Crossing Broad
That felt good. Not only did the Eagles get revenge on the Giants for the fugazi loss of two weeks ago, but they didn’t have much trouble at all, comfortably thumping these jamokes by multiple scores to go into the bye week at 6-2.
That’s two wins after two losses and you feel like this Birds team is back on track after a bit of consternation, some legitimate and some not.
Jalen Hurts was once again excellent on the afternoon, this time throwing for 179 yards and four touchdowns while completing 75% of his passes. That was good for a 141.5 QB rating. Saquon Barkley finally had a breakout game despite pulling up late with an injury and A.J. Brown wasn’t required since DeVonta Smith again looked like one of the league’s best receivers. Dallas Goedert caught his 6th and 7th TDs of the season and the defense limited New York to less than 200 yards by the time the fourth quarter was starting. Only a garbage time score against the Eagles’ second stringers made this one look respectable.
The Giants are 2-6 and back into the NFC East basement, where they belong. The Birds owed these jokers a beatdown after the Thursday Night Football debacle and rightfully went belt-to-ass against Big Blue at the Linc.
To the observations we go:
1) Gotta love the refs picking up a flag on the opening kickoff. Get your heads in the game! A portent of what was to come, unfortunately.
2) So good to finally see Saquon Barkley break one off. 65 yards to the house on his first carry.
It shouldn’t be lost on anyone that they ran that play from under center, not out of the shotgun. Lovely blocks from Brett Toth, LANDON DICKERSON, and DeVonta Smith to open up the hole and he’s gone:
3) Love the early screen play to Saquon. Toth and Tyler Steen absolutely clobbered a couple of Giants on that sequence. Looked like prime Jason Kelce out there in the open field clobbering poor defenders.
4) Tom Brady seemed much less annoying on the broadcast. Thought it was one of the better games he’s called, honestly. He’s usually referring to some guy by his first name over and over again, like they’re best friends, but there wasn’t much of that going on at all.
We did, however, get an F bomb:
5) Jake Elliott with a single doink from 58 yards. Tough one, but the Steen false start ended up killing the second drive.
6) One of the worst thing that FOX does is cut to commercial before a play has been explained. In this case, there’s a whistle during the Elliott miss, then we don’t get an explanation of what happened until after the break. It’s such a momentum killer whenever they do this. It breaks up the flow of the game, and the broadcast also.
7) Seemed like Nakobe Dean was held on the first Giants touchdown, but when they showed the back-angle...
