The Giants have misplaced video games this season, however not like this.
Effectively, they really didn't lose a recreation on Sunday. It solely felt like they did.
“It simply feels, I don’t know, it’s like blah, you recognize?’’ outdoors linebacker Oshane Ximines mentioned. “It sucks, since you didn’t win and so it looks like a loss to me.’’
Yeah. Blah. That about sums it up.
When Graham Gano’s desperation 58-yard field-goal try fell far quick, the Giants walked off the sphere at MetLife Stadium with a weird and unfulfilling 20-20 time beyond regulation tie with the Commanders. Nobody carrying blue knew precisely really feel and everybody carrying blue agreed that they weren't happy in any approach, form or kind about what transpired on a day stuffed with way more frustration than satisfaction.
“Don’t really feel good, it sucks,’’ mentioned Saquon Barkley, who struggled mightily after halftime. “Acquired a bitter style in your mouth after a tie. Appears like a loss.’’
It was the primary tie for the Giants since Nov. 23, 1997, after they left the sphere even with Washington 7-7 in a recreation at FedEx Area finest remembered for quarterback Gus Frerotte head-butting the wall behind the zone and giving himself a concussion after scoring a landing.
This recreation left the Giants equally woozy.
They trailed 10-0 within the first quarter and took a 20-13 lead on Daniel Jones’ 6-yard landing go to Isaiah Hodgins with 11:34 remaining within the third quarter. The Giants didn't handle to seek out one other level the remainder of the best way.
The Giants (7-4-1) halted their dropping streak at two video games and made certain the Commanders (7-5-1) stayed in final place within the NFC East. So there’s that. There was not a lot else.
Jones accomplished 25 of 31 passes for 200 yards and was the Giants’ main rusher with 71 yards. Barkley (18-63) scored a speeding landing within the second quarter however couldn't get untracked after halftime, speeding seven occasions for under 3 yards.
This recreation was a marked distinction from the daring approach coach Brian Daboll operated earlier this season. At occasions, he appeared to be making an attempt to navigate round his lackluster offense. The Giants had three possessions in time beyond regulation, and it was ugly stuff. The second collection was promising, as a reception and run by Barkley produced a primary down and back-to-back catches by Hodgins received the Giants close to midfield. An unpleasant third-down play — Jones bumped into Barkley and Richie James within the backfield — arrange fourth-and-3 from the Washington 45-yard line.
“There was a miscommunication there. That was a play that we have to do higher at,’’ Daboll mentioned of the third-down atrocity.
Daboll opted to punt the ball away, with 1:42 remaining in OT. Was he enjoying for a tie?
“To punt it and put them down there, I assumed our protection had an opportunity to maintain them down there and perhaps get the ball again with, name it, 35 seconds — someplace round there, someplace round midfield and provides ourselves one other probability,’’ Daboll mentioned, “quite than should you don’t get it after which they kick a discipline purpose, and so they had been going with the wind, in order that’s the choice I made.’’
Clearly, Daboll had no confidence in his offense discovering a method to get the three yards wanted to increase the possession. It practically paid off when Kayvon Thibodeaux stormed in for a blindside sack of Taylor Heinicke on the Washington 2-yard line, however the ball didn't come free.
“I’m stunned however the man will get paid, the man’s not gonna let that ball go,’’ Thibodeaux mentioned. “We all know the ball is the cash.’’
The Giants certainly received the ball again, on their very own 43-yard line, with 28 seconds remaining. They received to the Washington 40 earlier than Gano got here up quick with a kick that will have been a franchise file had he made it.
Thibodeaux known as his first-ever tie recreation “tremendous random’’ and described an unsettling feeling.
“Simply wanting round like, you didn’t even understand it was over,’’ he mentioned. “It was like ‘all proper, it’s over, everybody can go away now.’ And we simply walked out.’’
There's a lot for the Giants to look again on and shake their heads. They received an enormous carry from the return of outdoor linebacker Azeez Ojulari however couldn't maintain the seven-point lead within the fourth quarter. The Commanders put collectively a 90-yard drive and when follow squad call-up Zyon Gilbert couldn't cowl or sort out Jahan Dotson throughout the center, Dotson scored on a 28-yard catch-and-run to tie the sport at 20 with 1:45 left in regulation.
The Giants had possibilities to win it. Darius Slayton, who performed effectively, was open however couldn't come away with a leaping seize that will have put his crew in field-goal vary. Halfway via the fourth quarter, Slayton caught a go for 12 yards to the Washington 35-yard line however middle Jon Feliciano was known as for a taunting penalty when he celebrated the catch with a flex pose directed at Slayton, however deemed to be too near Commanders gamers.
“We’re all fairly disillusioned with the consequence,’’ Jones mentioned. “Definitely not the one we had been in search of.’’
Post a Comment