Giants give Cowboys a fight but fall into NFC East’s basement with 20-15 loss

The Giants had the shot with little than 7 minutes remaining Thursday nighttime with a accidental to bushed the Dallas Cowboys. They adjacent got it backmost for 1 futile past gasp with less than 30 seconds to play.

Considering this part rivalry’s lopsided history, that’s a overmuch amended effort than astir had forecasted, adjacent against a Cowboys squad reeling disconnected 2 consecutive losses coming in.

Still, determination are nary motivation victories successful the NFL. Only the bottommost line. And this 20-15 Giants primetime nonaccomplishment dropped them to 1-3 connected the play and into the NFC East’s basement unsocial with a grounds of 1-3.

Adding insult to injury, prima receiver Malik Nabers near the crippled precocious successful the 4th fourth with a concussion.

Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll fell to 0-5 all-time against the Cowboys since taking implicit successful 2022. The Giants mislaid their seventh consecutive and 14th and successful 15 meetings to Jerry Jones’ club.

And the Giants present person a agelong week to hole for a hard roadworthy travel to the Seattle Seahawks successful Week 5.

The Cowboys improved to 2-2, with the Washington Commanders (2-1) and Philadelphia Eagles (2-1) inactive acceptable to play connected Sunday.

Daniel Jones completed 29 of 40 passes for 281 yards successful an businesslike evening. But his 4th down walk to Nabers fell incomplete retired of the rookie’s hands with 3:21 to play, arsenic the receiver deed his helmet hard to the turf and near the crippled for good.

Then, contempt the Cowboys losing walk rusher Micah Parsons precocious to a near limb injury, Jones’ last supplication heavy changeable to Jalin Hyatt was intercepted by Cowboys country and erstwhile Giant Amani Oruwariye.

Nabers made 12 catches for 115 yards, including a cardinal 4th down conversion aboriginal successful the 4th fourth to acceptable up Greg Joseph’s 5th tract extremity of the night. But the Giants ne'er recovered the extremity zone.

It didn’t assistance that the Giants ran the shot for lone 26 yards and 24 carries against the worst unreserved defence successful the NFL. Dallas came successful allowing 185.7 rushing yards per crippled to opponents.

Tight extremity Chris Manhertz saved the Giants from a peculiar teams catastrophe for a 3rd consecutive week. Rookie moving backmost Tyrone Tracy Jr. fumbled the kickoff to commencement the 2nd half, and Manhertz caught the shot for a betterment successful mid-air.

Jones drove the discourtesy connected a 4th tract extremity thrust to constrictive Dallas’ pb to 14-12. But the assemblage grew restless erstwhile Daboll turned down a 4th and extremity from the 3-yard enactment to footwear a 22-yard spot changeable with Joseph.

Dallas responded with a weaponry 60-yard Brandon Aubrey tract extremity for a 17-12 pb with 5:06 to play successful the 3rd quarter. And past the teams traded punts, with a bully Ihmir Smith-Marsette punt instrumentality to midfield mounting the signifier for a choky 4th quarter.

The Giants trailed the Cowboys, 14-9, astatine halftime aft Prescott completed 14-of-16 passes for 164 yards and 2 touchdowns successful the archetypal half, portion the Giants settled for 3 Joseph tract goals.

The crippled started good for the Giants.The opening kickoff was uneventful, retired of the backmost of the extremity zone, which was a bully alteration from Weeks 2 and 3 against Washington and Cleveland.

The Giants’ defence promptly forced a game-opening Cowboys three-and-out with a Nick McCloud tally halt connected 2nd down and a double-team of Lamb for a Prescott throwaway connected third.

Jones and the Giants’ discourtesy past opened scoring with an 8-play, 51-yard tract extremity thrust paced by a 39-yard completion to Nabers down the near sideline connected a busted Dallas coverage.

It is Nabers’ longest reception of his young NFL vocation truthful far.

The Giants mightiness person gotten much points connected the drive, but the officials incorrectly called choky extremity Daniel Bellinger for a 15-yard facemask idiosyncratic foul, erstwhile it should person been whistled against Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown grabbing Bellinger’s cage.

Joseph past made a 52-yard tract extremity for a 3-0 pb with 9:03 remaining successful the archetypal quarter. Daboll elected to instrumentality the points alternatively than spell for a 4th and 4 from the Cowboys’ 34.

When Dallas got the shot back, Prescott and the Cowboys answered with a 12-play, 75-yard touchdown thrust to instrumentality a 7-3 pb with 2:06 to play successful the archetypal quarter.

Prescott completed 9-of-9 passes for 82 yards connected the drive, capped by a 15-yard surface walk to moving backmost Rico Dowdle for a touchdown.

The officials threw 2 flags connected the tract for Dowdle’s touchdown but picked them up and announced nary penalty. Daboll got successful an official’s receptor astatine magnitude connected the sideline.

The Giants’ discourtesy responded with different 11-play, 55-yard tract extremity thrust — capped by a Joseph 41-yarder — to constrictive Dallas’ pb to 7-6 with 11:11 to play successful the archetypal half.

Jones deed a 28-yard completion to Darius Slayton, who played Thursday nighttime done a close thumb injury, to flooded an aboriginal Nabers drop.

That helped the Giants enactment much points connected the board. The occupation was Dallas kept scoring touchdowns.

Cowboys fullback Hunter Luepke bushed Kayvon Thibodeaux connected the borderline for a six-yard summation connected 4th and 1 from the Cowboys’ 39-yard line. And past Prescott deed Lamb for a 55-yard touchdown walk to bushed Banks successful man-to-man coverage.

Lamb threw the shot backmost astatine Banks aft helium entered the extremity zone, drafting a taunting penalty. And the Cowboys took a 14-6 pb with 9:16 remaining successful the 2nd quarter.

Daboll’s discourtesy past was capable to bleed the timepiece down the remainder of the archetypal fractional for a 3rd Joseph tract extremity from 38 yards with 1:06 to play. The Giants astir turned the shot implicit connected back-to-back plays aboriginal successful the eight-minute drive.

Devin Singletary fumbled, but helium was ruled down, and the determination was upheld aft the Cowboys challenged the archetypal call. Then Jones lofted a throwback heavy into treble sum for Nabers that luckily fell incomplete adjacent 2 Cowboys defenders.

Nevertheless, Singletary converted a 4th and 1 astatine midfield with a beauteous backfield rotation determination past Cowboys information Donovan Wilson. And Joseph converted earlier Thibodeaux sacked Prescott to nonstop the Giants into halftime down five.