Eagles at Giants: 19 winners, 3 losers, 2 IDKs

The Philadelphia Eagles are 4-2 after beating the New York Giants!

That’s two wins in a row for the primary time because the Birds beat the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Buffalo Payments in back-to-back weeks final November. It was the Eagles’ first win by a couple of possession since October 22, 2023 and their first win by greater than three possessions since January 21, 2023. Good for followers to see a cushty win for as soon as. And to the purpose the place starters had been capable of go away the sport early!

Time at hand out some winners, losers, and IDKs.

WINNERS

SAQUON BARKLEY

Barkley has downplayed the “revenge” angle however you already know this efficiency in opposition to his former group needed to really feel particularly good.

Barkley took 17 carries for 176 yards (an absurd 10.4 common) and one landing. He simply would’ve topped his career-high of 189 yards had the Eagles determined to not pull him from the sport within the fourth quarter. On that notice, Nick Sirianni credited Barkley for being unselfish by not chasing his document and as a substitute permitting Kenny Gainwell and Will Shipley to get some manufacturing to complete out the sport.

Barkley was merely sensational. He ran laborious, combating by contact and flat out trucking some Giants defenders. He was elusive, making gamers miss. He clearly gained far more yardage than what was merely blocked for him:

Barkley’s three largest runs went for 55, 41, and 38 yards. All of these happened on drives the place the Eagles ended up in the long run zone; these are hardly empty stats. Some extra context to correctly recognize his explosive capacity:

As I stated all alongside, the Eagles signing Barkley was a terrific transfer. Gotta preserve feeding him till groups show they will cease him!

JEFF STOUTLAND

I’m looping within the Eagles’ offensive line (extra particularly as run blockers) with the group’s run recreation coordinator right here. Barkley did the heavy lifting however he actually had some assist from his teammates and training. The Eagles working 45 instances for 269 yards (6.0 common) and three touchdowns is an effective day on the workplace for everybody concerned on this side. It was the Eagles’ highest dashing whole in a recreation since they dropped 363 on the Inexperienced Bay Packers on November 27, 2022.

A.J. BROWN

One other week, one other powerful over-the-shoulder seize for a giant play down the sector. This one coming at an important time to provide the Eagles a 14 to 0 lead as a substitute of turning the ball over at 4th-and-3 from the plus 41-yard line.

As if that wasn’t ok, Brown’s 4 different catches all went for first downs.

All advised, his 5 targets resulted in 5 catches for 89 yards (17.8 common) and one rating. Extremely environment friendly.

NICK SIRIANNI

For the primary time since Week 1, Sirianni isn’t an enormous speaking level popping out of an Eagles recreation. That’s gotta be a aid for the pinnacle coach.

Sirianni deserves to be dinged for yet one more sluggish begin. It’s fairly ridiculous how the Eagles have now gone eight straight video games with out scoring within the first quarter.

However the constructive outweighed the unfavorable right here. Just a few issues that particularly stood out:

The offensive method made sense. The Eagles entered this recreation with out their beginning left deal with and so they rapidly misplaced their beginning proper guard. They knew they had been going up in opposition to the NFL’s prime go rush when it comes to sacks per recreation. In addition they knew they had been going up in opposition to a protection that was permitting the second-most yards per rush try. So, they did what made essentially the most sense: working the ball! No must overthink it.

Aggression made a distinction. Whereas Brian Daboll punted from 4th-and-3 on the plus 45-yard line, Sirianni went for it at 4th-and-3 from the plus 41-yard line. Fortune favored the daring with Hurts hitting Brown downfield for the landing that gave the Eagles a 14 to 0 lead. Sirianni gave his group an edge.

The vibes have stabilized. Issues felt fairly bizarre after final week’s win in opposition to the Cleveland Browns! Sirianni did himself no favors along with his crowd interplay and a weird postgame presser. However Eagles gamers maintained their assist for Sirianni with their phrases … after which backed him additional with their actions in a cushty win.

This effort didn’t erase all considerations. However, as I mentioned with Sheil Kapadia on The Ringer’s Philly Particular postgame podcast, this efficiency did assist to take the temperature down.

VIC FANGIO

The Eagles’ protection has allowed simply 12 factors over the past two weeks. 4 area objectives, zero touchdowns. Fairly good!

It’s actually helped that the Eagles have performed unhealthy quarterbacks and thus unhealthy offenses. To not point out that the Giants had been significantly lacking beginning left deal with Andrew Thomas on this recreation.

However Fangio’s unit nonetheless deserves credit score for dominating inferior competitors. The Eagles generated eight sacks, 10 TFLs, 11 quarterback hits, and 4 passes defensed.

NAKOBE DEAN

Dean stuffed up the stat sheet with a team-high 11 whole tackles, two sacks, two TFLs, and 4 quarterback hits. It’s nothing we haven’t stated earlier than however he’s actually good at working downhill, each as a run defender and blitzer. The Eagles ought to attempt to play as much as these strengths as a lot as attainable and hope they will survive when he has to drop into protection.

JALEN CARTER

It’s simpler to reside with two unhealthy pre-snap penalties when Carter can be notching two sacks and two TFLs. This was Carter’s first recreation with two sacks since Week 5 final season.

Along with his first sack of the season coming in opposition to the Browns final weekend, Carter is as much as three sacks this yr.

BRYCE HUFF

Huff had his most encouraging recreation but. Good to see him notch his first full sack in an Eagles uniform after selecting up half a sack final Sunday. Along with that takedown, he generated a number of pressures by forcing Daniel Jones to step up within the pocket; Dean logged one among his two sacks in a single such occasion. Maybe the sunshine is lastly happening for Huff after a sluggish begin to the season? I’ve seen some push-back that he solely performed nicely as a result of the Giants’ offensive line isn’t good. Whereas that’s not unfaithful, proper deal with Jermaine Eluemunor has performed comparatively nicely for New York this season. The veteran entered the sport ranked thirty first in go blocking out of 79 tackles graded by Professional Soccer Focus this season. And that’s who Huff was beating.

DARIUS SLAY

Slay led the Eagles in passes defensed with two, together with one on third all the way down to power a Giants punt on their first drive after halftime. Slay contributed to the Eagles limiting rookie standout Malik Nabers to his worst recreation within the NFL to date.

QUINYON MITCHELL

Mitchell additionally helped to close down Nabers. He flat out bullied him on the backside of the display on this rep:

Mitchell had an opportunity to choose off Jones on a deep goal to Nabers however the rookie cornerback couldn’t make the over-the-shoulder seize. He’s going to get his first interception prior to later.

JOSH SWEAT

After going ice chilly within the season half of final season, Sweat had seemingly rediscovered his groove. Sweat has one sack and one TFL in every of the Eagles’ final three video games. It certain didn’t harm that he was going through the Giants’ terrible backup left deal with. Nonetheless, he took benefit.

NOLAN SMITH

Smith additionally took benefit of the Giants’ backup left deal with for his second sack this season and simply the third of his profession. Smith additionally had two TFLs. Possibly issues are lastly beginning to click on for him as nicely?

COOPER DEJEAN

DeJean didn’t look misplaced defensively and he had good punt return manufacturing with three tries for 45 yards. His lengthy of 28 featured him making defenders miss AND breaking by tackles in a approach that you just don’t all the time appear from a punt returner.

KENNY GAINWELL

Gainwell had his third-highest profession dashing output with 56 yards on 13 carries. He additionally had one catch for 11 yards. Gainwell ran nicely because the RB2 behind Barkley.

Enjoyable reality: Three of Gainwell’s 4 highest dashing totals have taken place at MetLife. Two in opposition to the Giants, one in opposition to the New York Jets.

JALYX HUNT 


Taking part in in rubbish time, Hunt logged his first profession sack. And it was a strip-sack! As an inexperienced developmental edge rusher, further reps appear particularly beneficial for Hunt. Good luxurious for the Eagles to have the ability to get him concerned on this spot.

SYDNEY BROWN

Brown performed in his first recreation since tearing his ACL at MetLife Stadium earlier this yr. He broke up a go in rubbish time that pressured a Giants punt. Good confidence increase.

BEN VANSUMEREN

Kinda enjoyable that the Eagles have a linebacker who serves as their fullback. And might really lead block! BVS contributed to a few of Barkley’s profitable runs.

to see the way it goes when the Eagles inevitably give him the ball in some unspecified time in the future. It’ll in all probability both be actually superior or a complete catastrophe.

MEKHI BECTON

Why is Becton a winner from a recreation the place he didn’t play a lot because of struggling a concussion?

Properly, it appeared like a constructive signal that Becton was capable of greet his teammates as they entered the locker room. Possibly he’ll have the ability to play in Week 8.

Past that, although, it’s clear that Becton was not thrilled about returning to MetLife. Although he didn’t play for the Giants, I nonetheless really feel like this journey served as his personal revenge recreation and helped him exorcise his demons from enjoying in that constructing for the Jets.

I’m additionally certain that Becton isn’t too torn up concerning the Jets dropping to 2-5 on Sunday evening.

JACK STOLL

Talking of revenge video games, Stoll simply took half in a win over the group that fired him in August. Most likely feels good!

LOSERS

JOHN MARA

Who might neglect this line from the Giants’ co-owner when his group was featured on the offseason version of Arduous Knocks earlier this yr:

“I’ll have a tricky time sleeping if Saquon goes to Philadelphia, I’ll let you know that.”

Protected to say Mara received’t be resting straightforward tonight.

JOE SCHOEN

Keep in mind when the Tennessee Titans fired Jon Robinson shortly after A.J. Brown torched his former group in 2022?

Schoen’s days because the Giants’ common supervisor may very well be numbered.

GIANTS FANS

Headline over at Large Blue View, referring to Giants followers burning Barkley jerseys within the tailgate heaps outdoors MetLife:

Giants-Eagles ‘issues I feel’: Possibly Giants’ followers had been burning the unsuitable jerseys

Rattling.

However, wait, there’s extra:

Sunday, actually, was as embarrassing as you could possibly presumably think about for the Giants as a franchise.

That’s actually too unhealthy for them.

I DON’T KNOWS

JALEN HURTS

Let’s begin with the largest constructive: Hurts didn’t put the ball in hurt’s approach for the second recreation in a row. That’s large. There’s increasingly motive to imagine he is perhaps placing his turnover points behind him.

Hurts put up fairly environment friendly field rating stats: 10/14 (71.4% completion), 114 yards (8.1 common), 1 TD, 0 INT, 119.3 passer ranking … 7 carries, 22 yards, 2 TD.

After all, these numbers don’t inform the entire story. Hurts did take 4 sacks, which occurred partially because of him holding onto the ball too lengthy. A few of Hurts’ worst performs weren’t mirrored within the stat sheet. There have been two moments that basically stood out when it comes to Hurts not seeing the sector nicely. The primary was when he had a crossing DeVonta Smith broad open for a primary down in his sight view and but he acknowledged it too late, having to throw the ball away. The second was when he had Saquon TOTALLY UNCOVERED from the beginning of the play for what ought to’ve been a simple landing throw however he in some way didn’t see him.

To his credit score, Hurts instantly rebounded from every of these errors. He adopted up his DeVonta miss with a dime of a deep throw to Brown on 4th-and-3 for his sole landing go. He adopted up his Saquon miss with a four-yard acquire to transform 4th-and-2 and arrange 1st-and-goal on the 1-yard line. However whereas the Eagles had ample margin for error in opposition to the lowly Giants, Hurts might be going to should be sharper in opposition to harder competitors. And he’s undoubtedly going to have to hold extra of workload along with his arm.

The Eagles didn’t want him to do this a lot on this recreation and that’s OK. I promise I’m not making an attempt to crush him. He did make some fairly vital performs, similar to those beforehand talked about … and the Eagles’ sole third down conversion on 13 tries when he broke by a blitzer’s arm deal with and took off working to transform a Third-and-7. That run contributed to the Birds’ ultimate landing, which got here on a reasonably badass drive by the offense to go 92 yards in 10 performs to take 6:07 off the clock while not having a completion.

However I don’t know the way I’m feeling relating to this passing offense. That unit ought to be extra productive and cohesive than they’ve been. And Hurts clearly performs a serious function within the equation.

I believe the Eagles will want far more passing quantity to beat Joe Burrow’s Cincinnati Bengals in Week 8.

FRED JOHNSON

Credit score to Fred Johnson for his contributions to the Eagles’ dashing success however he’s clearly had points in go safety. I don’t know that I really feel nice about him beginning at left deal with with the likes of Trey Hendrickson, Josh Hines-Allen, and Micah Parsons arising earlier than Jordan Mailata is eligible to return from injured reserve. I’m wondering if the Eagles will take into account beginning Becton (assuming he’s wholesome sufficient to play) at left deal with and placing Tyler Steen at proper guard. I feel that mixture might very nicely be the Eagles’ finest beginning 5.