So this is what the Giants are supposed to look like.

In one of the more improbable outcomes of the young NFL season, the Giants beat the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles, 34-17, not because of injuries or a late flag or a fluky bounce, but because, for one night at least, Big Blue were the better team on the field.

For most of the Joe Schoen-Brian Daboll tenure, Sundays have been filled with doubts and anger over just what this regime thought it was building.

But Thursday night, it was clear: