{"id":1346,"date":"2012-12-03T23:43:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T04:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2012-12-03T23:43:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T04:43:48","slug":"redskins-defeat-giants-17-16-at-fedex-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/12\/03\/redskins-defeat-giants-17-16-at-fedex-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Redskins defeat Giants 17-16 at FedEx Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We won the game. That&#8217;s all that matters&#8221; said Robert Griffin III after the Redskins pulled off an upset of the NFC East leading Giants.<\/p>\n<p>With Monday nights win the Washington Redskins remain in contention for a NFC Wild Card spot and still have a chance to win the NFC East at 6-6. The loss drops the Giants to 7-5.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Giants were a three point favorite entering the game. The over\/under or total points was set at 50 for the contest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New York won the contest between the two teams in Week 7, thus the two teams end with a split series this season.<\/p>\n<p>The stats for both teams were close but the Giants dominated in two categories, time of possession and penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred Morris finished with 124 yards rushing for the Redskins, Griffin added another 72<\/p>\n<h1>Scoring Summary<\/h1>\n<p>1st Quarter 6:27, Lawrence Tynes 39 yard Field Goal. (Giants 3, Redskins 0)<\/p>\n<p>1st Quarter 4:27, Josh Morgan 13 yard fumble return for Touchdown. (Redskins 7, Giants 3)<\/p>\n<p>2nd Quarter 2:36, Eli Manning to Martellus Bennentt for 4 yard touchdown pass. (Giants 10, Redskins 7)<\/p>\n<p>2nd Quarter 0:46, Kai Forbath 33 yard field goal. (Giants 10, Redskins 10)<\/p>\n<p>2nd Quarter 0:04, Lawrence Tynes 40 yard field goal (Giants 13, Redskins 10)<\/p>\n<p>3rd Quarter 3:14, Lawrence Tynes 35 Yard Field Goa (Giants 16, Redskins 10)<\/p>\n<p>4th Quarter 11:37, Robert Griffin III 8 yard touchdown pass to Pierre Garcon. (Redskins 17, Giants 16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We won the game. That&#8217;s all that matters&#8221; said Robert Griffin III after the Redskins pulled off an upset of the NFC East leading Giants. With Monday nights win the Washington Redskins remain in contention for a NFC Wild Card spot and still have a chance to win the NFC East at 6-6. The loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-1346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}