00:06you know what's dope about football sometimes you can play a beautiful game and win and sometimes
00:11you gotta win ugly the giants they went into philadelphia on sunday and didn't exactly put
00:16on an offensive master class they had 88 yards in the first half the run game went absolutely
00:22nowhere jj mccarthy he got beat up and left with a hip injury malik neighbors he was frustrated and
00:27yet when the clock hit zero the scoreboard read giants 19 eagles 11 their first win in philadelphia
00:35since 2013 it had been 4 750 days since the giants last road win in the city of brotherly love
00:45and
00:45after further review this kind of victory might tell us more about this team than another blowout win
00:51ever could because the g-men they're starting to learn how to win when their best stuff
00:57isn't working now let's be clear the offense was not good at all early on mccarthy he was sacked five
01:05times before leaving the game devon singletary finished with 31 yards on 21 carries the eagles
01:11they were winning up front the giants couldn't get into any kind of rhythm in this one so
01:16what happens when your offense isn't carrying you well somebody else has to do it enter dominic
01:23remember this is a rookie kicker who had missed five of his previous nine field goal attempts
01:29before the bye week now the giants they didn't panic because he went through a rough stretch
01:35they actually stuck with him and in philly the rookie came up huge going four for four including
01:43makes from 53 and 49 yards 13 points from your kicker in a game where your offense scores
01:50one touchdown that's not a side note that's how you win even when you're not playing your a game
01:57and his special teams partner did his job too yes we're doing this we are talking about a kicker
02:03and a punter this week jordan stout punted six times five of those were down inside the 20 so even
02:11when the giants didn't score they kept making philadelphia play on a long field and then starting
02:17quarterback he goes down and if you're a fan of big blue you had to be thinking man now what
02:23so
02:23this is where team depth stops being something that we can talk about in training camp and starts
02:29winning you games that's exactly what happened here in week nine james winston he comes in cold
02:35third and 15 completes it for 16 fourth and one converts the sneak then later we see him escape
02:41pressure on this drive and he finds darnell mooney for a gain of 27 and then finally to finish the
02:48drive he hits isaiah likely for the five yard touchdown here's winston's numbers on the drive
02:54six of eight 71 yards one touchdown the giants only touchdown of the afternoon so your starter goes down
03:03and then your backup gives you exactly what you need then mccarthy comes back and delivers what might
03:11actually be my favorite play of the game and i'll be honest my reason for liking this play has
03:16absolutely nothing to do with style points here because if i'm keeping it a buck it was not pretty
03:22at all in the fourth quarter here's the situation third and 10 giants are up five mccarthy's hip clearly
03:29bothering him the play breaks down and he uses his legs to take off for 11 yards and pick up
03:35the big blue
03:36first down it's a drive that eventually becomes just three more points so no it wasn't a 60 yard
03:42touchdown and it damn sure won't be the first play on a highlight reel but what i saw there was
03:48a
03:49winning play and then we've got to talk about the defense arvel reese he was wrecking havoc on the
03:57field again three sacks 12 tackles and a forced fumble for the rookie now he delivered a strip sack
04:03which came in 2.29 seconds the fastest sack in the nfl this season while his other two sacks they
04:10came
04:10blitzing from inside linebacker now we've already talked this season about what reese can become for
04:16this defense and sunday was definitely more evidence of his ceiling but i don't think that he's the whole
04:22story here the story is that every time something went wrong for the giants well somebody else stepped
04:29up mccarthy he gets hurt winston leads the touchdown drive the offense they can't finish enough drives
04:35zavada makes four field goals you got a punt well scout he keeps pinning philly deep and on the final
04:42play of the game denard wilson he doesn't sit back and pray on a hail mary the giants send six
04:48darius alexander gets home and it's a wrap game over after the game john harbar called it not perfect
04:55football but winning football and i think that's exactly right because after further review this
05:01giants team is starting to show something that doesn't always appear in a box score they don't
05:06need the same guy to save them every week they don't need the offense to score 30 points they don't
05:11need
05:11mccarthy to throw for 300 yards because sometimes the defense has to carry you sometimes your backup
05:18quarterback has to make a drive sometimes your kicker has to be perfect and sometimes your punter
05:24yes your punter has to flip the field and sometimes you just have to find a way to get out
05:29of philly
05:29with a win
