New York Giants pull off epic fake field goal but blow it at the end (Video)
By Josh Hill
The New York Giants outsmarted themselves to negate an otherwise epic 4th down fake.
It’s been a tough year for football in New York.
Neither the Giants nor Jets have a win this season and that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon. Of the two gridiron disasters, the Giants might be able to make something of this season — assuming your definition of success is flexible.
Joe Judge and the Giants marched deep into the heart of Texas on Sunday and jumped out to a big lead against the Cowboys before buckling and letting them back in. But New York almost swung momentum back in their direction late in the first half with a gusty fake field goal call that paid off, until it didn’t.
It was a tale of two halves, as an otherwise amazing fake field goal that would have given the Giants a huge boost was negated by an illegal formation penalty.
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New York settled for the field goal, but the momentum boost that the successful fake would have given them would have been worth more than the points scored.
Even if the attempt was negated by a penalty, it’s worth noting that it happened at all. The Giants are not going anywhere this season, but the fact that Judge is acting more like Brian Flores and less like Matt Patricia should give Giants fans confidence that they won’t end up with the wrong kind of Bill Belichick assistant.
Of course, this is just one play and it didn’t work because of a mental error so let’s not make too much of this. But it’s notable that Judge isn’t laying down and accepting this as a lost season and that’s good news for a Giants team looking to establish some sort of culture that isn’t steeped in the kind of losing that has been commonplace the last few years.