The Buffalo Bills stayed alive in the AFC wildcard race with a 30-21 win over the Houston Texans that included three Tyrod Taylor touchdown passes.
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There is also something heartbreaking about the fact that the play resulted in the Giants’ fourth loss this season that came within the last 13 seconds of a game. After all, it’s one thing if the losses were hideously one-sided. Even when we kicked the field goal knowing we still had to get a touchdown, defense gets off the field and we go and score a touchdown. The Jets were down seven points and operating from the Giants 36-yard line.
WR Brandon Marshall on what he said to Fitzpatrick before the Giants’ overtime field goal try…
A lot of things have changed this year for the Jets: They have a new quarterback, a new head coach, a new defense; They’ve welcomed back Darrelle Revis, but Marshall is the biggest difference in this team and is the reason for its success. The New York Giants are a sinking ship in the NFC East, maybe it’s time for a new captain. It was overtime and the civic rival New York Giants were poised to tie the game with a 48-yard field goal.
Every button Coughlin pushes in a crucial situation implodes. The season, and perhaps Tom Coughlin’s tenure as head coach, appear to be winding down.
Is this all his fault? And while there was plenty of blame to go around, a heavy chunk of it belonged to Coughlin. At some point we have to consider how well are the Giants being coached.
“Well it’s December, you got two teams fighting for the right to continue to play into January”, Jenkins said.
In Coughlin’s case, you have to also wonder if four seasons of missing the post-season might be enough to have him out of a job, two Super Bowls over his tenure be damned.
BRONCOS 17, CHARGERS 3 Brock Osweiler threw for one touchdown and Danny Trevathan intercepted Philip Rivers and returned it 25 yards for a score, leading the visiting Denver Broncos to a victory against hapless San Diego. Dwayne Harris was allowed to run back a punt for a touchdown when the Giants sent Odell Beckham Jr.to the field as a returner.
Marshall had to be restrained from going after Jenkins late in the second quarter. The Jets had possession with 2:40 remaining and an opportunity to tie the game, which they did.
After a scoreless third quarter by both teams, the Giants had a chance to put the game away on their first drive of the fourth quarter, a drive that saw the Jets commit two key penalties on third-down attempts. “(Decker) is obviously a seasoned veteran and kind of knows the soft spots just as a quarterback would know the soft spots of some of those zones and was able to do a really nice job in terms of finding them and us being on the same page”.
The decision: Coughlin went for it. It’s instances like that — more than going for it on fourth down and short – that spur whispers about Coughlin’s competence. “We go out and lay an egg next week, then this feeling goes away and you forget about it”. “It didn’t work out, but that’s football”. I think it’s healthy for our team, I think it’s healthy for our offense. Yet after they had turned a 10-point, fourth-quarter lead into a defeat for the fourth time this season Sunday in a 23-20 overtime loss to the Jets, a grimmer, more foreboding wind swept through their half of the Meadowlands. Collins, the Giants’ second-round draft pick this year, leads the team with 76 total tackles (57 solo) following his Week 13 showing against the Jets.
“It was a chance to win the game right there”, Manning said of the fourth-and-2 call. “I’m taking full responsibility for that”.
With four games left, Coughlin’s focus is to turn things around.
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Bowles said of the miles interception, “It was a turning point”. “Didn’t finish. Had opportunities”.
