Long Flight

Jake Elliott ran over to coaches and begged for a chance to try the longest field goal in Eagles history.

They said yes — and he nailed it.

Elliott kicked a 61-yarder as the clock expired on Sunday to lift Philadelphia to a 27-24 victory over the Giants.

Carson Wentz tossed a 19-yard pass to Alshon Jeffery to set up Elliott’s kick. Elliott, a rookie fifth-round pick by the Bengals who had joined the Eagles after Caleb Sturgis was injured in Week 1, was carried off the field by two teammates.

“I’m thankful I had the opportunity to try it,” Elliott said. “I wanted it.”

Elliott had missed from 52 yards earlier in the game. Last week, he missed from 30 yards and shanked an extra-point attempt.

“It’s surreal, but it’s the life of a kicker,” Elliott said. “You have ups and downs, and you move on to next week.”

Eagles Coach Doug Pederson conferred with Dave Fipp, the special-teams coach, before sending Elliott on the field.

“I had so much confidence in him,” Pederson said.

The Giants’ Eli Manning threw three touchdown passes in the fourth quarter, including a 77-yard score to Sterling Shepard, but Philadelphia (2-1) rallied twice.

“We have to play better football,” said Manning, who had two interceptions along with his three touchdowns.

Coach Ben McAdoo said the Giants were not playing smart football. “We are all irritable right now, and rightfully so,” he said.

After going 11-5 last season and reaching the playoffs, the Giants are 0-3 with four tough games coming up, starting at Tampa Bay next Sunday. Only three teams under the current playoff format have reached the postseason after losing their first three games.

“I don’t care about history; I care where we are at,” the veteran receiver Brandon Marshall said. “Mentally, this hurts. It doesn’t feel good, but we have the guys in this room to get it done.”

The Giants had failed to score 20 points in eight straight games, but Manning led them to 21 in 5 minutes 21 seconds. He tossed touchdown passes of 10 yards and 4 yards to Odell Beckham Jr. to tie the game at 14-14. Manning then connected over the middle to Shepard, who broke a couple of tackles and sprinted all the way for a 21-14 lead.

But Philadelphia answered quickly.

A 36-yard penalty for pass interference on Eli Apple put the ball at the Giants’ 15, and the rookie Corey Clement ran in on the next play for his first career touchdown to make it 21-21.

After Aldrick Rosas kicked a 41-yard field goal to put the Giants ahead, Elliott hit a 46-yarder to tie the score, 24-24, with 51 seconds left.

The Giants had a chance for a winning drive in the final minute. But an illegal shift on Ereck Flowers moved them back 5 yards on second-and-3, and a holding call on Flowers made it second-and-18.

“Everything adds up in this league,” McAdoo said. “When there are too many penalties, it makes it tough to win that way.”

On a hot, humid day, both N.F.C. East rivals looked sloppy for the first three quarters.

Down by 14-0, the Giants finally got going when Manning threw a 10-yard pass to Beckham to cut the deficit to 14-7. Beckham drew an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty for his celebration. Down on all fours, Beckham took a few steps and then lifted his right leg in the air, imitating a dog urinating.

“I’m going to do what I do,” Beckham said of his odd celebration. “I’m going to try to spark this team. The consequences are going to be what they are.”

 

But the penalty was not costly. The Giants quickly got the ball back when Landon Collins forced Zach Ertz to fumble and Apple recovered at the Eagles’ 33.

Orleans Darkwa ran 20 yards to the 6. Beckham then made a spectacular one-handed grab for a 4-yard touchdown and a 14-14 tie. Beckham finished with nine catches for 79 yards.

The Eagles went up by 7-0 on LeGarrette Blount’s 1-yard run that capped an 18-play, 90-yard drive. Blount had a rumbling 17-yard run early in the drive, and Wentz later kept it going with a nifty 11-yard scramble on third-and-8. Wentz completed 21 of 31 passes for 176 yards on the day, with a touchdown and no interceptions.

Manning’s second interception came on a tipped ball that landed in Patrick Robinson’s hands in the third quarter. Wentz threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Ertz on the ensuing possession to give Philadelphia a 14-0 lead.

Despite the loss, the Giants have reason to be optimistic that their offense is finally coming out of a long funk. Manning completed 35 of 47 passes for 366 yards, and for the first time this season, he was not sacked.

“We put enough points on the board to win,” McAdoo said. “We had a chance to score more and we didn’t handle the ball well enough, left some points out there.”