Giants lose to the Cowboys 24-17.
Eli Manning was 21 of 32 for 213 yards with 1TD.
Ahmad Bradshaw rushed for 78 yards on 17 carries and 1 TD and had 2 catches for 15 yards.
David Wilson rushed for 4 yards on 2 carries.
Victor Cruz caught 6 passes for 58 yards.
Domenik Hixon caught 3 passes for 55 yards.
Martellus Bennett caught 4 passes for 40 yards and 1TD.
Hakeem Nicks caught 4 passes for 38 yards.
Bear Pascoe caught 1 pass for 6 yards.
Henry Hynoski caught 1 pass for 1 yard.
Michael Boley had 1 interception.
Rocky Bernard and Linval Joseph each had 1 sack.
Lawrence Tynes kicked a 22 yard field goal.

Game Notes:
"This was one of those games where 'you had to be there' to feel the excitement of this opening game. Unfortunately the results did not live up to the expectations everyone felt at the start. Both teams seemed a bit rusty, but I would say that the way things were unfolding the Giants seemed to be the better team on the field in the first half. The Cowboys seemed disorganized and were hit with a slew of false starts, but aside from that, Tony Romo was still able to do what he does best. Even without Jason Witten being a big factor, Romo had missed on only 4 of his 15 passes and even with one sack and one interception, Romo's touchdown pass to Kevin Ogletree had his team up 7-3 at the half.
That was hardly an insurmountable score and I felt sure the Giants would come roaring back in the second half. The Giants did score two touchdowns, but were lackluster in their play. The strange thing about this game was that it seemed like the Cowboys owned the clock and time of possession by plying up more and more penalties and then overcoming their penalty yardage by making first downs. They came up with two touchdowns as well in the second half and one fieldgoal.
That was enough to win it and I guess somewhere former Giant receiver Amani Toomer was saying 'I told you so' with his thoughts that Tony Romo is a better quarterback than Eli Manning. Going by his 'statistics that simply can't be ignored' he's probably got an argument tonight. Damn. I wish Victor Cruz didn't drop those three passes, but that's the way it goes sometimes. One big trouble with this early season game is that you have to wait so long to watch the Giants play again to redeem themselves. That won't be until September 16 when Tampa Bay comes to town. It's a long season and let's look forward to what the Giants can do moving forward."

Game Notes:
"There were numerous false start penalties and for most of the night Tony Romo and his front line had a 'failure to communicate'. It didn't matter, because Romo was a 'chatterbox' when it came to connecting to his receivers, especially Kevin Ogletree. Romo was on his game even if his front line wasn't.
The Giants were coming off a Super Bowl win, but they still had a lot to prove tonight. It's just one game but the same questions remain. They finished last in the league in rushing and tonight rookie David Wilson and a healthy Ahmad Bradshaw did net one touchdown, but came up with only 82 total yards and one fumble.
The secondary certainly didn't look improved, with Tony Romo scoring 3 touchdowns against 1 interception for a quarterback rating of 129.5. Their rushing game finished with 143 yards, so once again the Giants can't be considered run-stoppers. They did not seem to build any kind of 'bridge' from last season that Tom Coughlin might be looking for with tonight's play.
Anyway the Giants have a nice long time to review what's not working as Gamegirl mentioned, and if you have the opportunity, try to preview the Buccaneers - Panthers game this Sunday at 4:25pm. The Giants face both those teams next, Tampa Bay first and then Carolina just four days later. More Sunday distractions would be the other two division teams playing at 1pm. If you can't dial-in the Eagles or Redskins, the double quarterbacked Jets play at that same time, and Peyton Manning makes his first start for Denver, playing Pittsburgh later that night. Peyton has some big shoes to fill. If you remember, last year Tim Tebow ended the Steelers' season with an overtime victory in the first round of the AFC playoffs."

Giants Eli Manning was sacked 3 times, and hit a total of five times.

Giants Michael Coe made his first career start at cornerback.
Coe left the game in the second half with a hamstring injury.

Giants now haven't won a game on a Wednesday in well over 7 decades, actually since the last time they played, in 1934, a 14-12 win over the Steelers. To be fair, before tonight, the last NFL game played on a Wednesday was on Sept. 22, 1948.

Cowboys Tony Romo had his fifth game in row against the Giants with a 100+ passer rating, improving on his 119.4 rating in the past four games.

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