GAME RECAP: GIANTS FALL TO SEAHAWKS, 36-25
The Giants tried living on the edge for the third week in a row, but this time they fell into the abyss.
Poised to earn their third fourth-quarter comeback victory in as many weeks, the Giants twice traveled inside the Seattle 15-yard line in the final six minutes, but committed two costly penalties, scored only three points and threw an interception that ricocheted off their receiver's hands and was returned 94 yards for the clinching touchdown. That ended a game in which the Giants had five turnovers, gave up a safety, averaged 2.8 yards a carry, surrendered 424 yards to a team that was ranked 32nd and last in the NFL in total offense, and fell to the Seahawks, 36-25, Sunday in MetLife Stadium.
**POSTGAME QUOTES
*Coach Coughlin: *We played poorly. When you don't deserve to win you don't win. We didn't complement each other at all today. We had done that last week and I felt good about the end of the game – the way all three phases helped out – but this week, the sloppiness of the game, the turnovers. You're not going to win football games when you're handing people the ball, point blank range or whatever. So our woes continue with the rushing game, we didn't stop the run. You know, we put ourselves in position to win; as a matter of fact, twice at the end of the game with taking the lead, then they came down and took the lead back, and then we drove down and then the interception at the end when we could have gone ahead with under two minutes to go. Poor performance, that's my fault, we didn't play well. As a matter of fact, I thought we settled down and actually had felt like we were going to do some good things in the second half, but had some three and outs which slowed us down right away offensively, and then got back into the turnovers. Victor Cruz made a couple of great plays, but they weren't enough. FULL TRANSCRIPT
BOX SCORE
Passing Leaders
|
SEA |
C/ATT |
YDS |
AVG |
TD |
INT |
RAT. |
|
Jackson |
15/22 |
166 |
7.5 |
1 |
1 |
86.6 |
|
Whitehurst |
11/19 |
149 |
7.8 |
1 |
0 |
100.5 |
|
NYG |
C/ATT |
YDS |
AVG |
TD |
INT |
RAT. |
|
Manning |
24/39 |
420 |
10.8 |
3 |
3 |
91.8 |
Rushing Leaders
|
SEA |
CAR |
YDS |
AVG |
TD |
LG |
|
Lynch |
12 |
98 |
8.2 |
1 |
47 |
|
Jackson |
4 |
17 |
4.3 |
0 |
11 |
|
NYG |
CAR |
YDS |
AVG |
TD |
LG |
|
Bradshaw |
17 |
58 |
3.4 |
0 |
13 |
|
Manning |
3 |
5 |
1.7 |
0 |
3 |
Receiving Leaders
|
SEA |
REC |
YDS |
AVG |
TD |
LG |
TGTS |
|
Baldwin |
8 |
136 |
17.0 |
1 |
27 |
9 |
|
Obomanu |
6 |
51 |
8.5 |
1 |
11 |
10 |
|
NYG |
REC |
YDS |
AVG |
TD |
LG |
TGTS |
|
Cruz |
8 |
161 |
20.1 |
1 |
68 |
11 |
|
Ballard |
3 |
72 |
24.0 |
1 |
32 |
4 |
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