You give Chip Kelly enough time and motivation, he's going to figure a way to beat you. He'll use his knowledge of Greek architecture and string theory to dispatch your team on Trivia Night. He'll call your pocket aces and take your entire stack. He'll sing "Bohemian Rhapsody" at karaoke, including the choral interlude.
Sunday night, Kelly's Philadelphia Eagles welcomed the New York Giants into Lincoln Financial Field ... though "laid in wait" may be a better description. This was an ambush, a throttling, a woodshedding; use your descriptive violent-destruction metaphor of choice, and it would fit here. Philadelphia beat New York 27-0, and it wasn't even that close.
The Eagles had started the mind games against the Giants early in the week, promising to hit Manning hard and following that up with a strange little cartoon:

Goofy or not, it worked. Manning was more jittery in the pocket than an 8-year-old on caffeine, hearing steps like an early victim in a horror movie. He got sacked six times; the Eagles shared the love with his replacement, Ryan Nassib, by sacking him twice, too. Manning was 13 for 23 for 151 yards, no touchdowns or interceptions. In other words, the few passes he completed were inconsequential.
Manning's counterpart, Nick Foles, wasn't significantly better statistically, but he didn't need to be. Foles threw two touchdowns and two interceptions, but Foles had the good fortune to be the centerpiece of a multifaceted Kelly offense that spread the wealth across half a dozen players. Not only that, the Eagles finally saw the emergence of LeSean McCoy, who rushed for 149 yards after rushing for 273 all season before this night.

So where does this leave New York? Exposed, for one thing. Although the team had scored 105 points in its previous three games, those came against three largely flawed teams in Houston, Washington and Atlanta. All those grand hopes of a balanced, multi-weapon attack crumbled beneath Philly's punishing assault, and that was even before the Giants lost wide receiver Victor Cruz for perhaps the season to a knee injury.
The Eagles, meanwhile, have now established themselves as a legit, if somewhat erratic, playoff contender. At 5-1, their only real problem is that the other 5-1 team in the NFC happens to play in their own division. The Eagles won't play that particular team, the suddenly resurgent Dallas Cowboys, until Thanksgiving. But when that comes around, it should be a game good enough to pass up leftovers for.
It'll be a nice change from this one, which made anyone not clad in green lose their lunch.

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