Coming off a nearly nonexistent offensive display against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 6, the Giants’ offense took a deeper nosedive against a suspect Eagles’ defense.

The unit, clearly hampered by the loss of left tackle Andrew Thomas on the offensive line, could not get anything going to threaten the birds. They posted 11 possessions of less than six plays and just a lone field goal to push their total to a miserable 16 points on home soil this season.

The lack of offensive production was made bleaker by the Giants finishing six drives with two yards or less in the contest.

The impact of poor blocking made it impossible to establish any sort of positive run game behind Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary. It was accompanied by an array of drops by the receiving corps, now totaling 17 on the year to put the team in second place in the NFL for that statistic.

For another week, New York’s defense showed up and pressured quarterback Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia huddle early, but that factor would fade as the game got out of hand.

Shane Bowen’s crew got to the gunslinger five times for a loss of 44 yards and held him to 10 completions for 114 yards but gave up a whopping 269 yards on the ground to four Eagles rushers, including two scores by Hurts, which helped them eat up the clock and put the game out of reach before the fourth quarter.

It was a complete pummeling at the hands of their NFC East rival, and the Giants now fall to 2-5 on the season and 0-3 in the division that appears to be several notches above their weight class still.

The entire offense continues to regress behind Daboll’s play calling, holding just one touchdown in East Rutherford and 10 through seven weeks with an average of 14.1 points, 1.5 points below last season’s dismal average of 15.6.

All of that mediocrity still doesn’t fully paint the whole picture of a nightmarish afternoon for the Giants as their 2024 campaign begins to dissolve into obscurity, with several questions surrounding the roster’s future. There are more difficult statistics to digest, and these were the five that stood out in New York’s landslide defeat in Week 7.

Through the first six weeks of the season, the New York Giants were putting forth some of their best pass protection for quarterback Daniel Jones in his career, but one injury to their stalwart left tackle seemed to send everything back in the wrong direction.

With Andrew Thomas designated to the sidelines for the rest of the year with a surgically repaired foot, the Giants entered Sunday’s contest with Joshua Ezeudu chosen to step into his place at the starting left tackle spot.

 It was the third-year player’s first major reps since Week 5 of last season when he appeared in 266 snaps at left tackle amid a carousel of injuries for the offense front.

While the move certainly didn’t fare well for Ezeudu, who was pushed back into the pocket all afternoon by several Eagles edge rushers, the loss of Thomas seemed to create a gaping hole in the Giants offensive line’s efficiency.

Along with the first two tacked under his watch, New York’s front allowed eight total sacks for a loss of 62 yards, which stood for their most quarterback takedowns in 2024.

From the start of the game, the Eagles defensive line, which ranked 13th in pass rush win rate entering Week 7 took it to the Giants starting five and never let their foot off the gas pedal.

They started off the sack party with Joshua Sweat bulldozing Ezeudu right back into Jones for a nine-yard loss on 3rd-and-6, stalling the second straight drive in under four plays and 20 yards.

On the next drive, Ezeudu’s struggles would continue as he got blown around the edge by sophomore linebacker Nolan Smith Jr for an even bigger loss of 11 yards.

That second sack would join a five-yard false start penalty by linebacker Matthew Adams on the ensuing punt and stunt the Giants offense for their worst drive that spanned three plays and went backward nine yards in two minutes.

The Eagles’ pass-rushing dominance would tack on another three sacks for 21 yards before the halftime break to give the Giants their worst 30 minutes of blocking this season. On the other side, they would collect three more, including one on backup quarterback Drew Locke, who entered the fourth quarter to relieve Jones of his duties only to go 3-of-8 for 6 yards in his limited reps.

As for Jones, the onslaught of pressures would almost completely paralyze his ability to dish the pigskin and make reads to find his receivers downfield and attack the Eagles’ average secondary.

Per PFF, Jones averaged 2.96 seconds to throw the ball under duress and dealt with a 50 percent pressure-to-sack percentage in his weekly workload, finishing as the highest number in his sixth campaign under center.

His final line would read 14 completions on 21 targets for 99 yards and an average of 4.7 yards, the gunslinger’s worst passing line since Week 5 of the 2021 season when he had 98 yards and a 38.5 percent completion percentage against the Dallas Cowboys.

It also continues a very concerning trend for Jones at home. He now has gone six straight home affairs without tossing an aerial touchdown and maintains his issues creating explosive plays downfield to stimulate any offensive rally.

Who could find that level of success when you face as much pressure as he did against the Eagles, with the reality of the problem following them into next Monday night and beyond?