Giants win over the Jets 35-24.
Eli Manning was 13-of-25 for 186 yards, 2 TD and 1 INT.
Brandon Jacobs rushed for 100 yards on 20 carries and 1 touchdown.
Derrick Ward rushed for 56 yards on 13 carries and 1 touchdown and caught 3 passes for 8 yards.
Reuben Droughns rushed for 15 yards on 2 carries.
Plaxico Burress caught 5 passes for 124 yards and 1 touchdown.
Jeremy Shockey caught 2 passes for 33 yards and 1 touchdown.
Sam Madison had a 2nd-quarter interception.
Aaron Ross had 2 interceptions in the second half.
Osi Umenyiora had 1 sack.

Game Notes:
"There was a nice mix of Giant and Jet fans at this game. Neither team looked very effective on offense in the first quarter. The Jets scored first, but that was only because their defense picked up a fumble by Brandon Jacobs and they ran it in for a touchdown. The Jets tried a 42 yard field goal the next time they got the ball, but it missed. Taking over, the Giants had good field position, but Eli Manning had to scramble for six yards. Derrick Ward lost 4 yards on his run to end the first quarter. On the next play, Manning scrambled for 13 yards, and that was how they got their first first down of the game.
The offense started to play a bit better after that, running Brandon Jacobs, passing to Shockey and running Derrick Ward, and they finished this drive with a 3 yard touchdown run by Ward to tie the score at 7-7. Sam Madison killed off the Jets next drive when he intercepted Chad Pennington and ran the ball back 25 yards, but the offense wasn't able to do much with that opportunity. Then it came down to the Jets having the ball with a little over two minutes left in the half. Pennington worked his no huddle-shotgun magic for the Jet fans. The Giants defense couldn't get to him, and in nine quick plays the Jets had another touchdown.
Now at the Giants 20 yard line with only 28 seconds left, and with many of the fans headed off for refreshments, Eli Manning decided to toss a short pass to, I think, Amani Toomer and was intercepted. The Jets turned that into a 47 yard field goal to pad their score 17-7, and things weren't looking good at all for the Giants they way they were playing.
Luckily the Giants got their act together in the second half. They scored 28 points to the Jets 7 by wearing the Jets defense down with Ward and Jacobs. On defense, cornerback Aaron Ross was the big hero with 2 interceptions on Pennington, and Osi Umenyiora got the only sack of the game near the end of the fourth quarter."

Game Notes:
"As we said in the game preview, both the Giants and Jets are slow starters, and their respective offenses saved all their action for the last three quarters, and if you came looking for sacks you were watching the wrong game. The Giants went all the way down from twelve sacks against Philadelphia last week to just one against the Jets, but they did get to put up a big one in the win column. The Giants were in the hole at the end of the first half, but 10 of those Jets 17 points came on turnovers. The Jets got 7 more points but not from the offense. It came from a 98 yard kickoff return by Leon Washington.
Once the Giants got going they were very effective with the combination of running Derrick Ward and Brandon Jacobs. Eli Manning's numbers looked much better by the time the game was over. At the half, he was just 3 of 10 for 22 yards and 1 interception. Manning then went 10 of 15 for 164 yards and 2 touchdowns. The defense was aggressive and got 3 interceptions off Chad Pennington. They allowed only one touchdown and held the Jets to only 55 yards rushing. Now it's on to Atlanta in a Monday night game, and hopefully a faster start from the offense."

Notes:
Plaxico Burress has scored at least one touchdown in every game this season.

Jeremy Shockey scored his first touchdown of the season.

Amani Toomer did not catch a pass for the first time since Dec. 31, 2005 at Oakland.
Toomer's team-record of catching at least 1 pass is 98 games (plus four postseason games).

Derrick Ward's 8-yard touchdown run was the first rushing touchdown of his four-year career.

Giants did not allow a sack on Eli Manning.

Giants Aaron Ross came up with 2 big plays in the second half.
Ross sat out the first half for violating a team rule according to Tom Coughlin.

Tom Coughlin sat Plaxico Burress in 2005 for the 1st quarter of a 45-23 loss to the Chargers.
In 2004 cornerback Will Peterson (now William James) was benched for the 1st quarter in an 23-22 loss to Cincinnati, and linebacker Barrett Green against the Lions that same year.

This was the first of those games that the Giants and Tom Coughlin won.
Giants win was the 100th of Tom Coughlin’s career, including postseason games.

Tom Coughlin is 1-2 this season and 12-19 in four years with the Giants on replay challenges.

Jets Leon Washington fielded a kickoff and returned it 98 yards for a touchdown.
Washington also had a 98 yard kickoff return against Miami two games ago.

Jets Mike Nugent missed a 37-yard field goal last week, and missed a 42-yarder today.

Giants won their 4th straight game against the Jets.
Giants lead the regular season series, 7-4.
Giants have not lost to the Jets since 1993.

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