Pat Mulranen

I don’t even know what to predict for this game.

The Eagles suffered a humiliating loss to the Cardinals last week. The defense did not force any punts as Arizona, one of the worst teams in the league, just had its way with the Eagles. Can you confidently pick the Eagles to beat the Giants, who they struggled to defeat on Christmas Day after building a 15-point lead? 

The answer is clearly no…

Even though the Eagles are a mess right now, this is another game that should be won. The Eagles desperately need some boost of confidence  heading into their first playoff game, most likely against the Buccaneers or Saints. The Eagles have the talent on offense to score points and win games. We saw that against the Chiefs and Bills, which was one of the best  games of the season. But what has happened since then? I think the offense needs to relax and stop the deep ball and just worry about getting first downs. Slow and steady wins the race, right? The Eagles have the offense to change things up and play in many different ways to hurt opposing defenses, yet they keep doing the same things. Just change things up and take what the defense is giving you, which they are not doing. Please,  stop with the same four plays and do something different for once. Closing out the season with a win could really help, but the offense has to start changing things up. They should score easily Sunday against the Giants… the issue is the defense. 

I don’t know what the answer is for the defense. The secondary is a mess. I don’t know how they stop Saquan Barkley. From a top rush defense a month ago, the Eagles are one of the worst in the NFL and can’t stop anything on the ground. Where is this great defensive line?  Where is the pressure lately? They line up 10 yards off the ball and give up chunk plays. They can’t stop teams on third down, which is why the Cardinals had 40 minutes of possession. The defense can’t get off the field, and that hurts the offense. 

The Eagles have completely collapsed over the past five weeks, and this game won’t be pretty either. Maybe I’m dumb, but the Eagles did beat the Giants just a few weeks ago. The Giants only scored 10 real points (15 were off turnovers). If the Eagles protect the ball and just finish out this game, they’ll win. But it will still be too close for fans to get excited about anything.

Eagles 28, Giants 23  

Sean Selby

With any slim chance of the Eagles winning the NFC East relying on what happens with the Cowboys/Commanders game, Nick Sirianni could very well be pulling his starters out of the game if their matchup becomes meaningless. That is what makes this week’s game so hard to predict.

Well that, and because they don’t look like they can beat anyone right now.

Let’s just say that the Dallas game is a close score for the sake of this write up and the starters remain in the game for at least 3 quarters. I would expect the offense to be able to move the ball against the Giants defense at will, but we also thought that they would have done that against a lowly team like Arizona and well, we saw how that went.

I think based on recent events, this team will once again struggle to get the ball into the end zone consistently and the Eagles defense will once again look like swiss cheese. They aren’t going to just turn it on now that the playoffs are near. The Giants pull off the win late in the fourth.

Giants 27, Eagles 24