ARLINGTON — For the primary time in seven video games, the Giants took a lead.
Drew Lock, the third quarterback to begin for the Giants in as many video games, led a 13-play, 70-yard landing drive on his staff’s opening possession Thursday towards the Dallas Cowboys.
Rookie vast receiver Malik Nabers, who 4 days earlier bemoaned his lack of first-half involvement, acquired three targets and a stick with it that drive.
And rookie working again Tyrone Tracy Jr., who didn’t begin Thursday after shedding fumbles in back-to-back video games, completed the drive with a one-yard landing run, placing the Giants up, 7-3, on the 3:06 mark of the primary quarter.
However from that time on, it was extra of the identical for the spiraling Giants.
Lock’s two turnovers — together with a pick-six on the Giants’ second possession — helped feed the Cooper Rush-led Cowboys’ 27-20 victory on Thanksgiving at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
It was the seventh consecutive loss for the Giants, who fell to 2-10. They’ve now misplaced eight video games in a row to the Cowboys, with the final six coming below head coach Brian Daboll and basic supervisor Joe Schoen.
Lock accomplished 21-of-32 passes for 178 yards and an interception in his first begin of the 12 months, failing to resolve the Giants’ season-long quarterback issues. He rushed for 57 yards and a landing and likewise misplaced a fumble.
Each of his turnovers led to touchdowns for the Cowboys, who improved to 5-7 and received their first residence recreation of the 12 months. The Giants (0-6) stay the one NFL staff with no residence victory.
However Lock was removed from the one Large who deserved blame Thursday.
An offensive line right down to backup tackles Chris Hubbard and Evan Neal struggled to guard the sixth-year quarterback, surrendering six sacks, together with 1.5 to ferocious move rusher Micah Parsons.
The Giants’ protection didn’t report a sack.
As soon as once more, the Giants failed to complete tackles, with Cowboys working again Rico Dowdle dashing for 112 yards on 22 carries.
Rush, in his fourth begin since Dak Prescott suffered a season-ending hamstring harm, accomplished 21-of-36 passes for 195 yards and a landing. He received the battle of the backups, main a Dallas offense that totaled 317 yards, in comparison with the Giants’ 247.
Lock signed a one-year, $5 million contract within the offseason to be Daniel Jones’ backup, however the Giants gave Tommy DeVito the primary crack on the beginning job after releasing Jones final week.
The Giants struggled below DeVito throughout Sunday’s 30-7 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, throughout which DeVito repeatedly took large hits. DeVito confirmed up on the harm report Tuesday with a proper forearm problem and served Thursday because the emergency quarterback.
Lock supplied an early jolt towards the Cowboys. After Dallas started the sport with a 24-yard discipline objective — on a drive Kayvon Thibodeaux prolonged with a third-down offsides penalty — Lock transformed a third and 6 with a 29-yard scramble that took the ball to the 1-yard line.
Tracy’s ensuing landing was the Giants’ first on a gap possession since Week 2 and gave them their first lead since their Week 5 victory in Seattle.
Dallas responded with one other discipline objective on the subsequent drive, slicing the Giants’ result in 7-6.
And that’s the place the sport unraveled.
On the primary play of the Giants’ second possession, Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown exploded into the backfield, collided with working again Devin Singletary to throw him off his route, then tipped and intercepted Lock’s move to Singletary and returned it 23 yards for a landing.
The Cowboys took a 13-7 lead and by no means trailed once more. Dallas led, 13-10, at halftime, with three drops by star receiver CeeDee Lamb serving to to maintain the rating shut.
Dallas pulled away within the second half, beginning with an Eric Kendricks sack on the Giants’ opening possession that pressured Lock to lose a fumble.
The Cowboys cashed in with a six-play, 38-yard landing drive, which ended with Rush’s two-yard scoring throw to Brandin Cooks that made the rating 20-10. Dowdle added a four-yard landing run on the Cowboys’ subsequent possession to increase the result in 27-10.
The Giants stalled offensively after their early landing, totaling solely 35 yards on their subsequent eight drives. Lock scored on an eight-yard scramble with 2:18 within the fourth quarter to chop the Giants’ deficit to 27-20 however didn’t get the ball again.
The loss got here 4 days after a number of Giants gamers described the staff’s efficiency as “soft” towards the Buccaneers. Amongst them was Nabers, who expressed frustration over not receiving a goal within the first half of that recreation.
Lock threw to Nabers early and sometimes Thursday. The receiver completed with eight receptions on a game-high 13 targets for 69 yards but additionally dropped a pair of passes. That modest manufacturing got here with the Cowboys’ prime cornerback, Trevon Diggs, out with groin and knee accidents.
Including harm to insult Thursday have been the losses of star defensive deal with Dexter Lawrence, who was dominated out within the second half with an elbow problem, and fellow lineman Rakeem Nuñez-Roches, who didn’t return after struggling a stinger.
Thursday’s defeat was much less aggressive than the Week 4 loss to the Cowboys at MetLife Stadium, the place the Giants fell, 20-15, in a recreation began by Jones and Prescott.
The Giants at the moment are 1-15 of their final 16 video games towards Dallas.
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