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Jayden Daniels returned to play for the Washington Commanders against the New York Giants on Sunday, after missing two games due to a dislocated left elbow. Despite the injury, Daniels participated fully in practice and wore a brace that kept his elbow slightly bent but allowed him to continue playing. The game, played at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland, ended in a 27-27 tie after both teams made critical mistakes during overtime. The Giants' Jameis Winston led a comeback with 326 passing yards and three touchdowns, while Daniels ran for 103 yards, showing no apparent distress from his injury. However, the Commanders squandered their opportunity to win by poor clock management, leading to the second tie between the teams in the last three seasons.
Written for “Giants Commanders Tie Game” on 2026-10-12,
grounded in this article and the 9 other(s) covering the same event.
Magic Johnson couldn’t believe the way the Commanders handled the clock at the end of Sunday’s tie with the Giants.
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Commanders → believe → Giants
After Jayden Daniels ran the ball with seconds left in overtime, the Commanders didn’t seem to get back to the line of scrimmage with any urgency at first, letting precious seconds tick off before scrambling to hike the ball.
Daniels and the Commanders didn’t manage to get the play off successfully as time expired, and the game ended in a 27-27 tie.
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game → run → tie
Johnson, the NBA legend who owns a stake in the Commanders, was as befuddled as the rest of the football world at what transpired in those closing seconds.
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what → own → seconds
“I’m in total disbelief my Commanders had such poor clock management in today’s overtime game against the Giants,” he wrote in a post on X. “All we had to do was kick the field goal and we would have won the game!”
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we → ’m → game
Johnson finished the post a facepalm emoji.
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Johnson → finish → emoji
As for how it happened, Commanders coach Dan Quinn told reporters that ultimately the buck stops with him and that the mismanagement fell on him in that situation.
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mismanagement → happen → situation
He deflected any blame from Daniels, who had otherwise played a strong game for Washington.
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who → deflect → Washington
“The sequence of that does not fall on him,” Quinn told reporters.
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Quinn → fall → reporters
“It’s an out-of-bounds throw or a ‘clock’.
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It → ’ → bounds
That has to come from me.
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That → have → me
I don’t even have to put him in that spot.
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I → have → spot
I can do that earlier and we can finish the kick earlier, we don’t need to gain more yards.
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we → do → yards
That’s on me.”
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That → ’ → me
Daniels told reporters that the Commanders have to “be better” in that situation.
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Commanders → tell → situation
“We all gotta be better situationally,” the quarterback said.
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quarterback → got → ?
Everybody will say the same thing, but we just gotta be better at situational football.”
asserted
we → say → football
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