The Giants.com crew members give their takeaways from the 19-11 victory over the Eagles in Philadelphia.

John Schmeelk: This is not meant as a criticism of J.J. McCarthy, so please do not take it that way because McCarthy did enough good things against the Eagles to give the Giants their first win in Philadelphia since 2013. The Giants may not win that game, however, without Jameis Winston.

Before going through the physical plays Winston made, it's important to note the mental and emotional part of what he was asked to do. After getting the starting job taken away from him less than two games prior, Winston had to step in at a moment's notice and be ready to lead the team in a close game against a good defense on the road. It would have been easy for any player to be less engaged after losing his job like that, but that was not the case for Winston. He was ready to play.

He came into the game and on his first full drive, he led the Giants on their lone touchdown drive of the game, going 76 yards on 14 plays which culminated in a touchdown pass to Isaiah Likely. Winston made two very difficult throws in the game. The first came on a 3^rd and 15 when he hit Malachi Fields on time on a deep out right at the sticks for a first down. If he doesn't complete that pass, the Giants have to punt from their own 19-yard line and the Eagles get the ball back up 8-6 with good field position.

Later in the drive, Winston checks it down to Devin Singletary on a 3^rd and 8 to gain seven yards, which set up a successful quarterback sneak on 4^th down. On the very next play, Winston evades Riq Woolen, who was untouched on a blitz, and turned a potential big loss into an 11-yard scramble as he outran Jordan Davis to the sideline. Two plays after that, Winston gets the ball away right before getting hit by Jonathan Greenard and puts it in the perfect spot to Darnell Mooney on a crossing route for a 27-yard gain.

It was a big-time performance from one of the team's captains that wasn't even supposed to be playing in the game, and was the exact type of performance that explains why he was a captain to begin with.

Dan Salomone: The Giants do not claim their first victory in Philadelphia since 2013 without the legs of Dominic Zvada and Jordan Stout.

Zvada, an undrafted rookie, started the season flawlessly but had missed five of nine field goal attempts in the three games before the bye week. He figured something out over the break. Zvada was perfect from 53, 46, 38 and 49 yards. He has now made six field goals of at least 50 yards this season. All other rookies in Giants history combined have made five. Zvada has now accounted for 64 points, placing him fifth in franchise history for rookie scoring. He trails Ali Haji-Sheikh (127 points in 1983), Saquon Barkley (92 in 2018), Odell Beckham Jr. (72 in 2014) and Bill Paschal (72 in 1943).

"I should have given Dom the game ball, but you know what, he's supposed to make those kicks too, right?" John Harbaugh said during his postgame press conference in Philadelphia, where his NFL coaching career began as a special teams coordinator. "That's what he does and he did it today. … And those weren't easy kicks. Those were legit kicks in here, especially here, the wind was going from the corner behind our right shoulder back across to the other corner there. They weren't easy kicks. So to see him make those kicks was awesome. I think he did a great job, but that is what we see him as being capable."

Stout, meanwhile, found himself in a punt-off when Philadelphia's Braden Mann booted an 86-yarder to end the first half. It was the longest punt by any NFL player since the Giants' Rodney Williams had a 90-yarder in Denver in Week 1 of the 2001 season. Stout accepted the challenge and averaged 52.3 yards on six punts, five of which were downed inside the 20. Stout now leads the NFL in punting average (51.8 yards) and net average (44.5).

Matt Citak: The Giants' defense stepped up in a big way in Philadelphia. The Eagles were held to just 220 total yards of offense and 11 points, Joe Milton III was sacked a whopping seven times, and running backs Saquon Barkley and Elijah Mitchell combined for just 28 yards on 16 rush attempts. And right in the middle of all of it was Arvell Reese.

The rookie linebacker was nothing short of outstanding against the Eagles, finishing the game with 12 total tackles (10 solo) and three sacks. According to Next Gen Stats, his first sack, the strip-sack of Milton, came in just 2.29 seconds, which was the fastest time to sack in the NFL this season. His next two sacks came while playing inside linebacker, which made him the first player in the league this season to have two sacks while aligned at inside linebacker. Reese's dominance went beyond just this season, though. The 21-year-old is the only rookie in the NFL since individual tackle stats were tracked in 1994 to record 10+ tackles and 3.0+ sacks in a single game, and he also became the youngest player in NFL history with three or more sacks in a game. He currently sits two solo tackles behind Denver's Alex Singleton for the most in the league, with the Broncos linebacker having played one more game than Reese.

"We're bringing him from a lot of different places, and a lot of times he's picking, or he's setting the pick, or he's spying," coach John Harbaugh told the media Monday. "He does everything. He never gets into that world like, 'I want to do this or that.' Or 'I want to rush the passer.' Or 'I want to cover man to man.' He doesn't worry about it. He just says, 'You tell me what to do. What does the defense call for? What's my job?' He's going to be doing it 100 miles an hour every time, and it's just very, very cool and refreshing to see that, especially in such a young guy."

Reese is garnering a lot of the attention this week, and rightfully so, but the guy lining up next to him deserves a ton of credit, too. Micah McFadden finished second on the team with nine total tackles (five solo) and added one sack, two quarterback hits, and a fumble recovery on Reese's strip-sack. It's been two games since McFadden took over for the injured Tremaine Edmunds in the starting lineup, and the fifth-year veteran has fully taken advantage of the opportunity. In that two-game stretch, he has 19 total tackles (15 solo), three tackles for loss, three quarterback hits, one sack and one fumble recovery. Reese and McFadden have played pivotal roles in the defense's success over the last two weeks, and the Giants are going to need them to step up again on Thursday with Jayden Daniels and his dual-threat ability coming to MetLife Stadium.