Manning throws 3 TDs as gambling Giants beat Bengals

“That kind of saves us”, Bengals receiver A.J. Green said.

“We ain’t anxious about anyone else, we’re anxious about us”. Kansas City is now riding a five-game winning streak. But it’s merely the idea of those teams that can sustain this edition of the Giants, one that’ll also have the odds stacked against it in the postseason and will likely have to win three straight road games to even get to the Super Bowl.

Manning was still finding himself on his back on almost every passing play and the Giants run game never improved from pitiful, but Beckham was good enough to make those two things seem like afterthoughts. Ordinarily, they don’t come right after that team survived to beat a sub-.500 AFC North team at home by a single point.

With the win, the Giants (6-3) retain their hold on second place in the NFC East. We have a lot of work to do until we get to that point. “We can’t slow down, we can’t relax for a second”. “We need these wins”.

Let’s check off the Bengals defenders who could potentially have helped Burfict on Shepard. Given the upheaval on that side of the ball, a slow start and steady improvement was the logical course of action.

The broader effect of the defensive infusion, though, is that it allows coordinator Steve Spagnuolo to maximize the players he has and put the combinations on the field that he prefers.

Sure enough, the surge Spagnuolo anticipated has washed over this season. Taking it all the way to the Giants seven yard line for a first and goal. The defense to which Beckham was referring to closed out the game with a few emphatic sacks on Andy Dalton – a hammer the team has not yielded in recent years. “We didn’t connect on all of them but a couple of them we did, and we’ve got to keep doing that”. They put a good plan together. After a Dalton scramble for 15 yards on first down, he was sacked twice and knocked back 14 yards. Sacking Dalton mercilessly, while Landon Collins’ interception with 11:35 to go effectively prevented a potential Bengals comeback. “Not in college or in high school”.

Dalton managed a 13-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Green, while Jeremy Hill scored on a nine-yard run.

“We’re 6-3. I haven’t been 6-3 since I’ve been here”, Beckham, the third-year superstar, said after the game. Alworth was inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978.

The Giants defense has been suspect at times against both the pass and the run, but newcomers Olivier Vernon and Janoris Jenkins have slowly started being big time players for that Ben McAdoo defense. “The only thing I care about is winning. I thought Eli played it well and everyone did a nice job on that fourth-down call”. Clearly, the talent is there.

“Coach McAdoo told me on second down, ‘Hey, we’re in four-down territory, just so you know, ‘” Manning said.

McAdoo wasn’t happy about the Giants dropping four passes and throwing two interceptions.

The Bengals increased their lead to 20-14 on kicker Mike Nugent’s 38 yard field goal.

“We were down by six”, McAdoo said.