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Jaden Daniels had just thrown his second interception with 2 minutes and 19 seconds left, while the Commanders were down to the Giants. ESPN's win probability had Washington at 6.8%, the lowest point of the whole game. A loss and Washington is 2-6-1, 4 games back of the Giants in the NFC East. Instead, a 49 second drive ended with Daniels finding Stefon Diggs for 32 yards and a 24-21 lead with 57 seconds left. Dan Quinn's first words after, we needed that. We needed every bit of that. So, did the win on Thursday just save the entire Commander season? It felt like the most adversity, but probably the most belief, so this is a great balance of both, Dan Quinn said when it was over. Washington led 17-14, going into the fourth quarter. Then Isaiah Likely caught a 66-yard touchdown from J.J. McCarthy, and the Giants led 21-17 with 8-13 left. Before that, ESPN's win probability had Washington at 77.1%, with 10 minutes and 25 seconds left, and had been a 49.7% before kickoff. Daniels threw an interception at the Giants goal line with 5:31 left and Washington's chances dropped to 26.1%. He threw another with 2:19 left and those are the only two interceptions he has thrown all season. Back-to-back interceptions, that's hard. It would have been really easy to lose faith in that moment, Quinn said. With the interceptions, when you come back, it said a lot about him, Quinn said on Daniels. You understand the magnitude of the moment and you're not really thinking about the season in that moment, Daniels said. Daniels did not hide from the picks. Got that out of the system. So got to move forward about it. And I didn't want to let my team down. He continued on. I'm going to kick myself for those mistakes in those crucial moments. And he called the win proof of the belief that this team had in me. The huddle after the second one was calm. And Stefon Diggs put it in In this way, Kobe Bryant. Poised. He didn't flinch. He looked like the exact same. He called Daniels baby Kobe. Ben Sinnott saw the same thing from the other side of the huddle. He's so cool, calm, and collected all the time. The line says 23-33 for 249 yards and three touchdowns, and it is the most yards by Washington quarterback on a Thursday since 2023. The Giants punted, and Washington got the ball back with two minutes left. The drive took 49 seconds and three passes. This was 71 yards. The lead change hands six times in the game. And the last change came with 57 seconds left on the Diggs touchdown. The Giants showed a cover zero blitz. Daniels signaled for Diggs. And the slant beat Drew Phillips. And Diggs broke a tackle and fell backwards into the end zone. It was the 80th touchdown of Diggs' career, which makes him the 30th player in NFL history to get there. NextGenStats has it the longest touchdown this season to take the lead with under a minute left, and his second game-winning catch in the final minute after the 2017 Minneapolis Miracle. I was excited, Diggs said, about falling into the end zone. Daniels was pressured on only 17.9% of his dropbacks, the second lowest rate of his career, according to ESPN Research. Against the Blitz, he went 10 of 17 for 119 yards and three touchdowns. ESPN at Washington at 16.8% when the second pick landed, and 84.5% once Diggs scored. That took less than two minutes. It was Daniels' first game-winning drive since 2024 wildcard win at Tampa, and he moved to 11th in franchise touchdowns, passing with 43. Daniels said, I'm starting to get into the rhythm. The Giants had 57 seconds left, and J.J. McCarthy just had a career high of nearly 300 yards. Douglas intercepted McCarthy at the Washington 11-yard line with 34 seconds left, the 24th interception of his career. Daniels had thrown two picks, and the Giants still got the ball back with under a minute left. Douglas now has three interceptions this season. Rookie Sonny Styles had 13 tackles, including a third down tackle for loss on McCarthy that gave Washington the ball back. He has 80 tackles on the season, and his 19% pressure rate is the highest of any rookie defender, according to commanders.com. I think, if you're just the player you are, the moment can never be too big, Styles said. Amik Robertson had five tackles and two tackles for a loss. Both career highs for him. The Giants converted on only four of their 12 third downs. The defense has held its last four opponents to 23 points or fewer with 14 takeaways, six of them in the last three games. Quinn gave the game balls to Diggs for the touchdown and to Douglas for that interception. And if you want to stay up to date with everything they do around this team in their miracle run to make it into the playoffs, Make sure to hit that free subscribe button, it's completely free and you get to stay up to date with everything to do around the Commanders. So the story. Washington walked into MetLife at 2-5-1. It had gone 7-17-1 since the start of last season, and won 3-1 in one score games, according to ESPN. This was the first win with the touchdown on its last drive and the first road win of 2026. Daniels hurt his left elbow in week two in Dallas and Marcus Mariota started the next game and beat Seattle 33-31. Terry McLaurin is out for the season on October 20th. Daniels had made five straight starts since the elbow, his longest stretch since a rookie year according to ESPN. Since week six, he has thrown for 300, 217, 274, 249, and four straight 200-yard games. In the three games before that, he threw for 459 yards in total. Three of Washington's last four were decided in the final minute, and it was 0-2-1 in those before this. It had already tied these same Giants 27-27 in October, and Daniels knew he had never lost to them. Mmm, yeah, I did know that. Four days earlier, it was a loss to the Rams. The Rams beat Washington 20-13 on Sunday, and the offense had 13 points to show for 274 passing yards. The Commanders scored 13 points against the Rams and 24 against the Giants. The offensive line allowed four sacks to the Rams and one to the Giants. And, of course, a guard moving in at center because Lucas Patrick was out with a concussion. Ben Sinnott caught at four of his targets for 42 yards, including the one-yard touchdown with five seconds left in the first half. I was just happy on my opportunity, Sinnott said, and we felt it tonight. Antonio Williams had the 31-yard catch-and-run touchdown that made it 17-14. Kicker Drew Stevens made his 46-yard and his 17-20 on field goals this season after a 3-for-5 start. They have a long way to go but the D continues to make plays. The O made some big ones. After weeks of searching for it, the team finally got its full performance across all four quarters. And the other locker room was just as clear on what happened. It was one that got away, head coach of the Giants said, and he called it a missed opportunity. McCarthy said, Obviously, absolutely sucks, no matter what, we've got to find a way to get that win. Credit for them for making more plays than we did. The Giants had 399 yards and 8 trips into Washington territory, and 5 of those possessions ended without points. A fumble, a late mistake on the 3rd and 1, a questionable 3rd and 3 call, and a shanked punt all cost New York 2. Their kicker missed a 33-yard field goal, his sixth miss of the season. Winston even tried a hard count on fourth and one at the Washington 11, and Washington never jumped, played with good discipline there. The last two throws of the game against no blitz, Harbaugh said, and those are the routes that end up