Giants take huge win against Miami Dolphins

There are professional athletes and coaches who are relatively nonchalant and indifferent when losses begin to mount, but today it was clear that the losses are beginning to take their toll on Campbell.

“We got the coverage we wanted”, Manning said.

On 3rd-and-3 at the Miami 48-yard line, with two minutes remaining and the Dolphins out of timeouts, the Giants saved their season. “I want it to hurt”. It motivates me. It’s not too much for me to handle. “To me, that’s how you get motivated to win because you get exhausted of losing and it stinks”.

Interim head coach Dan Campbell has been on the staff for six of those seasons and he discussed the impact of such a prolonged slump during his press conference on Tuesday. “The rest of them are playoff games for us”.

“That in itself stings, and there’s no hiding that”, Campbell said. There’s no hiding that. Rashad, running. Eli getting us in the right formations, the right play calls. It pisses me off. I know it pisses those guys off in the locker room. “We created our own mess”.

“We thought it would be a big play”, Manning said, “but I didn’t think he would be that open”.

“I hope it’s nothing more than just the re-aggravation of that injury”, Coughlin said on a teleconference with local reporters. I just want to win. I just want to win. “All I care about is San Diego”. Beckham Jr.had seven catches for a season-high 166 receiving yards and caught two touchdowns.

“Those are the most disappointing”, Campbell said.

“You have a relationship with players you play with, ” Jenkins said. I know exactly what kind of talent he is and it’s going to be a great matchup. Not just on game day. “That’s when we’re at our best”. But we come out and we get a one-yard gain and now it’s second and nine. Let’s start this run now. At first, there was a fair amount of skepticism about them, as Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio wrote in September.

The Giants, with Super Bowl MVP quarterback Eli Manning and unstoppable wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., are just better than the Dolphins, but then so are way too many other teams in this league. In discussing that, he paraphrased the message his teammates said he had delivered to them. It was another very tough play that looks routine when he does it. In fact, the Giants turned to him on three of the next four plays – but the game was still not put away.

Campbell was especially unhappy about four personal foul penalties. On his second score, Miller broke a tackle in the backfield, got redirected, made a quick move and was gone up the middle. That’s what you come here to do. “They’re totally inexcusable. There’s nothing that’s OK about that”. “There is absolutely, there’s nothing that’s OK about that”. It looked like he was out on the initial replay. Miami fell to 5-8. If they don’t go down swinging with Manning and Beckham, it will all but guarantee the end of Coughlin and McAdoo. They’ve got enough fight in them. If this team wants to take the next step, they’re going to have to start winning when the lights are brightest, and they’re going to be awfully bright at TCF Bank Stadium twelve days from now.