When the Giants host the Redskins on Thursday night it will be the 164th meeting between the teams dating back to 1932. The Giants hold a 96-64-4 edge all-time, but are an even more impressive 16-6 since 2004, when the team traded Philip Rivers and draft picks for Eli Manning.

In those 11 seasons, the Giants made five playoff appearances and won two Super Bowls. Manning has started 169 of 177 games (Kurt Warner made nine starts in Manning's rookie season). During that same time the Redskins have had 10 different starting quarterbacks.

Here's that brief, sad history:

Mark Brunell (33 starts, 2004-2006). Coach Joe Gibbs returned to Washington in 2004 and one of his first personnel moves was to acquire a veteran quarterback. That turned out to be Mark Brunell, who struggled with injuries in his first season as the Redskins finished 6-10. The team went 10-6 in 2005, won a playoff game, and Brunell threw 32 touchdowns and just 10 interceptions. By 2006, the Redskins were back to their losing ways and Brunell was benched in the middle of the season for Jason Campbell. The team finished 5-11 and Brunell never played in another game for Washington.

Patrick Ramsey (24 starts, 2002-2005). Patrick Ramsey was a 2002 first-round pick, drafted by Steve Spurrier, who lasted just two seasons in Washington before resigning with three years left on his contract. Ramsey, by all accounts, was underwhelming, but he really didn't have a chance. His former teammate Ross Tucker explained just how out of his element Spurrier was during his brief stint as an NFL head coach.

“If you guys ever could, you should go back and get a sideline copy of Patrick Ramsey’s first start against the Saints," Tucker said during a 2011 radio interview with 106.7 The Fan, via the Washington Post. "There were no hot reads or no sight adjusts. If a blitz came, his whole philosophy was to change the play at the line of scrimmage. Well, in the NFL, if it looks like the linebacker from the right’s coming, he’s not the guy coming, it’s the other guy. It’s all disguised. He would literally be on the sideline screaming out to Patrick to change the play, so Patrick would change the play, then the defense would shift, and Spurrier would be like no no no no, and there’d either be a timeout or a delay of game. Dude, it was straight high school. It was honestly hilarious. It was absolutely brutal.”

Ramsey was traded to the Jets before the 2006 season and five teams and four seasons later he was out of the league.

What coulda been, 2004: The Redskins drafted safety Sean Taylor fifth-overall in 2004 and no one questions that pick. He was one of the league's best young players before his untimely death at the age of 24. But given the team's annual needs at quarterback, taking Ben Roethlisberger (he ended up going 11th overall to the Steelers) seems like an easy decision in hindsight.

Jason Campbell (52 starts, 2005-2009). Gibbs used a first-round pick on Campbell, who didn't see the field as a rookie in '05. He started seven games in '06 and 13 in '07, when the Redskins returned the playoffs. Campbell was under center every game the next two seasons where he was basically replacement-level, according to Football Outsiders' metrics. The Redskins were 20-32 with Campbell, and by 2010 he was with the Raiders.

What coulda been, 2005: This is gonna hurt. The Redskins took cornerback Carlos Rogers with the ninth-overall selection, and traded up to take Campbell at No. 25. Aaron Rodgers went to the Packers at No. 24.

Todd Collins (3 starts, 2006-2007). Collins did all his damage during a four-game stretch in 2007 when he completed 64 percent of his passes and tossed five touchdowns against no interceptions, and sported a 106.4 QB rating. He was 3-0 as a starter in the regular season and was under center for the Redskins' wild-card loss to the Seahawks.

(CBSSports.com Illustration/USATSI)
(CBSSports.com Illustration/USATSI)

Donovan McNabb (13 starts, 2010): Mike Shanahan was hired before the 2010 season to return the Redskins' to prominence. And like so many before him during the Dan Snyder era, he failed miserably. Shanahan sent a second-round pick to division rival Philadelphia to land McNabb, who was benched for Rex Grossman late in a Week 8 game against the Lions.  (Grossman fumbled on his first play from scrimmage, and then-Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh recovered it for a touchdown.) McNabb would start five more games that season before getting demoted to third-string duties in Week 15. Washington finished 6-10 with McNabb going 5-8. That offseason he was traded to the Vikings for a sixth-round pick.

What coulda been, 2006-2010: The Redskins traded their '06 first-round pick to move back into the '05 first round and took Campbell. And good thing; the 2006 quarterback draft class was a forgettable one with Vince Young, Matt Leinart and Jay Cutler going off the board in the first 11 picks (though Cutler almost ended up in Washington). Safety LaRon Landry was the No. 6 pick in 2007 and again, that QB draft class left much to be desired. In 2008, the Redskins traded out of the first round after Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco were off the board. In 2009, the team drafted linebacker Brian Orakpo 13th overall with Josh Freeman still available. Like the three previous drafts, Washington didn't miss out on a franchise passer here either.

Left tackle Trent Williams was selected fourth-overall in 2010, and he's been very good for the 'Skins. Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow, and Jimmy Clausen were the first three quarterbacks off the board that year. So yeah. And the next quarterback to be drafted -- Colt McCoy -- eventually found his way to the Redskins as a free agent.

Rex Grossman (16 starts, 2010-2011). Grossman joined the Redskins because he was relatively proficient then-offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan's offense during their time together in Houston. And when it became clear that McNabb wasn't the player he once was, the Shanahans turned the offense over to Grossman, the Bears' first-round pick in 2003. Grossman  started three games in 2010 and went 1-2. And a season later, he was 5-8 in an all-around putrid offensive effort that began the chain of events that brought Robert Griffin III to D.C.

John Beck (3 starts, 2011). The other half of the Rexs-and-Becks Show, John Beck was originally a 2007 second-round pick of the Dolphins. He was 0-4 during his rookie season with Miami, before going 0-3 in Washington, and he ended his career without an NFL win.

John Beck in 2011. (CBSSports.com Illustration/USATSI)
John Beck in 2011. (CBSSports.com Illustration/USATSI)

Robert Griffin III (35 starts, 2012-present). Before the 2012 draft, the Redskins swung a deal with the Rams to move up to No. 2. The plan was to take Griffin, and the former Baylor start went on to earn offensive rookie of the year honors, helping Washington win its final seven games and the division. At the time, the price to land RG3 still seemed steep, but given how well he played, maybe he was worth it.

But a late-season knee injury was made worse in the playoff loss to the Seahawks. And after missing the entire 2013 preseason, Griffin talked his way into the Week 1 regular-season starting lineup. The Cliffs Notes version is that he hasn't been the same player since. Not even close. RG3's gone from D.C. savior to third-string pariah and there's virtually no chance he'll be with the Redskins in 2016.

What coulda been, 2012: Russell Wilson, taken 73 picks after RG3, and is one of the league's best young quarterbacks. There's also this, which we wrote shortly after the Redskins drafted Griffin: "This makes us wonder if, three or four years from now, we'll look back and wonder why Washington just didn't sit tight and take Ryan Tannehill (drafted No. 8 overall). Then again, maybe in four years' time, other teams -- like the Browns -- will lament their inability to move up and get RG3 when they had the chance."

Colt McCoy (4 starts, 2014-2015). Colt McCoy is 1-3 as a starter but that one win ... man. Last season, the 2-5 Redskins headed into a Week 8 matchup against the 6-1 Cowboys as 9.5-point underdogs. And all McCoy did was lead Washington to an improbable overtime win. He's now No. 2 on the depth chart ahead of Griffin.

Kirk Cousins (11 starts, 2012-present). Kirk Cousins was drafted three rounds after the Redskins took Griffin, and at the time it raised eyebrows. As a rookie, the former Michigan St. quarterback started one game for an injured RG3, started three more in 2013 after Griffin was benched late in the season, and started five last season after Jay Gruden replaced Shanahan. After Griffin suffered a concussion this preseason, Gruden dropped the pretense and named Cousins his guy, something we're guessing he wanted to do 12 months ago. And while Cousins, who has a 3-8 career record, has shown glimpses of potential, he's also bombed miserably. That said, he has more upside than Griffin, at least in Gruden's offense.