As you may anticipate, Daniel Jones was puzzled when making an attempt to elucidate what occurred throughout his 80-yard run within the midst of New York’s Week 7 loss to the Eagles on Thursday night time. With 8:51 to play within the third quarter, Jones took a designed run almost the size of the sphere and, for a second, regarded like was on straightforward road to finish up in the long run zone. At across the 30-yard line, nevertheless, Jones began to stumble and ultimately tripped himself up, falling at across the Philadelphia eight-yeard line.  

Naturally, Jones was the immediate butt of a lot of jokes throughout social media as he appeared destined to attain earlier than getting in his personal manner. Fortunately for him and the Giants offense, Wayne Gallman was in a position to punch within the landing so there was no true harm carried out. Nonetheless, he is not precisely certain how his ft ended up deceiving him. 

“I simply … I do not know. I attempted to run quicker than I used to be operating and I bought caught up,” Jones informed reporters postgame following the 22-21 loss to Philadelphia. “We completed the drive and scored a landing. That was a reduction.”

To Jones’ credit score, he was operating just like the wind. In reality, he was clocked in at a high velocity of 21.23 mph throughout that sprint, which is the quickest high velocity by any quarterback for the reason that 2018 season. He is additionally simply the fifth quarterback within the final 25 years to have a run of 80 or extra yards in a recreation. The draw back for Jones, nevertheless, is that he is the one one of many group that did not discover the top zone. 

After that landing by Gallman, Jones was in a position to lead the Giants on a 97-yard drive that put New York up  21-10 with round six minutes to go within the recreation, however that wasn’t sufficient to fend off the Eagles. Carson Wentz and firm rattled off 12 unanswered factors, together with an 18-yard go-ahead landing go to Boston Scott with 40 seconds left to assist in giving Philadelphia the win. Jones completed with 187 yards passing, two touchdowns, two turnovers, and 92 yards on the bottom. 

“It is a powerful one for us to swallow,” he stated. “We bought to discover a solution to end the sport on offense.”

From right here, New York will head again to MetLife Stadium and await the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who they will host on Monday Night time Soccer to wrap up Week 8.