The Eagles’ offense continued their season-long struggles despite the quarterback change, losing to the Giants 19-11 at Lincoln Financial Field. Philadelphia falls to 2-7 on the season as the Giants improve to 5-3-1, controlling the NFC East. The Eagles now head into a bye week in Week 10.<\/p>\n
The NFC East matchup was dictated by defensive line play from both teams. Inside linebacker Arvell Reese was the storyline of the game. The rookie dominated the game for the Giants, sacking Joe Milton three times while blitzing and led the game in tackles (12). Edge rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux got the better of rookie tackle Markel Bell throughout the game, pressuring and hitting Milton multiple times.<\/p>\n
“It’s hard to be positive when you play like that,” Jordan Mailata said after the game. “I think teams are doing a really good job of blitzing us in the run game, creating heavy boxes, which they don’t appear to be heavy… you can’t cut it back because there’s a guy unblocked.”<\/p>\n
After underperforming throughout the season, the Eagles’ pass rush finally got home against the Giants. The two teams combined for 13 sacks during the game, with the Giants recording seven and the Eagles tallying six.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Greenard got his first sack as an Eagle while Jalyx Hunt got his first of the season. Defensive tackle Jordan Davis had his best game of the season, containing the Giants’ running game and sacking J.J. McCarthy. In total, the Eagles forced 14 tackles for loss and stifled starting running back Devin Singletary to only 1.5 yards per carry.<\/p>\n
The Giants’ lone touchdown of the game came from\u00a0 Winston as the veteran quarterback stepped in for a drive while McCarthy dealt with an injury on the sideline. The Eagles’ defense left tight end Isaiah Likely uncovered on a seam route in the red zone.<\/p>\n
Milton and the Eagles’ offense were only able to put 11 points on the board as as the running game continued to struggle despite the usage of Saquon Barkley – who scored the only touchdown of the game for Philadelphia on a 3-yard rush.<\/p>\n
“We can’t get into a rhythm because we’re not executing well, especially on the first downs, putting us in difficult situations,” Mailata said of the Eagles’ run-blocking struggles.<\/p>\n
The running back duo of Barkley and Elijah Mitchell only combined for 28 rushing yards while Milton ran for 64.<\/p>\n
“We definitely didn’t establish a run today. We didn’t do a lot of good today on offense, but especially the run game that starts and finishes me,” Barkley said after the game. “Our defense is playing great. Special teams made some really great plays today and we feel like we kind of let our team down. It’s collective, but we got to be better.”<\/p>\n
The offensive line failed to spring Barkley and had trouble protecting Milton in his first career start. Outside of taking seven sacks, the third-year quarterback was hit 11 times on throws.<\/p>\n
“He had some really good plays and then he’s going to have some plays that he’s going to want back naturally,” Head Coach Nick Sirianni said of Milton’s performance. “He did a lot of good things, a lot of solid things, made some plays with his feet, made some plays with his feet, gave our guys a couple chances down field.”<\/p>\n
The Eagles’ offense only scored a field goal in the second half, meaning that the team has not scored a touchdown after halftime since Week 6.<\/p>\n
“We got to figure it out on offense,” Sirianni said. “Our defense is playing solid. I think they’re doing really good things and it’s hard to keep the game there. I think we got some things that we’re doing on special teams that have been really good and then we can be more consistent in that particular case, but we have to figure it out on offense. And that’s coaches, that’s players, that’s everybody.”<\/p>\n
Eagles punter Braden Mann made history at the end of the first half, beaming a 86-yard punt from his own end zone to the Giants’ six-yard line, preventing any chance the Giants had at putting up more points before the end of the half. It is the longest by an NFL player since Rodney Williams punted 90 yards on an attempt for the New York Giants on September 10th, 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles’ offense continued their season-long struggles despite the quarterback change, losing to the Giants 19-11 at Lincoln…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19777,78109,6108,36940,1418,69,4538,71,70],"class_list":["post-324033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gameday","tag-go-birds","tag-jalen-hurts","tag-jeffrey-lurie","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}