Aside from Beckham, arguably the biggest takeaway from Monday’s game is that the Giants finally held onto a 4th-quarter lead. With the New York Giants win over the Miami Dolphins on Monday Night football, the league has decided that the December 27, 2015 game between the Giants and Vikings will a be prime time match-up. When pride was on the line, Miami didn’t show much of it. Last night Miami played a decent game but decent games don’t win you games.
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Odell Beckham Jr played a starring role as the New York Giants beat the Miami Dolphins 31-24 to join the tie for first place in the NFC East. Often known for having an anemic offense, Miami brought it against NY.
“We knew we needed a win”, Manning said. When you throw the same number of touchdowns as incompletions I would say you had a pretty good day.
There are professional athletes and coaches who are relatively nonchalant and indifferent when losses begin to mount, but today it was clear that the losses are beginning to take their toll on Campbell. He fell to 4-5 since taking over, and his team must dig deep for motivation in the final three games.
Campbell said health wasn’t an issue for former Pro Bowl cornerback Brent Grimes, who has played poorly of late. With Miami’s loss, New England clinched the AFC East title. It’s now a three-way tie in the NFC East between the Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles and the Giants.
Manning finished the game with a quarterback passer rating of 151.5, marking his best performance since the 2009 season.
FESTIVITIES: In celebration of the franchise’s 50th season, the Dolphins introduced their 50 greatest players at halftime. Manning rolled out of the pocket and found Beckham in the front corner of the end zone, falling out of bounds.
That’s right, Beckham’s 173 receptions and 2,528 receiving yards are the most ever recorded by a receiver through 25 games, while his 24 touchdown receptions have him second all-time.
Dec 14, 2015; Miami Gardens, FL, USA; New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
The treatments, which Beckham said was the “same juice in the Space Jam that they put in the Space Jam bottle” obviously worked, even if it meant Beckham had to miss a few plays while the IV made its way into his body.
Beckham missed one series when he went to the locker room due to cramps in both calves, but didn’t let that slow him down.
On their first score, the Dolphins took advantage of a blitz by Giants safety Craig Dahl. “The rest of them are playoff games for us.”- Odell Beckham JR. “We’re responsible for it. But now we’ll find out who really loves it and who wants to finish this thing out, and who wants to play for the logo on their helmet and the name on the back of their jersey”. It appeared Taylor thought he would have help over the top from strong safety Reshad Jones, but Jones said that wasn’t the case. Overall, Carolina has surrendered 20 or more standard fantasy points to opposing wide receivers in four of their past seven games. “He’s just continuing to do what he does”. However, Tannehill threw over Landry’s head.
“This is the first that I’ve heard of, that he was OK to go in the second (half), if that’s what he told you guys”, Campbell said.
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The team also didn’t seem to want to stick with the run-which seemed to be working most of the time. Lamar Miller rushed for 89 yards but carried only 12 times, and Campbell said he was nursing a sore ankle in the second half. Dolphins CB Bobby McCain went into the concussion protocol.
