Giants lose to the Packers 35-13.
Eli Manning was 16-of-29 for 211 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT.
Jared Lorenzen was 3-of-5 for 21 yards.
Anthony Wright was 1-of-6 for 12 yards.
Derrick Ward rushed for 90 yards on 15 carries and caught 4 passes for 35 yards..
Jeremy Shockey caught 5 passes for 60 yards.
Amani Toomer caught 2 passes for 48 yards.
Anthony Mix caught 3 passes for 39 yards.
Plaxico Burress caught 2 passes for 32 yards and 1 Touchdown.
Lawrence Tynes missed on a 34 yard FG attempt and made 48 and 32 yarders.

Game Notes:
"If you made it to the stadium today, you got to see a great quarterback play the game and what looks to be another in the making. Brett Favre won the 149th game of his long career, and that might not have happened if Eli Manning's performance wasn't degraded by some of his own teammates along the way. Manning is great to watch in person, and you can almost feel the attitude difference in Eli from the previous years.
There were a lot of highs and lows in this game. On the first play of the game, Jeremy Shockey caught the first pass for 19 yards. Derrick Ward ran for 19 yards on the next play. The refs added on 15 more yards for roughing up Plaxico, and already the Giants were at the Green Bay 18 yard line. Forgetting that Derrick Ward isn't really Tiki Barber, they ran him on the next two plays and passed to him on the next for a total gain of just 2 yards. Tynes 34 yard field goal try on a bad snap missed and the Giants came away with no points.
Other highs and lows were Green Bay missing a field goal on their next possession. Gibril Wilson running into their kicker in the 2nd quarter followed by Gibril Wilson intercepting Brett Favre on the very next play. Eli Manning completing a pass to Amani Toomer for 40 yards followed by a 26 yard touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress to tie the score at 7-7. Following that, Shockey caught a 19 yard pass, and a 14 yard pass for a first down at the Green Bay 16 yard line, but it got taken away when he punch-spiked the ball to the ground. The Giants had to settle for a field goal and a 10-7 lead at the half.
The Packers went ahead 14-10 on their first possession in the 3rd quarter, helped along by a Sam Madison penalty. There was a gutsy 25 yard punt return by Reuben Droughns. Derrick Ward ran for 26 yards even after taking a good hit. A penalty on Amani Toomer killed this drive, and Tynes kicked a field goal to cut Green Bay's lead to 14-13. Brett Favre went 9-9 for 75 yards and and his touchdown pass made it 21-13. The Giants fumbled the kickoff, and Brett Favre took over at the Giants 22 yard line and soon threw for another touchdown (28-13). With about seven minutes left in the game, Eli Manning got the Giants down to the Packers 33 yard line, but was intercepted while throwing the ball away.
After Green Bay's next touchdown (35-13) Jared Lorenzen came in, and after he was roughed up, Anthony Wright came in and that was it."

Game Notes:
"On the positive side, Eli Manning looked healthy despite all the shoulder concerns and he played like he was in midseason form. On the downside, some of the veteran guys he should count on played like rookies. Names like Jeremy Shockey, Amani Toomer, and Plaxico Burress all drew penalties that hurt. On defense, 'We are going to improve,' Giants coach Tom Coughlin said earlier this week. "We are going to play better this week and we are going to put ourselves into position to have a chance to play good solid defense again."
Well, the defense only gave up 35 points this game instead of 45 the week earlier, so I guess you could call that an improvement. Osi Umenyiora was back in the lineup, and Michael Strahan had an extra week to get back in football shape, but Strahan was credited with 1 tackle compared to 4 tackles and 1 assist last week.
Strahan didn't announce his retirement in the offseason, but is he retired now? Maybe he was too much in awe of being on the same field as Brett Favre. "He's the most competitive, I wouldn't say quarterback, I'd say football player out there," Michael Strahan said earlier this week.
Here's some more numbers that are hard to take:
Record through 4 games (% of teams in playoffs) 0-4 (1.8%), 1-3 (15.8%), 2-2 (35.6%), 3-1 (65.2%), 4-0 (83.7%). Looking ahead, the Giants will be catching Washington coming off a short week next Sunday. Maybe Tom Coughlin will have the defense improve even more, and maybe Eli Manning's core group will play like veterans.

Brett Favre now has 149 wins in his 17-year career, one more than Hall of Famer John Elway.
Brett Favre completed his first 14 passes of the second half.

This Giants loss was the second straight, something that hasn't happened at the start of a season since 1996 -- the year Dan Reeves got fired.

This is the first time the Giants have given up at least 35 points in back-to-back games since 1973.

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