though, from jason peters and todd herremans. see if -- just hard to tell whether or not nick cole hit mike vick's arm onot but just before umenyiora he hit that ball by about an inch of knocking it down. amazing. what a game. >> al: thewo-point conversion two avant to ke it seven again. first place in the nfc east at stake. back and forth we go. 4:25. giants have all of their time-outs. 15 yard line. a good run back this time by will blackmon. to the 39 yard line. .

giants art from their own 39. mccoy on the bike. manning has to reposition hagan into the slot on the right and then throws down field for hagan and it's intercepted by asante samuel off the deflection and back to the giant 42 and then the bl is out again! at the 42 yard line.

so the eagles have it and the giants gett back. the giants get it back after samuel fumbles on the return! >> cris: i think it was ahmad bradshaw that got the t to knock that ball out, so bradshaw returning the favor. you get the double move by hagan and it ends up hitting joselio hanson in the head and bounces off asianante samuel. let's see if ahmad bradshaw gets this hit. right on the ball. ball out. >> al: and giants come up with it. >> cris: what else? this is awesome. i love it! great hustle play by bradshaw. >> al: right. and rich you can call me whater you want. >> cris: but give me the ball. >> al: he recovers it. ball at the 40.

jacobs is now in the backfield at the 40 yard line. overall the giants on that play made it one yard. to the outside. tocalhoun. duke is stopped at the 44 yard line. >> cris: it just shoorve better than that. they caught them in the perfect defense. they come with the slot blitz. you have the quick screen to the outside. this is the perfect call and they are not executing the plays. a slot blitz coming here. you got two blockers in front and they just missed the block. mario manningham has got to make that play. >> al: calhoun, rookie from memphis, first nfl catch. gain of four. second andix. under 3:30 now. eagles running stunts up front. manning's pass incomplete.

intended for derek hagan. it will be ird down and six. >> cris: that time, brandon graham got some quick pressure on the outside and forced eli to move out of the pocket. andy reid, boy, nice to see his young rookie making a play in a big moment. >> al: third and six. here they come again. manning almost gets sacked. gets it away and then it's dropped by jacobs. so it's fourth down now. what do the giants want to do here? they have all of their time-outs. do you go for it? do you punt? looks like coughlin is going for it. fourth and six. >> cris: you got to throw it hot. no choice. right there.

you take one of those two guys. he tried tdance around with it and got it out of there but that is on eli manning. he missed it. >> al: fourth and six. giants going for it from their own 44 yard line. andy reid telling the crowd, come on, get into it! they are into it. >> cris: giants have althree time-outs. they could easily punt this football and play defense. >> al: they are afraid to. manning and he is going to n for it! he is going to get the first down! he gets to the 40 yard line and then as he goes down, the ball comes loose! there was a whistle. you heard the whistle. then there is a littleight that breaks out. you heard the whistle as manning went down. if you slide to a stop, at is the end of the play. if you dive, you're still in play until you get touched at the end of the play. here is manning. so he has to be touched before the ball comes loose.

the ball looks like it's loose before anybody gets there. before he is touched, before he is down. there it is. and then samuel is there to come up with the ball and they are going to rule it a fumble. >> cris: i think what tom coughlin is saying -- referee: ball came loose. philadelphia recovered the ball. first down. >> al: that is the difference between going head-first and feet-first. feet-first, end of play. head-first, the play is still going until you get touched. >> cris: you can sort of declare yourself down but that is not one of those situations. eli is still here clearly going for yardage. he does not slide. without being touched, th ball is out.

>> al: deja vu happened last year at the giants/eagles game at the end of the season with manning. >> cris: if he goes the other way, he is down the minute he starts to slide. >> al: coughlin is going to challenge it but i can't see where he wins this challge. because i don't see where he was touched before the ball comes loose. even though the whistle had blown. >> cris: is there any contact at all here? i don't -- >> al: hand to foot? it's the left hand. >> cris: but the ball is already out. >> al: that's what i think. you can stitch the angles together here. >> cris: right there, the ball is loose. now the leg comes around. >> al: right ball is on the ground. and it is out of his possession. so i don't see how coughlin wins this challenge. >> cris: it's a big choice by tom coughlin to challenge that, because at this point in the

game, if you lose this one, you're losing a time-out and a much-needed time-out. >> al: it leaves you with two. it leaves you with two, plus the two-minute warning. again, you can stitch it together. there is one angle here where it looks like there is contact. there is the foot to the calf. but they can look at two separate angles and figure out exactly with when the ball came loose again, i don't know w it gets overturned. >> cris: i think the contact was clearly after the ball was out. unless somehow they rulehat that first foot made contact but i didn't see that at all. >> al: unless they think they saw a putty cat, i don't see it. >> cris: plenty of time for the

giants because you get two-minute warning and two time-outs. hey just need a stop. >> al: see leg down. eli is down. ball is coming out. still alive, still alive, still alive. ball is out. there contact. here comes winter. >> referee: after review, the ruling on the field is confirmed as a fumble. new york is charged with a time-out.

that is their second challenge. they have challenges remaining for the rest of the game. >> al: so the giants out of challenges with that, but that is moot after 51 more seconds. they have two time-outs and they also have a two-minute warning. if they can get a three and out is what they need right now, use the time-outs and take advantage of the two-minute warning and then get the ball back. there it is. turnovers. again, tonight it's been a killer for this te. shocking, because in all of the years that coughlin has coached gog back to jacksonville and all of the years with the giants, at one point, he was the all-time leader in fewest turnovers per game. that reverts back to ou colleague tony dungy. mccoy to the 40 yard line. giants take time-out number two. a good one here tonight. 24-17 philadelphia. next week to indianapolis we go

and the colts coming up a little short today against new england against san diego crgers who 3 play den ver tomorrow night. there is peyton today. 396 yards with three picks including a costly onat the end and that rivalry just ts better and better through the years. 31-28 new england. >> cris: for eli, he made such a great play to realize he could run and pick up the first down and then just sort of lost it, younow? just wasn't holding on to the football. >> al: second down and ten now with mccoy in the backfield. schmitt is the fullback. mccoy is figuring, well, not only use your time-out, i'm taking it all the way to the 20 yard line.

wo! mccoywith a 50-yard run and now a 40-yard gallop. >> cris: almost every time you see a long run like that, you see somebody on the ground. watch winston justice here. he gets him on the ground and opens up the cut dog ck and there goes mccoy. what a figure fourth quarter he has had. nick cole with a nice block to push him out of ther but it was really the cut on the bakside. you think of so many of the denver broncos great running teams. those offensive linemen cting the defense line on the backside and it creates big opportunities. >> al: mccoy 11 rushes and 103. he has had a pretty good night. a 50 and a 40.

he had nine rush for 13 yards. then a 50 d a 40. >> cris: you know, this game is really such a key game, though, because when you look at the nfc, chicago and green bay both at 7-3. atlanta and new orleans at 7-3 or better. no guarantee a wild card comes out of the nfc east. >> al: and tampa is also 7-3. giants took their last time-out there so they are out of them. only two-minute warning when the clock stops. this will take us to the two-minute warning. of course, what is the best team in the nfc or the league? every week, it anges. a couple of weeks it was the giants, then new england. then the other night it was philadelphia. then it's the jets. who knows. >> cris: there are some people in atlanta laying claims to that, too. nobody is talking about that football team. >> al: right. it changes every week. it's the flavor of the week. which flavor this week? . credit card rewars good in theory.

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nfl and we will look ahead to the chargers and the colts. the fumble by manning a big play last year, philly won the game 35-28. they challenged. the giants could eventually retake the lead in that game but it was a big, big play. and philly wound up winning 35-28 and philly trying to knock them off the fifth consecutive time, counting postseason. two key plays tonight. >> cris: both of them lost contain, at least one of them by michael boley on the right-hand side here. michael vick, you're going to ee, they have plugged up inside but when boley jumps down, he allows vick to get around. on the wig bun to the outside michael boley lines up inside and antrel rolle decides to dive over the top and impossible to know whether it was bowlley who should vfed contain but those two giants have really cost the giants this football game.

>> al: giants out of time-outs. philadelphia will let this run all the way down. they will take a time-out here. they are already in field goal range. can't run the clock all the way out unless they get a first down but they can team what would be a clenching field goal. once again, the records of the teams in the division. if philly wins, they go to 7-3 and giants 6-4. skins at 5-5. then dallas. a little resurgence under jason garrett at 3-7. what abouphiladelphia? they go to chicago next week. the bears are 7-3. anthen the snake-bitten texans who had it won at the meadowlands today and lost it against mark sanchez finding edwards and holmes 4-6. then at dallas a sunday nighter.

>> cris: dallas will play the role of siler the rest of the way. they are playing much better and winning a couple of in a row. those games may well decide it. >> al: third and six. first down will end it. mccoy. he won't get it. now do you bring akers in for the kill shot? meanwhile, andy lets this clock run all the way down obviously. akers ready to come back out. after philadelphia takes its final time-out. >> cris: this isn't as ey as you think. remember, the giants have already blocked one tonight. the last thing you want to do in the world is line up and let that one go cause if you remember, corey webster kind of 3 had a shot. he had the ball in his hand and was running down the field. i think they will y it but it's not a no-brainer by any means. >> al: no.

wackier things have happened. blocked field goal came at the end of the first half. >> cris: terrell thomas coming off the corner and got it. it was the last play. here is corey webster. really they had some opportunities here. they uld just let this thing set up and maybe a lateral behind and go block the block in front of him. who knows what would have happened. >> al: akers will line up for a 30-yard attempt. rocca puts it down and that kick is just good against flirting with the upright. but that will right an end to this one with a 10-point lead and 22 seconds remaining in the

game. >> cris: you know what they say in golf? yu write a 3 on the score card and move on. >> al: fairway in regulation. the giants, whap what happens? they go home and they have jaconville in the meadowlands next week. jaguars winning again today and knocking off cleveland. then washington comes to town. then ty go to minnesota. and then philadelphia goes to the meadowlands on december 12th. then the giants, take a look at that at the end. tough. at een bay. then then go to washington to end the season. >> cris: we know what the headlines are going to be tomorrow in you know, are we seeing another foil? remember last year the 5-0 start and so great in the beginning?

tom coughlin's teams have struggled down the stretch lately. ey had a chance in this one, you know? they just gave it away. ty just -- silly plays. >> al: after philadelphia almost gave it away. philadelphia letting giants get back in the game on that big quintin mikell penalty and then the fumble by vick that led to two quick giant touchdownand manning with that fumble after going head-first and losing it and giving the ball back to philadelphia. now the giants will go back home in second place in the division. jason pierre-paul offside penalty also very big. 19 yard line. will blackmon. up to the 38 with 16 seconds remaining. >> cris: but in reality, these two teams meet again and effectively the philadelphia eagles held serve at home so, you know, tt is way these divisional games go sometimes.

but the giants didave a great opportunity to come in and steal one. their defense hung tough for so long until their offense woke up in the second half and then just made too many mistakes down the stretch. >> al: vick 24 for 8 and 258 yads. no touchdowns. no interceptions. so he a has now gone through 11 of the season. he missed three games with a rib injury but no interceptns. manning will run to the sideline. that takes 8 of the 16 seconds off the clock. 191 passes without an interception, longest streak in frahise history. jeff garcia ned that streak.

>> cris: been since 2006 now that mike vick has thrown an interception. he wasn't what he was in washington last week. but good enough to get the "w" tonight. >> al: second and four. and that is going to be intercepted with onsecond. stewart bradley comes away with the pick and the football. take that one all the way back with him, as eli throws his third interception of the night. >> cris: well, i give eli some credit for one thing. i know a lot of quarterbacks that would have thrown that ball in about the third row and not risked anything on their stat sheet with an interception. so at least he went down firing. >> al: archie and olivia mannin have had better days and night

in front of that television set in new orleans. >> cris: yeah. they have had plenty of good nights. >> al: oh, yes, they have. but a tough one today with peyton losing in new england and eli and the giants going down. a kneel-down by michaelick will d the game. the philadelphia eagles go to 7-3, in first place in the nfc east as they win it by a score of 27-17. coming up next, the wendy's postgame report. first, these messages from your local nbc station. . ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ dad ] yeah! [ cheers

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the story of michael vick and the philadelphia eagles continues to move in a positive direction. they win tonight over the giants 27-17. before we proceed here, an update on ellis hobbs injured in

a frightening helmet-to-helmet injury in the second half. he was taken off but here is a look at the play once again. he had movement in his extremities. subsequently we learned x-rays were negative and he was able to get up and walk out of the x-ray room under his own power with a brace on his neck. so he is injured to some extent but it is nowhere near as b as we might have at first feared. let's put andrea kremer to work right now. she is with lesean mccoy and michael vick. >> andrea: a vastly different game than last week. a lot of pressure by the giants. how did you battle, mike. >> you have to stay patient. it's a crazy game and at times you feel like you're going to have a heart attack out there because it goes both ways we knew it was going to be a tough game and knew we would have to be resilient throughout and gre defensive front and they brought pressure. gre win for the team.

>> andrea: they took ay the guy who virtually been the giant killer desean jackson. how did you adapt with other weapons? >> we have to o to our intermediate routes. we knew in the beginning of the game they wouldn't give us the big play and we had to come out and just slowly, but surely, inch our way down the field and we did a great job doing that and this 2-5 did a great job out there as well. >> andrea: fourth and one. what is going through your mind when you fumbled the snap? >> i was thinking don't fumble the snap. i bobbled the snap. luckily able to get it out to desean. i trust the guys in front of me and i know the fuelingeeling is mutual. you got to make plays when you have to and what we did. >> andrea: thank you. apreciate the time. from your perspective, lesean, on the fourth and one play, he bobbled a snap. what was the degn play to begin with?

>> it was nerve wracking. practiced all week on that play. short yardage and goal line. we ran it. i was surprised. mike did a great job to maintain the snap. guys up front did a great job of moving the guys out of the way. i took it up the lane. >> andrea: i came into the game with a showered injury. barely practiced this week. how did you battle through with the injury? >> it was tough. it was tough. but the biggest thing is each guy on the offense, battles out with injuries and as a person, as a player and as a competitor, i felt like i had to do the same and came out and gave it my all. >> andrea: wig bin. places you first in the nfc east. how do you build upon a victory like this? >> it a tough game. i think in each game from here on it's going to be like that. come in with the same mindset and derms andtermination and get th job done. i think that momentum going the rest of the season and winning in our division means a lot. >> andrea: bob, eagles in t

midst of a four-game stretch in 18 days. next up at chicago. >> al: let's swing thin over to tony dungy in new york. michael vick the story going in and still largely a story coming out as he notches yeanother victory. not as overwhelming a performance he had the past monday night against the redskins. those come along maybe once in a career. he was still very effective tonight. >> he really was. and the giants played him well. they brought a lot of pressure, did some things that they hadn't seen before, but i thought vick was still the story. the things he was able to do getting out of the pocket and getting away from the rush and making plays, was really important for e victory, but philadelphia is a well-rounded offense. they have a lot of speed and we talked a lot about vick and the receivers but the two biggest plays of the game were lesean mccoy, fourth anone when the giants were playing the sneak and he scores and to ice the game. the cutback run again to make it happen. so they have got ik vick, they have got receivers and they have

got weapons and a running game. they are going to be tough to handle down the stretch. >> tony, your former team, the colts, lost of course, toy at new england. big comeback but they fell just short when peyton manning was intercepted in the last minute. the third pick of the day for him. did throw for four touchdowns. but that dropped their record to 6-4. is this cause for concern in indianapolis in they were 14-2 on their way to the super bowl last year. >> they are not used to being in this situation but they have got enough guys who understand that december is when you win championships and they will bounce bk. they will get some guys healthy. they have got to come down the stretch and just get on a streak and they have done it before. my last year there, i think we were 4-3 at one point and then ran off eight or nine in a row. they are caple of doing that and any time you have peyton manning you colts can get on a streak like that.

>> we turn to mike florio. among the topics tomorrow in your monday ten-pack, the titans eem to have another mess on their hands with vince young. reports out of tennessee saying he was angry not allowed back into the game after a thumb injury and threw part of his uniform into the stands after the game. jeff fisher supposedly said that young has lost his starting job. what is going on in tennessee? >> bob, all year long we have seen issues with titans players behaving in an undisciplined way whether penalties or fines. tusands and thousands of dollars in fines so it shouldn't be a surprise their starting quarterback, the supposedly leader of their team is behaving a very undisciplined way. in the past we have seen this from him. he does not well with adversity escially when booed by the home crowd. happened week one of the 2008 season. we didn't see him until 2009 when the team was 0-6 and now happened again. it looks like it's happening for

the last time because by all appearances jeff fisher is done with vince young. >> staon the titans for a moment here. randy moss has had so far almost no impact in tennessee. one reception in two games. where y? >> well, the titans have had a revolving door at quarterback in the last two games. didn't matter who was playing quarterback when moss was on the field. you throw the ball up, randy moss goes and gets i look at what has happened now since the new england patriots have traded randy moss. all of the criticism of bill belichick the head coach for letting randy moss go. since that trade the patriots are 5-1 and the teams on which randy moss have played are 1-5. another good move by the patriots. >> mike, let's get to some of to today's key injuries. austin collie of the colts, again, another concussion. >> the team is now saying that he was taken out for precautionary reasons because had he some concussion-type symptoms, noanother concussion

but i suspect he still has to go through the procedures the league now requires before a player can come back. colt mccoy, the browns rookie quarterback, he h an ankle injury like the other quarterbacks on the roster. and clinton portis of the redskins came back after seven weeks off with a groin injury and reinjured the groin but says he is ready to play next week. mike snahan says a long shot for portis to be back next weekend. >> check more out from mike on nbcsports.com with his monday ten-pack. the latest nfl news and notes. back to al and cris to wrap things up from philadelphia right after this. . what's your 99? introducing wendy's new 99 cent everyday value menu. ♪ my my my99 ♪ ♪ my my my99 ♪ how about a beefy double stack? or maybe a crispy chicken sandwich? ♪ my 99 ♪ now there are seven tasty choices for 99 cents. ♪ my 99 ♪ 99! my 99! my 99! how much?