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LAST WEEK IT WAS DALLAS THAT ICED THEIR OWN KICKER BY CALLING A "TI...
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LAST WEEK IT WAS DALLAS THAT ICED THEIR OWN KICKER BY CALLING A "TIME OUT" AS THE FG WAS GOOD, AND ON THE 2ND KICK BY rookie Dan Bailey MISSED IN REGULATION CAUSING THE COWBOYS TO LOSE.
THIS WEEK IT WAS THE SAME RESULT, BUT THIS TIME IT WAS THE GIANTS THAT CALLED THE "TIME OUT" JUST AS THE ROOKIE DAN BAILEY MADE THE FG KICK GOOD AGAIN, BUT AFTER BEING "ICED" AGAIN....BAILEY TRUE TO FORM, MISSED THE 2ND KICK AGAIN CAUSING ANOTHER EMBARRASSING COWBOYS LOSS, WHICH NOT ONLY GAVE THE GIANTS THE "WIN"...BUT, IT ALSO PROPELLED THE GIANTS INTO 1ST PLACE IN THEIR EAST DIVISION WITH THE HEAD TO HEAD WIN, AS BOTH TEAMS ARE NOW 7-6.
Down by 12 late in the fourth quarter of a game they had to win for a realistic chance to make the playoffs, the Giants put together two touchdown drives in the final 3:41 and Jason Pierre-Paul preserved it with a blocked field goal for a 37-34 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night.
Just like that, the Giants' four-game losing streak was done. And the NFC East race is cracked open, with New York reclaiming the inside track.
"We needed to have a locker room celebration," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. "We were starving for this."
New York's recent skid was filled mostly with narrow losses to division leaders. The Giants (7-6) appeared headed to another setback trailing 34-22 with 5:41 left, but a series of clutch plays on their part and meltdowns by Dallas changed everything. The teams are tied, with the Cowboys headed to the Meadowlands for a season-ending rematch on New Year's Day.
"We knew what was on the line," Cowboys linebacker Bradie James said. "But those guys made one more play than we did."Dallas has gone from winning four straight to losing two in a row, both in dramatic, frustrating fashion that involved missed kicks by
rookie Dan Bailey, who'd been so good for so long this season. The Cowboys also lost running back DeMarco Murray to a broken right ankle, ending his record-setting rookie season.
"We certainly know we've got our work cut out for us," team owner Jerry Jones said in a brief statement.
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Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul became the first player this season to block a kick, record a sack and force a fumble in the same game on Sunday night.
Neither team led by more than five points for most of this back-and-forth game until Tony Romo threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to Dez Bryant with no one else around. He strutted into the end zone, putting Dallas up 34-22 with 5:41 left. (JERRY JONES WAS JUMPING FOR JOY IN HIS BOOTH AT THIS TIME)
Yet instead of that ending the excitement, the fun was just beginning.
Manning -- who'd already pulled out five wins in the fourth quarter this season (NOW 15 LIFETIME 4TH QTR COMEBACKS, A NEW RECORD FOR HIM, GETTING CLOSER TO JOHNNY UNITAS) -- mounted an eight-play, 80-yard drive capped by an 8-yard touchdown pass to Jake Ballard. The play had to withstand a video review to make sure he really got the ball past the front of the goal line before his knee landed inches shy of the stripe. (BUT WITH ABOUT 3:25 LEFT, OWNER JERRY JONES STARTED TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT SURPRISED, BUT, NOT IN SHOCK JUST YET)
New York's defense followed with a BIG three-and-out FOR DALLAS, and the Giants got
another break when Dallas' usually reliable punter, Mat McBriar, had a 33-yarder, letting Manning take over at his 42 with 2:12 left (DALLAS ONLY USED 1:13 MINUTES OF CLOCK).
Two penalties on the Cowboys' defense helped, as did completions of 21 and 18 yards to Ballard. Brandon Jacobs scored on a 1-yard run with 0:51 seconds left and D.J. Ware followed with the 2-point conversion.(AT THIS TIME OWNER JERRY JONES WENT FROM DANCING IN HIS BOOTH TO UTTER & COMPLETE SHOCK, AS HIS TEAM WAS NOW DOWN BY 3 POINTS, WHEN JUST 4:00 MINUTES EARLIER THEY WERE UP BY 12 POINTS....I WISH I WAS A FLY ON THE WALL IN HIS BOOTH....LOL...HE WAS "LIVID" BY THEN, AND HIS HANDS CLUTCHING THE TOP OF HIS CHAIR THAT HE COULD'NT EVEN SIT DOWN ON....THIS WAS THE "GOOD TIME")
Romo still had 46 seconds left. He hit Miles Austin for gains of 22 and 23 yards to set up Bailey for a 47-yard field goal that would force overtime. The rookie who'd made four winning kicks, but was coming off a game-losing debacle the previous week, split the
uprights -- only it didn't count because Coughlin called a timeout.
On the do-over, Bailey's kick was clipped by the outstretched arms
of Pierre-Paul. He'd been a disruption all night, sacking Romo for a
safety early in the game and forcing a fumble in the second quarter.
"I rushed the center, put my hands up and got the block," Pierre-
Paul said.
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