Where was the sense of urgency?
After the Cowboys opened up a two-touchdown lead with 8:53 remaining in the fourth quarter Thursday, the expected response from the Giants was to increase the offensive tempo, look for chunk passing yardage against soft-shell coverage and try to get. Instead, four of the first six play-calls were runs, and more than four minutes came off the clock as the Giants methodically gained three first downs.
The drive essentially died on back-to-back plays — a 10-yard sack and a 5-yard penalty — that eventually led to a fourth-and-9 incompletion to end hopes of a comeback with 3:17 to go. “We mixed him in there,” Daboll said. “A lot of our passes were roll-out, naked [bootleg] type passes with people coming across the formation. That’s a difficult defense to just sit there and drop back. You saw what they did in Minnesota [seven sacks] the week before. So, we had a particular way we wanted to play, Obviously, didn’t get it done.”
The Giants were given off Friday from practice, setting up a long football-less weekend. The last time the players had that much freedom — on the bye week — safety Xavier McKinney returned with multiple broken fingers after an ATV accident in Mexico, so Daboll sent his players off with a reminder to be smart and careful.
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