Graham Gano tacked on his third field goal to give the Giants a six-point cushion with 1:04 remaining, leaving Trevor Lawrence and Jaguars one more chance. After a touchback, they drove all the way down the Giants 17-yard line and were faced with a third-and-10 with five seconds on the clock. Lawrence then fired a pass to wide receiver Christian Kirk, whose back was to the goal line as he leapt up just short of the end zone. He was initially met by Julian Love and Fabian Moreau, who slowed his initial momentum. Love, Xavier McKinney and eventually Landon Collins then drove him back farther and farther away as time expired.
“I mean, we knew the situation,” McKinney said. “That whole drive, our mentality, and kind of what I was preaching was just to just keep them inbounds. We knew they didn’t have any timeouts left, so we were just trying to delay as much time as we could, and then the last play obviously we were just trying to keep them out of the end zone. I think it was a great play call by [Giants Defensive Coordinator Don] ‘Wink’ [Martindale], and we’ve got to execute it, and we kept them out of the end zone in the end.”
TAKE THEM INTO DEEP WATER
Never judge a run game by the first half. The Giants imposed their will down the stretch against the third-ranked run defense, carrying the ball 25 times for 175 yards in the second half after having just 61 yards on 14 attempts through the first two quarters.
Furthermore, they ran for 130 yards, a touchdown, and eight first downs in the fourth quarter alone as Jones and Saquon Barkley became the first pair of Giants teammates to run for 100 yards apiece in a game since Ahmad Bradshaw and Brandon Jacobs at Minnesota in 2010.
On the season, 807 of the Giants’ 1,214 rush yards (66.5 percent) have come in the second half. Keep in mind, the Giants lost two starting offensive linemen – left guard Ben Bredeson and right tackle Evan Neal – due to injuries in the first half.
“It can look like we’re running the same play, but you can run so many things out of that formation,” Barkley said. “That’s credit to Kaf [offensive coordinator Mike Kafka] and [offensive line coach] Bobby [Johnson] for setting us up. Was it demoralizing? I don’t know. Just I can tell when you lean on defense, when you lean on defense throughout the game, you can feel them starting to soften up, and take them to the deep water and drown.”
“Well, I thought our defense for honestly three and a half quarters just stymied their run game and kept them…
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