and whoever else the Giants line up at receiver). The Titans are good at covering tight ends and running backs, but neither Engram nor Barkley are anything like the usual breed of player at those positions. Both players can line up and run routes from anywhere in the offensive formation, and in doing so present the kind of match-up problems which keep defensive coordinators up at night. Pat Shurmur just needs to make use of them.All season long the Giants have neglected to take advantage of favorable positional matchups. However, with the Giants potentially clinging to the hope of a spot in the post-season after an absolutely atrocious start to their regular season, they can’t afford to keep passing up favorable matchups when faced with quality opponents.Keep Eli Manning uprightThis subhead has been evergreen this year, and it’s also something the Giants haven’t done a great job of.The Giants are tied for third-worst in the NFL with Manning being sacked 43 times this season, and he has been hit 81 times through 14 games. Even with improvement along the offensive line, Manning was still pressured on nearly 30 percent of his passing attempts against the Washington Redskins. This week they face a defense which seemingly revels in sending pressure from unpredictable sources. The Titans’ top sack artist is DT Jurrell Casey with 7.0 on the season. Casey, rookie EDGE Harold Landry (2.5), and 2018 addition Kamalei Correa (2.5) are the only defensive linemen or EDGE rushers with more than two sacks. By contrast, they have four interior linemen or defensive backs who have at least 2.0 sacks (three of whom have 3.0 or more), and two more defensive backs with at least one sack. As you might expect from a defense coordinated by a coach with Dean Pees’ pedigree, the Titans love to mix and match alignments and coverages, and the Giants’ offensive line not only has to win its battles up front, but the linemen, tight ends Mario Edwards Jr Color Rush Jersey , and running backs need to keep their heads on a swivel. There will be pressure coming from unexpected sources, as well as pressure apparently vanishing after the snap. Spotlighting Jayon BrownIf there is one player, other than Casey, worth spotlighting in this defense, it is second-year linebacker Jayon Brown. Drafted in the fifth round out of UCLA, Brown came in to the league as an unheralded “tweener” — an inside linebacker with the size of a safety. He showed some upside in his rookie year but has truly blossomed under Dean Pees. Already this season he has 76 tackles, 8 tackles for a loss, 3 passes defensed, 6.0 sacks, and 10 quarterback hits. As you would expect from a linebacker who is all of 6 feet, 220 pounds, he is fluid in coverage and a bit part of why the Titans are seventh against tight ends and fourth against running backs in the passing game. Brown might not be a game wrecker like Aaron Donald, Khalil Mack, or J.J. Watt, but he is an ascending player who offenses need to recognize and account for. If the Giants are able to diagnose whether he is in man or zone coverage (as well as the defense as a whole), they can use concepts designed to target the weaknesses of those defenses. If they choose to go after Brown and try to take one of the defense’s best players out of the game, making him the read player in RPOs (that is, the player who is forced into conflict between covering a pass or playing the run), could put more stress on the rest of the defense, as well as make sure Brown can’t be “right.”