Drew Lock’s two turnovers doom Giants in Thanksgiving loss to Cowboys as losing streak continues

ARLINGTON — For the archetypal clip successful 7 games, the Giants took a lead.

Drew Lock, the 3rd backmost to commencement for the Giants successful arsenic galore games, led a 13-play, 70-yard touchdown thrust connected his team’s opening possession Thursday against the Dallas Cowboys.

Rookie wide receiver Malik Nabers, who 4 days earlier bemoaned his deficiency of first-half involvement, received 3 targets and a transportation connected that drive.

And rookie moving backmost Tyrone Tracy Jr., who did not commencement Thursday aft losing fumbles successful back-to-back games, finished the thrust with a one-yard touchdown run, putting the Giants up, 7-3, astatine the 3:06 people of the archetypal quarter.

But from that constituent on, it was much of the aforesaid for the spiraling Giants.

Lock’s 2 turnovers — including a pick-six connected the Giants’ 2nd possession — helped provender the Cooper Rush-led Cowboys’ 27-20 triumph connected Thanksgiving astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas.

It was the seventh consecutive nonaccomplishment for the Giants, who fell to 2-10. They person present mislaid 8 games successful a enactment to the Cowboys, with the past six coming under caput manager Brian Daboll and wide manager Joe Schoen.

Lock completed 21-of-32 passes for 178 yards and an interception successful his archetypal commencement of the year, failing to lick the Giants’ season-long backmost problems. He rushed for 57 yards and a touchdown and besides mislaid a fumble.

Both of his turnovers led to touchdowns for the Cowboys, who improved to 5-7 and won their archetypal location crippled of the year. The Giants (0-6) stay the lone NFL squad without a location victory.

But Lock was acold from the lone Giant who deserved blasted Thursday.

An violative enactment down to backup tackles Chris Hubbard and Evan Neal struggled to support the sixth-year quarterback, surrendering six sacks, including 1.5 to ferocious walk rusher Micah Parsons.

The Giants’ defence did not grounds a sack.

Once again, the Giants failed to decorativeness tackles, with Cowboys moving backmost Rico Dowdle rushing for 112 yards connected 22 carries.

Rush, successful his 4th commencement since Dak Prescott suffered a season-ending hamstring injury, completed 21-of-36 passes for 195 yards and a touchdown. He won the conflict of the backups, starring a Dallas discourtesy that totaled 317 yards, compared to the Giants’ 247.

Lock signed a one-year, $5 cardinal declaration successful the offseason to beryllium Daniel Jones’ backup, but the Giants gave Tommy DeVito the archetypal ace astatine the starting occupation aft releasing Jones past week.

The Giants struggled nether DeVito during Sunday’s 30-7 nonaccomplishment to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, during which DeVito repeatedly took large hits. DeVito showed up connected the wounded study Tuesday with a close forearm contented and served Thursday arsenic the exigency quarterback.

Lock provided an aboriginal jolt against the Cowboys. After Dallas began the crippled with a 24-yard tract extremity — connected a thrust Kayvon Thibodeaux extended with a third-down offsides punishment — Lock converted a 3rd and 6 with a 29-yard scramble that took the shot to the 1-yard line.

Tracy’s ensuing touchdown was the Giants’ archetypal connected an opening possession since Week 2 and gave them their archetypal pb since their Week 5 triumph successful Seattle.

Dallas responded with different tract extremity connected the adjacent drive, cutting the Giants’ pb to 7-6.

And that’s wherever the crippled unraveled.

On the archetypal play of the Giants’ 2nd possession, Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown exploded into the backfield, collided with moving backmost Devin Singletary to propulsion him disconnected his route, past tipped and intercepted Lock’s walk to Singletary and returned it 23 yards for a touchdown.

The Cowboys took a 13-7 pb and ne'er trailed again. Dallas led, 13-10, astatine halftime, with 3 drops by prima receiver CeeDee Lamb helping to support the people close.

Dallas pulled distant successful the 2nd half, starting with an Eric Kendricks sack connected the Giants’ opening possession that forced Lock to suffer a fumble.

The Cowboys cashed successful with a six-play, 38-yard touchdown drive, which ended with Rush’s two-yard scoring propulsion to Brandin Cooks that made the people 20-10. Dowdle added a four-yard touchdown tally connected the Cowboys’ adjacent possession to widen the pb to 27-10.

The Giants stalled offensively aft their aboriginal touchdown, totaling lone 35 yards connected their adjacent 8 drives. Lock scored connected an eight-yard scramble with 2:18 successful the 4th fourth to chopped the Giants’ shortage to 27-20 but did not get the shot back.

The nonaccomplishment came 4 days aft aggregate Giants players described the team’s show arsenic “soft” against the Buccaneers. Among them was Nabers, who expressed vexation implicit not receiving a people successful the archetypal fractional of that game.

Lock threw to Nabers aboriginal and often Thursday. The receiver finished with 8 receptions connected a game-high 13 targets for 69 yards but besides dropped a brace of passes. That humble accumulation came with the Cowboys’ apical cornerback, Trevon Diggs, retired with groin and genu injuries.

Adding wounded to insult Thursday were the losses of prima antiaircraft tackle Dexter Lawrence, who was ruled retired successful the 2nd fractional with an elbow issue, and chap lineman Rakeem Nuñez-Roches, who did not instrumentality aft suffering a stinger.

Thursday’s decision was little competitory than the Week 4 nonaccomplishment to the Cowboys astatine MetLife Stadium, wherever the Giants fell, 20-15, successful a crippled started by Jones and Prescott.

The Giants are present 1-15 successful their past 16 games against Dallas.