Giants defensive coordinator Shane Bowen fell on the sword and told his own players that he should have made a better play call on the key breakdown of Sunday’s collapse at Dallas.

“I gotta be better,” Bowen said Thursday. “It’s tough. All of us are accountable to everything. Obviously, I’m accountable to that call. I told them, ‘I wish I would have been a little bit tighter, made a little bit of different call for you guys and put you in a better situation.'”

The “call” was Bowen’s decision to go with soft quarters coverage on 2nd and 10 from the Dallas 33-yard line with 14 seconds remaining in regulation and the Giants up, 37-34.

Everyone in America knew that Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey basically would be within range anywhere under 70 yards. And the Giants were instructed to

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