Giants dealt crushing overtime loss as Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey rips their hearts out
Get texts from Paul Schwartz with all the latest Giants news and insights, exclusive to Sports+ subscribers.ARLINGTON, Texas — Russell Wilson threw one Moon Ball too many.Wilson engineered one of the Giants’ best big-game offensive performances in a decade, but his final pass was an overtime interception into double coverage that preceded a Dak Prescott drive for a walk-off field goal Sunday to seal a thrilling 40-37 Cowboys victory in the early NFL game of the year at AT&T Stadium.Brandon Aubrey — the undisputed best kicker in the NFL — drilled a game-tying 64-yard field goal as time expired in regulation and doubled down with a 46-yarder in overtime.
Aubrey’s first kick was two yards shy of the NFL regular-season record.The teams traded scores on the final nine second-half possessions — five for the Cowboys and four for the Giants — and when all was said and done the Giants’ 13-10 lead had become a 37-37 tie.All the twists and turns of a fourth quarter that featured 41 combined points — 17 in the last 52 seconds alone — gave way to the NFL’s first game under new overtime rules, in which both teams possess the ball no matter what, as long as the 10-minute clock permits.Of course, after all those offensive fireworks, neither team scored on its first two touches of overtime.The vaunted Giants defense — constructed on the back of big investments in a four-man pass rush and a rebuilt secondary — couldn’t protect a pair of three-point leads late in the fourth quarter and the defense allowed scores on the Cowboys’ final five regulation possessions as well as the final four-play, 42-yard march.The Giants have lost nine straight and 16 of their past 17 against the Cowboys, nine straight in Dallas, 14 straight against Prescott and eight straight in the NFC East.They fell to 0-2 for the 10th time in the past 13 seasons — none of which have resulted in a playoff berth.The Giants could not overcome an embarrassing 14 accepted penalties...