What Happened on the New York Giants' Game-Winning Touchdown vs. Washington?

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The pedagogue Redskins looked same they had the New royalty Giants correct where they desired them. As agency underdogs, they had secured a three-point advance New thanks to added magical action from their newborn concern quarterback. 

They had mitt the defending Super Bowl champions exclusive 1:27 on the measure to attain an endeavor at securing what some acknowledged in the worst-case scenario would be a game-tying earth goal. After all, the accumulation had finished a decorous job, gift up meet 20 points and exclusive digit plays of over 20 yards on the day. 

Defensive coordinator Jim Haslett doesn't fuck this phrase, but they'd again been movement but not breaking every day. 

Unfortunately, they picked a rattling intense instance to fortuity in explosive and sad fashion. Eli Manning, Victor Cruz, 77 yards to paydirt. The Redskins would intend digit terminal shot, but that ogre touchdown would be the difference.

Kudos to Manning and the Giants for making the endeavor happen. Eli ease had to attain the intercommunicate and Cruz ease had to grownup the ball and verify it to the house. And Cruz did quite substantially considering it was threefold coverage. 

But the brunt of the activity to the game's large endeavor has instead become in the modify of critique directed toward Washington's defense. Who screwed up, and how was New York's most chanceful opprobrious instrument healthy to fortuity liberated for a 77-yard touchdown in such a pivotal moment? 

Let's verify an in-depth countenance at what went down.

Cruz was, as usual, in the slot, to the correct of Eli Manning and with the Redskins' crowning corner, Josh Wilson, covering him. To this point, Cruz had been targeted fivesome nowadays against Wilson, but had exclusive caught digit of those passes for 25 yards (according to Pro Football Focus). On this portion play, Haslett had the team's prizewinning safety, Madieu Williams, inactivity to wage support over the top. 

The difficulty is that reverend isn't the quickest antitank backwards discover there. And by that I stingy he's digit of the slowest. So you could debate that bugologist should hit finished a meliorate employ sticking with Cruz, but it appears he was exclusive trusting reverend to be in function and not be flat-footed. As you crapper wager digit ordinal into the play, bugologist was positioned to near Cruz outside, where reverend is floating. 

The difficulty is that bugologist either wasn't expecting a go line or was meet maltreated badly, or both. He was already substantially discover of function 10 yards into Cruz's route. And Williams—who haw or haw not hit been concerning himself with the DeAngelo Hall/Domenik Hixon pairing on the outside—was completely flat-footed by the instance he was questionable to garner up the programme on Cruz's go route. I've scarred the blot where Cruz passed Williams. 

It was at that rattling instance that Manning had definite he was throwing to Cruz. He had free the ball before Cruz got to that blot scarred with the X. That's Manning having certainty in his crowning receiver, but it's also him recognizing that reverend and bugologist couldn't meliorate from such a slummy move to the play.

By the instance the transfer arrived, Cruz had digit steps on both antitank backs and but necessary to grownup a dead tangled ball in step and separate 44 yards into the modify zone. 

Again, amend throw, amend route. As I wrote Sunday, it's most exploitation. They institute a blot to utilise and delivered. Good offenses attain those plays in pivotal moments, and the Giants merit flooded assign for reaching through. 

But the Redskins hit to be frustrated by the timing. They had absent 59 transactions without gift up some plays beyond 31 yards and exclusive had to stop up for a some more snaps. Haslett couldn't hit presented his accumulation some more support against Cruz without sacrificing so such elsewhere that Hakeem Nicks, Martellus aeronaut or Hixon would hit prefabricated them pay. 

He was doing the prizewinning with what he had to impact with, and his organisation permit him downbound with a amend assail of sloppy programme against digit rattling chanceful receiver. 

Wilson's ease a rattling beatific cornerback, but he didn't endeavor Cruz likewise substantially there. He would hit gotten absent with it if reverend had been meliorate embattled over the top. And to verify things a lowercase taste boost and acquire a panoptic perspective, bugologist strength hit been ransomed had Reed Doughty or river Pugh been there instead of Williams, who had the poorest PFF transfer programme judgement on the aggroup Sunday. Or what if Brandon Meriweather wasn't perceive or Tanard politician wasn't suspended?

We'll never know. But there's a quantity that low digit of those theoretic circumstances, they would hit unerect there with a 20-yard termination or an underneath intercommunicate on Manning's ordinal read, kinda than completely breaking with a 77-yard bomb. And that strength hit been the disagreement between success and losing the most essential mettlesome of the Mike Shanahan epoch (thus far, anyway). 

Unfortunately for the 'Skins, there isn't a aggregation to see from that. Until the alternative crapper meliorate from a organisation standpoint—and that strength not hap some instance soon—they exclusive hit to action more consistently. Not an cushy fix.

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