00:05there are losses and then there are really really tough losses and what the Giants went
00:10through Thursday night was one of those really really really tough losses a lot of lead changes
00:15if I would have told you in the fourth quarter the Giants would take the lead on an incredible
00:20J.J. McCarthy to Isaiah Likely 66-yard touchdown pass with a little over eight minutes to go and
00:26then after that the Giants would intercept Jaden Daniels not once but twice down the stretch in
00:33the last five or so minutes Jaden Daniels the commander's quarterback who hadn't thrown an
00:38interception all season that the Giants would get him twice you would say well wow that is a great
00:44Giants victory it should have been 21-17 Giants victory it was not and the reason I think it was
00:50not a victory is because after the defense got the ball back twice to their offense on two separate
00:57possessions the Giants went three and out you can't do that it's not about clock management it's about
01:03winning the game on offense they did not let J.J. McCarthy throw the ball once three runs on the
01:09first possession one was a failed quarterback sneak by backup quarterback Jameis Winston who comes in to
01:15do those sneaks you got to convert the first down there that's all there is to it and then after
01:20the
01:20second interception by Darius Washington the Giants get the ball they don't need to think about running
01:26out the clock they need to think about getting a first down and ending it and they run it twice
01:31with Cam Scadaboo and then they run it a third time with J.J. McCarthy which was a very poor
01:36idea up on
01:37third and three gets stuff for a two-yard loss and the Giants have to punt it away Jordan Stout
01:43who's
01:44been the best punter in the league has a terrible 12-yard shank punt and away we go Jaden Daniels
01:49given a third chance to win the game goes down the field and scores a touchdown for Stefan Diggs
01:54and even after that the Giants had a little less than a minute left and why were they in such
02:00a rush
02:01it made no sense for the Giants to be in such a rush all they needed the first pass from
02:06McCarthy
02:06to Malachi Fields gets them into Washington territory at that point they have two timeouts left
02:13no rush no calm down right all you need to do is get in position to kick a field goal
02:17and send the game
02:18into overtime except they throw the ball twice down the field the last one is a Hail Mary kind
02:23of a jump ball to Malik Nabors who had a bad game he lost his first fumble of his NFL
02:29career earlier
02:30in the game he goes up Rasul Douglas makes the interception game over so look the Giants are still
02:36in first place they will be in first place no matter what the Cowboys do Sunday against the 49ers
02:41but this was a rough one this is the first time in the John Harbaugh era with the Giants that
02:46they lost
02:46the game in which they were leading in the fourth quarter so you know this is the kind of the
02:51game
02:51where people looked at and say wow this would have happened to the Giants last year right we heard so
02:56much this season that the Giants wouldn't have won this game last year well this is the kind of game
03:00the Giants lost many of the last several years now they've lost another one like this first one for
03:07John Harbaugh the sky is not falling they're still in first place but they got to pick it up because
03:13schedule gets tougher after having this weekend off they played the Jaguars might be one of the
03:18best teams in the league certainly one of the best teams in the AFC so they got to clean it
03:23up
03:23stop having the rookie Dominic Zabonis field goals convert when they need to on offense
03:29and they should be okay but yes there's no question this is a tough one and it stinks
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