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EAST RUTHERFORD Julian Love NFL Draft , N.J. (AP) — In the week leading up to their game against the Bears, the New York Giants insisted the toughest thing about playing against Chicago halfback Tarik Cohen was finding him.The 5-foot-6, lightning quick Cohen must have been invisible to the Giants on Sunday.Cohen caught 12 passes for 156 yards, ran eight times for 30, returned two punts for 15, and threw a 1-yard touchdown pass as time ran out in the fourth quarter to help tie the game in a 30-27 overtime loss on Sunday.The 12 receptions, 150-plus yards and the TD throw allowed him to join Jerry Rice as the only players in NFL history with 150 yards receiving, 12 catches and a TD pass in a game.Despite the performance, Cohen wasn’t happy. Understandably so given the final score.“It’s a hurtful feeling, being that close,” the second-year pro said. “But it all falls on us. We put ourselves in that position. As a team, we dug that hole. It does hurt, still, to almost climb out of it, but not get there.”The play everyone will remember is the tying touchdown pass to Anthony Miller. It came after B.W. Webb of the Giants was called for pass interference in the end zone with :03 to play.Daniel handed off to tight end Trey Burton, who lateraled to Cohen, who had lined up in the slot on the left side.The play called for Daniel to circle out and be the primary receiver — like the Eagles’ Philly special in the Super Bowl that Burton threw — but the veteran backup quarterback who was starting for Mitchell Trubisky (shoulder) got picked and wasn’t an option.Running to his right, Cohen looked around and found a wide-open Miller for the touchdown.“That’s a play that we’ve had for a long time,” said Cohen Julian Love Buffalo Bills Jersey , who also had a 23-yard catch on the tying drive to get the ball to the New York 9 with 11 seconds to go. “I think we put it in (the playbook) in camp or the beginning of the season. It’s designed to go to the quarterback, and there’s a second read on there. They had covered Chase (Daniel), so. in practice, I actually had to throw it this week, even though Chase wasn’t covered (in practice), so it worked out.”Cohen showed a sense of humor after the game. When asked what the play was called he said:“Oompa-Loompa.”For real?“I made that up,” he quickly admitted.Bears coach Matt Nagy said he was not tempted to go for the win after the touchdown.“You can look back after all this stuff happened and say, man, ‘I wish we would have gone for two,'” said Nagy, who added the decision to go for one points was made at the start of the drive.The trick play with Cohen wasn’t the only one the Bears ran. They also used nose tackle Akiem Hicks on a fourth-down 1-yard dive for a touchdown that was reminiscent of William “The Fridge” Perry in the mid-1980s. It was called “freezer left.”“We have had that play in for weeks, and we’ve been practicing it,” Nagy said. “The rain was coming down. There was times where — I don’t know if you guys could tell — but there were some times out there on the field where the ball was slick, and so in that situation, that was the time where we felt like, ‘Hey, No. 1, let’s get this snap under center. Let’s give (Hicks) a chance,’ and he is hard to stop down there with getting that ball full-steam ahead.”Hicks said he was “super excited” after getting the call.“Super excited to get behind our big fellas Authentic Christopher Slayton Jersey , our other big guys, and let them get me to the end zone,” Hicks said of his first career run. “It was pretty cool, man. It was a fun play and it was exciting.” When a team gets stuck in a rut, some unproductive chatter begins to stir and find its way out of a locker room that’s supposed to be hallowed ground, a place where teammates should be able to go to one another if they have a problem or constructive feedback and share that feedback without it ever seeing the light of day. Welcome to 2018, where thanks to a 1-5 start to the season, there has already been some grumbling around the New York Giants about who’s not doing what — grumbling that has come from the team’s star wide receiver, Odell Beckham Jr., who just two months ago received a record-setting payout for a receiver from the team.Beckham, who is trying to become more of a leader, is going to have missteps along the way.While most of his comments made during the now famous ESPN interview — specifically those about the team needing to show a little bit more heart — were spot on, where he went wrong (beside the setting) is in failing to squash the idea that the team has an issue at quarterback.Now before you go thinking this is a defense of Eli Manning, it isn’t. Manning hasn’t played well enough this year, a year in which his supporting cast was supposed to be a lot better than in years past. And for those who might argue that Beckham was in a no-win situation to where had he backed Manning he wouldn’t have been true to himself, I’m not buying that either as he could have easily said that there is a problem with everyone on a team contributing to a 1-5 start (an accurate and fair statement).The problem with Beckham that likely irked Mara and others stems from the fact that Beckham’s comments — just look at all the times he referenced himself and what he wante— appeared as an attempt to separate himself from his struggling teammates.That notion was further compounded in a video as part of his I Am More: OBJ series when he had this to say regarding the dust-up his words created. Yes, Beckham is entitled to an opinion. But what he fails to understand is that his words, which by now he has to know pack a major punch, created yet another distraction for his struggling teammates to have to answer for. That brings us to the comments made by one-time Giants offensive lineman John “Jumbo” Elliott and team co-owner John Mara that can be best summed up as “Work harder Christopher Slayton Jersey Boys , talk less.”Mara’s comments, made to reporters at the league meetings Tuesday, were in fact a little more, shall we say, biting. Mara is right. Regardless of how you feel about Manning, the play calling, or anything else that might be involved in holding this Giants team back, Beckham is still a part of a team that is 1-5. He has hauled in passes at a 69.2 percent rate, currently the second-highest mark of his career and he leads the team in pass targets with 65, two stats that would right off the bat poke huge holes in any narrative suggesting he’s not getting opportunities. But here’s where Beckham’s opinion loses steam. His current average yards per reception (11.2) and his average yards after the catch (4.0) are both career lows.The quarterback’s job is to get the ball to the receiver. What the receiver does with it once he has the ball in his hands, well that’s on the receiver, not the quarterback. And just how many times this year has Beckham, who used to routinely take a short pass and break free to daylight, done just that?To be clear, Beckham is indeed entitled to an opinion, just as safety Antrel Rolle was in 2011 when he challenged his teammates.But in response to those who continue to insist that what Beckham did is no worse than what Rolle, the two scenarios aren’t even close. First, Rolle never made the comments about himself, never once suggesting that the play of his teammates was holding him back.Second Youth Eli Manning Jerseys , Rolle never specifically called out any one teammate by name. Even though it was widely assumed that he was referencing defensive end Justin Tuck when he made the comment about guys needing to suck it up and practice so long as their injuries weren’t major, Rolle never mentioned Tuck by name when asked if he was referencing anyone specific. Leaders know when to keep the dirty laundry in house where it belongs just as much as they know when to send a salvo at the entire team through external channels. Until Beckham learns the difference, until he understands that he is contributing to the team’s record by what he does and doesn’t do, he’s never going to take that step forward in being the leader this team needs him to be. Here we go again, Part 2A quick word or two about the idea that the Giants should seek a trade for quarterback Jacoby Brissett, currently with the Colts.Please don’t to it.Seriously, if the Giants season is over — and let’s be real, it’s on life support right now — why would anyone think it would make a shred of sense to potentially give up draft picks to acquire a quarterback that, at best, would probably be a short-term rental?If the Giants are going to move on from Eli Manning — a possibility that increases with every loss — wouldn’t it make more sense to keep the draft pick and see what the team has in Kyle Lauletta?The Giants, remember, have already committed a third-round pick next year thanks to their drafting of cornerback Sam Beal in the supplemental draft. They also sent one of their three seventh-round picks to Denver for punter Riley Dixon. And there’s no guarantee they’re going to get a compensatory pick in next year’s draft.So why would general manager Dave Gettleman even think about parting with a draft pick when this team so badly needs to restock talent that was lost through years of bad draft decisions? That’s not a knock on Brissett, but if it were my call, I’d rather see the Giants do what the Chiefs did last year with Patrick Mahomes and Alex Smith — get the youngster, in this case Lauletta, in for a game or two to see what he has so you can make an informed decision next offseason regarding whether to move on from Manning and/or get into a position to draft your next franchise quarterback.