Furthermore, it may not have been a pretty win against Dak Prescott and the Cowboys. Two incomplete passes to OBJ left the Giants with a third and goal with the game on the line. Although the numbers weren’t staggering (73 yards for Beckham, 34 for Cruz), the prospect of star pass-catchers on either side of Manning bodes well for the Giants. “But I tell you one thing, come October 16, when he play the Green Bay Packers we going to have to take you down, I’m sorry”.
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“No, to be honest with you, but I’m excited to have that opportunity”, Cruz said after the win. Some experts blamed Bryant, some blamed Cowboys offensive coordinator Scott Linehan, and some blamed Prescott. In a game that was dominated by the Dallas Cowboys as far as time-of-possession, the Giants were able to pull through on the back of quarterback Eli Manning who threw for three touchdown passes.
“Learn from the experience and get back to work”, Garrett said.
“I was just doing my best to get the team in a position to kick a field goal, but obviously I should have just followed the rules and gotten out of bounds”. He has to learn to be patient and wait for his blocks to take place before trying to run the ball. Romo broke a bone in his back in a preseason game at Seattle. “I thought the entire game he was very poised”. And you got the same, old, thing. “We’ve all played in games where sun or weather was a factor and my experience has been that it’s a factor for both teams and everybody who’s out there”. He only ran twice for 12 yards. They were a better running team when Alfred Morris was in the game. But Dez didn’t catch it, and Miles lost it in the lights, and Romo threw it to the other team, and on and on the list goes. Instead, Ole Miss Alum Eli Manning brought the Giants to victory.
The sole negative for Jenkins on Sunday was a facemask penalty that led to a Cowboys first down.
“You couldn’t even describe what was going through my body”, said Cruz after the game. That on any QB is a lot of pressure, and that was put on the Prescott several times. They’re a living, breathing experiment worth more than a billion dollars designed meticulously not to win football games, but to cause their fans the most anguish.
While McAdoo refused to say who would call the plays before the opener, it seemed clear it was him.
The reality is he ran and did what they asked him to do. The run game could have certainly helped him.
This was not just a feel good story. I think I did well for the most part. Dan Bailey had kicked a 56-yarder earlier easily, after all. Drives stalled and the Cowboys settled for field goals when they should have scored touchdowns, but that was more the play-calling rather than the play execution.
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Set up deep in NY territory, the Cowboys marched in for Elliott’s score that gave them a 16-13 edge.
