The New York Giants Suck—But Somehow, They Keep Winning

After eleven games, the New York Giants have scored just two more points than their opponents. Only two quarterbacks have thrown more interceptions than Eli Manning without getting benched in the process. And one wide receiver (guess who) accounts for a quarter of their offensive production.

Yet, after gutting out an ugly win over the terrible Chicago Bears, your New York Football Giants are 7-3, somehow still on the heels of the Dallas Cowboys and streaking towards the least impressive run of positive results in recent memory.

The Giants, who—coming into the game—were ranked 24th in offensive yardage, averaged just 5.1 yards per play against the middling Bears defense. Robbie Gould, in an emotionally significant revenge match against his longtime team, missed two extra points.

Just like the Giants needed a defensive touchdown to outscore the league's worst scoring offense in Week 7, new Bears kicker Connor Barth's missed field goal and extra point provided the Giants with their entire margin of victory. Tailback Rashad Jennings' 85 rushing yards on the day represents a quarter of his 340 on the season—which is by far the highest total on the league's second-worst rushing team.

Manning threw for just 227 yards on a whopping 36 attempts; even so, he's averaged fewer yards per attempt in five other games this year. Rookie Sterling Shepard led all Giants receivers with just 50 yards receiving; human highlight reel Odell Beckham had just five catches for 46 yards and a fumble.

Head coach Ben McAdoo has been repeatedly described by Bleacher Report's Jason Cole as a "little man in a big man's coat," which at times has been as accurate metaphorically as it is visually.

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— New York Giants (@Giants) November 15, 2016

Yet for all the Giants' many failings, it's been the same story all year long: The Giants found a way to barely not-lose to the now-2-8 Bears, just like they found a way to barely not-lose to the now-9-1 Cowboys. Time after time, Giants defenders like pass-rusher Jason Pierre-Paul and safety Landon Collins find ways to make plays that the offense isn't—or Manning and Beckham make plays when the defense finally gives way.

Next week, they'll make it interesting against the 0-11 Cleveland Browns; after that they'll face two division leaders and a round robin of their NFC East rivals in a brutal stretch run.

Yet if they keep playing with a odds-beating combination of moxie, clutch and luck, they'll have a chance to put more Ws on the board than they have since the dominating days of Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor—and that would be the most Eli Manning accomplishment of his hilarious, glorious career.