Giants Extra Point | Giants vs. Texans Recap

John Schmeelk (0:07)

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In what's the best one of the year, the New York Giants go into Houston and Reliant Stadium and defeat the Houston Texans in overtime 27 to 21 Hello, everybody from our studios in downtown Manhattan, John Schmeelk and Tiki Barber with you. And Tiki, another game? I think we're on five in a row here that have basically gone down to the last play of the game.

Tiki Barber (0:53)

And the Giants defeat the Houston Texans in overtime, and they head to Head the to the next buy round at 42 and 1 Yeah, the most encouraging thing is that for once this year, these tight wins or losses have been with the defense kind of holding serve in this.

JJ McCarthy (1:08)

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Tiki Barber (1:08)

The offense finished the game in overtime with a humongous rushing effort, both by Cam Scadaboo and Devon Singletary. We challenged this giant team. If you're going to be good, doesn't matter who's that quarterback, you have to figure out how to run the ball more effectively and explosively. Now in the first half, they didn't have a great run total, yardage-wise, not even yards per carry. But when you went and looked at the deeper stats, the success rate was over 53 percent. And as the game went on, that just increased and increased and increased. And that's a credit to the Giants' offensive line of finding something that works. It was a lot of inside zone. There was some split zone which kind of mimics gap scheme runnings with the pullers and gives you leverage. And you saw it come to a huge fruition in overtime when the Kamp Scadaboo splits one for 42 yards, slides down likely because he felt the twinge in his hamstring. But then on the very next play, Devon Singletary walks it off with a 30-yard touchdown. JJ. McCarthy has a lot to do with this. We talked about it at the halftime portion of this program where the defensive ends for the Houston Texans now have to respect JJ. McCarthy, even though he didn't really keep the ball in any of these run sets.

Not once. But they have to respect it. And it just opens up a little bit more space for the ball carrier to pick up yards. But the biggest story of this game was JJ. McCarthy, who didn't make any mistakes, really.

In game one that he played in the fourth quarter last week, we saw two or three, maybe four interception-worthy passes, one interception that wasn't really his fault. Not one of those today, not one ball that you looked at and said, man, that was dangerous, that was sketchy. Instead, you saw ball on time, you saw with great accuracy to all of his receiving targets out there, and really you felt the calm with him as the quarterback of this offense, and that's encouraging, and you also got the James Winston experience in a unique way, where he came in as the short yardage, third and one, fourth and one quarterback, where he put some trickery on it and one picked up a big 23-yard gainer on fourth down when they fooled the Houston Texans. Overall, really good effort by the offense, but it's really the defense, dude. This defense was phenomenal. We've talked all season about two things with this Giants team. One, the run game, which we just talked about, and two, the pressure rate. The Giants have not. They are at a league bottom dweller in pressure rate. Today they had 66% pressure rate, which is enormous for a team that didn't bring a ton of pressure.

John Schmeelk (3:38)

No question about it. That's a good summary. We'll dig into each of those individuals as we continue. That's our game breakdown brought to you by our local Ford Store. As Ford is proud to be the official vehicle of the New York football Giants. We'll have John Harbaugh on the podium. We will have the other player interviews from downstairs. Giants defeat the Texans in overtime 27 to 21 We'll be right back.

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