Pivotal moments

[jobberone]

Lots of game turning plays but I think The Pivotal play came on the decision to not run the ball near the goal line on 4th down. Can't fault too much the decision to kick the FG but I would have run the ball on 4th. You score you win. At the least you run the clock down. Not sure Dallas had a TO left but if so you might take that away as well as pin the Cowboys down near the goal line. It is hard to mount a scoring drive from you five or so.

What are your thoughts?

What is your most important pivotal moment in the game?

 

[texbumthelife]

Lots of game turning plays but I think The Pivotal play came on the decision to not run the ball near the goal line on 4th down. Can't fault too much the decision to kick the FG but I would have run the ball on 4th. You score you win. At the least you run the clock down. Not sure Dallas had a TO left but if so you might take that away as well as pin the Cowboys down near the goal line. It is hard to mount a scoring drive from you five or so.

What are your thoughts?

What is your most important pivotal moment in the game?

Dallas didn't have any timeouts left. I think the call was to kick the FG because they were up by 3 and Dallas would have only needed a FG to tie the game (if they didn't score).

 

[KingLerxst]

Anything number of things that happened in the last 5 minutes could qualify. But I go back to the Beasley fumble.
Dallas is driving to end the half with at least three maybe seven. And more importantly. Take a lot of wind out of the Giants sails. Instead. The Giants get an easy seven. Force Romo and the Cowboys in to a little bit of panic and another TO to end the half. Beasley doesn't fumble. This is a completely different ball game.IMO.

 

[Doomsday101]

Lots of game turning plays but I think The Pivotal play came on the decision to not run the ball near the goal line on 4th down. Can't fault too much the decision to kick the FG but I would have run the ball on 4th. You score you win. At the least you run the clock down. Not sure Dallas had a TO left but if so you might take that away as well as pin the Cowboys down near the goal line. It is hard to mount a scoring drive from you five or so.

What are your thoughts?

What is your most important pivotal moment in the game?

I would have ran it and expected the Giants to run it on 3rd down then run the clock all the way down call a timeout kick FG leaving around 50 seconds. When Eli threw the 3rd down pass incomplete leaving 1:38 I looked at my dad and told him they just gave us a chance to win this thing.

 

[JBS]

Running the ball on 4th down and not scoring doesn't kill any time..like almost zero

 

[Jarv]

The Bease's fumble. We were up 6 to 3 and killed them in TOP. We would have been in Giant territory with enoght time on the clock to put up 7 on them. Would have demoralized them and we would have steamrolled them in the 2nd half and we would have run the ball 20 more times

 

[Doomsday101]

Running the ball on 4th down and not scoring doesn't kill any time..like almost zero

Yep and given our FG kicker is one of the best in the league Giants would have been crazy to go 4th down. Kicking the FG was the right thing to do, the 3rd down pass killing the clock was stupid.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

I don't blame them for passing because they were going for the win. Nothing wrong with that. The safe move would've been to run on 3rd and kick on 4th. That forces us to score a TD with 45 seconds left. What I have a problem with is not being consistent. If they wanted to try to seal the win, they should've ran on 3rd and went for it on 4th.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Lots of game turning plays but I think The Pivotal play came on the decision to not run the ball near the goal line on 4th down. Can't fault too much the decision to kick the FG but I would have run the ball on 4th. You score you win. At the least you run the clock down. Not sure Dallas had a TO left but if so you might take that away as well as pin the Cowboys down near the goal line. It is hard to mount a scoring drive from you five or so.

What are your thoughts?

What is your most important pivotal moment in the game?

I'm going to go with Jerry's double hip replacement as a pivotal moment.

 

[Doomsday101]

I don't blame them for passing because they were going for the win. Nothing wrong with that. The safe move would've been to run on 3rd and kick on 4th. That forces us to score a TD with 45 seconds left. What I have a problem with is not being consistent. If they wanted to try to seal the win, they should've ran on 3rd and went for it on 4th.

I agree however once Eli saw there was no one open then just take the sack. Just knell down the clock keeps running but throwing it away only helped the Cowboys

 

[YosemiteSam]

I don't blame them for passing because they were going for the win. Nothing wrong with that. The safe move would've been to run on 3rd and kick on 4th. That forces us to score a TD with 45 seconds left. What I have a problem with is not being consistent. If they wanted to try to seal the win, they should've ran on 3rd and went for it on 4th.

There is something wrong with it. Very wrong, and it was the catalyst to why they lost.

 

[sureletsrace]

I'm going to go with Jerry's double hip replacement as a pivotal moment.

I see what you did there.

 

[Doomsday101]

There is something wrong with it. Very wrong, and it was the catalyst to why they lost.

again had Eli rolled and had an open man for an easy TD you take it and that puts the game out of reach. The mistake was once he rolled out and had no one open it was dumb to throw it away. All he had to do it go to the turf

 

[Tommy]

again had Eli rolled and had an open man for an easy TD you take it and that puts the game out of reach. The mistake was once he rolled out and had no one open it was dumb to throw it away. All he had to do it go to the turf

Just run the ball in that situation. There is no good reason to pass. The extra time off the clock was more important than the difference between a field goal and touchdown.

The TD wasn't that important if you are able to run the clock down to :50 and the Cowboys needing a TD and having no timeouts.

 

[Doomsday101]

Just run the ball in that situation. There is no good reason to pass. The extra time off the clock was more important than the difference between a field goal and touchdown.

The TD wasn't that important if you are able to run the clock down to :50 and the Cowboys needing a TD and having no timeouts.

I would have ran it as well but I don't think the roll out was a mistake, heck in the end if he takes a knee they burn up more time that a straight handoff. Main thing is by throwing it away they left 1:38 on the clock

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Lots of game turning plays but I think The Pivotal play came on the decision to not run the ball near the goal line on 4th down. Can't fault too much the decision to kick the FG but I would have run the ball on 4th. You score you win. At the least you run the clock down. Not sure Dallas had a TO left but if so you might take that away as well as pin the Cowboys down near the goal line. It is hard to mount a scoring drive from you five or so.

What are your thoughts?

What is your most important pivotal moment in the game?

If you run on 4th and don't get it the clock stops on the turnover.

But yes the Giants should have run on 3rd and 4th down.

 

[texbumthelife]

I think the call says more about a lack of confidence in his defense, than anything else. He didn't trust them to hold us without a FG if they didn't score.

 

[romothesavior]

Anything number of things that happened in the last 5 minutes could qualify. But I go back to the Beasley fumble.
Dallas is driving to end the half with at least three maybe seven. And more importantly. Take a lot of wind out of the Giants sails. Instead. The Giants get an easy seven. Force Romo and the Cowboys in to a little bit of panic and another TO to end the half. Beasley doesn't fumble. This is a completely different ball game.IMO.

I agree. If we had lost, that's the play that would have stood out to me. I like Beas but he's gotta secure the rock there.

 

[Bizwah]

The Bease's fumble. We were up 6 to 3 and killed them in TOP. We would have been in Giant territory with enoght time on the clock to put up 7 on them. Would have demoralized them and we would have steamrolled them in the 2nd half and we would have run the ball 20 more times

I agree here. This was a potential 17 point swing. They had done nothing offensively. We were driving. If Beasely doesn't fumble, we likely score. I think we get a TD...the only reason we didn't score one before was stupid mistakes on our part. Beasely doesn't fumble, Witten doesn't tip Romo's pass for an interception, we go into half-time up 13-3 instead of down 13-6.

The entire complexion of the game changed on that one play. This is something Beasley has to take care of. He did the same thing twice last season.

 

[YosemiteSam]

again had Eli rolled and had an open man for an easy TD you take it and that puts the game out of reach. The mistake was once he rolled out and had no one open it was dumb to throw it away. All he had to do it go to the turf

If they run the ball, that couldn't have happened. If he had thrown a pass that gets broken up or dropped. You still get this outcome. It wrong to call that play. There is no if and or buts about it. The Giants should have ran the ball plain and simple.