New York Giants

Eli Manning blames himself for loss to Cowboys

Published Sep. 14, 2015 9:40 a.m. ET

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In devastating fashion, the New York Giants blew a six-point lead late in the fourth quarter to lose to the Dallas Cowboys by one point on Sunday night. There were many factors that played into the Giants' collapse, but quarterback Eli Manning feels like he is the sole reason why the Giants lost.

Manning's clock management on the Giants' final drive has come into question. On a third down play from the Cowboys' 1-yard line, Manning threw the ball out of bounds instead of taking a sack. With Dallas out of timeouts, a sack would have run another 40 seconds off the clock in a game where every second counted. Manning talked to beat reporter Ralph Vacchiano about the play after the game:

Manning's disappointment in his own clock management was not limited to the third-down play. According to Manning, he was unaware that the Giants' declined penalty stopped the clock, and he thought that the Cowboys had one less remaining timeout than they actually did.

After the game, he discussed his clock management as a whole and individually on the game's final drive: