PHILADELPHIA — It ended in a blur of sudden competence from the hated Eagles, the wretched Eagles, the bleepin’ Eagles, who’d spent so much of the game’s first 45 minutes looking like they’d rather be anyplace other than Lincoln Financial Field, sloshing about in the rain. It was 17-3 and then 17-10, and then 17-17, and then it was overtime. And then:
Bada-bing,
Bada-bang,
Bada-boom.
And in a that sudden rush of competence, the Eagles handed the Giants a ninth straight loss — tying a 43-year-old record of New York futility. In that sudden rush of competence, the Eagles kept Eli Manning on the sideline, kept the Hollywood ending locked in a trunk, sending the Giants back up the Turnpike with a 23-17 overtime loss that brings them one step closer to a merciful end of the season and one step closer to Chase Young.
“When you lose like this and you lose in a tough, competitive games like this it’s hard,” Giants coach Pat Shurmur said. “It’s different when you get blown out, but our guys fought really hard. They did a good job of beating us in the end. We have to fight through it and do the very best we can to keep going.”
It felt like a perfect storm, quite literally, for so much of the game. A miserable afternoon turned the stadium sodden and pitch black by 5 o’clock, and the Eagles seemed barely interested once the proceedings began. The Giants? They had Eli back under center, and if he looked a little rusty here and a bit out of rhythm there, there were also a pair of old-school gorgeous spirals that seemed all but certain to carry the night.
The first, 35 yards to rookie Darius Slayton, rendered the Linc mute eight seconds into the second quarter. The second, this one 55 yards, also to Slayton, came with 27 seconds to spare in the half and sent the Eagles off to the locker room bathed in an old-school Philly chorus of boos. Both balls looked like they were thrown by 28-year-old Eli, not the 38-year-old version.
“He made a couple of great reads and a couple of great plays,” said Slayton, who was 10 years old when Manning won his first Super Bowl. “He’s a great quarterback. It’s easy to adjust to someone like that. He’s great.”
The Giants? Well, not so much. We learned a long time ago that there is no such thing as a moral victory in the NFL, that coming close doesn’t mean a thing, and the 2019 Giants have made a special sport of the subject. The Eagles finally remembered that they were supposed to be the desperate team; the Giants finally remembered that they’re playing out the string. And that they’re the one riding the nine-game losing streak.
“That,” Shurmur said, “is not something you ever want to be a part of.”
With seemingly half the team inactive, the Eagles turned to a second-year fireplug running back out of Louisiana Tech named Boston Scott. Scott had a grand total of 99 yards from scrimmage for his career heading into this game; against the Giants he had 59 yards rushing and 69 more receiving and looked like the second coming of Darren Sproles.
It ended with a textbook-perfect eight-play drive that ate up almost five minutes of overtime, capped by a 2-yard TD toss from Carson Wentz to Zach Ertz. Manning never got on the field in OT, which was actually quite symmetrical because he couldn’t seem to stay on the field in the second half. The offense couldn’t sustain its early speed, couldn’t hit on third down, and finally allowed the Eagles to shake the sleep out of their eyes.
Finally allowed the soaked, restless crowd of 69,796 to savor a sixth straight win over the hated, wretched, bleepin’ Giants, and to open their lungs with a grotesquely loud and off-key rendition of “Fly, Eagles, Fly.” Tough night all the way around.
“We’re a team that finds ways to lose,” Saquon Barkley said.
And there it is, the official epitaph for a team and a season that promised little and actually managed to deliver less. This time they couldn’t even win one for the aging prince. They can’t win one, period, actually. Nine games straight. And counting.
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