Beckham Jr propels Giants past Dolphins

“There’s no doubt winning is the biggest factor and going on the field and doing it rather than taking about it”, Coughlin said Tuesday via conference call. “If coverage dictates that they go (Grimes’) way, then they’ll throw it. The made some plays”. If you opened your window on this unseasonably warm night, you could hear the collective lament carrying on the breeze from the homes of fans across the NY tri-state area: “Here we go (bleeping) again”. “We’ve got three games to go”, Campbell said.

“Anytime you have that kind of confidence, there will be a certain measure of accomplishment”, Coughlin said. – Ralph Vacchiano, Daily News Here were the facts about the Giants coming into this game: They had lost three straight, they had blown five fourth quarter leads, and their run game was scuffling…The struggling run game just seemed destined to continue as such, the calling card of an offense that no one believed was capable of closing out a game and finishing. I said it last night, the ones where guys are scratching and clawing to make plays and something happens, hey, man, that’s part of the game.

Campbell said, “It’s always something different in the run game and where we were clicking in the first half, we didn’t quite get those in the second half”.

Prior to the play, Eli saw the Dolphins’ safety start to creep and he gave Odell the kill and option to slant or go.

“I think the groundwork will be laid, but there’s a lot of things that will have to be done better”, he said.

When he returned to the game, Beckham contributed back-to-back touchdown catches, the first of which came in the third quarter on a 6-yard pass that brought his team back from a 24-17 deficit to tie the game. Check. A maddening unwillingness to commit to one running back among Rashad Jennings, Williams, Shane Vereen and Orleans Darkwa? Campbell pointed to technique, missed assignments and bad runs by running backs as reasons for the second half deviation from the run.

-SPECIAL TEAMS: B – KR/PR Jarvis Landry was good.

“Obviously, this is not where we want to be”, Miami quarterback Ryan Tannehill said, “but here we are”. The result as of the third quarter was a gassed Dolphins defense, featuring a punchless front that could not agitate Manning in the pocket. Eli Manning completed 27 of 31 passes (87%) for 337 yards and four touchdowns, and set a New York Giants passing percentage record in a single game. This is a problem that defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo has to fix if the Giants will make the playoffs. Lamar Miller rushed for 89 yards, including a darting 38-yard touchdown run, but carried only 12 times. It motivates me, and it pisses me off, and it’s not too much for me to handle.

-COACHING: B-minus. It wasn’t always pretty, but the strategies on both sides of the ball got the job done.

Flowers had played with no obvious issues since then, and he told NJ Advance Media his ankle was 100 percent prior to the Giants’ Dec. 6 loss to the Jets.

Two plays later, on 3-and-11, Tannehill escaped pressure and stepped up in the pocket and threw toward Landry over the top just as he escaped safety coverage. While the plan didn’t necessarily work – the Giants would end up getting burned on some long yardage plays – give Spagnuolo credit for trying something to light a fire under the defense’s backsides.

NOTES: The Giants played their first game in the Miami area since 1996….