FLASH RECAP:
The Raiders end a third straight losing season by watching Giants players and coaches celebrate their first division title in five years.
Tiki Barber rushes for 203 yards to lead visiting New York (11-5) to a victory over Oakland (4-12) before an announced crowd of 44,594 at McAfee Coliseum on Dec. 31, 2005.
With the victory, the Giants win the NFC East title and clinch a home-field playoff game.
Barber becomes the first player in NFL history to have three 200-yard rushing performances in a season. He finishes the regular season with 1,860 rushing yards.
Barber scores on a franchise-record 95-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. His career-long run breaks the franchise-record 91-yard TD run by Hap Moran in 1930.
Barber's 95-yard run is the longest allowed by the Raiders, surpassing the Seahawks' Shaun Alexander's 88-yarder in 2001.
Plaxico Burress has a career-best 78-yard touchdown reception and New York's defense stops the Raiders on a fourth-and-goal from the one late in the game to preserve the Giants' first win in Oakland in three tries.
Ex-Giant Kerry Collins throws for three touchdowns (two to Randy Moss) for the Raiders, who drop their sixth straight and close the season by losing eight of nine games.
With a 4-12 record for the second time in three years, the Silver and Bleak equals the worst season in franchise history since 1962. The Raiders also went 4-12 in 1997 and 2003.
PRIME-TIME PLAYERS:
RB Tiki Barber — Rushes for 203 yards on 28 carries (7.3 yards per rush). His franchise-record 95-yard touchdown run gives the Giants an early 7-0 lead. Barber also contributes six catches for 60 yards.
WR Plaxico Burress — Contributes five catches for 128 yards (25.6 yards per catch) and a touchdown. Burress throws a key block on Tiki Barber's 95-yard touchdown run and later scores on a career-best 78-yard touchdown catch.
DE Osi Umenyiora — Has two sacks on Kerry Collins, giving him a Giants team-high 14.5 sacks for the season. Umenyiora also has a forced fumble, which the Raiders recover.
K Jay Feely — Is 3-for-3 on field goal attempts from 25, 38 and 46 yards.
QB Kerry Collins — Throws for 331 yards and three touchdowns but is stopped short of the goal line on fourth-and-goal from the one with 2:48 left and the Raiders trailing by nine points. Collins, who played for the Giants for five years before being released in 2003, doesn't have a turnover for the first time since against Dallas on Oct. 2.
WR Randy Moss — Has seven receptions for 116 yards and two touchdowns, his first multi-TD game as a Raider. Moss scores on 15- and 44-yard catches.
DE Derrick Burgess — His third-quarter sack on Eli Manning sets a single-season Raiders sack record with 16 sacks.
WR Doug Gabriel — Has a season-high eight catches for 100 yards and a touchdown. Gabriel's 8-yard TD catch with 29 seconds left in the first half narrows the Oakland deficit to 20-14.
GOAT:
Raiders defense. The unit allows two touchdowns and two field goals on four successive drives after forcing New York to punt on its first possession. The touchdowns are on Barber's 95-yard run and a 78-yard catch-and-run play by Plaxico Burress.
TURNING POINT:
The Giants score 13 consecutive points in the second quarter to build a 20-7 lead.
KEY STAT:
With no interceptions against the Giants, the Raiders finish the season with an NFL-record five interceptions. Three teams — the 1972 Houston Oilers, 1996 Atlanta Falcons and 2004 St. Louis Rams — previously shared the record of six interceptions in a season.
BY THE NUMBERS:
2: Touchdown catches by Oakland WR Randy Moss, who scored one TD the previous six games.
3: Raiders touchdowns. Oakland had scored only three touchdowns the past four games.
9-23: Norv Turner's win-loss record in two seasons as Raiders coach, the worst two-year run by a coach in team history.
327: Rushing yards by the Giants' Tiki Barber the past two games against Oakland. He rushed for 124 yards in New York's 28-10 loss to the visiting Raiders on Nov. 25, 2001.
THEY SAID IT:
Raiders QB Kerry Collins
"I don't think my mind-set was any different tonight than for any other game. I really tried to finish this on a positive note. Obviously, playing against the Giants was a pretty big deal for me."
"I think the people of New York are happy. We came out here and handled our business and now we can go home and give those guys one playoff game. They're going to be rowdy."
Giants WR Plaxico Burress
"Change the coaches? We tried that. Change the players? We tried that. Maybe we need to stop changing. ... I can't put my finger on it."
Raiders CB Nnamdi Asomugha
DID YOU KNOW?:
With their sixth straight loss, the Raiders finish at 4-12 — equaling the franchise's worst record since 1962. Oakland also went 4-12 in 1997 and 2003. The 1962 Raiders went a franchise-worst 1-13.
With a third-quarter sack, Raiders defensive end Derrick Burgess breaks Sean Jones' single-season franchise record of 15.5 sacks, set in 1986.
Giants RB Tiki Barber breaks away
on a franchise-record 95-yard TD run.
