Giants blow late lead in fourth quarter to suffer heartbreaking ‘TNF’ loss to Commanders

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Thursday night games tend to be a mixed bag, but this Giants-Commanders matchup was nothing short of a back-and-forth thriller.

The possibilities were perhaps too tantalizing for the Giants to handle Thursday night.

A first NFC East title since 2011 and a virtually stress-free final seven games awaited the Giants with a win over the Commanders at rain-soaked MetLife Stadium.

Four days earlier, the Giants drove a stake through the hearts of their most hated division rival, the Eagles, with a win in Philadelphia.

Thursday night, they had the chance to do the same to the Commanders but couldn’t handle the assignment, losing a stunning and crushing 24-21 decision following a frantic Washington late comeback.

A win over Washington and the Giants would have walked away with a commanding four-game lead over the Commanders — also having clinched the season series with a tie and a win.

The loss, though, brought the Commanders and Cowboys back into contention and threw the Giants right back into the division blender thanks to their epic fourth-quarter meltdown.

According to Next Gen Stats, a Giants win would have raised their chance to make the playoffs to 78 percent. The loss left them at a 50 percent chance to get in.

It’s rare that, this early in an NFL season, a team faces a game as pivotal as the one the Giants played Thursday night. Opportunity knocked loudly, and the Giants failed to answer.

The killer was a 32-yard Jayden Daniels scoring pass to Stefon Diggs to go up 24-21 with 57 seconds remaining in the game.

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