Giants Proprietor John Mara Will get Sport Ball After Win vs. Cowboys Amid Most cancers Battle

[ad_1] New York Giants proprietor John Mara acquired a season-ending present from his workforce three months into his most cancers therapy.

Mara acquired a recreation ball in an emotional locker room scene after the Giants beat the rival Dallas Cowboys 34-17 on Sunday to complete their misplaced season on a two-game profitable streak.

"He talked about he’s jogging to his therapies now due to this," mentioned tight finish Daniel Bellinger, who had a 29-yard landing catch. "He’s acquired to be the hardest man within the locker room, no matter what all people else goes via. He’s resilient as a man, and we respect him as our chief, our proprietor."

Beating Dallas and different outcomes across the NFL took the Giants (4-13) out of the operating for a top-two choose and clinched No. 1 for Las Vegas, per week after routing the Raiders to finish a nine-game skid. Shuffling again within the draft order had some followers rooting for New York to lose, however two extra TD passes by rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart confirmed why there's a lot organizational optimism in regards to the future, irrespective of who's teaching.

"Jaxson Dart’s going to be right here — he’ll be right here for a very long time," veteran receiver Darius Slayton mentioned. "He’s gifted. He’s younger. I believe any coach that might come right here could be clever to spend money on him and attempt to convey him alongside as a result of he has all of the potential on the earth.

Dart has mentioned he cares extra about profitable than draft place and performed prefer it in his twelfth skilled begin. He was 22 of 32 for 231 yards together with his 14th and fifteenth profession landing passes, to Bellinger and Tyrone Tracy.

Whereas the Giants have been shorthanded due to accidents and sicknesses, they handled this like some other recreation with their starters going the space. Dallas (7-9-1) took it extra like an exhibition recreation, together with Dak Prescott exiting after halftime.

Prescott accomplished seven of 11 passes for 70 yards and misplaced a fumble off a botched snap earlier than being changed at quarterback by Joe Milton to start the third quarter.

"The vacation spot isn't the tip aim," mentioned Prescott, who completed the season with 4,552 yards passing, the second most of his decade-long profession behind solely 4,902 in 2019. "It’s one of many first seasons the place I can’t instantly correlate my play to the wins or loses. That makes it irritating."

Jaydon Blue and Phil Mafah every rushed for his or her first NFL touchdowns for the Cowboys, who misplaced to the Giants for the primary time for the reason that 2020 season finale on Jan. 3, 2021. That they had received 9 consecutive conferences and Prescott had received 14 in a row because the starter, and this loss once more got here with embattled defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus' unit permitting 30-plus factors.

"You have to get off the sphere on third down," coach Brian Schottenheimer mentioned. "Sadly, we didn’t try this, plus we gave up some explosives within the run recreation. The final couple of weeks have been higher, however these are huge momentum performs the place you might have an opportunity to get the ball again to the offense."

Reporting by The Related Press.

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