PHILADELPHIA
In a league in which coaches and quarterbacks almost always determine the outcome of a team's season, the Giants were decidedly lacking on both counts Sunday in what may have been the final blow to an unlikely playoff run.
The Giants had a chance to win a third straight game and pull within two games of the NFC East lead, and it seemed as if they might actually do just that by thoroughly outplaying the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles through most of the first half.
Up 19-3, first-year coach Pat Shurmur was pushing all the right buttons and 37-year-old Eli Manning was making all the right throws in dominating a team that already was on the ropes at 4-6.