The Negatives & Positives for New York Giants after Win on…

And if a 6-7 team like the Giants is capable of rattling the Dolphins into momentum-killing penalties at the end of a tight and entertaining game, what would happen to Miami in an actual playoff situation?

Odell Beckham made two touchdown catches, including an 84-yard reception to break a fourth-quarter tie, and the New York Giants forged a three-way tie atop the NFC East by beating the Miami Dolphins 31-24 on Monday night. McAdoo could have been satisfied riding Manning’s hot hand (87 percent completion rate), but he mixed in an effective ground attack. The Giants really could go 3-0, 0-3, 1-2, or 2-1 down the stretch, it’s hard to predict. No team in this division has earned the right to say confidently that they will win or lose any game. With what we just witnessed with Manning and Beckham, they’re capable of having big games with any of those three teams I mentioned. If they could somehow win one of those games, there could be a clinching game against the Eagles at home in Week 17.

Miami has now gone seven years without making the playoffs, a franchise record for a team that once dominated the National Football League and is still the only club to complete a flawless season.

“[Manning] is a veteran, championship quarterback”, Miami interim coach Dan Campbell said.

This is not the first time the Giants have been disappointed with Moore’s actions.

New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. had a stomach flu in recent days. The Giants aren’t a very good defensive team, but at least they have a D-Line that can once again get in people’s faces.

On their first score, the Dolphins took advantage of a blitz by Giants safety Craig Dahl.

The loss mathematically eliminated Miami (5-8) from playoff contention with three games left in the regular season.

But if the Coughlin era is going to sputter to an end in the next three weeks, Monday night proved that the quarterback who came to the franchise with him 11 years ago – and the other Giants stars who have known no other N.F.L. coach but Coughlin – are planning to get up off the turf and go down fighting.

“We wanted to come from that basis to show them that there were games throughout the year where we had come back, where we did finish, and where we did make the big plays when they had to be made”, he explained. Taylor handed coverage off to safety Reshad Jones, who jumped Beckham’s inside cut.

Tom Coughlin effectively challenged Odell Beckham’s six-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter, but then also made a less than intelligent challenge of a Jordan Cameron catch shortly thereafter.

His final catch, a diving grab on third down at midfield, sealed the victory with less than two minutes left. He concluded the night with 12 carries for 89 rushing yards with those two touchdowns.

Week 13: Brandin Cooks caught one pass for 19 yards. For the Dolphins, Ryan Tannehill had an alright day, completing 25 passes for 236 yards and a TD.

Wide receiver Jarvis Landry was targeted 18 times against the Giants, which tied for fourth-highest for a Dolphins player since 1991.

“Those are the ones you’ve got to make”, Tannehill said. Let’s start this run now.

Lamar Miller scored on first-half runs of 14 and 38 yards, each time exposing the Giants’ poor tackling.

With Coughlin expressing some trepidation over Flowers’ determination to continue on a bad ankle, the bigger question is at what point does the head coach step in and tell the rookie to take a seat if the injury continues to worsen and affect his performance?