Oh stop it Cowboys fans. There wasn’t any faking involved (I’m a Giants fan, what do you want me to say? Lol). I live with a Cowboys fan and he’s still talking about this. SMH. After the game Sunday night, Jerry Jones and others accused the Giants of faking injuries to slow the fast-breaking Cowboys. Well they have responded to the accusations.
Report after the jump…
Via ESPN:
Not surprisingly, the Giants on Monday denied those accusations. “It’s absolutely not true,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said.
Jones’ accusations stemmed from a long Dallas drive in the second quarter that resulted in a Tony Romo touchdown pass to Jason Witten. At that point, as a result of turnovers by the Giants’ offense, the time of possession was heavily in the Cowboys’ favor and the Giants’ defense appeared tired. On consecutive plays the clock stopped due to injuries, first to linebacker Dan Connor and then to defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins.
Connor did not return to the game. The team announced he had a “burner.” Jenkins did return to the game. The team never announced anything about his injury, even to which body part it supposedly was.
“Both of those players were injured,” Coughlin insisted in a Monday conference call. “Connor never returned to the game. And Cullen was in a position where he needed to regroup. So that wasn’t orchestrated at all.”
(Story Continues…)
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UPDATE:
NFL clears Giants of faking injuries via ESPN:
The NFL has reviewed whether New York Giants players Dan Connor and Cullen Jenkinsdeliberately impeded the Dallas Cowboys’ no-huddle offense by faking injuries Sunday night and found no basis for punishment at this time, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Ed Werder.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and quarterback Tony Romo both suggested the Giants violated the league policy, but the team did not file an official complaint.
