Lock welcomed tough love because he knew Daboll was right and he had benefited from it in the past.

“Yeah, Dabs is fiery,” Lock said. “But at the same time, I grew up playing basketball in good old Kansas City, Missouri. A shout out to Nodie Newton (AAU Basketball). I’ve been attacked before. I was yelled at. (Head coach) Eric Thomas.”, Lee’s Summit High School, I’m used to it. You can endure it like a man, one who somehow catches me.

“I need a little of that. We had good conversations. He expects a lot from me, just like I do. I can at least appreciate that. When things are going badly and you don’t have someone to shout at you, the classic, there should be some concern, but that’s the exact opposite of dabs. He takes care of me, expects the world from me.

Not only did Lock throw two touchdown passes to the opposing team last week, he also lost a fumble in the 34-7 loss. It was the 11th^Th The time this season the Giants scored fewer than 20 points was the fifth time they scored single digits.

But Lock sensed in practice that a different Giants team would take the field on Sunday.

“It was a great week of training for us,” he said. “Not that that hasn’t been the case in the last few weeks, but it was a great week as far as the mistakes we made, they were good mistakes back then. Right, be ready for this game. When we walked out here today, the bottom line was 11. “For us out there on offense, I know the stats are going to be heavily in my favor, but these 10 guys came today to put the ball in these guys’ hands to get.

“O-line, I think I fell to the ground once and it was probably on the run. That would be my fault, not hers. I was just firing on all cylinders. (Guard) Jake Kubas, second start. GVR (Greg Van Roten, (normally the right guard), jumps to center. (Guard Aaron) Stinnie is coming back from a concussion, fighting his way back from injury and playing the last two weeks. We’re eager to get these guys together , it was just impressive, really impressive, these guys.

As does the entire offense. Lock threw touchdown passes of 31 and 59 yards to Nabers, who each time turned short throws into big plays, 32 yards to Darius Slayton and five yards to Wan’Dale Robinson. He ran for a 5-yard touchdown after the Colts got within 35-33 with 6:38 left.

Nabers caught seven passes and his 171 yards and two scores were both season highs. He has 104 catches, 1,140 yards and six touchdowns despite missing two games. With one game left, he created a rookie season for the ages.

“It means a lot,” Nabers said. “I came in as a freshman to do these things. It’s been a long time, I don’t know how long since it happened, but it was great for me to have the opportunity to do it. But I want to thank myself.” Offensive line, my quarterbacks who threw me the ball, my receivers in my room Even if they don’t score as many goals as I do in a game, they still find a way every week at practice to motivate myself, and I’m still proud of what I’ve done, be proud of what we’ve done as an organization, as a group. It means a lot to me to have these guys by my side and go out there and play a football game with these guys.”

“That’s why we drafted him where we drafted him,” Daboll said. “I’ve been asked about it since training camp and I think the answer was, ‘He’s a pretty good football player.’ He missed two games and is fighting through a pretty good toe injury, I would say.”

Tyrone Tracy rushed for 59 yards and gained another 14 yards on two catches. Tracy (1,057 yards) and Nabers (1,142) are the third pair of rookies in NFL history to each have more than 1,000 scrimmage yards.

“It means a lot to me personally,” Tracy said. “When you put a lot of work into something and see that you are benefiting from it, it feels really good. And then I know for him (Nabers) that he works hard, I see it myself. Seeing him has the success and the way he has success and he has missed a few games this season , that is simply remarkable.

“It’s a huge credit to him and I for coming out here, coming out in training, doing our job and then coming into the game and helping the team win and doing as much as we could “So we can win,” said Nabers. “Seeing Tyrone go to training every day and do the things he does is amazing. He and I motivated each other throughout the season. At the beginning of the season we had things that didn’t go our way, but we stayed together, cheered each other up, and it’s paying off.”

Daboll said: “I think between him and Tracy (Nabers), I think it’s pretty impressive that those guys can do it in a season like this with a variety of quarterbacks. These are the right guys.”

The Giants only trailed once in the game, 3-0. But Lock threw three touchdown passes in the first half in which his rating was perfect (158.3) and his accuracy was near perfect (7 of 8). But Jonathan Taylor’s 3-yard touchdown with 20 seconds left in the second quarter put the Colts up 21-13.

Smith-Marsette extended the lead to 15 points when he took the second-half kickoff and ran 100 yards untouched to the 22nd^nd Regular season kickoff return touchdown in Giants history and first since Dwayne Harris on October 25, 2015.

Two weeks ago, Smith-Marsette’s 56-yard punt return touchdown against New Orleans was negated by a holding penalty.

“This one counted,” he said. “This actually goes into the statistics as a touchdown. But they are all special and a credit to the 10 blockers. It’s special for them too because we worked hard all year, right up until the end.” There’s no better feeling. We have to get ready, re-prepare and do it again next week.

“What a great comeback in the second half,” Daboll said. “I don’t think he was touched, great blocking. But that’s how it has to look. You have to win the sales ratio. You need good quarterback play. You have to take the ball away. You have to run after the catch.” . You need good tackling. If you do all of these things, you have no guarantee.

The Giants didn’t need any guarantees on Sunday. They had an indomitable Drew Lock.

“I knew it was in me,” Lock said. “I knew we could go out and do it. It takes everyone. That’s the quarterback position. It takes everyone, and these guys ripped my ass off today. Last week it was like this: I didn’t reach my level. Not. “To live up to the standards that Dabs or (offensive passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach) Shea (Tierney) requires of me. It was disappointing, but we argued all week. I was rehabilitated, learned, practiced, came here and it just went the way it should have.