World News – USA – Giants stumble on victory to maintain playoff hopes

The wrong season of the Giants had a fitting end. Now the team is waiting for the result of the Sunday night game between Philadelphia and Washington to learn the fate of the playoffs.

Perhaps it’s no surprise that a regular season for the Giants, which began with five straight losses, one win in their first eight games, and a mind-boggling attack on the playoffs late in the season, wasn’t with a routine, humble game ends. No, this perverted Giants season deserves to end with gripping drama, slapstick failure and, ultimately, gratifying perseverance.

Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys with a possible postseason berth did not disappoint. In a frantic way, the Giants spent most of the second half desperately clinging to a weak 11-point first-half lead they had built.

The tension built up through the final 58 seconds of regulation, with the tumbling giants still 4 points ahead as the game officers huddled and then turned to a video replay to decide what would happen at the end of a pile had through a shocking, awkward fumble with Wayne Gallman running back at the Giants’ 39-yard line.

Several players from both teams pounced on Gallman as he appeared awkwardly right on top of the loose soccer ball that had inexplicably slipped from his hands at the end of a crucial run. And when officers combed through the mass of twisted bodies on top of him, there was only more confusion about the outcome when two officers initially pointed in separate directions – one loaned Dallas the property, the other the giants. Moments later, officials deliberated and decided that not only had the Giants kept the soccer ball, but that Gallman had first picked up a key that would allow them to lose the remaining watch.

Nonetheless, there was a final, excruciating recheck, after which the call to the field was not undone. The Giants (6-10) had a 23-19 win that ended the team’s loss to Dallas (6-10) in seven games and temporarily kept their playoff hopes alive. If the Philadelphia Eagles defeat Washington Football Team on Sunday night, the Giants will become champions of the N.. . F.. . C.. . East, would host a wildcard game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next weekend (11-5).

The fumble and who restored it wasn’t the only controversial late-game sequence in the game on Sunday. After about seven minutes in the fourth quarter, Giants wide receiver Dante Pettis scored a 10-yard pass, which proved crucial when Giants square kicker Graham Gano scored a 50-yard field goal on the next game that put the Giants ahead expanded 23-19. However, video reruns of the Pettis reception indicated the soccer ball was contacting the turf in a way that would have classified the pass as incomplete. Although an incompleteness would have put the Giants out of the field goal position, Dallas coach Mike McCarthy did not challenge the game.

The Pettis catch and the Gano field goal he set became significant in later possession when Dallas drove within the Giants’ 10-yard line in less than two minutes. While the Cowboys were pushed back when quarterback Andy Dalton was fired by Giants lineman Leonard Williams, without Gano’s field goal they could have played conservatively for a field goal attempt that would have given them the lead. Instead, Dalton needed a touchdown, threw himself on a third-and-17 and again, under pressure from Williams, threw a desperate pass into the end zone, which was intercepted by Xavier McKinney, the Giants’ rookie security guard.

McCarthy said he did not challenge the Pettis reception because it was « too close » and a « bang-bang situation ». He added: “The three timeouts were obviously of great value there. ”

About 15 minutes after Sunday’s game, Giants coach Joe Judge said he wouldn’t be idle as he waited for the result of the game between the Eagles and Washington. The judge planned to go to his office and prepare for Tampa Bay.

« Our season has shown we have had a lot of growth, » said Judge, the Giants’ rookie head coach. “I learned more about our team when we were 0-5 and 1-7. We showed a lot of character in those moments. ”

Richter added, “I told the boys how proud I am of them today. We’ve had a good year – we’ve improved every game. ”

« I knew it was going to go crazy like all of our division games, » said Judge.

The game didn’t start out as if it would be hotly contested until the end. The giants dominated early on, defensively and most surprisingly on the offensive.

Though the Giants only scored 26 points in their last three games, they scored a touchdown on their opening run when wide receiver Sterling Shepard darted back 23 yards from the right end, despite Gano missing the extra point attempt after the result. The Cowboys reduced the Giants lead with a 38-yard field goal from Greg Zuerlein, but Shepard starred in yet another Giants touchdown ride when he received a 10-yard touchdown pass from Giants late in the second quarter. Quarterback Daniel Jones caught.

Dallas stayed in the game with two more field goals from Zürlein in the first half, but the Giants kept attacking, building a 20-6 lead on a 33-yard touchdown pass from Jones, who made 17 of 25 passes for 229 meters to Pettis.

At halftime, the Cowboys were back in the game, 11 points behind, when Evan Engram, recently selected for the Pro Bowl, failed to score an accurate Jones pass in the middle early in the third quarter. Engram’s misconduct was more than a drop as it deflected the football backwards where it was intercepted by Dallas safety Donovan Wilson. Ten games after the interception, Dallas shot Ezekiel Elliott into the end zone and scored a 1-yard touchdown that reduced the Giants’ lead to 20-16.

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