
The Eli Manning-Nick Mullens showdown was the primetime game we didn’t know we needed.
Raise your hand if you thought the Monday night game between the Giants and the 49ers would be the most entertaining game of the week. After a slew of blowouts and double-digit margins of victory in Week 10, two of the worst teams gave us a barn burner to end the weekend.
Here are a few numbers that help paint the picture of the Giants’ 27-23 road win on Monday night.
2: The Giants ran the same play two times in the red zone against the 49ers. The first time, Eli Manning overthrew a pass to Odell Beckham Jr. in the end zone. On the second throw, Manning hit Odell perfectly in stride for a touchdown that cut San Francisco’s lead to 20-17.
ODELL BECKHAM JR!
— NFL (@NFL) November 13, 2018
Got 'em
: #NYGvsSF on @ESPNpic.twitter.com/3Z5Rc8a0ET
4: Odell Beckham Jr. scored two touchdowns in the game, matching his total on the season. That’s four touchdowns on the season for you folks counting at home. Before this game, he hadn’t scored a touchdown since Oct. 22 against the Atlanta Falcons— also on Monday Night Football.
1: Former Browns, Bills, and Patriots receiver Corey Coleman caught one pass for the Giants (I didn’t even know he was on the Giants). Coleman was also a big weapon in the return game. He returned three kicks for 92 yards, including a 51-yarder that helped set up a touchdown drive.
110.7: That was Eli Manning’s passer rating for the game, the third time Eli Manning has eclipsed a passer rating of 100 this year. The other two times he did it were in loss against the Atlanta Falcons and a win over the Houston Texans. If they do that seven more times, they’ll reach Odell Beckham Jr.’s goal of a 9-7 season.
36: Monday night’s game featured Eli Manning’s 36th game-winning drive. According to ESPN Stats & Info, only Drew Brees and Ben Roethlisberger have had more since 2004. Manning led a nine-play, 75-yard drive and found Sterling Shepard for the game-winning score with 53 seconds left:
GIANTS TAKE THE LEAD! @sterl_shep3 hauls in the TD toss.#NYGvsSF | #GiantsPridepic.twitter.com/FsD2dRyGEV
— New York Giants (@Giants) November 13, 2018
97: The 49ers outgained the Giants by 97 yards. San Francisco had 374 yards to New York’s 277. They also averaged 5.5 yards per play to the Giants’ 5.0 yards per play.
5.5: The difference between Nick Mullens’ yards per attempt from last week against the Raiders to today. Mullens threw for 11.9 yards per attempt against the Oakland Raiders and 6.4 yards per attempt against the Giants. Even though he threw two interceptions, he still gave the team a chance to win at the end of the game.
42: Odell Beckham Jr. and Eli Manning connected for their 42nd career touchdown. That’s the most in Giants history for a quarterback-wide receiver duo.
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2nd and 3rd: If the NFL Draft were held today, the 49ers would hold the second pick in the draft and the Giants would hold the third (the Raiders would get the first). If Monday’s game is any indication, secondary help might be on the way for San Francisco.
27: In both of the games that the Giants have won this season, they scored 27 points. They beat the Houston Texans in Week 3, 27-22.
5.9: Second-year undrafted running back Matt Breida had a better night on the ground than second overall pick Saquon Barkley. Barkley averaged 3.3 yards per carry to Breida’s 5.9. Not that it was a bad night for Barkley, though:
100 scrimmage yards for @saquon on #MNF, his 8th such game this season
— NFL Research (@NFLResearch) November 13, 2018
Barkley joins @EricDickerson as the only players since the merger with 100+ scrimmage yards in 8 of their first 9 career games#NYGvsSF#Giants
69: On the Giants’ game-winning drive, Eli Manning completed 6 of his 9 passes for 69 yards and the go-ahead score.
what a nice drive pic.twitter.com/r7Zc2e2LS7
— SB Nation (@SBNation) November 13, 2018
Double nice.