If you bet against the Giant or Jets on Sunday, we’re sorry. The Giants were 8 point underdogs against the Saints, while the Jets were getting 7.5 points against the Titans heading into week 4. In survivor pools across the country, the Titans and Saints were the second and third most commonly picked teams behind only the Bills (who beat down the lowly Texans) this week.
It would be one thing for one of the 0-3 New York teams to get a win, it would be another for them to both earn a victory, but for them to BOTH win in overtime isn’t something you see everyday.
The Jets seemed destined to collapse down the stretch giving up the game tying score with 16 seconds left on the clock to send the game to overtime. However lady luck had other plans in store for them as the Titans lost the coin toss, putting New York in the driver’s seat in the extra frame. After driving inside the Titans’ 10 yard line, Jets QB Zach Wilson made a bad throw to a wide open receiver that would have won the game, and then inexplicably tried to run the ball in rather than throwing it away on 3rd and goal from the 1, losing 4 yards in the process. The Jets would kick the field goal and then earn the victory when Tennessee missed a field goal of their own coming back the other way.
The Giants took a different route altogether, orchestrating a game tying drive with under 2 minutes to go in the 4th. When Graham Gano booted a 48yd field goal through the uprights with 31 seconds remaining to tie the game, one could feel the momentum in the stadium shift to New York’s sideline. The Giants got the ball in the extra frame and never looked back, putting together a 9 play 75 yard drive, capped off by a 6yd Saquon Barkley score to ice the game.
Things haven’t been easy for either New York club this year (they entered week 4 a combined 0-6), but at least for one glorious weekend, fortune favoured the Big Apple.