Eagles get smacked by Jaxson Dart as Giants snap eight-game NFC East losing streak with 34-17 win on Thursday Night Football
Remember when the New York Giants couldn’t win a division game to save their lives?How about how they entered last night’s Thursday Night Football matchup against the Eagles as 1-4 bottom feeders in the NFC East?
Well, that’s over now, thanks to rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart and the Eagles looking like they’d rather be anywhere else but MetLife Stadium. As if the Phillies losing in tragic, embarrassing fashion wasn’t enough, New York finally snapped their eight-game NFC East losing streak with a 34-17 beatdown of the defending champs on Thursday Night Football.
Dart didn’t blink. First NFC East start, first game against the Birds, and he looked more like Lamar Jackson than a wide-eyed rookie. He threw for 195, ran for 60, scored twice, and made the Eagles’ defense look like they prepped by watching the Phillies in the NLDS rather than actual game film.
Rookie running back Cam Skattebo casually bulldozing into the end zone three different times, and suddenly the 2-4 Giants looked like a real football team.
The Giants Actually Look Competent
Dart is now in some wild company.
Just the third quarterback in the Super Bowl era to run for 50+ yards in each of his first three starts, alongside Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hurts. He was escaping sacks, extending drives, and leaving Philly’s defensive front grabbing at air.
Wideout Lil’Jordan Humphrey, who hadn’t played a snap all season, turned into Jerry Rice with four catches for 55 yards. The Giants also scored touchdowns on their first two drives for the second straight week, which they hadn’t done since 1978.
That’s how deep the embarrassment goes for the Eagles. They spent last night resuscitating decades of Giants futility.
The Eagles Look Flat-Out Broken
Nick Sirianni thought a short week would help “move on” from the Denver loss. Instead, the Birds got embarrassed again.
Jalen Hurts had the second-worst throw in Philly sports of the night after he overthrew a wide-open DeVonta Smith on the opening drive of the second half, which set the tone for three straight punts.
Jalen Hurts misfires, leaves DeVonta Smith wide open
Jalen Hurts’ first interception of the season
Hurts was bad last night. The red-zone disaster where he threw his first interception of the season led rookie Cor’Dale Flott returning it to the house, 68 yards.
Yes, Hurts did sneak in his 60th career rushing TD, tying Steve Van Buren on the franchise list. The Birds even ran four straight Tush Pushes to do it, which was awesome for about three minutes.
Everything else was pain and misery.
The offense sputtered, the defense lost contain on Dart all night, and Sirianni once again had no answers.
The Giants, a team that hadn’t mattered in the division since Daniel Jones was still “the future,” absolutely punk’d them.
The Eagles are now 4-2, but it’s the ugliest 4-2 you’ll ever see. Outgained in their first five games, now outplayed badly by a roster that isn’t even in the same talent tier.
That “closed-door meeting” between A.J. Brown, Hurts, and Saquon Barkley was supposed to fix things. Instead, this team looks lost.
They get 10 days to figure it out before heading to Minnesota.
If Sirianni doesn’t find a way to stop the bleeding, the boos at The Linc will be louder than ever.
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