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Didn’t Even Show Up – One Immediate Takeaway from Giants 27, Eagles 10
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1) The Eagles didn’t show up in a 27-10 loss to the Giants on Sunday evening. The defense couldn’t tackle, couldn’t cover, and couldn’t pressure a backup quarterback. They looked like they didn’t care and the “effort” was highly questionable, perhaps foretold by the low-energy body language we saw from the very first series.
Sean Desai obviously was not the problem.
On the offensive side, A.J. Brown went down injured, Jalen Hurts busted up the middle finger on his throwing hand, and the Giants blitzed the shit out of a unit that had no answer for anything. The passing game was atrocious and predictable, exemplified perhaps by Marcus Mariota entering the game before halftime and immediately throwing an interception on a bubble screen.
Dallas ended up pulling away from Washington, so this result didn’t matter, but that was a close game early. The Cowboys getting it done spared us the embarrassment of both the Giants and Commanders winning as underdogs and deciding the NFC East in a grotesque, totally ass-backward kind of way.
But what’s alarming is that the players looked like they didn’t care, and that’s the biggest concern for an 11-win team that heads into the postseason looking completely cooked. These are the types of performances that usually get coaches fired, but how many times do you see this from an double-digit-win team that already clinched? It’s horrendous.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com