Cam Skattebo ran for 3 touchdowns as he and fellow rookie Jaxson Dart shone, and the New York Giants defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 34-17 on Thursday evening at hand the defending Tremendous Bowl champions their second consecutive loss.
Skattebo bulldozed his manner into the tip zone from 4 yards out and twice from the one-yard line. Dart scampered in untouched on his 20-yard TD run and linked with Wan’Dale Robinson on a 35-yard catch-and-run to the tip zone.
The rookies, who every fumbled on Sunday in a turnover-heavy loss at New Orleans, responded as coach Brian Daboll hoped. Dart completed 17 of 25 for 195 yards passing and 13 carries for 58 yards after getting a concussion check following an enormous hit, whereas Skattebo rushed 19 instances for a career-high 98 yards.
“Fairly truthfully, no person actually anticipated us to place up a efficiency like this,” stated Dart. “We felt assured. We simply tried to play laborious for one another. We’re not attempting to make statements. We’re simply attempting to play for one another and win video games.”
The Giants (2-4) additionally sacked Jalen Hurts 3 times and picked him off. Brian Burns received to the Eagles quarterback twice to tie for the NFL lead in sacks this season with seven.
Hurts overthrew a wide-open DeVonta Smith on a play within the third quarter that just about actually would have been a landing if it was on the mark and within the fourth was intercepted by Cor’Dale Flott, who returned it 68 yards. It was Hurts’ first interception of the season and simply his second, the opposite being within the Tremendous Bowl, over his previous 15 video games.
The Eagles (4-2) ran the tush push 4 consecutive instances within the second quarter, with Hurts scoring on the ultimate strive, and he had a shovel-pass TD to Dallas Goedert. However Hurts’ miscues mixed with the protection faltering contributed to their first back-to-back losses since three in a row to finish the 2023 common season, then get rid of them from the playoffs.
“I received to be higher,” Hurts stated, calling his interception a nasty throw and criticizing himself for lacking Smith. “One other alternative to maintain attacking them and capitalizing. I didn’t give him a great ball. It’s one thing that I personal and one thing that I’m going to work on.”
This was simply the Giants’ fourth victory of their previous 18 video games towards the Eagles, their NFC East rivals.
