Open Thread: Eagles vs. Giants, Pt. II
Photo by: Jeff Fusco
The final game of the Eagles’ season, but the first game of the illustrious Pat Shurmur era, is here. The Birds travel to MetLife Stadium to take on the Giants. We’ll pop in with updates from time to time. Feel free to join in the conversation below.
1:55 – A reminder of what’s at stake for the Birds today, in terms of draft position.
-highest potential draft pick if Eagles lose today is 9th overall. -lowest potential draft pick if Eagles win is 17th overall.
— Kevin Negandhi (@KNegandhiESPN) January 3, 2016
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4:02 – Final: Eagles 35, Giants 30.
3:42 – Eagles 35, Giants 30. Another field goal for the Giants, with under seven minutes left in the fourth quarter.
3:35 – Injury updates.
Agholor and Celek being evaluated for concussions.
— Tim McManus (@Tim_McManus) January 3, 2016
3:32 – Sam Bradford with his second TD throw of the game. 27-of-34, 291 yards against a very vulnerable Giants secondary.
Bradford is playing great today. #Eagles
— Eliot Shorr-Parks (@EliotShorrParks) January 3, 2016
3:20 – End 3Q: Eagles 28, Giants 27. One quarter left in the 2015-16 NFL season.
3:12 – Eagles 28, Giants 27. Walter Thurmond returns an Eli Manning interception 83 yards for a touchdown to put the Birds back in front. Good for today, bad for draft position.
3:04 – Giants 27, Eagles 21. Eli Manning’s second-half touchdown pass brings the Eagles’ pass defense to a new low.
Eagles have now allowed 36 touchdown passes this year. That's 7th-most in NFL history.
— Reuben Frank (@RoobCSN) January 3, 2016
2:32 – Tim brings his Instant Observations from the first half.
2:28 – Welp.
Despite a 54-yard TD run, DeMarco Murray finished the first half with 4 carries for 49 yards. #Eagles
— Matt Mullin (@matt_mullin) January 3, 2016
2:24 – HALFTIME. Eagles 21, Giants 20. Rashad Jennings punches it in from two yards out just before the half.
Jennings has set a season-high for the Giants with 117 yards. It took just two quarters.
2:07 – Eagles answer a Giants touchdown with one of their own. Bradford finds Jordan Matthews in the end zone.
Zach Ertz already has four catches for 101 yards.
Ertz with back-to-back 100-yard games for the first time in his career.
— Reuben Frank (@RoobCSN) January 3, 2016
1:54 – A Giants deflection at the line turns into a Sam Bradford interception, and New York has the ball at the Eagles’ 35-yard line.
1:49 – Eagles 14, Giants 6. Marcus Smith registers the first solo sack of his career, and the Eagles hold the Giants to another field goal.
Marcus Smith with the first solo sack in his career. … Up is down; down is up, as Bizarro Jerry would say.
— Zach Berman (@ZBerm) January 3, 2016
1:45 – End 1Q. Eagles 14, Giants 3. New York is threatening in the red zone after a long run from Rashad Jennings.
1:39 – Eagles 14, Giants 3. Darren Sproles finds the end zone from six yards out after a 60-yard completion to Zach Ertz put the Birds in the red zone.
Sam Bradford is 6-for-9 for 97 yards after three drives.
DeMarco Murray lost three yards on his second carry of the game.
1:37 – Quite a damning stat from the Chip Kelly era, per Reuben Frank.
Eagles just became the first team in NFL history to allow 6,000 yards three straight years. 2013: 6,304 2014: 6,009 2015: 6,004
— Reuben Frank (@RoobCSN) January 3, 2016
1:29 – Eagles 7, Giants 3. The Giants get five yards from the end zone, but the Eagles’ defense stiffens and holds Tom Coughlin’s squad to three points. Josh Brown kicks a 22-yard field goal to put the Giants on the board.
1:18 – Good stat from Brandon Gowton on DeMarco Murray, who ran for a huge gain in an under-center formation. The narrative around his down year this season has been his inability to mesh with Chip Kelly’s shotgun run scheme.
DeMarco Murray before Week 17: Shotgun: 156 att, 578 yards (3.7 avg) Under center: 25 att, 55 yards (2.2 avg)
— Brandon Lee Gowton (@BrandonGowton) January 3, 2016
1:07 – Eagles 7, Giants 0. Sam Bradford lines up under center, and DeMarco Murray scores a 54-yard touchdown on his first carry of the game. The Pat Shurmur era is off to a smashing start.