Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Giants and New York Jets both dropped games against division rivals, while the Minnesota Vikings’ Brett Favre threw four touchdown passes in a victorious return to Green Bay.

Donovan McNabb threw three first-half touchdown passes yesterday to lead the Philadelphia Eagles past the Giants 40-17 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, handing New York its third straight defeat with help from two Eli Manning interceptions and a fumble recovery.

“We definitely put ourselves into whatever funk, or however you want to describe this,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said at a televised postgame news conference. “When we were 5-0, we were doing a lot of things well. Now we’re 5-3 and not doing much of anything.”

Philadelphia is 5-2 and took a share of the National Football Conference East Division lead with the Dallas Cowboys, who beat the Seattle Seahawks 38-17.

The Giants-Eagles game started about seven hours before the Philadelphia Phillies hosted the New York Yankees in Game 4 of Major League Baseball’s World Series across the street in Citizens Bank Park. The Yankees won 7-4 to move within one victory of their 27th World Series title.

McNabb completed 17 of 23 passes for 240 yards. Rookie LeSean McCoy scored on a 66-yard run and finished with 82 yards rushing for the Eagles, while fullback Leonard Weaver added 75 yards on the ground and a 41-yard touchdown.

Eagles Scores

Brent Celek, Jeremy Maclin and DeSean Jackson each had touchdown catches for the Eagles.

Manning threw a touchdown pass and two interceptions, completing 20 of 39 attempts for 222 yards, and Brandon Jacobs led New York with 86 rushing yards on 20 carries.

Weaver’s touchdown run, on his fifth carry of the season, came on Philadelphia’s three-play opening possession.

McNabb then found Celek for a 17-yard touchdown to give Philadelphia a 13-0 lead after Asante Samuel intercepted Manning to end New York’s opening drive. David Aker’s extra-point try was blocked.

The Giants got on the scoreboard with just under two minutes remaining in the half when Manning completed an 18-yard scoring pass to tight end Kevin Boss to cut the score to 16-7.

With 54 seconds to play in the half, McNabb connected with Jackson on a 54-yard touchdown pass. It was the wide receiver’s sixth score of at least 50 yards this season.

Manning Intercepted

Philadelphia had another scoring opportunity before the half when Manning threw another interception. The Eagles needed two plays before Maclin caught a 23-yard touchdown pass to make it 30-7 at halftime.

New York outscored the Eagles 10-3 in the third quarter before Philadelphia put the game out of reach on McCoy’s 66-yard touchdown run in the fourth period.

Two weeks ago, the Eagles lost 13-9 at Oakland, which was 1-4 at the time. That came a week after the Giants routed the Raiders 44-7.

“When I can explain those things, I’ll be undefeated,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said after yesterday’s game. “Sometimes they’re hard to explain.”

At Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the Dolphins beat the Jets 30-25 as Miami’s Ted Ginn Jr. became the first player to return two kickoffs for touchdowns in the same quarter since Green Bay’s Travis Williams in 1967.

Kickoff Touchdowns

Ginn had third-quarter kickoff returns of 100 and 101 yards for the Dolphins (3-4), who survived a late comeback by the Jets (4-4) for their second win over their American Football Conference East Division rival in less than a month.

The teams combined for 49 second-half points.

Chad Henne’s lone touchdown pass -- a 5-yarder to tight end Joey Haynos -- gave the Dolphins a 30-19 fourth-quarter lead.

Mark Sanchez of the Jets then found Dustin Keller for a 16- yard score to make it 30-25. Sanchez, who finished with 265 yards passing and two touchdowns, drove New York to Miami’s 8- yard line with just over a minute remaining before turning the ball over when he failed to connect with Keller on fourth-and-13.

At Lambeau Field, Favre and the Vikings beat the Packers 38-26 in the quarterback’s first game in Green Bay, Wisconsin, since the 2007 season. The three-time NFL most valuable player led the Packers to 11 playoff appearances and a Super Bowl victory before leaving after that season to join the New York Jets. Against his old team yesterday, he was 17-of-28 passing for 244 yards without an interception.

The Vikings, who beat Green Bay at home earlier this season, are 7-1, while the Packers are 4-3.

Packers Comeback

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers helped Green Bay come back from a 24-3 third-quarter deficit to cut the score to 24-20, throwing two touchdown passes to tight end Spencer Havner. The Vikings clinched the win with fourth-quarter touchdown passes from Favre to Jeff Dugan and Bernard Berrian.

The Denver Broncos (6-1) lost for the first time this season, falling 30-7 to the Baltimore Ravens, while the Indianapolis Colts remained undefeated with an 18-14 win over the San Francisco 49ers. The New Orleans Saints, the NFL’s only other unbeaten team, host the Atlanta Falcons tonight.

Elsewhere in Week 8, it was Houston 31, Buffalo 10; Chicago 30, Cleveland 6; St. Louis 17, Detroit 10; San Diego 20, Oakland 16; Tennessee 30, Jacksonville 13; and Carolina 34, Arizona 21.

To contact the reporter on this story: Mason Levinson in New York at mlevinson@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: November 2, 2009 00:01 EST