– Dan Graziano, ESPN.comIt (the loss) spoiled one of the greatest regular-season games of Manning’s life in the city where he grew up and now is 0-3 as a pro.
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It was certainly an epic shootout in New Orleans between the New York Giants and the Saints. He compounded the apparent error when he was flagged for a face-mask penalty, setting up the winning kick on Forbath’s first field goal attempt with New Orleans, which signed him before last week’s victory at Indianapolis. “Thirty-six seconds – we had to convert on that third-and-5”.
The Giants have found brutal ways to lose games before, and this one felt as bad as any of them.
As Forbath’s game-winner floated over the cross bar, Giants defensive end Damontre Moore slammed down his helmet on the turf. New Orleans’ defense, coached by Spagnuolo’s replacement, Rob Ryan, came in ranked 30th and gave up 416 yards, above its average of 404.9. “Frustrating. You want to explode, but that is not going to help”. Usually, they stop coming.
“We made a few mistakes in coverage, didn’t get enough pressure on the quarterback”, Coughlin said. “We just weren’t on the same page in the secondary, and it showed”. That game was the momentum the Giants used to start their run to win the Super Bowl the following year.
Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco completed 25 of 37 passes for 319 yards. “Why not 40?'” Brees said.
“I think we adjusted well”, Anthony said.
A look at seven statistical highlights from games played at 1:00 p.m. ET and 4:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, November 1, the eighth week of the 2015 season. “To be on the winning end of it and keep a three-game streak alive at the midway point of the season is something special”. Marcus Murphy returned the punt 24 yards and then lost the ball, but Snead recovered it at the Giants’ 47-yard-line with five seconds left.
“Man, (I’ve) never been a part of something like that”, Drew Brees said after the game. “They had their backs to me and they were huddled, the officials, and I didn’t even know what the penalty was”.
Who could have known that after that winless start, the Saints would win three consecutive games for the first time since November 2013 and four out of five and still have an opportunity to make something of their season when they reached the midway point. Wing may have been better served punting the ball out of bounds.
We love Brad Wing, who has been a dynamite acquisition and has regularly pinned the opposition deep with his surgical punts. “We’ve got a good bit of football left to play”. They would have had 5 seconds left had we covered it. It would have been beyond midfield. And with eight games still to play, the players are confident they will improve their performance.
The Giants could not get it to overtime, not even after putting 49 points on the board – enough to win every previous game in the 91-year history of the franchise, but not this one.
Brees’ 511 yards were the most by a quarterback against the Giants in history.
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If Kirk Cousins came flying into your living room in the middle of the Giants-Saints game on Sunday, you would scream “YES I DO LIKE THAT” right back at him, because it was probably the most entertaining, points-filled bonanza of a football game you’ve likely ever seen. Bridgewater shook off a first-play sack, ran for 19 yards then hit 4-of-5 passes, including the 40-yard scoring strike to electrifying wideout Stefon Diggs. But he also threw one interception and also threw a hospital pass to Willie Snead that was basically an INT, but which was called a fumble when Snead was jacked by Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Trumain McBride brought it back for a touchdown. The Packers quarterback couldn’t manage to make anything happen through the air as they finished with only 77 passing yards while the ground game was no better.
