SEATTLE — The Giants entered the fourth quarter Sunday afternoon in a loud, hostile surroundings very removed from residence, but additionally in an especially acquainted predicament.
Trailing. Embroiled in a taut, low-scoring affair. Hanging in with their protection. Needing extra from their offense. Taking place to the wire, once more, with little margin for error.
“We’ve been in that state of affairs greater than as soon as this yr — we clearly thought we have been going to have the ability to make the performs we wanted to win the sport,” receiver Darius Slayton stated.
“We had not performed a fantastic recreation as much as that time however assured in our skill to shut out video games,” Daniel Jones stated.
It doesn't all the time work out that manner.
Treading a tightrope has labored out remarkably nicely for the Giants this season however no workforce can keep upright eternally in such a precarious place with out slipping up. The Giants pulled even at 13 within the fourth quarter however couldn't full one more comeback and fell to the Seahawks 27-13, ending their successful streak at 4 video games.
Two colossal blunders by means of fumbles by punt returner Richie James helped doom the Giants, who head into their bye week at 6-2, a much better document than anybody might have imagined, but displaying warts that have to be addressed within the second half of the season.
“As a competitor you need to win each single recreation however I believe we put ourselves in place to win each single recreation up to now within the season,” Saquon Barkley stated. “Being 6-2, there’s a number of good out of that however there’s additionally quite a bit we will study from it, to be the workforce we need to be.”
Down 13-10, the Giants pulled even on Graham Gano’s 45-yard discipline aim with 11:17 remaining, with Jones’ bullet to Slayton for 21 yards the largest chunk play on the drive.
The Giants weren’t even for lengthy. The Seahawks on their subsequent possession ditched their working recreation, with rookie sensation Kenneth Walker at that juncture restricted to 33 yards on 11 carries. Geno Smith, enjoying the perfect ball of his 10-year profession, went to work. He accomplished all 5 of his passes on a pass-only drive that lined 75 yards, the final 33 on an ideal toss to Tyler Lockett, who badly beat Adoree’ Jackson on a double transfer alongside the fitting sideline for a landing and a 20-13 Seahawks lead.
“That’s a drive the place we have now to bow up and execute,” security Julian Love stated. “They executed nicely and we didn’t. We want to maintain them there.”
Any shot the Giants needed to get their fifth fourth-quarter comeback of the season vanished when James was leveled after hauling in a punt and misplaced the ball on a fumble with 6:04 to go. Two performs later, Walker shed a sort out try by security Xavier McKinney on a 16-yard landing run that put the Giants out of attain.
This was an unsightly offensive displaying by the Giants, as their lone landing got here after they have been arrange on the Seattle 2-yard line after a turnover. Barkley was restricted to 53 yards on 20 dashing makes an attempt and Jones handed for under 176 yards, with the Giants’ deficiencies at broad receiver actually evident.
The Giants got here in having outscored their opponents 58-22 within the fourth quarter this season, but it surely was 14-3 for the Seahawks within the last quarter-hour.
“They only did a greater job than we did,” coach Brian Daboll stated.
The Seahawks struck first after an offense-challenged first quarter by each groups, as Smith hit DK Metcalf — enjoying regardless of a patellar harm he suffered final week — with a 3-yard landing cross early within the second quarter. The Giants have been caught in impartial on offense, wanted a spark and so they bought it — from their particular groups and defensive models.
Jamie Gillan’s 49-yard punt was downed on the Seattle 2-yard line by Justin Layne and the sector place battle changed into nice fortune for the Giants. Lockett caught a brief cross, was hit immediately by cornerback Jackson, who separated Lockett from the ball after which recovered it. Two performs later, Barkley ran it in from a yard out and it was 7-7.
Again-to-back sacks of Smith, by Leonard Williams and blitzing Xavier McKinney, helped the momentum tilt to the Giants, however James’ fumble on the following punt return put the Seahawks on the Giants’ 19-yard line. The protection rose to the problem and restricted the injury to a Jason Myers’ 35-yard discipline aim to place the Seahawks up 10-7 at halftime. Given what transpired with the ball of their possession, the three-point deficit was the perfect the Giants might have hoped for. That they had 46 whole yards and three first downs within the first half.
James’s turnovers price the Giants 10 factors and on his second fumble he was carted off the sector with a concussion.
“Taking good care of the ball is considered one of our foremost targets and clearly we didn’t do it,” Daboll stated. “We bought to repair that.”
Daboll’s low-key public response to the loss was in step with his low-key public response after wins. He is aware of what the Giants have completed and the place they should go.
“I’m not proud of what we did immediately,” Daboll stated, “An extended journey again, quite a bit to repair however we’ll repair it.”
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