{"id":146745,"date":"2021-01-04T08:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T05:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eagles-doug-pederson-found-cruel-way-to-end-giants-dream\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T08:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T05:39:44","slug":"eagles-doug-pederson-found-cruel-way-to-end-giants-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eagles-doug-pederson-found-cruel-way-to-end-giants-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"#Eagles’ Doug Pederson found cruel way to end Giants dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Eagles’ Doug Pederson found cruel way to end Giants dream<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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So this is how the wretched tale of the 2020 NFC East ends:<\/p>\n

The Giants take it to one of their two fiercest rivals, eking out a 23-19 win over the hated Cowboys. Against every fiber of their being, against every grain of their blue-tinted soul, they commended their football season over to the Eagles, who, if they aren\u2019t 1A on the list of Giants fans\u2019 most wanted, are certainly 1B.<\/p>\n

But they needed the Eagles to upset 1C \u2014 the Washington Football Team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t be caught dead in an Eagles hat,\u201d Giants receiver Sterling Shepard had said around 5 o\u2019clock, \u201cbut I\u2019ll be rooting for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet who in their right mind could know that 6 \u00bd hours later, the Eagles \u2014 who, let\u2019s be honest, through the years have probably inspired more fits of sheer rage out of Giants fans than the Cowboys and WFT combined \u2014 would become even more detested, more reviled, more loathed, more despised than ever.<\/p>\n

First, down three points in the third quarter, Eagles coach Doug Pederson eschewed a chip-shot game<\/a>-tying field goal for fourth-and-goal from the four.<\/p>\n

Then he punted.<\/p>\n

Not literally. But instead of watching how his intriguing young quarterback, Jalen Hurts, might react to playing in the fourth quarter of a meaningful game \u2014 meaningful for the WFT, anyway \u2014 he brought in his third-string quarterback, fellow named Nate Sudfeld.<\/p>\n

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Jalen Hurts watches from the sideline in the fourth quarter.<\/figcaption>
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If you\u2019d never heard of Nate Sudfeld before, you weren\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n

Only for now his name will roll off the tongue around here: Nate #@#$&# Sudfeld.<\/p>\n

Sudfeld did what you\u2019d imagine Sudfeld would do. He threw a pick. He fumbled the ball. He looked every bit the non-prospect with 26 career passing attempts under his belt would look like. The Eagles took a knee with a full quarter to go. Washington won the game, 20-14, and the NFC East with a 7-9 record, and host Tom Brady next week.<\/p>\n

The Giants?<\/p>\n

Look, they had 16 weeks before this one to make sure they could finish better than 6-10. Outside New York there will be few tears shed for them. And look: it isn\u2019t on the Eagles to make the Giants feel good about themselves. It\u2019s just not.<\/p>\n

Still \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy on God\u2019s green earth is Jalen Hurts not in the game?\u201d tweeted Darius Slayton.<\/p>\n

Tweeted Golden Tate: \u201cI think the Eagles just hate us more than Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Blake Martinez: \u201c\u2026\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

It was weird enough how the Giants\u2019 own game had ended, with a football on the ground, with a season reduced to the random bounces of an oblong brown missile. Of course that game couldn\u2019t end routinely, same as the season was never going to end routinely, this Giants season that felt like about five different seasons rolled into one.<\/p>\n

Wayne Gallman made a splendid play, passing the first-down marker, and that should have been game, set, match, and allowed the Giants to all slip into their fuzzy Eagles socks for a few hours.<\/p>\n

Of course that wasn\u2019t possible. Of course the ball slipped out of Gallman\u2019s hands, and landed on the turf, and even though it did look like Gallman had landed on the ball \u2014 landed on it on his butt (OF COURSE!) \u2014 there was a particularly nervous moment when one official pointed that it was Giants ball and another said it was Cowboys ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to slap Wayne in the back of the head for fumbling,\u201d Giants safety Logan Ryan would quip a bit later, \u201cbut he got the ball back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry I caused so much drama,\u201d Gallman would say.<\/p>\n

Drama?<\/p>\n

He had no idea what kind of drama was still to come.<\/p>\n

When these Giants were 0-5 and 1-7, they would\u2019ve all offered their kingdom for a little good drama, for some season-defining drama, as opposed to the will-the-darkness-ever-dissipate drama that had followed them into this season. Drama? After a terrible start, after a sublime middle, after a brutal last few weeks, they could stomach a little more drama.<\/p>\n

And would tolerate the drama to come, too, once they\u2019d taken care of their end of the bargain Sunday afternoon. They dismissed the Cowboys, and while coach Joe Judge and most of the Giants players haven\u2019t lived with the shadow of the Damned Star as long as some others in the organization, that made this a little extra sweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a lot of smiles and hugs \u2014 social<\/a>ly distanced hugs \u2014 in the locker room afterward,\u201d Judge said, and you have to believe the loudest and the happ<\/a>iest of the greeters was John Mara, the Giants\u2019 co-owner, who has lived and died with these Giants-Cowboys games for the better part of 60 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came in today and we had a meaningful game,\u201d Judge said, \u201cand the guys took care of business.\u201d<\/p>\n

They took care of business, and then they had to wait. And they probably wouldn\u2019t have believed you if you\u2019d told them how it would all play out at the end of that wait. Because how could they? How could anyone?\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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