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Eli Manning: ‘Cowboys are good’ but Giants had opportunitues
By SportsDayDFW sports
5:53 pm on September 7, 2012
In an interview with WFAN-AM in New York on Thursday as transcribed by SportsRadioInterviews.com, Giants quarterback Eli Manning discussed the 24-17 loss to the Cowboys.
On his general thoughts on the game:
“We just didn’t play well enough. It’s that simple. We had opportunities and there’s some games that you lose where you get flat out beat and nothing is working and you get totally dominated. I don’t think…that was not the case. The Cowboys are good, and they made some plays and created some plays, but we had opportunities. We had chances with some good drives going in the second half. In the second half we only had three possessions and we scored on two of the three. The one time we didn’t on the 3rd-and-4 they just had the perfect defense called and we didn’t have much option. That happens sometimes and it is part of football. In the first half we had opportunities and we had guys open, but were just a little off. Here or there just enough guys not making a play when we needed to or one mistake here that lead to us not being successful. It’s something that’s easily correctable and something that we know we can improve on.”
On the Cowboys’ goal-line stand, allowing only a field goal after a 1st and goal:
“Again it wasn’t that guys were doing the wrong thing or we weren’t…guys were making mistakes. That wasn’t the case. We just didn’t perform well enough. We didn’t…losing some yards when you are on the 1-yard line is always tough. We tried to run it twice and got nowhere. We had one chance to throw it. We had a play called and I thought Victor Cruz was going to get open. You can see on film that the guy had a pretty good tug of his jersey when he tried to come out of the break, but that’s part of football. You just gotta play through it and fight through it and hopefully you can still find a way to convert on that one, so you settle for a field goal right there, but you hate to do it when you get the ball at the 1-yard line, but we still had some other opportunities. Every time we had a couple of good drives going in the first half. One of them you had the fumble and the next one a second down you just try for a play action and I took on first down a big sack for 15 yards or so. Those things can hurt drives. We had some long drives. The one where we fumbled…we had a 10-play drive. In the second half we had a 10-play drive for a touchdown and a 15-play drive for a touchdown. There are some good things there we just gotta find ways to make some plays on some other drives.”
By SportsDayDFW sports
5:53 pm on September 7, 2012
In an interview with WFAN-AM in New York on Thursday as transcribed by SportsRadioInterviews.com, Giants quarterback Eli Manning discussed the 24-17 loss to the Cowboys.
On his general thoughts on the game:
“We just didn’t play well enough. It’s that simple. We had opportunities and there’s some games that you lose where you get flat out beat and nothing is working and you get totally dominated. I don’t think…that was not the case. The Cowboys are good, and they made some plays and created some plays, but we had opportunities. We had chances with some good drives going in the second half. In the second half we only had three possessions and we scored on two of the three. The one time we didn’t on the 3rd-and-4 they just had the perfect defense called and we didn’t have much option. That happens sometimes and it is part of football. In the first half we had opportunities and we had guys open, but were just a little off. Here or there just enough guys not making a play when we needed to or one mistake here that lead to us not being successful. It’s something that’s easily correctable and something that we know we can improve on.”
On the Cowboys’ goal-line stand, allowing only a field goal after a 1st and goal:
“Again it wasn’t that guys were doing the wrong thing or we weren’t…guys were making mistakes. That wasn’t the case. We just didn’t perform well enough. We didn’t…losing some yards when you are on the 1-yard line is always tough. We tried to run it twice and got nowhere. We had one chance to throw it. We had a play called and I thought Victor Cruz was going to get open. You can see on film that the guy had a pretty good tug of his jersey when he tried to come out of the break, but that’s part of football. You just gotta play through it and fight through it and hopefully you can still find a way to convert on that one, so you settle for a field goal right there, but you hate to do it when you get the ball at the 1-yard line, but we still had some other opportunities. Every time we had a couple of good drives going in the first half. One of them you had the fumble and the next one a second down you just try for a play action and I took on first down a big sack for 15 yards or so. Those things can hurt drives. We had some long drives. The one where we fumbled…we had a 10-play drive. In the second half we had a 10-play drive for a touchdown and a 15-play drive for a touchdown. There are some good things there we just gotta find ways to make some plays on some other drives.”