Giants look forward after 'humbling' 40-0 drubbing by Cowboys - ESPN

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants lost 40-0 at home to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night. It was their worst season-opening loss in franchise history, even worse than the 35-0 drubbing to these same Cowboys in 1995.

Embarrassing is one way to describe this latest demolition, especially with the Giants coming off a promising season in which they made the playoffs and won a postseason game in their first year under coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen. But these Giants, despite their offseason additions, had a field goal blocked for a touchdown and an interception returned for a touchdown, allowed seven sacks, threw a pair of interceptions and lost a fumble.

And those were only some of the myriad miscues.

«It's embarrassing, but it's over with now. We have to put that one to rest,» safety Xavier McKinney said. «It happened. So obviously you have to embrace it a little bit. You have to understand, 'Where do you go from here?' That's what it is for us now. We're going to keep chopping, keep climbing. Be all right.»

The Cowboys and Giants have met 122 times in their history. Only one other time was the margin of victory greater than 40 — a 45-point Cowboys victory on Sept. 18, 1966. That one was 52-7.

The way Daboll described Sunday's season-opening loss was that his team got «skunked here 40-0.»

The Giants were booed by the home crowd as they went to the locker room down 26-0 at the half.

«Yeah, we weren't playing well,» Daboll said.

The Cowboys have now won 12 of their past 13 games against the Giants and 11 straight when they've had quarterback Dak Prescott under center.

The Cowboys didn't even need Prescott to throw a touchdown pass Sunday night to win by 40. He went 13-of-24 passing for 143 yards