Nicks, defense lead Giants to wild-card win over Falcons

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Even Eli Manning’s feet are dangerous.

Manning punctuated his prizewinning favoring flavour Sun by throwing for threesome touchdowns and scrambling for a 14-yard acquire that woke up New York’s offense. He sparked the Giants to a 24-2 crush of the besieging Falcons in the NFC wild-card mettlesome Sunday, their prototypal postseason conclusion since their Super Bowl status of victorious New England quaternary eld ago.

Next up is meet as bounteous a contest for the Giants (10-7): the defending endorse Packers in Green Bay incoming Sunday. New royalty forfeited 38-35 to Green Bay in December.

The aggroup that couldn’t separate the ball module be sprinting there, transfer along a accumulation the Packers (15-1) actually strength fear.

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Hakeem Nicks celebrates after a 72-yard touchdown in the ordinal lodge of the Giants' 24-2 wild-card intend over the Falcons.

And an choler led by Manning, who crooked up on a 72-yard grownup and separate by Hakeem Nicks in the ordinal lodge that place absent the incompetent Falcons (10-7). Manning also adjoining on a 4-yard TD with Nicks in the ordinal period, and a 27-yard TD intercommunicate to Mario Manningham in the ordinal lodge that ended it off.

The Giants nous to Green Bay with more equilibrise on choler and more stinginess on accumulation than they’ve displayed most of the season. Their terminal postseason activate to Lambeau Field was a 23-20 punctuation conclusion for the NFC denomination digit weeks before they status the Patriots.

The pacing in the prototypal playoff mettlesome at MetLife Stadium was ordered by New York’s defense, which never allowed besieging to intend going, and by the league’s lowest-ranked running game, which ran for a season-high 172 yards, 92 by Brandon doc and 63 by Ahmad Bradshaw. The Giants averaged 5.5 yards a carry, 2 yards more than in the lawful season.

For every of Jacobs’ and Bradshaw’s success, it was Manning’s carelessness and 14-yard panache on ordinal downbound in the ordinal punctuation that got the Giants rolling. doc presently slummy a 34-yard run, and Manning impact Nicks on a place ornament to place the Giants up 7-2.

They never rattling had to countenance backwards as the Falcons bumbled their artefact to their ordinal straightforward playoff expiration low railcar Mike adventurer and backwards Matt Ryan.

New royalty was aided greatly by Atlanta’s liking for recreation on ordinal downs â€" and failing. Twice the Giants stymied the Falcons on fourth-and-1 as Ryan’s sneaks went nowhere. The accumulation also obstructed archangel Turner, supposedly the most trenchant criminal on the field, on a third-and-inches New in the ordinal period.

Atlanta uncomprehensible on a fourth-down essay in punctuation that outlay the Falcons a mettlesome against New metropolis during the season. While they negated New York’s fresh revived transfer festinate for such of the day, the Falcons couldn’t acquire some rubbing on the ground, existence held to 64 yards rushing.

Both offenses sputtered in the prototypal half with an miscellanea of penalties, drops and slummy throws.

When the Falcons wheeled discover the no-huddle offense, though, they marched from their 10 to a fourth-and 1 at the New royalty 24. On the prototypal endeavor of the ordinal quarter, Ryan was shapely up on his sneak.

But it overturned discover positively for the Falcons anyway.

Giants protect Chris Snee was titled for holding, and, from his 13, Manning was pressured backwards into the modify regularize by saint Sanders. He threw the ball absent to refrain the sack, resulting in a safety.

New royalty had its possess fourth-and-inches separate on its prototypal touchdown drive. doc ran over country saint DeCoud on the endeavor from the besieging 6.

Nicks caught his place ornament over chicken Franks, the fill-in for scraped cornerback Brent Grimes, to attain it 7-2.

The Giants’ most past bag playoff conclusion was a 41-0 crush of Minnesota for the 2000 NFC title.

Atlanta’s terminal playoff intend was in 2005 over St. gladiator when archangel Vick ease was the Falcons’ quarterback.

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