Once again, John Harbaugh stepped up to the podium on a late Sunday afternoon to recap a dramatic ending for his Giants.

Unlike the head coach's previous two postgame press conferences, though, it didn't follow elation on the field. But there wasn't despair, either.

It was somewhere in between.

Here is everything you need to know from Harbaugh as he broke down the 27-27 tie with the Commanders:

📰 Harbaugh didn't open his press conference by talking about the puzzling ending to overtime. Instead, he praised the Giants fans who showed up at the road game.

"First of all, let's talk about the Giants fans. Wow. I mean, our fans were loud. We're going to be talking about all our false starts, I know that. And a couple of formation errors, which we got to get cleaned up. But how about theirs? Our fans, at the end of the game, especially a couple times, it was really something to see. Really proud of our fans."

📰 The Giants "can learn so much" from this game. The one thing that has become "very evident" this season is "what is inside of our players." Their heart, grit, mental toughness and ability to overcome adversity is "A plus, plus, plus."

📰 At the same time, the Giants' consistency "can get so much better, and all the little things, we can do better."

📰 Harbaugh's perspective of the final play was much like everyone watching at home. "Yeah, well the time ran out. That was what I saw, so that's what happened. It wasn't expected."

📰 Before Cam Skattebo's fumble, the strategy was to "run it twice, and then run it down, get as close as we could, protect the football, which we talked about numerous times, and then run it down and take the knee."

And then kick the field goal.

"So in case he doesn't make the field goal, there's no time for them to come back and get the field goal. That's the strategy. That's the strategy we decided on early in training camp, and that's the strategy we'll probably do next time, too. We'll see. Depends how close we are."

📰 Skattebo played "a hell of a game," but he's going to have to learn from the fumble in overtime.

"I think everybody's got to learn from that – what type of running is called for in that situation. We practice that very situation plenty of times. I expect him to be accountable. I know he will, he already was. And he'll do better next time, so we've got to learn from that."

And what type of running is called for in that situation?

"Straight ahead. Straight ahead, downhill, see what we can get. You start centering the ball around, we've done that before too. You can do it, but that's not, that field goal's very makeable, but it's not a gimme. I mean none of them are, but that's not a gimme. I've had some experience with that. And we're going to try to get as many yards as we could and then kick the field goal."

📰 On dealing with the emotions of a tie in the postgame locker room: "I told the guys, 'Was it a win?' No. 'Was it a loss?' No. It was a tie. 'How does that make you feel?' I'm happy it wasn't a loss and I'm sad it wasn't a win. So that's how I feel. It's a tie. I's a heck of a lot better than a loss, but it's not as good as a win. So I know that just sounds so obvious, but that's kind of how you feel. I mean, we've had a lot of these conversations over the years. We'll take it. We'll take it right now. We were down 14. Came back, and we got a tie, alright? Doesn't really matter. We should never be down 14. We let the quarterback [Washington Commanders QB Jayden Daniels] run too much. We didn't have our act together like we should have on offense a lot of times. We all know that. We have got, it's a long season, it's week to week. So now we've got to move on, get ready for our next game, and try to go get a win. So I guess that's the best way to describe it. I don't think it's really a very good answer, but it's the best I can do."

📰 Jameis Winston was "amazing" in the second half, particularly the fourth quarter. "First half, he wasn't. He'd be the first to tell you that, but that's on everybody. I tell the guys, nothing good is all the one person. We're all responsible for all the good, and we're all responsible for all the bad or the not good. And so, he's right in the mix with everybody else that way. I called him up, broke the huddle, I said, what he showed out there was really remarkable."

📰 The Giants used no-huddle to spark the offense, which scored 24 points in the second half compared to just three before the break. "Well we started going no huddle. We started on no huddle. We were down. We started throwing the ball, drop back game. I thought Jameis just thrived in that, so that was good for us."

📰 On not stopping the quarterback runs: "We didn't have spies calling those runs. Maybe we should have. We had four-man rushes called. We had some games called, at least once on the first one that we didn't execute the right way. Really, honestly, there was nothing special about those runs other than the fact that we didn't do our jobs like we need to. And we just have to get better, more consistent up front with that kind of rush."

📰 The Giants are in a situation "where it's by any means necessary" after losing their starting quarterback for the year.

That was Harbaugh's response when asked about the handful of snaps that went to J.J. McCarthy for the first time as a Giant. "So we're all on board for whoever, however. That's what we've got to do. We've had guys bring [everybody we can], to whatever extent we have to. Sometimes it's going to work. Most of the time, it's going to work, we hope if we're going to get to where we want to go, and sometimes it's not. So, we had a chance in a couple of those to make big plays. One of them got called back because of the formation. We had an illegal motion, so got to clean some of that stuff up."

📰 Harbaugh's confidence in kicker Dominic Zvada is still "high" and he'll learn from that game.