Manning rallies Giants past Cowboys, 37-34
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) â€" Eli Manning and a New York Giants finally have something to uncover for all their tough work â€" initial place in a NFC East.
On a verge of being knocked to a corner of a playoff chase, Manning led the Giants to dual touchdowns in a final 3:14 and Jason Pierre-Paul blocked a margin idea as time expired, giving New York a 37-34 feat over a Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night.
"Good to get that winning feeling again," Manning said.
New York finished a frustrating four-game losing strain filled mostly with slight waste to multiplication leaders. The Giants (7-6) seemed headed to another reversal when they were trailing 34-22 with 5:41 left, though a array of purchase plays on their partial and meltdowns by Dallas reshaped a multiplication race.
With 3 weeks left, these clubs are tied atop a NFC East. New York has a inside lane and will horde Dallas in a season-ending rematch on New Year's Day.
"This is huge, another fourth-quarter comeback," Manning said. "Last week we had something identical (against Green Bay) and couldn't reason onto it. This week we hold on it and got a win. ... Now we know we have a tough highway forward of us. It's going to come down to a final weeks to win games."
The Cowboys mislaid their second straight, both in dramatic, frustrating conform that concerned missed kicks by rookie Dan Bailey, who'd been so good for so prolonged this season. The unequivocally bad news for Dallas was using behind DeMarco Murray violation his right ankle, finale his record-setting rookie season.
"We positively know we've got a work cut out for us," Cowboys owners Jerry Jones pronounced in a brief statement.
Manning was 27 of 47 for 400 yards and dual touchdowns. He was intercepted once, on a sloping pass, and it led to a touchdown that seemed to put a persion pided for Dallas.
But Manning came behind with a span of touchdown drives. The initial went 80 yards in 8 plays, capped by an 8-yard touchdown pass to Jake Ballard. The New York invulnerability had authorised Tony Romo to chuck touchdown passes on a dual prior possessions, though it forced a punt, and it was a brief one. Then a Dallas invulnerability had dual penalties that helped bestir along a expostulate capped by a 1-yard touchdown run by Brandon Jacobs, with D.J. Ware adding a 2-point conversion.
Romo strike Miles Austin for a span of prolonged gains that gave Bailey a possibility to force overtime. He done a 47-yarder that finished adult not counting since New York manager Tom Coughlin called a timeout. His second try was denied by Pierre-Paul, who already had contributed an early pouch for a safety, and also forced a fumble.
"I rushed a center, put my hands adult and got a block," Pierre-Paul said.
Jacobs ran for 101 yards and dual touchdowns on 19 carries. Hakeem Nicks had 7 catches for 154 yards, including an early 64-yarder. Mario Manningham had dual catches for 62 yards, including a 47-yard touchdown.
"Guys stepped adult and done some large plays," Manning said.
Romo was 21 of 31 for 321 yards with 4 touchdowns, dual in a fourth quarter.
Laurent Robinson held 4 passes for 137 yards and a touchdown, with a 74-yarder. Austin, who'd missed a prior 6 weeks with a hamstring injury, held 4 passes for 63 yards with a touchdown. Dez Bryant's usually locate was a 50-yard touchdown that put Dallas adult by 12 in a fourth.
Felix Jones ran for 106 yards, and held 6 passes for 31 yards. He started a deteriorate as Dallas' featured using back, and will finish it that way, too, now that Murray is gone. The rookie got his feet disfigured awkwardly during a finish of an 8-yard run in a initial quarter. He finished his deteriorate with 899 yards, with a franchise-record 253 entrance in one game.
"This one's going to hurt, it's going to sting, though we've got to figure out how to do things a small improved and play a best persion of a deteriorate subsequent week," Romo said.
Both teams came in meaningful this was a outrageous pitch game. And, for a initial 55 minutes, conjunction group led by some-more than 5 points.
The Giants got a scoring going with Pierre-Paul's pouch of Romo for a safety. The 64-yarder to Nicks gave them a first-and-goal from a 5 and a possibility to unequivocally mangle things open, though they staid for a margin goal, and shortly found themselves trailing 7-5.
After a teams traded touchdowns, withdrawal Dallas still forward by dual points, Pierre-Paul forced Jones to fail and New York recovered during a Dallas 14. But a Giants again managed usually a margin goal, despite to take a lead.
Bailey done a 49-yard margin idea as time lapsed to put a Cowboys on tip again, and he done another 49-yarder in a third quarter.
Manningham's touchdown put New York behind in front, though afterwards Dallas seemed to put a persion pided with touchdowns by Austin and Bryant. Only, it wasn't enough.
The Cowboys have mislaid 6 true Sunday night games. They are 0-3 opposite a Giants during Cowboys Stadium. Romo also continued his trend of mountainous in November, afterwards slumping in December.
"We need to get a win subsequent week and get behind going," Romo said.
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