There’s at all times Thanksgiving.
Daniel Jones threw two interceptions, and the Giants turned the ball over thrice of their worst efficiency of the season, a 31-18 loss to the Detroit Lions inside a chilly and windy MetLife Stadium.
“We’re all pretty disappointed with our effort today and how we played,” Jones stated. “Not up to our standard. Not up to what we’re capable of doing.”
Saquon Barkley was held to 22 dashing yards on 15 carries. Lions operating again Jamaal Williams barreled in for 3 dashing touchdowns.
And the Giants (7-3) misplaced a ton of key gamers to damage: beginning corners Adoree Jackson (knee) and Fabian Moreau (ribs), huge receiver Wan’Dale Robinson (knee, heart Jon Feliciano (neck), proper deal with Tyre Phillips (neck), and security Jason Pinnock (jaw).
“Hard to win a game when you have three turnovers and you don’t get any,” head coach Brian Daboll stated.
The Giants had been the one group within the NFC East to lose on Sunday. The Eagles (9-1), Cowboys (7-3) and Commanders (6-5) all received. The Giants’ playoff odds plummeted from 76% to 51% primarily based on these Week 11 outcomes, per FiveThirtyEight.
Thursday’s Thanksgiving Day NFC East showdown towards the Dallas Cowboys will give Daboll’s group an opportunity to bounce again rapidly. But it’s honest to marvel in the event that they’ll have the ability to proceed battling by means of being some of the injured groups within the league.
“It was a lot,” Barkley stated of what number of teammates went down.
“No one feels sorry for us,” Feliciano stated. “If you dwell and you lose to Dallas, you’re 7-4. You can’t. Gotta keep going.”
The Lions (4-6) scored 14 factors off the Giants’ turnovers: one after Jones’ first interception within the second quarter, and one other after receiver Isaiah Hodgins’ fumble within the fourth. Detroit constructed a commanding 24-6 lead early within the third quarter and by no means regarded again.
Sunday’s loss to Dan Campbell’s Lions featured too many Giants errors: three turnovers, dropped passes, eight penalties, missed tackles, dropped interceptions by Cor’Dale Flott and Julian Love, two missed Graham Gano further factors, a foul Jamie Gillan punt, and a dropped two-point conversion by tight finish Lawrence Cager.
“We didn’t execute the way we wanted, and that’s on us,” Jackson stated. “We can’t harp on it too long because we play in three days. But at the same time keep that taste in your mouth a little bit, understand you don’t like how it ended up.”
Jones accomplished 27-of-44 passes for 341 yards, a TD and two INTs. Robinson had a career-high 9 catches for 100 yards, however Robinson needed to be carried into the locker room — whereas placing no weight on his proper leg — after his last catch on the Giants’ sideline within the second half.
The Lions got here in because the NFL’s second-worst dashing protection, however Barkley by no means obtained going. Daboll began Shane Lemieux at left guard in his season debut however benched him at halftime for rookie Josh Ezeudu. Matt Peart changed the injured Phillips at proper deal with.
“If the run game’s not going, you’ve kind of tied one hand behind your back,” Barkley stated. “We gotta do a better job in the run game and that starts with me. I gotta be way better, especially starting a little faster for us.”
Feliciano stated beginning gradual, sadly, is a development for the Giants’ offense.
“I mean, we always start slow, which we can’t do,” he stated. “It’s hard to win when you start slow and you have three turnovers.”
Jones’ operating and Robinson had been the offense’s best weapons, together with a Jones three-yard TD run for a 6-3 lead with 2:41 left within the first quarter.
But a partial block and a 16-mile per hour wind pushed Gano’s further level huge proper. Then the Lions scored 21 unanswered factors on Williams’ three TDs.
Jones’ first interception began the avalanche. Lions rookie finish Aiden Hutchinson dropped into protection within the second quarter, picked off Jones’ go meant for Darius Slayton, and returned it 18 yards to the Giants’ 20.
“Didn’t see him there,” Jones stated. “Got to see it, bad decision there. Good play by him. [I] can’t afford to do that.”
The Lions punched that in. Then they went 68 yards in 85 seconds for one more landing proper earlier than the half after a 25-yard Gillan punt didn’t pin them deep.
“You can’t turn the ball over in this league,” left deal with Andrew Thomas stated. “We didn’t help the defense at all with that. But it’s so much more than that. We have to protect DJ better. We gotta run the ball better. We have to be better on third down.”
Lions huge receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown broke out in that late second quarter scoring drive. Then Detroit went proper down the sphere to open the second half, with the assistance of a 36-yard Justin Jackson kick return, for a commanding 24-6 lead.
The Lions’ D’Andre Swift scored a 4-yard dashing TD within the fourth quarter, off Hodgins’ late fumble, to offset two Giants fourth-quarter TDs: Matt Breida’s 3-yard TD rush, his first rating as a Giant, and Jones’ 9-yard TD go to Richie James.
It all provides as much as a essential Thanksgiving Day showdown in Texas with the Cowboys, and never simply because Odell Beckham Jr. has the Giants and Cowboys in his sights.
It’s extra about not letting Sunday’s loss to the Lions snowball right into a Giant slide on this season’s second half.
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