How do Giants fare entering Week 8?

Nate Davis, USA TODAY:

One of the season’s more remarkable storylines is that typically double-teamed, 340-pound DL Dexter Lawrence II leads the league with nine sacks … and is on pace for 22.

Barry Werner, List Wire:

The Giants had 119 yards of offense. Saquon Barkley ran for more yards than the Giants entire offense had.

NFL Nation, ESPN:

A third-round pick earlier this year, Andru Phillips has been one of the most productive defensive backs in the league. He’s tied for second on the Giants with six tackles for a loss as the nickel cornerback and has given up only 50 receiving yards as the nearest defender on 12 targets, according to Next Gen Stats. General manager Joe Schoen lauded Phillips’ physicality and aggressiveness coming out of Kentucky. It seems to be translating to the NFL. Phillips, 22, has a chance to be one of the league’s best nickel corners.

Ben Rolfe, Pro Football Network:

If the Giants had not already decided to move on from Daniel Jones before this season, they must have it confirmed by now. New York’s offense ranks 29th in the league and has broken 21 points just twice. They tricked us a little with that performance in Seattle (scoring 29) because, in the three games around that, they’ve scored just 25 points total.

The defense is fine, ranking 14th overall, but that’s not enough to carry an offense this bad on a sustained run. New York’s overall schedule does get easier as the year goes on, but the Steelers and the Commanders are on the docket next.

The Giants could easily be 3-7 at their bye and all but officially out of it with seven games to play.

Vinnie Iyer, The Sporting News:

Brian Daboll is sticking with Daniel Jones at QB, as the run defense vs. Saquon Barkley was the most responsible culprit in the blowout home loss. The Steelers’ defense won’t help Jones next Monday.

Frank Schwab, Yahoo! Sports:

The Giants sat Daniel Jones in the fourth quarter Sunday vs. the Eagles for Drew Lock. Brian Daboll said right away Jones is still the starter. But once that process starts, it won’t be too much longer before the Giants make the move if things don’t turn around.

Diante Lee, The Ringer:

Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio has a long track record of shutting down predictable offenses and bad quarterbacks. Still, there’s no excuse for how inept the Giants offense looked against a vulnerable Eagles defense on Sunday. The Giants gave up eight sacks and went 3-of-14 on third down.

It was one of the worst offensive performances in the league this season — and that was with Malik Nabers back on the field. This may be for the best though because every butt-kicking brings the Giants that much closer to the hard reset the offense needs.

Eric Edholm, NFL.com:

The sting of Saquon Barkley’s monster game against New York resonates days later because it spoke volumes about several elements of this Giants franchise. Barkley exposed a defense that couldn’t tackle him, and the Giants’ run game did nada. That double whammy could not have gone over well with team brass, including owner John Mara, who badly wanted Barkley back this offseason. Even without a turnover Sunday, the Giants endured their most trying offensive performance of the year, punting 11 times and traveling more than 21 yards on one possession all game, with Daniel Jones being pulled early in the fourth quarter of the loss to Philly. It feels like the strides Jones made following the tough Week 1 outing have been undone by two poor showings. The Giants now have one TD and three field goals in their past 29 possessions, dating back to the third quarter against Seattle in Week 5. They’re sitting at 2-5 and have the Steelers and Commanders, who are a combined 10-4 this season, up next.