Bears lose TE Zach Miller to broken right foot
Bears: Host the Titans and Marcus Mariota on Sunday. Back before the first kickoff, the National Football League public and media wasn’t sure what to make of a Giants team that had a new head coach and was coming off three consecutive losing seasons. Here’s how they can get started on that this week. This one was effectively game-ending, an underthrown ball toward Marquess Wilson that was intercepted inside the NY 25 on what had a chance to be a game-winning drive.
The narrative is now different. In the end, though, the Giants held on to a 22-16 lead, their seventh win of the season all of which have been by less than a touchdown.
New York Giants fans are free to dream about moving to 8-3 after this week’s matchup against the woeful Chicago Bears and next week’s game against the winless Cleveland Browns. It seems like they’ll have to do the same to beat the Giants.
Rest assured, the Giants aren’t buying any of it. Giants coach Ben McAdoo does not like the turnovers, but has made it clear he wants his quarterback to be thinking aggressively, no matter what. With every victory, with every week, we’re getting stronger as a team. Especially when they don’t have viable backups in place. “Sideline was sacked up, we were fired up for Landon, he made a heck of a play”. “Coach McAdoo has been preaching that all week”.
I think its finally time to stop doubting the Giants, they have a very good shot at making the playoffs. Eli Manning better hope the offensive line is in order on gameday, because Pernell McPhee says, “We gonna sack him”.
As much as the Bears have struggled this season, their defensive backfield isn’t so bad.
The AFC North-leading Ravens have won two straight overall, but are winless SU and ATS in their past two road dates. Their other triumph was against the Detroit Lions, who, like the Vikings, are 5-4.
The win gave the Giants (7-3) a five-game regular-season winning streak for the first time since 2010 and put them five games over.500 for the first time since 2012.
In fairness, this may be true of most matchups for the Giants.
As the third quarter got underway, Miller was ruled out for the remainder of the game, the Bears announced to the media at MetLife Stadium. Later in the game Marshall Newhouse left the field with a knee injury, though he came back out in a later series.
Miller had 44 receptions this season for 425 yards and three touchdowns. Return specialist Dwayne Harris returned the opening kickoff 46 yards, and NY converted two key third-down plays, the first a 4-yard run by Jennings and the second a 12-yard catch by Shepard to set up Manning’s 9-yard touchdown pass to tight end Will Tye to tie the score at 16-16, the PAT by Gould hitting the right upright. A fourth interception of the season from Landon Collins, eight tackles from Damon Harrison and a big sacking from Olivier Vernon on Begals quarterback Andy Dalton with three minutes to go helped to see the home side over the line.