Special teams giveth, special teams taketh away.

That doesn’t mean it all equals out in the end, however.

Despite the dramatic win, the net result Monday for the Giants was a negative — as has too often been the case this season under sixth-year special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey.

Here is a look at five plays that impacted the Giants’ 24-22 win over the visiting Packers — including Randy Bullock’s game-winning field goal — one way or another:

Handed great starting field position in the first quarter, the Giants moved the ball just 3 yards in three plays and settled for a 48-yard field goal attempt. Bullock missed wide right, to the surprise of some Giants’ fans who have been spoiled over the years by near-automatic kicking amid other chaos. It was Bullock’s first miss in four attempts since he replaced the injured Graham Gano, whose late-game miss against the Jets on Oct. 29 cost the Giants a win.

Trailing 10-7 with 12 seconds remaining in the first half, the Giants should have had the break needed to avoid just kneeling out the half. Anders Carlson’s kickoff was about to roll out of bounds, but Lawrence Cager touched the ball first. All that Cager had to do was step out of bounds and then reach back to touch the ball, which would have meant possession at the 40-yard line and one play to get into field-goal range. Instead, his muff cost a minimum of 29 yards of field position — and maybe points?

The Giants turned the tables in the third quarter when Jamie Gillan — the NFC’s leading Pro Bowl vote-getter at punter — lined a knuckleball down the field. Keisean Nixon muffed the catch, fell on the ball and then mistakenly tried to get to his feet. Darnay Holmes — a relative newcomer as a gunner — seized an opportunity to knock the ball loose from a stumbling Nixon, and Benton Whitley recovered to set up the Giants’ short-field go-ahead touchdown drive.

Where the punt coverage team delivered, the punt return team failed. A bouncing punt hit off an unaware Bobby McCain’s hip and resulted in a turnover. As much as McCain is to blame, returner Gunner Olszewski needed to do a better job making his teammates aware of the dangers and clearing them out of harm’s way. It is possible that Olszewski, who was leveled fielding a punt earlier in the game but waved off the medical cart and stayed in the game, was not himself. The Giants’ defense picked up the special teams by holding the Packers to a field goal on a drive that started inside the red zone.