So…are the Giants suddenly good or are the Eagles just that bad?
I won't comment on the Giants specifics, but they did lose to the Saints last week.
To be fair to the Eagles they were missing their All-Pro LG in Dickerson, their best edge rusher in Nolan Smith, one of the toip five defensive players in the league in Jalen Carter and quickly their best CB in Quinyon Mitchell. They are running a mash unit out there and unfortunately the guys they have left are just not good. Keelee Ringo resorts to PI on every single deep pass, Andrew Mukuba gives up a TD every week, Adoree Jackson is a total liability, the line gets no pressure and when they do, they oversell the rush and Dart made them pay with his legs all game long.
I blame the defnsive woes mostly on the injuries we've sustained. Your going to see a downgrade on defense when 3 of your 5 best players aren't playing, especially when their replacements are all liabilities.
The bigger concern I have is this offense. Our protections somewhat held up yesterday although Jalen did take a couple of (IMO) unecessary sacks. The problem is that the WR's just aren't getting open. The run game is atrocious-Saquon looks perfectly healthy, FWIW, I think that the line is not opening holes like they did last year and they aren't doing anything different play to play (under center anyone?)
I said in the game thread that I thought the vibes coming into this game for me, was that the line wuoldn't hold up and that Jalen would turn the ball over-which would lead to a score and that this felt like one of those inevitability game that the Eagles would lose.
Decamara on the radio pointed out that, from last year's Super Bowl team these are the guys that did not play last night:
Jalen Carter
Quinyon
Nolan
Dickerson
Slay
Isaiah Rogers
BG
Sweat
Milton
CJGJ
Becton
Gainwell
This feels very much like 2023 and I think the reality is that if they don't figure this out, this team could very well miss the playoffs.