Giants 19, Eagles 11: New York ends a 13-year Philly drought and tightens its NFC East grip
Jameis Winston's seam ball to Isaiah Likely and four Dominic Zvada field goals sent the 2-7 Eagles into their bye on the wrong end of a division shake-up.
The NFC East looks upside down. The Giants beat the Eagles 19-11 at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday — their first win in Philadelphia since 2013, per Yahoo Sports — to move to 5-3-1 and stay on top of the division, while the Eagles fell to 2-7 heading into their bye.
A rock fight from the start
Per the Eagles' own game recap, Dominic Zvada's two field goals had New York up 6-0 before Saquon Barkley's 3-yard touchdown run and a Joe Milton two-point sneak gave Philadelphia an 8-6 halftime lead. The game turned in the third quarter: with J.J. McCarthy briefly sidelined after a hit, Jameis Winston came on and found Isaiah Likely up the seam for the game's only touchdown pass. Zvada added fourth-quarter field goals from 38 and 49 yards, and the Eagles never got closer than eight.
Milton survives; the offense doesn't
Milton, making his first start for the Eagles, went 18-of-34 for 169 yards and ran for 64 more — but he was sacked seven times. Philadelphia managed 220 total yards, went 5-of-18 on third down, and did not score a touchdown after halftime. "We got to figure it out on offense," head coach Nick Sirianni said afterward. Barkley was blunter: "We definitely didn't establish a run today." On the other side, Arvell Reese led all players with 12 tackles, including three sacks, and forced a fumble.
What it means
A Giants team that hadn't won in Philadelphia in 13 years now leads the division in November, and a short-week home date with Washington on Thursday night offers a chance to tighten the grip. The Eagles get the bye to answer bigger questions: a line that just allowed seven sacks, an offense that has stopped finding the end zone, and a 2-7 record that has gone from worrying to defining.