Beckham’s two touchdowns guide Giants past Dolphins

“I wasn’t going to be able to make it through the game”, Beckham said of how he was feeling. That gave them 24 points, a height the Dolphins received in only two of 11 previous games.

A national audience will get another good look at the Vikings when they play the Giants in a Week 16 game at TCF Bank Stadium.

The Dolphins fell to 5-8 against the Giants on Monday night, ensuring that they will finish without a winning record for the seventh straight year.

“We knew it was a big game because the Eagles and Redskins had won, and we had to stay tied”, Beckham said afterward to a group of reporters. “The corner is supposed to follow up and go over the top, which he didn’t”.

New York’s standout pass catcher delivered a seven-catch, 166-yard performance with two scores – including an 84-yard, go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter. Monday night marked his sixth 100-yard game in a row, a Giants record.

The sad thing is after all the offseason moves – signing defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, drafting wide receiver DeVante Parker, trading for wide receiver Kenny Stills, drafting defensive tackle Kenny Phillips, signing tight end Jordan Cameron, etc. – this could be the worst Dolphins team in four years.

“I caught a stomach virus or a bug or something and then allergies just kept up with me throughout the week”, said the one-of-a-kind talent who missed the start of the second half because he was getting IV treatments for dehydration and cramps in his calves. Wide receiver Jarvis Landry led the game in receptions overall with 11 and had 99 receiving yards. Norman’s victims include Julio Jones, who Norman said “completes” him, and Dez Bryant, who was held to a measly two catches for 26 yards in the Panthers’ Thanksgiving trip to Dallas.

“We’re all struggling to a certain extent”, Coughlin said when asked what he thinks is at the core of Williams’ stock taking such a nosedive in his second season. “He’s just continuing to do what he does”. For context, when a quarterback throws a pass away the player registers as a 39.6 passer rating, so teams are nearly better off just giving up completely on the play rather than testing Norman in the secondary.

Seeing that, Beckham ran into the locker room early in the third quarter, received two bags of intravenous fluid, then came back to dominate the second half.

Coughlin said Manning’s motivational push started well before Monday. “We’ll see what guys really like football, and find the ones that don’t, and we’ll get them out of here”. “That’s when we’re at our best”.

In celebration of their 50th season, Miami honored its greatest players. It would seem to be the classic case of a veteran star rising to the occasion and playing his best when his team needs him most at the end of the season. Lamar Miller rushed for 89 yards, including a darting 38-yard touchdown run, but carried only 12 times.

So, what will it take for the Giants to stay alive in the NFC East title hunt? LT Ereck Flowers hurt his ankle on the long touchdown pass to Beckham and missed the rest of the game.

Giants DT Markus Kuhn exited during the third quarter thanks to a knee injury and didn’t come back. DE George Selvie was evaluated for a concussion in the fourth quarter and didn’t return….

Coughlin joked about it, saying, “Actually, it helped”.