NEW YORK _ Sunday's 31-13 blowout Giants loss to the Green Bay Packers has Big Blue on the cusp of history.
And not the good kind.
The Giants (2-10) have lost eight straight games following Daniel Jones' three interceptions and Aaron Rodgers' easy, four-touchdown day on a snowy MetLife Stadium track.
That puts them one defeat shy of tying the franchise's longest single-season losing streak ever, nine in a row in 1976, in the inaugural season at Giants Stadium.
The Giants visit the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football next weekend. The Eagles have won five straight in the head-to-head division rivalry.
Sunday's loss also officially eliminated the Giants from the playoffs, but of course that was only a formality at this point. Tons of Packers fans chanted "Go Pack Go!" There were plenty of empty seats. And the Giants fans who were there streamed for the exits with seven minutes to play.
The Giants have the most losses in the NFL since the start of the 2017 NFL season (10-34).
Pat Shurmur has a 7-21 record (.250) as their head coach and a 17-44 (.278) career head coaching mark.
On Sunday, the Giants trailed 17-13 after a 45-yard Aldrick Rosas field goal with 6:37 remaining in the third quarter.
But Rodgers, who picked on slot corner Grant Haley often after Corey Ballentine (concussion) left midgame, drove the Packers 75 yards an early fourth quarter touchdown and a 24-13 lead. He hit Davante Adams, who'd beaten corner Sam Beal, for a 17-yard TD.
Then receiver Da'Mari Scott, whom the Giants cut wideout Bennie Fowler to sign off the practice squad, fumbled an exchange with Jones for an eight-yard loss. And Jones overthrew Sterling Shepard into the arms of the Packers' Darnell Savage.
The Packers drove and converted that into a Marcedes Lewis TD 1-yard TD catch and the final score. And Jones then threw a third pick that Tramon Williams snagged out of the air against Darius Slayton.
The Giants conceivably could own the No. 1 pick in April's draft when all is said and done considering Washington, Miami and Cincinnati were all challenging for wins on Sunday.
And they could enter their Week 15 home game against the Dolphins with a chance to set the record for consecutive losses in one season by a Giants team. Ever.
A dubious distinction doesn't even begin to describe what that would mean.
