The Philadelphia Eagles are on the road to play the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on Thursday Night Football. The Birds, favored by 7.5-points, are trying to prevent a two-game losing streak after being defeated by the Denver Broncos on Sunday. The Eagles should be able to beat an inferior Giants team that’s gone […]
The Philadelphia Eagles are on the road to play the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on Thursday Night Football. The Birds, favored by 7.5-points, are trying to prevent a two-game losing streak after being defeated by the Denver Broncos on Sunday.
The Eagles should be able to beat an inferior Giants team that’s gone 1-4 so far this season. This should be a get-right opportunity for an inconsistent offense. We’ll see if they can actually take advantage in Saquon Barkley’s second trip back to his old stadium since joining the Eagles last year.
Follow along here for live score updates, highlights, injury news, analysis, and more before this article ultimately turns into our game recap. The best place to actually discuss the game as it happens is still in our open threads for each quarter, the first of which you can find here.
FIRST QUARTER UPDATES
- The Giants won the coin toss and elected to defer. The Giants’ opening kickoff was short of the landing zone, which was a penalty that gave the Eagles the ball at their own 40-yard line. Saquon Barkley opened the game with a 18-yard carry. Then Barkley ran for 13 yards. Jalen Hurts slid for a loss on a keeper (wrong read?) to bring up third down. Facing 3rd-and-10, Hurts threw short of the sticks to Dallas Goedert for five yards. Jake Elliott’s 42-yard field goal attempt was down the middle. Good to get points, but bad for a promising drive to suddenly stall out of nowhere. EAGLES 3, GIANTS 0.
- The Giants took over at their own 46-yard line after a 37-yard kick return. Jalyx Hunt dropped an interception on a Jaxson Dart throw over the middle. Facing 3rd-and-7, the Giants got hit with a false start. Facing 3rd-and-12, Kelee Ringo got boxed out and gave up a leaping downfield completion to Lil’Jordan Humphrey at the same time as Jhoan Duran walked Mookie Bets to tie the Phillies-Dodgers game at 1-1. Ugh. Facing 3rd-and-8, Dart took off running up the middle for a 19-yard touchdown. Really bad. Dart shook Zack Baun, who first showed blitz and then dropped as a spy, on the play. EAGLES 3, GIANTS 7.
- The Eagles took over at their own 29-yard line. Hurts completed a pass to Goedert for five yards and then Barkley got tackled in the backfield for a loss. Facing 3rd-and-8, Hurts got sacked by Brian Burns with Jordan Mailata getting beat. Three-and-out.
- Having plenty of time to throw in the pocket, Jaxson Dart completed a 26-yard pass with Kelee Ringo trailing and then failing to touch Wan’Dale Robinson down after the catch was made to allow the WR to run for more. Unacceptable mistake. Totally unserious. Then Dart evaded pressure and scrambled and completed a pass to Robinson, who spun out of a missed tackle by Andrew Mukuba, and ran to the end zone for another touchdown. The Giants missed the extra point kick. EAGLES 3, GIANTS 13.
- Hurts sailed a throw to A.J. Brown towards the left sideline. Then Hurts connected with Brown on a tight window back shoulder completion down the right sideline. With all day to throw, Hurts connected with Goedert into the red zone. Hurts to DeVonta Smith up the middle got the Eagles to goal-to-go from the 4-yard line. The Eagles lined up in a Brotherly Shove-esque formation from the 3-yard line … and Hurts flipped the ball underhand to Goedert, who followed his blocks and fought through contact for the touchdown. Strong response drive by the offense. 8 plays, 75 yards, TD. EAGLES 10, GIANTS 13.
- Adoree’ Jackson filled in for Kelee Ringo on the Giants’ third drive, which started from their own 23-yard line. Jordan Davis was credited with a sack for no gain on a scrambling Dart, with an assist to Byron Young who slowed down Dart. Facing 3rd-and-10, Dart’s completion short of the sticks gained just six yards. Three-and-out. Much-needed stop by the defense.
SECOND QUARTER UPDATES
- The Eagles took over at their own 26-yard line. Hurts threw back-to-back completions to DeVonta and A.J. to quickly move past midfield. Hurts scrambled left and fired a pass to a wide open Jahan Dotson for yet another first down. A Hurts completion to Goedert (the tight end’s sixth reception!) put the Eagles in the red zone with another first down. Facing 3rd-and-1 at the 4-yardline, the Eagles went Brotherly Shove to be just short of the marker. Facing 4th-and-inches, the Eagles lined up to go Brotherly Shove again … and the Giants burned their first timeout. Facing 4th-and-inches for real, the Eagles went Brotherly Shove and got it. The replay showed Tyler Steen moved early but there was no flag. The Eagles went Brotherly Shove to try to get into the end zone. They were short but went Brotherly Shove for a fourth straight time for the touchdown! Can’t stop it. EAGLES 17, GIANTS 13.
- The Giants took over at their own 33-yard line. The Eagles stuffed two Giants runs to bring up third down. Facing 3rd-and-6, Dart completed a pass to Humphrey with Ringo (back in the game with Quinyon Mitchell hurt) allowing the first down. Facing 3rd-and-4, Dart completed a pass to Jalin Hyatt with Adoree’ Jackson contesting the catch but allowing the completion. The ref incorrectly spotted the ball beyond the marker; Hyatt bobbled the ball at the point of original forward progress and didn’t secure it until he was knocked back short of the line to gain. Facing 3rd-and-1, the Giants did their own version of the Tush Push (no pushing, just Dart running forward) for a first down in goal-to-go. The Eagles took their final timeout with 1:27 on the clock. Dart had a throw into the end zone dropped by Humphrey. Then Skattebo broke a run to the end zone. 15-play, 67-yard TD drive allowed by the defense. EAGLES 17, GIANTS 20.
- Kickoff return extraordinaire Tank Bigsby (Eagles traded two picks for him and then boasted about his KR ability) bobbled the kick return and then picked it up to only get to the Eagles’ own 7-yard line. Really dumb. Facing 3rd-and-10 after moving to their own 43-yard line, the Eagles got out of the huddle way too late (shocker) and it looked like they were going to get hit with a delay of game penalty (no remaining timeouts) … but the Giants took a timeout for no good reason!? Total gift from Brian Daboll. But then Hurts took off running and slid down short of the marker. The Eagles offense lined up to spike the ball … ON FOURTH DOWN … but the clock ran out. Just not very smart football.
THIRD QUARTER UPDATES
- Updates to come …
FOURTH QUARTER UPDATES
- Updates to come …
EAGLES LINEUP NOTES
- Nakobe Dean lined up on special teams in his first game back from injury.
- Adoree’ Jackson replaced Kelee Ringo on the Giants’ third drive.
- Ringo came back in after Quinyon Mitchell got banged up.
EAGLES INJURY NEWS
- A.J. Brown ran inside after the Eagles’ first drive. He ran back out to the field shortly after.
- DeVonta Smith’s left ankle/foot was getting stretched on the sideline but he didn’t leave the game.
- Quinyon Mitchell (hamstring) visited the medical tent in the second quarter for not a short amount of time. He remained on the sideline as the Eagles’ defense took the field and was ruled questionable to return.
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