By The Numbers: Eagles Dominate Giants, Improve To 5-1

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- It was pure domination from start to finish. The Giants never had a chance.

Chip Kelly and the Eagles improved to 5-1 with their 27-0 win over the Giants Sunday night, as they head into their week 7 bye.

Let's take a look at the numbers.

Domination

It was the Eagles' first shutout since a 24-0 victory over the Giants in 1996
The Eagles have played 301 regular and postseason games since that last shutout
The Giants had scored 105 points over their last three games coming into this week
The Eagles 27-point margin of victory was their largest over the Giants since 1980...
..and it was the most lopsided shutout in the Eagles-Giants series since 1948

Chip Kelly

The Linc

Defense

The Eagles had eight sacks, their most in a game since 2011
Their five first half sacks was their most before halftime since 2008
Last three games: Eagles 16 sacks, opposition 2...
...that's a +14 differential, in case Jason Pierre-Paul reads this
The last time the Eagles had at least four sacks in three consecutive games was 2004
Eagles are now tied for 2nd most sacks in NFL with 19
Bradley Fletcher's forced fumble recovered by the Eagles, extended their takeaway streak to 19 consecutive games...
...their longest takeaway streak since 1995

The Big Three

Connor Barwin had three sacks for the second time in his career.
Barwin has six sacks this year (all in the last three games)...
...and ranks third in the NFL in that category.
Trent Cole, with his sack Sunday night, has 12.5 in his last 15 games, including playoffs
Vinny Curry tallied his first-career two-sack game...
...and has four in the last three games
Curry, Barwin and Cole each have at least one sack in three straight games.

Running Backs

LeSean McCoy rushed for a season-high 149 yards...
...the sixth-highest total of his career
It was his 20^th 100-yard performance, tying him with Brian Westbrook for the second most in Eagles history behind Wilbert Montgomery (26)
With 5,895 career rushing yards, McCoy moved past Steve Van Buren and into third on the Eagles all-time rushing yards list
Darren Sproles tied a career high with his third rushing touchdown of the season.
10 of Sproles' 67 touches on the season (15%) have gone for 20-or-more yards (five punt returns, three receptions, two rushes)
Sproles is averaging 15.6 yards per punt return this season, which is the best single-season average in Eagles history (minimum 15 returns).

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