Lack of Discipline, Costly Mistakes Hand Giants 0-2 Hole in Painful Loss to Washington
Game Recap - September 18, 2021
There’s the old saying “give ‘em an inch, and they’ll take a mile”. The Giants gave Washington that inch, and they took off with five yards and a last second field goal to hand New York another excruciatingly painful defeat on Thursday night.
Behind the scriptworthy heroics of backup quarterback Taylor Heinicke and a few unintended favors from the opponent, the Washington Football Team steadied the waves of five field goals from Graham Gano and returned one of their own in the final seconds to defeat the Giants, 30-29. Washington kicker Dustin Hopkins, after missing a 48-yarder a little to the right, received a second chance from 43 yards following a Giants infraction and he made sure he nailed it to send New York to another 0-2 start.
Worse than that, their fifth straight 0-2 start to the season since 2016 and eighth in the last nine seasons.
My Week 2 recap of the New York Giants Thursday Night Football matchup with division rival Washington, another exhibit of a preventable loss that will cost the Giants as the season continues.