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The Giants battled back after trailing for most of Sunday’s game, but it will be a long flight home from Germany as the Carolina Pathers won 20-17 on a 36-yard field goal by Eddy Piñeiro in overtime.
The Giants were down 10-0 at halftime on Bryce Young’s five-yard touchdown pass to rookie tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders and a Piñeiro field goal. However, they struck back on their first drive of the second half on Tyrone Tracy’s 32-yard run to make it 10-7.
Carolina restored their 10-point lead with an 80-yard drive that was finished off on a one-yard Chuba Hubbard touchdown run. Hubbard was running through tacklers all game long as he rushed for a career-high 153 yards.
In the fourth quarter, the Giants cut Carolina’s lead to 17-14 on a two-yard run by Daniel Jones with 8:33 remaining and then got the ball back when DJ Davidson recovered a Hubbard fumble. However, Josey Jewell intercepted Jones inside the 10-yard line to preserve the lead with under six minutes remaining.
New York got the ball back with two-and-a-half minutes remaining and Jones completed five passes in a row to get them into range for Graham Gano’s game-tying 42-yard field goal with five seconds left to send the game into overtime.
The Giants won the toss and got the ball first in the extra session, only for Tracy to lose a fumble on the first play to set up the winning kick.
Here are the key takeaways…
Things didn’t start too badly for the Giants as former Panther Brian Burns had a sack on Carolina’s first offensive series to force a 3-and-out. Then, on their first offensive snap, New York picked up 43 yards when Jalin Hyatt drew a pass interference penalty on a long pass. Everything unravelled after that, though, as Jones made another slow start as he was just 1-for-5 for three yards in the first quarter.
The Panthers are notorious slow starters but that wasn’t the case in this game. Young completed seven of his first eight passes and Hubbard rushed for 84 yards in the first quarter…
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Publish date : 2024-11-10 18:03:10
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