Giants come back against the Texans 14-10.
They used the no-huddle in the fourth quarter to go ahead.
Eli Manning was 17-of-28 for 179 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception.
Tiki Barber rushed for 115 yards on 17 carries and scored 1 touchdown.
Brandon Jacobs rushed for 19 yards on 7 carries.
Jeremy Shockey caught 8 passes for 66 yards and 1 touchdown.
Tiki Barber caught 3 passes for 40 yards.
Mathias Kiwanuka had 1 sack.
Gerris Wilkinson caused a fumble and Corey Webster recovered it.

Game Notes:
"Even if you had good seats it was hard to tell today which team was the 5-2 Giants and which was the 2-5 Texans. The Giants were supposed to win this one easy, and they were really blowing it. They let the Texans go ahead 10-7 in the third quarter and there was no guarantee that they would pull it out the way they were playing. The refs were no help, because it sure looked like Jeremy Shockey scored on a 25 yard touchdown pass, but they took it away. Still, the Giants got down to the five yard line, but a holding penalty and back to back sacks on Eli Manning killed the drive.
Once again you're left begging for Tiki Barber to return next year, because he racked up a lot of yards, both running and catching the ball this game. He did that in the drive that put the Giants ahead in the fourth quarter when Shockey caught a touchdown pass that the refs didn't take away. This one was close. Who was the oddsmaker who decided the Giants should be 13 point favorites for this game?"

Game Notes:
"This week Michael Strahan was asked about going against the Texans and David Carr and he replied. 'If he gets sacked, he gets sacked ... If not, at least frustrate him and hit him and don't let him get comfortable in the pocket. And let him feel the rush.' Well, Carr was so relaxed back there that he probably wondered why they weren't passing on every play.
The Giants were very effective against the run, and they were lucky that the Texans couldn't put points up on the board, even missing on one field goal attempt. The Giants weren't much better in the third quarter when they botched their field goal attempt and had Jeff Feagles passing the ball to Jay Feely who dropped the ball. The refs said something to the effect that 'Feely didn't perform a football act' which sounds something like you or I running on the field and trying to catch the ball.
Anyway, the Texans then went ahead of the Giants with a touchdown after a long 8 minute plus drive near the end of the third quarter. The players got really excited about it in the endzone since they were on the road and were leading for a change, but there is no crying in baseball, and no emotion allowed in the NFL, so the refs hit them with a penalty for having a 'group celebration'. The Giants went to a no-huddle drive early in the fourth quarter, with Eli Manning completing almost all his passes including the one to Shockey that got the lead back for the final time."

Notes:
Giants have won five in a row.

Giants have won the last 11 games in which they scored first.
Giants with Tom Coughlin are 7-1 in games when they score a touchdown on their first possession.

Eli Manning has thrown a touchdown pass in 12 consecutive games.

Jeremy Shockey had team and season-high totals of 8 catches for 66 yards.

Tiki Barber has the Giants last 33 100-yard rushing games, the longest streak in the NFL.
Tiki Barber now has 5,000 receiving yards and has moved past Joe Morrison (4,993).
Tiki Barber is in third place on the Giants career list, behind Amani Toomer (8,157) and Frank Gifford (5,434).
Tiki Barber joined Marcus Allen and Marshall Faulk as the only players in NFL history to reach 9,000 rushing and 5,000 receiving yards.

Brandon Jacobs had a 20-yard reception, the longest of his career.

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