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Giants Have No Answers For Stafford & Lions

LIONS 31 - GIANTS 26

Last week the Giants couldn't get their offense started in the slop at MetLife Stadium against Arizona. Today, the offense wasn't the problem, as the Giants couldn't stop a nosebleed in Detroit. Either way, it resulted in another loss as the Giants stumble to 2-6 on the season.

After an rough early start for quarterback Daniel Jones, where he fumbled away another football that was quickly turned into six-Lions' points, he settled in to throw for 322 yards and four touchdowns in defeat.

It was a small consultation in a season completely and totally lost.

The Giants found themselves down 14-0 with 2:31 to go in the first quarter, as Matthew Stafford carved up Big Blue's leaky secondary, including a 49-yard bomb to Marvin Hall down the sideline for the score.

Stafford had a huge afternoon for Detroit, tossing for 342 yards and three scores. His top target on the afternoon Kevin Galloday had an even bigger day, hauling in six passes for 123 yards and two touchdowns in his own right. The Giants had no answer to slow down either player.

Give the Giants some credit, they did fight back. Jones led a pair of scoring drives, including an eight-play 57-yard drive that culminated in a 28-yard touchdown strike to Darius Slayton. Unfortunately for Big Blue, Aldrich Rojas missed the extra point, which kept the Lions in front 14-13.

After the Lions responded with a field goal before halftime to make it 17-13, Detroit put the game away on a 75-yard scoring drive to open the second half with Stafford finding Golladay from nine-yards out to make it 24-13.

Finally early in the fourth quarter, Stafford and crew really shut out the lights when they executed a perfect flea flicker with Stafford taking the pitch back from Tre Carson, and zipping it down field to an uncovered Golladay for the score to blow it open at 31-19.

While the Giants had more first downs than Detroit (24-17), the Lions carved up the Giants defense for 375 yards of offense and were an efficient 8-of-14 on third down. It was total domination.

At 2-6 things won't get any easier for Big Blue next week when they host the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football.

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