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“You lay an egg like that — obviously we didn’t play well,” Giants halfback Orleans Darkwa said. “We’ve got to go back to work. We started fast. We made some plays. We put on a good drive. But we wound up turning the ball over, and you can’t do that.”

The loss also put Coach Ben McAdoo’s future in question just one year after he led the team to the playoffs. He suspended cornerback Janoris Jenkins on Tuesday for missing a workout Monday, and the depleted secondary was punished by Goff, who was 14 of 22 with no interceptions.

“I’m disappointed,” said McAdoo, who insisted his team had not quit. “Expected us to come out and play a better football game than we played. We have it in us. It’s my job to get it out of us.”

Goff’s touchdowns were of 8 yards to tight end Tyler Higbee, 52 to Robert Woods, 67 to Sammy Watkins and 4 to Woods.

Eli Manning (20 of 36 for 220 yards) threw two touchdown passes and became the seventh N.F.L. quarterback to reach the 50,000-yard mark with his completion of a garbage-time pass to Sterling Shepard in the fourth quarter. His touchdowns covered 5 yards to Tavarres King and 10 yards to Evan Engram.

Goff’s touchdown pass to Higbee came after Aaron Donald sacked Manning and forced a fumble that Connor Barwin recovered.

The play that killed the Giants was the 52-yarder to Woods on a third-and-33 screen play on which Woods was barely touched. It turned a 10-7 lead into a 10-point advantage, and the Gians never looked the same in seeing their seven-game winning streak against the Rams end.

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