Eagles at Giants Game Preview: 5 questions and answers with the enemy

The Philadelphia Eagles are headed up the New Jersey Turnpike to tackle the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. With the intention to preview this Week 7 matchup, I reached out to our enemies over at Large Blue View. The superb Ed Valentine kindly took the time to reply my questions on this upcoming battle. Let’s check out the solutions. [For my answers about the Eagles, check out BBV.]

1 – Would possibly as effectively get the compulsory Saquon Barkley query out of the way in which. Do you continue to assume the Giants made the proper name to not re-sign him? And are you extra irritated or extra detached in the case of how he’s performed effectively for the Eagles?

Sure, I believe the Giants made the proper name. There was all the time the chance that within the brief time period Barkley would play very well and make the Giants look dangerous, and he’s enjoying effectively proper now. Statistically, the Giants have gotten sufficient RB manufacturing that it hasn’t actually mattered.

The Giants used the Barkley cash to signal two offensive linemen, and the road has been improved. Now with Andrew Thomas out for the 12 months that can most likely change. Additionally, rookie RB Tyrone Tracy has regarded like a participant who may change into excellent.Personally, I’m detached. I do know that isn’t true of everybody. And I do know Giants co-owner John Mara can be respiratory fireplace if Barkley has an enormous day in an Eagles victory on Sunday.

2 – What’s the arrogance degree in Daniel Jones proper now?

You simply needed to make me reply a Daniel Jones query, didn’t you! The fan base is essentially performed with Jones. It’s simply tiring, and it feels just like the Giants are spinning their wheels. Jones has been fairly environment friendly this season, and had a pleasant four-game stretch from Weeks 2-5 earlier than being dangerous Sunday vs. the Bengals. Jones is “fantastic,” and you may win with him when issues go effectively round him. He simply doesn’t elevate his crew, and when issues break down round him he has by no means been capable of play via that efficiently.

3 – How would you consider the job that Brian Daboll has performed to date?

Like with any coach, I disagree with among the selections Daboll makes. I believe, although, that by and huge he’s doing one of the best he can with what he has.

There’s a number of dialogue about whether or not Daboll is, or needs to be, on the new seat. I don’t assume Giants possession needs to maneuver on from Daboll. I believe John Mara craves some stability, and he has seen in the previous couple of years that fixed change doesn’t get you wherever. Offered the wheels don’t come off and there isn’t a locker room mutiny, I believe Daboll will hold his job.

4 – What are the notable variations between final 12 months’s protection ran by Wink Martindale and this 12 months’s overseen by new DC Shane Bowen?

Effectively, the largest distinction is that Martindale was a blitz-crazed coordinator who believed in constantly sending extra rushers than the opposing line may block. Bowen is extra managed, extra conventional. He likes the four-man rush, with twists, stunts and simulated strain. The Giants additionally play extra zone underneath Bowen than they did underneath Martindale.

That stated, Bowen has had a few video games the place he has been prepared to go towards sort and switch up the warmth. The Giants are ninth within the league in factors towards, and that isn’t an accident. They’ve performed effectively on that aspect of the ball.

They simply haven’t been capable of rating factors.

5 – The Eagles are at present three-point highway favorites towards the Giants. The Eagles are 1-7 towards the unfold of their final eight video games as favorites. Who wins this sport and why?

It’s unattainable for me to select the Giants to win this sport. As a lot as I imagine the Eagles are removed from what they had been a few years in the past and I believe a totally wholesome Giants crew would have an opportunity, proper now they’re a large number.

They misplaced star LT Andrew Thomas for the season this week. They put OLB Kayvon Thibodeaux on IR with a fractured wrist final week. Dexter Lawrence (hip) and Brian Burns (groin) didn’t observe on Wednesday, and Daboll didn’t sound satisfied both could be obtainable.

Malik Nabers (concussion) will most likely be again, however that’s a number of actually good gamers the Giants is perhaps lacking.

I actually assume this Giants crew is perhaps higher than its 2-4 file, no less than when it’s complete. And once they shield the quarterback. However proper now they aren’t that.

They simply don’t rating sufficient factors, they usually appear to invent distinctive methods of taking pictures themselves within the foot far too typically.