Giants’ special teams had woeful night before Randy Bullock’s game-winner

Particular groups giveth, particular groups taketh away.

That doesn’t imply all of it equals out in the long run, nonetheless.

Regardless of the dramatic win, the online consequence Monday for the Giants was a damaging — as has too usually been the case this season below sixth-year particular groups coordinator Thomas McGaughey.

Here’s a take a look at 5 performs that impacted the Giants’ 24-22 win over the visiting Packers — together with Randy Bullock’s game-winning subject objective — a technique or one other:

Randy Bullock’s first miss

Handed nice beginning subject place within the first quarter, the Giants moved the ball simply 3 yards in three performs and settled for a 48-yard subject objective try. Bullock missed extensive proper, to the shock of some Giants’ followers who’ve been spoiled over time by near-automatic kicking amid different chaos. It was Bullock’s first miss in 4 makes an attempt since he changed the injured Graham Gano, whose late-game miss towards the Jets on Oct. 29 value the Giants a win.

Lawrence Cager’s gaffe

Trailing 10-7 with 12 seconds remaining within the first half, the Giants ought to have had the break wanted to keep away from simply kneeling out the half. Anders Carlson’s kickoff was about to roll out of bounds, however Lawrence Cager touched the ball first. All that Cager needed to do was step out of bounds after which attain again to the touch the ball, which might have meant possession on the 40-yard line and one play to get into field-goal vary. As a substitute, his muff value a minimal of 29 yards of subject place — and possibly factors?

Jamie Gillan’s knuckleball

The Giants turned the tables within the third quarter when Jamie Gillan — the NFC’s main Professional Bowl vote-getter at punter — lined a knuckleball down the sector. Keisean Nixon muffed the catch, fell on the ball after which mistakenly tried to get to his ft. Darnay Holmes — a relative newcomer as a gunner — seized a chance to knock the ball free from a stumbling Nixon, and Benton Whitley recovered to arrange the Giants’ short-field go-ahead landing drive.

The Bobby McCain bounce

The place the punt protection workforce delivered, the punt return workforce failed. A bouncing punt hit off an unaware Bobby McCain’s hip and resulted in a turnover. As a lot as McCain is accountable, returner Gunner Olszewski wanted to do a greater job making his teammates conscious of the risks and clearing them out of hurt’s means. It’s potential that Olszewski, who was leveled fielding a punt earlier within the recreation however waved off the medical cart and stayed within the recreation, was not himself. The Giants’ protection picked up the particular groups by holding the Packers to a subject objective on a drive that began contained in the purple zone.