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Giants players Brian Daboll downplay heated sideline exchanges after embarrassing Week 10 loss to Cowboys

Winning solves everything, they say. But what about losing? Well, bickering tends to follow. And the were the latest example on Sunday, with several coaches and players seen in heated sideline discu sions amid a 49-17 blowout lo s at the hands of the .Facing a 2-8 start with key players like and sidelined due to injury, the Giants trailed 28-0 at halftime and 42-7 entering the fourth Robert Quinn Jersey quarter of their Week 10 showdown. Running back was the first to be spotted venting frustration, engaging in an "animated discu sion" with coach Brian Daboll after a failed goal-line series, per the Fox broadcast.Later in the NFC East matchup, wide receivers and appeared to be at odds. The former could be seen grabbing Shepard's shoulder pads in conversation, then shaking his head while walking away as Shepard trailed him on the sidelines, still vocal about whatever they were discu sing. The wheels are coming off.Giants WRs Sterling Shepard and Darius Slayton having a heated discu sion on the sideline Andy Dalton Jersey now. Ralph Vacchiano (@RalphVacchiano) Giants head coach Brian Daboll downplayed the sideline exchange, much like every other question in his pre s conference after Sunday's 49-17 lo s. "Yeah, Slayton and Shep, they weren't getting into it. Little stuff during the game. Not a big deal," Daboll said. "I've talked to all those guys. Not the results we want but get back to work."Shepard was over the sideline exchange too, as both players were caught in the heat of the moment."Man, Listen. That is my brother like my mother's kids," Shepard said, "It was never that, never that, it was straight me motivating him to go out there and go do it. Like, that's the honest truth. Damien Williams Jersey "Just trying to motivate him and keep him going. It's frustrating obviously look at the score board and how the game went down it's frustrating, but I was just trying to motivate him to keep on going and fighting through it really."Slayton had the same reaction as Shepard when cooler heads prevailed."I got a little frustrated, emotions got the best of me a little bit," Slayton said. "Obviously I don't know what the camera saw or caught or whatever but when I was speaking to Shepard it was that, he was just trying to calm me down, Tarik Cohen Jersey encourage me, and I'm grateful to have him as a teammate."As for the discu sion with Groh? Slayton said it was a "spirited conversation.""Of course my frustration is always going to come from the team'ssucce s," Slayton said. "Like my individual succe s obviously everybody wants to go out there and have a bazillion yards and fifty touchdowns and that's great and fine but I think at that point in the game I think we were down 28-7 if I'm not mistaken so obviously the game had not gone the way we wanted it to go and obviously that was frustrating in itself. "I just have to manage my emotions better in those scenarios."Raised emotions are hardly uncommon in the , especially when the results aren't there on the field. But this has been an increasingly steady i sue for the Giants. Earlier this year, Daboll was spotted on different broadcasts expre Arlington Hambright Jersey sing disgust at his quarterbacks after turnovers or failed red-zone plays, including Jones and backup , both of whom are now injured.