Instant observations from Giants 34, Eagles 17: Eagles blown out on catastrophic Philly sports day

If the Philadelphia Phillies provided the heartbreak on Thursday night, the Philadelphia Eagles were just lifeless.

Jalen Hurts threw a key interception and the Eagles defense was shredded by Jaxson Dart, Cam Skattebo and co. as the Eagles were embarrassed by the New York Giants on Thursday Night Football, 34-17. Here are the PHLY Eagles staff’s observations.

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EJ Smith

Alarm bells are ringing.

Last Sunday’s loss to the Denver Broncos set up an early test for how this Eagles team would handle adversity, and Thursday night served as an incredibly worrying sign. The Eagles were sloppy across all three phases with an undermanned, overmatched defense, a mistake-prone special teams unit and an offense that makes everything look hard in spite of its talent.

The comparisons to 2023 may have come earlier than some would have liked, but the margin of defeat traces back to that late-season collapse (A 35-17 loss to the Arizona Cardinals in Week 17) in a way that seems fitting. There’s plenty of time to right the ship, but there is no sense in sugarcoating it: The Eagles are foundering.

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Bo Wulf

Coining this, “The A.J. Dillon Game.”

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Fran Duffy

The Eagles needed a bounce-back after their first loss of the season. The hope was that they would have a short week to quickly get over the defeat against Denver.

Now?

They have a long week to soak in an embarrassing loss to a team that they have mostly dominated over the last several years.

Yes, the defense was without Jalen Carter and Quinyon Mitchell, but the Giants were down Malik Nabers and Darius Slayton, their top two receivers. Their starting center left early in the third quarter. They scored twice as many points as the Eagles did early in the fourth quarter. The pass rush was basically non-existent. They had no answers for the rookie quarterback’s legs. They turned the ball over. They stubbed their toe multiple times on special teams. After a hot start, Saquon Barkley was on a milk carton.

Maybe it’s because of the Phillies’ season ending the way it did tonight, but watching this game stung a little something extra.

That said … I’ll be on the show breaking down the tape on Friday at 2:00 ET. Join us!

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Jamie Lynch

LOL on tonight. Fin.