New York Giants special teams coordinator Michael Ghobrial said this week that the team’s poor special teams performance against the New England Patriots in Week 13 was “uncharacteristic.”

“We certainly didn’t live up to our standard,” he said. “We’ve got to be better, I’ve got to be better, the players got to be better. When we watched the tape, everybody owned it. That’s the beauty of having a group that’s had success — they know that’s not our standard.”

Asked whether he had seen a play unfold like Younghoe Koo’s aborted kick attempt, Ghobrial said the sequence, while rare, is not unheard of.

“It doesn’t happen very often, but you do see missed snaps, you do see missed holds, and sometimes there’s just a variety of different outcomes when it comes to that,” Ghobrial said. “Sometimes

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