The inconvenient truth for the Giants, after Thursday night's 34-13 drubbing by the Eagles at MetLife Stadium, is that there is nothing left to gain from playing quarterback Eli Manning.
Ten games remain in the 2018 season, and who knows how many more Manning will actually start, but this feels like a slow death march to the end of a potential Hall of Fame career.
There's no polite way of saying this: Manning did not look the part of a starting NFL quarterback on Thursday night. If we're being honest, he's only played like one sporadically through the first six weeks of this season.