DETROIT —Well, what did you expect ultimately?
Expecting the Giants to enter Ford Field and upset a heavily favored Lions team in desperate need of a win to maintain its playoff hopes intact felt akin to expecting to see your numbers come up in the subsequent Pick-6 drawing.
Expecting the Giants defense to carry off the explosive Detroit offense when it counted within the fourth quarter was folly.
It was never going to occur.
The Giants, as expected, lost 34-27 to the Lions in extra time on Sunday in a positively scintillating 60 minutes of football theater.
The ultimate dagger for the Giants was a 69-yard touchdown run by Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs on the primary play of extra time after the Giants won the toss and opted to take the ball second.
The Giants, on their possession, did not tie the sport and it was over for them yet again, in a gut punch so painful you can not make it up.
Converting on a fourth-and-10 play with a Winston scramble, the Giants got to the Detroit 27-yard line before their hopes for completing this massive upset were extinguished.
The ultimate play was an incomplete Aidan Hutchinson sack of Winston on fourth-and-5.
The large caveat to this loss, though, is how well the Giants played in losing.
They did so many good things on this game, starting with the play of quarterback Jameis Winston, that this loss may need been probably the most maddening certainly one of all in a season affected by them.
With Winston, who was playing instead of rookie starter Jaxson Dart in concussion protocol for the second consecutive game, the Giants built leads of 10-0 and 17-7 in the primary half.
Through the primary half-hour, Winston was almost perfect — 9-of-14 for 212 yards with two TD passes and a 147.3 passer rating.
Winston delivered a near-perfect performance. He was remarkable, completing 18-of-36 for 366 yards with two TD passes with one INT.
Even higher, Winston caught a TD pass from punt returner and occasional receiver Gunner Olszewski –the primary reception of his profession and first TD pass of Olszewski’s profession.
The wild backyard play gave the Giants a 27-17 lead with 12:16 remaining in the sport.
That’s when things got weird for them, as usual.
The Lions answered rapidly — three plays later — with a 49-yard touchdown run by Gibbs, who rushed for 219 yards and two TDs on 15 carries, to make it 27-24 just 1:26 after the Giants’ trick play.
Then, on the Giants’ next possession, Winston was picked off by Detroit safety Thomas Harper with 10:45 remaining in the sport.
The Lions did not convert and the Giants went 14 plays and ate nearly six minutes of the clock before failing on fourth-and-goal from the Detroit 6-yard line with 2:54 remaining.
That gave the Lions the ball and arrange one more potential situation for the Giants’ defense to relinquish one more fourth-quarter lead.
They entered the sport having blown 4 fourth-quarter leads. This was the fifth and it hurt worse than the previous 4.
The Lions methodically marched down the sector and tied it at 27-27 on a 59-yard field goal by Jake Bates with 28 seconds remaining in regulation to send it to extra time.
The loss was the Giants’ twelfth consecutive defeat on the road, a franchise record that grows with each game on the road. They’re 0-7 away from MetLife Stadium now.
It was their sixth consecutive loss and second in a row since they fired head coach Brian Daboll and elevated offensive coordinator Mike Kafka as interim.
The Giants now have authored losing streaks of six or more games for the fourth season since 2019.
They’re now 2-10 for the season, the identical embarrassing start as that they had in 2017, 2019 and last season.
Even with the prospect of Dart, who sat out Sunday’s game after failing to clear concussion protocol for the second consecutive week, returning for the Giants’ final five games seems hopeless.
The Giants play again on Monday, Dec. 1, against the 9-2 Patriots in Foxborough, Mass., which could be Dart’s next likelihood to play if he clears the protocol.
DETROIT —Well, what did you expect ultimately?
Expecting the Giants to enter Ford Field and upset a heavily favored Lions team in desperate need of a win to maintain its playoff hopes intact felt akin to expecting to see your numbers come up in the subsequent Pick-6 drawing.
Expecting the Giants defense to carry off the explosive Detroit offense when it counted within the fourth quarter was folly.
It was never going to occur.
The Giants, as expected, lost 34-27 to the Lions in extra time on Sunday in a positively scintillating 60 minutes of football theater.
The ultimate dagger for the Giants was a 69-yard touchdown run by Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs on the primary play of extra time after the Giants won the toss and opted to take the ball second.
The Giants, on their possession, did not tie the sport and it was over for them yet again, in a gut punch so painful you can not make it up.
Converting on a fourth-and-10 play with a Winston scramble, the Giants got to the Detroit 27-yard line before their hopes for completing this massive upset were extinguished.
The ultimate play was an incomplete Aidan Hutchinson sack of Winston on fourth-and-5.
The large caveat to this loss, though, is how well the Giants played in losing.
They did so many good things on this game, starting with the play of quarterback Jameis Winston, that this loss may need been probably the most maddening certainly one of all in a season affected by them.
With Winston, who was playing instead of rookie starter Jaxson Dart in concussion protocol for the second consecutive game, the Giants built leads of 10-0 and 17-7 in the primary half.
Through the primary half-hour, Winston was almost perfect — 9-of-14 for 212 yards with two TD passes and a 147.3 passer rating.
Winston delivered a near-perfect performance. He was remarkable, completing 18-of-36 for 366 yards with two TD passes with one INT.
Even higher, Winston caught a TD pass from punt returner and occasional receiver Gunner Olszewski –the primary reception of his profession and first TD pass of Olszewski’s profession.
The wild backyard play gave the Giants a 27-17 lead with 12:16 remaining in the sport.
That’s when things got weird for them, as usual.
The Lions answered rapidly — three plays later — with a 49-yard touchdown run by Gibbs, who rushed for 219 yards and two TDs on 15 carries, to make it 27-24 just 1:26 after the Giants’ trick play.
Then, on the Giants’ next possession, Winston was picked off by Detroit safety Thomas Harper with 10:45 remaining in the sport.
The Lions did not convert and the Giants went 14 plays and ate nearly six minutes of the clock before failing on fourth-and-goal from the Detroit 6-yard line with 2:54 remaining.
That gave the Lions the ball and arrange one more potential situation for the Giants’ defense to relinquish one more fourth-quarter lead.
They entered the sport having blown 4 fourth-quarter leads. This was the fifth and it hurt worse than the previous 4.
The Lions methodically marched down the sector and tied it at 27-27 on a 59-yard field goal by Jake Bates with 28 seconds remaining in regulation to send it to extra time.
The loss was the Giants’ twelfth consecutive defeat on the road, a franchise record that grows with each game on the road. They’re 0-7 away from MetLife Stadium now.
It was their sixth consecutive loss and second in a row since they fired head coach Brian Daboll and elevated offensive coordinator Mike Kafka as interim.
The Giants now have authored losing streaks of six or more games for the fourth season since 2019.
They’re now 2-10 for the season, the identical embarrassing start as that they had in 2017, 2019 and last season.
Even with the prospect of Dart, who sat out Sunday’s game after failing to clear concussion protocol for the second consecutive week, returning for the Giants’ final five games seems hopeless.
The Giants play again on Monday, Dec. 1, against the 9-2 Patriots in Foxborough, Mass., which could be Dart’s next likelihood to play if he clears the protocol.
