It was a tough loss for the Giants falling to the 2-3 Seahawks on Giants’ home turf Sunday night 36-25. The Giants had four turnovers at MetLife Stadium before trying to stage a 4th quarter comeback that didn’t succeed, in part because they had two costly penalties and an interception.
“We played poorly,” Coach Tom Coughlin said. “When you don’t deserve to win you don’t win. We didn’t complement each other at all today. We had done that last week and I felt good about the end of the game – the way all three phases helped out – but this week, the sloppiness of the game, the turnovers. You’re not going to win football games when you’re handing people the ball.”
The Giants last two wins had been come from behind fourth quarter victories over the Eagles and the Cardinals.
“I fully expected to win,” Coughlin said. “Probably the most miserable feeling as we’ve had around here in a long time. To win three straight and then come into our own place at home and not win, and not to be representative of where we are. We were plus-four (in turnover differential) coming in here.”
Not winning at home is always a tough one for both the players and fans.
“We didn’t play well,” quarterback Eli Manning said. “That’s all it came down to.” Manning threw for a career-high 420 yards and three touchdowns while completing 24 of 39 passes. But he also was responsible for three interceptions and lost a fumble.
“It is embarrassing, as a good as we have been playing the last couple weeks, to come out here and lay an egg,” defensive lineman Dave Tollefson said. “Embarrassing is the only way I can think of. It is at home and it is a game that we are not going to get back. They are in our conference and we have to play better than that.”
They’ll have to play better next week if they don’t want to get their eggs scrambled again.
