DETROIT \u2014 Well, what did you expect in the end?<\/p>\n
Expecting the Giants were going to go into Ford Field and upset a heavily favored Lions team in desperate need of a win to keep its playoff hopes intact felt akin to expecting to see your numbers come up in the next Pick-6 drawing.<\/p>\n
Expecting the Giants\u2019 defense to hold off the explosive Lions offense when it counted in the fourth quarter was folly.<\/p>\n
Giants quarterback Jameis Winston runs with the touchdown against the Lions on Nov. 23, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
It was never going to happen.<\/p>\n
The Giants, as expected, lost 34-27 to the Lions in overtime on Sunday in a positively scintillating 60 minutes of football theater.<\/p>\n
The final dagger for the Giants was a 69-yard touchdown run by Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs on the first play of overtime after the Giants won the toss and opted to take the ball second.<\/p>\n
The Giants, on their possession, failed to tie the game and it was over for them yet again, in a gut punch so painful you cannot make it up.<\/p>\n
Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs (0) breaks away for an overtime touchdown against the Giants on Nov. 23, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
Converting on a fourth-and-10 play with a Jameis Winston scramble, the Giants got to the Detroit 27-yard line before their hopes for completing this massive upset were extinguished.<\/p>\n
The final play was an Aidan Hutchinson sack of Winston on fourth-and-5.<\/p>\n
The massive caveat to this loss, though, is how well the Giants played in losing.<\/p>\n
They did so many good things in this game, beginning with the play of Winston, that this loss might have been the most maddening one of all in a season littered with them.<\/p>\n
Jameis Winston (19) celebrates a touchdown against the Lions on a tricky play. AP<\/p>\n