The game was right where anyone wearing blue wanted it to be — in Odell Beckham Jr.’s hands.
And somehow, it slipped right through the grasp of the Giants’ most trusted receiver.
Trailing by a point in the fourth quarter, with the two-minute warning approaching at MetLife Stadium, Eli Manning turned to his star, hitting Beckham for a 5-yard touchdown and likely sealing what would be the Patriots’ first loss of the season.
“The whole thing was like slow motion: I caught it, I put two feet down and I’m just thinking, ‘That’s it.