Go for it.\u00a0Do not sit back.\u00a0Apply pressure rather than wilt under it.<\/p>\n
That is the approach the Giants and their defensive coordinator, Shane Bowen, needed to unleash down the stretch of a heart-stopping and, eventually, heart-breaking game that ended the way so many of these Sundays go<\/a> for a team that for far too long collects wins as often as the mortgage needs to be paid:\u00a0Pretty much once a month.<\/p>\n When one or two plays would have sealed a rousing 37-34 victory in Arlington, Texas \u2014 it would have been a fantastic finish to remember \u2014 one play that was not made dragged a frenzied game into overtime, where form held and the Giants went down to the Cowboys 40-37, falling for the ninth consecutive time to an NFC East opponent that always gets well when the guys in blue come to town.<\/p>\n Stuff happens but there is getting beat despite an aggressive stance and there is getting beat because you were hesitant.\u00a0Dak Prescott\u2019s 18-yard strike to tight end Jake Ferguson put bionic-legged Brandon Aubrey in range for a 64-yard field goal as time expired and, eventually, Aubrey\u2019s 46-yarder \u2014 a chip-shot for him \u2014 sealed the deal in OT and dropped the Giants to 0-2, wasting Russell Wilson\u2019s incredible display of deep passing prowess<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Go for it.\u00a0Do not sit back.\u00a0Apply pressure rather than wilt under it. That is the approach the Giants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[257,7,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,23741,9,2833,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-371125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-shane-bowen","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115210770544376531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}