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Why Giants left out Leonard Williams in pivotal Eagles moment

#LeonardWilliams #NFL #NewYorkGiants With the game on the line, Leonard Williams was watching. For the first six plays of the Eagles’ Monday night overtime possession that would result in a  game-winning touchdown , the former Jet defensive lineman was on the sideline. “We had a rotation going and that’s basically it,” Giants coach Pat Shurmur said Tuesday. Williams, dealt from the Jets to Giants in exchange for a third-round pick in 2020 and a 2021 fifth-round pick, was having a quality game, despite receiving just 51 of 89 defensive snaps. He had five solo tackles, one tackle for loss and deflected a Carson Wentz pass. He also was called for a rougher-the-passer penalty. “For whatever it’s worth, I felt like the interior defensive linemen were pretty disruptive, and we liked the rotation we had to keep them fresh throughout,” Shurmur said. There was a costly miscommunication, between experienced veterans, on the Eagles’ game-winning 2-yard touchdown pass from Went...