Live updates, score from playoff game

MINNEAPOLIS - Back and forth we go.The Giants came out of the locker room and answered the Vikings' touchdown from late in the second quarter with another one of their own early in

the third quarter. Daniel Jones took advantage of perfect execution on a play fake that caught the Vikings' Harrison Smith peeking in the backfield. He threw a touchdown to a wide

open Daniel Bellinger and the Giants went up 24-14.The Vikings responded when Kirk Cousins hit tight end Irv Smith for a 3-yard touchdown, and now possession is back to Daniel

Jones and the Giants.Eli Manning's advice to Daniel Jones this week: treat this game, his first in the playoffs, like any other game. It's no different, his ex-teammate told him.So

far, Jones is doing just that. He's completed his first five passes and the Giants are humming offensively, scoring 14 unanswered points after the Vikings jumped ahead early. Jones

threw a 14-yard strike to Isaiah Hodgins to cap the Giants' second drive and Graham Gano's PAT gave them a 14-7 lead.The Giants' passing attack is seemingly making defending Saquon

Barkley an afterthought for the Vikings, and Barkley appears poised to take control at some point.Now that was an answer.Saquon Barkley silenced an entire stadium with a 28-yard

touchdown run on a toss play to the left side. The Giants pulled even, responding after the Vikings came out roaring with a score on the opening drive. Daniel Jones had two

critical runs on the series, and Barkley made a nice cut behind Jon Feliciano for his first postseason score.The Vikings threw the first punch, and man, it was a doozy.Kirk

Cousins' 1-yard sneak capped a 12-play, 75-yard drive to open the game with a touchdown, just coming one play after a touchdown pass to Justin Jefferson was overturned by replay

when it was ruled Jefferson's shin was down short of the goal line.The Giants seemed to be off-balance in trying to hold Jefferson in check with Adoree' Jackson traveling with him

in coverage while accounting for Dalvin Cook. T.J. Hockenson beat Darnay Holmes on a critical third-and-short.The Giants believe they won't feel pressure in Sunday's playoff game

against the Vikings, no matter how high the stakes may be in the postseason.Pressure may actually be their best chance at pulling off the upset and advancing to next weekend's NFC

divisional round.The Giants will look to Kayvon Thibodeaux and Azeez Ojulari to push the issue on the edges, forcing the Vikings to do more chipping with their backs and tight

ends. That should allow for Dexter Lawrence and Leonard Williams to disrupt things on the interior, even with Vikings starting center Garrett Bradbury expected to return from a