Giants' Jason Pinnock gets razzed by dad after dropping easy interception vs. Commanders
Giants safety Jason Pinnock is held back by Commanders tight end John Bates from getting close to Commanders wide receiver Curtis Samuelas a scuffle breaks out after a touchdown by Commanders quarterback Sam Howell during the first half of an NFL game Sunday in Landover, Md. Credit: AP/Andrew Harnik
With the Giants leading 7-3 in the second quarter Sunday, Jason Pinnock dropped one of the easiest interceptions he’ll ever see.
Asked on a Monday Zoom call how much “grief he got from the world,” Pinnock laughed.
“Not as much from the world as I did from my daddy,” he said. “So I’m all right.”
A split-second after the play, Pinnock said he thought of his dad.
Louis Pinnock coached his son for 11 of his earlier years. When Pinnock made that crazy interception in training camp, his dad was one of the first people he heard from after practice.
On Sunday, Pinnock figured Dad would have a reaction.
And he did.
The third-year safety said his father told him, “It’s like you only like the hard ones.”
“He’s going to get on me all the time,” Pinnock said. “That’s him. It was just like, you’ve got to move on. Glad you didn’t let it pile into other negative plays.”
As it turned out, defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence picked up Pinnock on the ensuing play, with a sack that forced a punt.
No update on Slayton
Brian Daboll said he did not have an update on wide receiver Darius Slayton, who had his arm in a sling Sunday. Daboll may know what the injury is, but he usually does not reveal that information until the Wednesday of game weeks.
High marks
The Giants had six takeaways in Washington, five on defense and the other on special teams. That was the Giants’ highest total since Sept. 25, 2014, when they had six takeaways (also against Washington). The Giants won that day, 35-14.
The Giants’ 31 points tied their season high, which they scored in a Week 2 win at Arizona. They scored 17 fourth-quarter points in each of the games. The Giants had not totaled more than 17 points in any of their previous eight games.
The 12-point margin was the second-highest in Daboll’s two seasons. The Giants defeated Indianapolis, 38-10, on Jan. 1.
Kimberly Jones covers the Giants for Newsday, a beat she first worked in the early 2000s before joining the YES Network to cover the Yankees. She worked for the NFL Network for more than a decade and has been heard semi-regularly on WFAN.
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