TERRENCE BROOKS was only on the field because Jaylen Watkins had left with a concussion. Brooks plays special teams, hadn't played a defensive snap all season before Thursday's second half, but Watkins was down and the Eagles were hanging on by wind-numbed fingertips to a win that had initially looked like it might come easy.
Nothing comes easy to the 2016 Eagles, though.
Fourteen seconds left, Eli Manning 34 yards away from the victory that would have clinched a Giants playoff berth, tight end Will Tye looked wide-open as he headed for the right side of the end zone.