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By Ryan Dunleavy | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com | Posted on 25 November 2018 at 16h11 | Updated November 25, 2018 at 5:05 pm
By Ryan Dunleavy | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
CRÊME PHILADELPHIA – The Giants' hopes of making a perfect second run went out in a familiar horror house.
What started during the week off with Odell Beckham claiming that his only goal was for the Giants to win and the playoffs to become a rallying cry as the Giants went on to win against the 49ers and Buccaneers.
The Giants then took a 16-point lead over the reigning Super Bowl Eagles, and all of a sudden the modest NFC East Division seemed winnable.
But the Eagles have owned the Giants in recent years and that did not change Sunday.
The Giants offense went away in the second half and they suffered another heavy blow from their biggest rival, bowing 25-22 at the Lincoln Financial Field, to fall to 3-8. They are three games in first place with five to play and two in the back of the Eagles, who have swept the series of the season and won for the eighth time in the last nine meetings between the teams.
Eagles kicker Jake Elliott, who scored a 61-yard goal in his second career game to beat the Giants at The Linc, once again managed a 42-yard clutch at the end of the game.
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"I do not know," said Landon Collins safety to the question of whether the Giants would not play in the playoffs. "We have to see how it's going, I do not think we're out, but we can be."
The difference in the game is easy to draw.
The Giants went for a two-point conversion in the first quarter and came out empty as a result of a strange game. It basically got points and forced the Eagles to score twice, which was a success.
It's a difference of three points. The Giants lead 19-3 instead of 20-3 and 19-14 instead of 20-13.
Both teams scored two touchdowns and three placements, which should represent 23 points with traditional PATs. However, Pat Shurmur, coach of the Giants, and Doug Pederson, of the Eagles, both believe in the analysis.
The Giants led 19-3 with four minutes remaining in the first period after Saquon Barkley had a 51-yard touchdown in the middle of the second quarter. Barkley is the first rookie with three races over 50 yards in a season since Adrian Peterson in 2007.
Three, that's the same number of races over 50 yards that the Giants have had in the last 10 combined seasons of all their players. This covers roughly the time between the retirement of Tiki Barber and the arrival of Barkley.
The emphasis on the race showed that the Giants were determined to stick to what worked in their game book rather than focusing on the Eagles' faults. The Eagles played without their top five half-corners, using a starting high school consisting of Chandon Sullivan, Corey Graham, Malcolm Jenkins and De Vante Bausby in defense of the base with Cre Von LeBlanc in the nickel.
But the Giants moved away from the ground game in the second half.
The Giants played the first offensive series of the second half without Beckham (IV in the locker room) and the second without Barkley. With 138 yards from the scrum in his name at that time, Barkley stood on the sidelines with his helmet while Wayne Gallman played all three tries.
Manning scored a timeout in third and 17th place only to allow the Giants to return to the field and throw a ball to Gallman for a one meter loss. A double blow hard.
Manning and Beckham were both on the field for the third set, but that did not matter. The Giants played 11 offensive games for a total of less than 7 yards in the third quarter.
After leaving 19 consecutive points behind, the Giants managed to tie at 22-22 in eight games and 56 yards. Manning shot high for Beckham with LeBlanc on the cover, and LeBlanc might have escaped early contact.
Manning finished 24 with 34 points for 290 yards with a touchdown, but he launched an expensive interception to bring the Giants out of range of the shooters at the end of the first half. He also inexplicably exhausted his time-out on the third and 17th but was given a late penalty in the third and third match.
Barkley played his second big game in as many tries against the Eagles, the most popular team in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania, where he was bred. He had 13 runs for 101 yards and seven catches for 41 yards with two touchdowns in total, but only five of his touchdowns were scored during the second half's collapse.
Beckham had five catches for 85 yards and Sterling Shepard had four catches for 37 yards against an Eagles patchworker.
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