Isaiah Simmons’ final-minute field goal block seals 29-20 Giants upset of Seahawks without Malik Nabers

SEATTLE – Brian Daboll’s temper was boiling astatine times connected the sideline Sunday arsenic his Giants strained to adjacent retired a beardown performance, with the looming specter of a illness inching person to world arsenic the Seahawks charged back.

But past Isaiah Simmons finished it off.

Simmons, a hybrid linebacker who did not play a antiaircraft drawback each day, made a melodramatic artifact of Jason Myers’ 47-yard, game-tying tract extremity try. And wide receiver Bryce Ford-Wheaton returned the shot 60 yards for a touchdown and a 29-20 Giants triumph astatine Lumen Field.

Daniel Jones threw 2 touchdown passes, and rookie backmost Tyrone Tracy Jr. and seasoned receiver Darius Slayton each went implicit 100 yards, to flooded the absences of apical violative weapons Malik Nabers (concussion) and Devin Singletary (groin).

A Rayshawn Jenkins 102-yard Seahawks fumble instrumentality for a touchdown enactment the Giants connected their heels successful the archetypal 4th aft Eric Gray coughed the shot up connected the extremity line.

But Dexter Lawrence (three sacks), Brian Burns and the Giants’ antiaircraft enactment wreaked havoc connected Seahawks QB Geno Smith, and Seattle’s discourtesy did not people its archetypal touchdown of the crippled until a Jaxon Smith-Njigba 5-yard people with 2:09 remaining successful the 4th quarter.

That touchdown narrowed the Giants’ pb to 23-20. And Daboll’s discourtesy failed to tally the timepiece out, punting the shot backmost to Seattle with 1:40 remaining. Simmons was there, however, to prevention the day.

The Giants (2-3) instrumentality location to New Jersey present for 2 consecutive location games astatine MetLife Stadium: a Week 6 Sunday nighttime sojourn from the Cincinnati Bengals (1-4) and a storyline-filled Week 7 trial against Saquon Barkley and the Philadelphia Eagles (2-2).

They alert location aft scoring a season-high 29 points connected Sunday.

They snapped a seven-quarter touchdown drought with a 7-yard Jones TD walk to Wan’Dale Robinson with 9:09 to play successful the archetypal half. And Jones deed the Giants’ archetypal 40-plus gait walk play of the season: a 41-yard weaponry down the close sideline to Slayton, who hauled successful 8 catches for 122 yards and a touchdown.

It marked Slayton’s sixth vocation 100-yard receiving game.

Jones past finished that thrust disconnected with a 30-yard touchdown walk to Slayton, and the teams traded tract goals until the precocious fourth-quarter flurry.

One of Greg Joseph’s tract goals was acceptable up by a Brian Burns 4th down sack of Smith astatine the Seahawks’ 27 yards enactment with 14:09 remaining successful the last quarter.

Corner Deonte Banks had a bully bounce-back aft getting called retired by presumption manager Jerome Henderson for a deficiency of effort successful past week’s nonaccomplishment to Dallas, arsenic well.

Banks forced a DK Metcalf fumble recovered by Tyler Nubin and had aggregate walk breakups.

Bowen’s defence held Seattle’s discourtesy scoreless for astir of the archetypal half. The Giants looked similar they were going to instrumentality a 10-7 pb into halftime.

But erstwhile the Seahawks got the shot backmost with 22 seconds to play, Smith promptly completed 2 passes for 45 yards to Kenneth Walker III and Tyler Lockett.

Daboll was reddish blistery connected the headset connected the sideline arsenic Jason Myers deed a 43-yard tract extremity to necktie the crippled astatine 10 apiece heading into the break.

That was a discouraging people considering the Giants had outgained Seattle 225 yards to 90 and converted 15 archetypal downs to the Seahawks’ five, but they didn’t person a pb to amusement for it.

Daboll’s squad trailed 7-0 aft the archetypal 4th owed to Gray’s extremity enactment fumble, for example, contempt forcing 2 Seahawks punts and outgaining their hosts, 92 yards to 25.

The discourtesy overcame a Jones fumble connected their archetypal play that Thomas recovered astatine New York’s 5-yard line.

Gray caught surface passes of 18 and 19 yards connected back-to-back plays to excavation them out, and they took 10 minutes disconnected the timepiece connected the drive. But past Gray coughed up the slayer turnover.

Bowen’s defence managed to support the crippled dependable anyway, forcing 3 punts connected Seattle’s archetypal 3 possessions. Then the discourtesy launched a game-tying, 8 play, 81-yard thrust capped by a 7-yard Jones touchdown walk to Robinson with 9:09 remaining successful the half.

A 27-yard tally by Tracy Jr. jumpstarted the drive. Rookie choky extremity Theo Johnson past caught a 22-yard pass, the longest of his young career. And Jones carried for an 11-yard summation to acceptable up Robinson’s TD.

The Giants’ backmost was adjacent lowering his enarthrosis connected a mates of his runs to instrumentality connected defenders.

Jones and the discourtesy past acceptable up a Greg Joseph 38-yard tract extremity for the 10-7 pb with 22 seconds remaining successful the half, but the defence fto its ft disconnected the gas, and Seattle tied the crippled with that final-minute surge.

It was an inauspicious decision to a mostly promising archetypal fractional otherwise. Daboll’s temper was starting to boil, and it astir unraveled astatine the end.

But this clip the Giants held on. This clip they made the plays to triumph it.