For three quarters, the Giants didn\u2019t miss starters Eli Apple (trade), Damon \u201cSnacks\u201d Harrison (trade) and Alec Ogletree (hamstring injury). But when they faded in the fourth quarter of Sunday\u2019s 20-13 loss to the Redskins, those players surely could have helped.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefensively, we tried to hold them as much as possible,\u201d safety Landon Collins said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t do a good enough job to hold them off.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery turnover you think is going to be a [difference-maker] and I thought it was going to be big,\u201d Collins said. \u201cBut stuff happens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m just playing it day by day. I love the Giants, they love me,\u201d he said. \u201cYou never know, it\u2019s a business. So whatever happens, happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Right now, Collins said he is focused on the team\u2019s many problems, and somehow getting this wayward season on track. He admittedly is \u201cvery surprised\u201d to be 1-7 for the second straight season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t like it,\u201d Collins said. \u201cIt\u2019s awful. It\u2019s a hard feeling.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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And finally, from The New York Times<\/strong>:<\/p>\n
\n \nAdrian Peterson Leaves the Giants (and Tony Dorsett) in the Dust<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n\n\n\nBy Kevin Armstrong<\/span><\/p>\n
Oct. 28, 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/header>\n
\n \n\n\nEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. \u2014 Now 33 and still known as All Day, Adrian Peterson, the Washington Redskins\u2019 punishing running back, concluded his work with a jog up the ramp to the visitors\u2019 locker room on Sunday. He carried with him a memento: the jersey of the Giants\u2019 rookie running back Saquon Barkley, who had written Peterson a message in black marker on his No. 26 when the two exchanged uniforms after the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for what you did for the game,\u201d the message read. \u201cOne of the best to do it. Much respect.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was one more acknowledgment of Peterson\u2019s place in the game\u2019s annals. He rushed for 149 yards and scored two touchdowns on Sunday in Washington\u2019s 20-13 win over the Giants, and along the way he passed Tony Dorsett to claim No. 9 on the career rushing yards list.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means a lot. He\u2019s a guy I looked up to playing for the Cowboys,\u201d Peterson, who grew up in East Texas, said of Dorsett. \u201cJust accomplishing the things that he accomplished throughout his career, that\u2019s what I always kind of set myself up to be able to accomplish one day. Now that it is here, I can appreciate it and just continue to pass guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\nPeterson\u2019s odometer now sits at 12,863 yards, but he still showed off impressive speed in pulling away for a 64-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter. With Washington ahead by 13-6 and 3 minutes 16 seconds remaining in the game, guard Brandon Scherff pulled to the right \u2014 \u201cready to hunt,\u201d as Washington Coach Jay Gruden said later \u2014 and cleared a path. Peterson pulsed forward through a gaping hole to get out in front of the Giants. Aware that a defender would be looking to dive at his feet in a last-ditch effort, Peterson kicked his legs up after 25 yards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n\n\n\u201cAll day, all day,\u201d McCoy said. \u201cYou could\u2019ve run home, All Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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