5-10 The Giants are still breathing in the NFC East, there’s a week left.
Sunday’s NFC East games opened the way for the Giants to keep their division hopes alive. Dwayne Haskins, prone to turnover, was overtaken while Washington squandered the chance to win the East with an ugly 20-13 home loss to Carolina.
The Giants also needed the Cowboys to beat the Eagles, and the Dallas overcame an early 14-3 hole to get a 37-17 victory at AT&T Stadium.
The Giants must beat Dallas (6-9) in Week 17 and beat Philadelphia (4-10-1) in Washington (6-9) next Sunday night to create a three-on-6 tie. 10. In this scenario, the Giants would win the tiebreaker based on a 4-2 division record. Washington would still win the first division title in 2015, with a victory over the Eagles eliminated.
Washington wasted its first chance to win at FedEx Field on Sunday against another eliminated opponent, as Teddy Bridgewater and the Panthers (5-10) got a 20-0 lead in the first half and did not give up.
“What’s frustrating was that I didn’t play championship-grade football,” said Washington coach Ron Rivera. “We are still in control of our destiny. This is the truth of the matter.
“We still have one game to play and it’s a very important game.”
Haskins, who was fined $ 40,000 last week for a party without a mask for violating COVID-19 protocols, was a mess for the second straight start in place of Alex Smith (calf).
Washington’s first-round pick in 2019 was intercepted twice, missed only once and finished 14-for-28 for 154 yards, before being replaced in favor of Taylor Heinicke, fourth-stringer, with Washington , 20-6, in the fourth quarter.
“I just didn’t click. Very disappointing, “said Haskins, calling last week” the hardest “of his life. “I wish I could go back and change something, but now it’s over.”
Heinicke, an Old Dominion product who appeared in six games (a start) for Carolina in 2018, drew Washington 20-13 with a 29-yard pass to JD McKissic 1:50 for the final, but the onside hit was recovered by the Panthers.
Meanwhile, the loser of the Philadelphia / Dallas game faced elimination, and that turned out to be the Eagles (4-10-1).
The Eagles got a quick lead of 14-3, but Andy Dalton (377 yards) connected twice with Michael Gallup and once with debutant CeeDee Lamb for touchdowns for a 27-13 change advantage in third trimester.
Hurts, who finished with 342 passing yards and 69 on the ground, was intercepted at the Dallas goal line by Anthony Brown with 6:42 left – his first of two picks in the fourth quarter. He also lost to the Cowboys in 3:54.
Lamb scored again on a 19-yard run with 1:53 left to seal Dallas’ third straight win and hosted Sunday’s Giants clash at MetLife Stadium.
“If you gave up five or six weeks ago, we wouldn’t want you to be on our side,” Ezekiel Elliott said. “We are competitors. The whole team is. I didn’t get out of this. I have to win next week and I need a little help from the guys I just played. “