EAST RUTHERFORD – And so the Giants descended into the realm of the unwatchable on Sunday, devoid of the faint hope, or even comic relief, that had previously been present, as management dismantles what had been a feeble attempt at a quick turnaround on the field.

And there’s still another half a season to go.

Please, if for no other reason than as a symbolic gesture indicating you feel the fans' pain, sit quarterback Eli Manning down. Pretty please.

Big Blue's backers have already slipped into survival mode, trying to ride out a disaster that will likely surpass last year’s epic fail, as the depleted Giants played hard and simply weren’t good enough for the seventh time in eight games, falling to the Washington Redskins, 20-13.

There's no way Manning will be dealt to another team before Tuesday's trade deadline, indicating after the game he will not be waiving the no-trade clause in his contract.

``I want to stay here,'' he said.

So when will Manning get yanked?

That's all anyone is focused on now. Seriously. It’s time to see what someone else can do. Alex Tanney or rookie Kyle Lauletta could have not gotten the team into the end zone when it mattered, too. Manning did throw a meaningless 2-yard TD pass to Evan Engram with 17 seconds to play.

Head coach Pat Shurmur did not rule out making a change after the game, saying he's going to look at everything on the offense.

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``No, I don’t want to go there, I’m not going to tease that,'' Shurmur said when asked about changing quarterbacks. ``I just want to look at everything and see what we have to do moving forward.''

If you're trying to protect Manning's legacy, you're not doing a very good job of it. Those two Super Bowl MVP performances will always be there, but his memory is being tarnished every time he walks out to the huddle at this point, as the boos reign down from the faithful.

The Giants did bench Manning in favor of Geno Smith for a game last season.

The Giants’ defense, which was supposed to be a disheartened group after defensive tackle Damon Harrison and cornerback Eli Apple were dealt last week, played pretty well.

It’s the offense that’s an absolute dumpster fire.

Manning threw for over 300 yards, but it was as hollow a 300-yard game as there's ever been.

``I’ve got to worry about doing my job and trying to play and prepare, and that’s not my decision,'' said Manning about whether he was worried he'd get benched.

.’’We have no choice you keep fighting. The defense played outstanding today. They gave us a chance. Offensively, we’ve got to do our part. We’re not scoring enough points. We’re playing close games and we’re just not finding ways to win them, unfortunately.’’

Manning had plenty of help in this latest endeavor, like when his fourth down pass in the opening minute of the fourth quarter, at the Redskins 32-yard-line, went straight through Engram’s hands. But Manning threw a pair of bad interceptions, including one at the Redskins' 12-yard-line early in the second quarter, and did little to move this process forward.

Even when they got down to the 3-yard-line, with just under five minutes to play, they couldn't get score a touchdown.

``I don’t have an answer. It doesn’t make sense,'' said Odell Beckham, Jr., who caught eight passes for 136 yards. ``I feel like we should be doing better. We’re not. And this is where we’re at. When we get down in the red zone we have to score.’’

You could pull pretty much anyone out of the lineup, but you can’t sit the entire offensive line down. So you go for the quarterback in these situations.

It was a serious miscalculation last offseason to think you could build a winner around Manning because you thought he had a few years remaining to win a championship. That appears to be anything but the case right now.

Among the other takeaways from another lost Sunday was the fact that it really isn’t that far from the bottom of the NFC East to the top.

The Washington Redskins now top the standings with a 5-2 record, and they’re not that good. The Giants had every opportunity to take this game but couldn’t make the handful of plays they needed to turn things around.

The Giants have already backed up the truck and started loading everything of value into the back.

We will see what Giants have played their last game in blue, with the truck already backed up to the locker room with Tuesday’s trade deadline approaching and valuable commodities like Olivier Vernon, Janoris Jenkins, Landon Collins and Sterling Shepard still on the roster.

As for Manning, this thing figures to get extremely ugly over the enxt two months, with this team poised to go lower than last year's 3-13 finish. So for everyone's sake, it's time to get him off the field and see what the team's younger quarterbacks can do.

Stephen Edelson is a USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey columnist: sedelson@gannettnj.com