OFFENSE: D
The unit tried to bounce back from the loss of Cam Skattebo to a dislocated right ankle in the second quarter – both emotionally and in football terms – but it was not enough. Skattebo scored the Giants’ only non-garbage-time touchdown on an 18-yard reception, but not much else was going on. Jaxson Dart was 14-for-24 for 193 yards, one TD passing and one rushing, was sacked five times and took a beating. The Giants rushed 21 times for 68 yards. Dart’s would-be 68-yard TD pass to Darius Slayton was erased by a questionable offensive pass interference call.
DEFENSE: D
Let’s be kind and grade on a curve here to account for a devastating series of injuries to the secondary, both before and during the game. But this was not good. Saquon Barkley rushed for 150 yards in three quarters – including a 65-yard touchdown run on the game’s second play from scrimmage – and someone named Tank Bigsby added nine rushes for 104 yards. Jalen Hurts was an efficient 15-for-20 for 179 yards and four touchdowns, for a nifty passer rating of 141.5.
SPECIAL TEAMS: C
Graham Gano returned to stabilize the kicking game and made field goals of 47 and 34 yards. The Giants allowed Will Shipley to return a kickoff 41 yards. He likely would have scored a touchdown on the play if not for a desperate late tackle by punter Jamie Gillan.
COACHING: D
The Giants faced a tough challenge in rebounding from the previous Sunday’s crushing loss to the Broncos and needed a good start. Instead, Barkley again stuck it to his old team with a long touchdown run on the second play of the game. Two weeks after upsetting the defending Super Bowl champions, the Giants made the Eagles look like, well, defending Super Bowl champions. They have not won in Philadelphia since 2013. Now Brian Daboll and Co. must figure out how to score points without both Malik Nabers and Skattebo. There are nine games left. Yikes.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.