The Philadelphia Eagles are headed up the New Jersey Turnpike to tackle the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. With a purpose to preview this Week 7 matchup, I reached out to our enemies over at Huge Blue View. The wonderful Ed Valentine kindly took the time to reply my questions on this upcoming battle. Let’s check out the solutions. [For my answers about the Eagles, check out BBV.]
1 – May as effectively get the compulsory Saquon Barkley query out of the best way. Do you continue to suppose the Giants made the fitting name to not re-sign him? And are you extra irritated or extra detached with regards to how he’s performed effectively for the Eagles?
Sure, I feel the Giants made the fitting name. There was all the time the chance that within the quick time period Barkley would play very well and make the Giants look unhealthy, and he’s enjoying effectively proper now. Statistically, the Giants have gotten sufficient RB manufacturing that it hasn’t actually mattered.
The Giants used the Barkley cash to signal two offensive linemen, and the road has been improved. Now with Andrew Thomas out for the 12 months that can in all probability change. Additionally, rookie RB Tyrone Tracy has seemed like a participant who might turn into superb.Personally, I’m detached. I do know that isn’t true of everybody. And I do know Giants co-owner John Mara can be respiratory hearth if Barkley has a giant day in an Eagles victory on Sunday.
2 – What’s the arrogance degree in Daniel Jones proper now?
You simply needed to make me reply a Daniel Jones query, didn’t you! The fan base is essentially accomplished with Jones. It’s simply tiring, and it feels just like the Giants are spinning their wheels. Jones has been fairly environment friendly this season, and had a pleasant four-game stretch from Weeks 2-5 earlier than being unhealthy Sunday vs. the Bengals. Jones is “superb,” and you may win with him when issues go effectively round him. He simply doesn’t elevate his staff, and when issues break down round him he has by no means been in a position to play by way of that efficiently.
3 – How would you consider the job that Brian Daboll has accomplished so far?
Like with any coach, I disagree with among the selections Daboll makes. I feel, although, that by and huge he’s doing the most effective he can with what he has.
There may be a variety of dialogue about whether or not Daboll is, or ought to be, on the recent seat. I don’t suppose Giants possession needs to maneuver on from Daboll. I feel John Mara craves some stability, and he has seen in the previous few years that fixed change doesn’t get you anyplace. Offered the wheels don’t come off and there isn’t a locker room mutiny, I feel Daboll will preserve his job.
4 – What are the notable variations between final 12 months’s protection ran by Wink Martindale and this 12 months’s overseen by new DC Shane Bowen?
Effectively, the most important distinction is that Martindale was a blitz-crazed coordinator who believed in constantly sending extra rushers than the opposing line might block. Bowen is extra managed, extra conventional. He likes the four-man rush, with twists, stunts and simulated stress. The Giants additionally play extra zone below Bowen than they did below Martindale.
That mentioned, Bowen has had a few video games the place he has been keen to go in opposition to kind and switch up the warmth. The Giants are ninth within the league in factors in opposition to, and that isn’t an accident. They’ve performed effectively on that aspect of the ball.
They simply haven’t been in a position to rating factors.
5 – The Eagles are at present three-point highway favorites in opposition to the Giants. The Eagles are 1-7 in opposition to the unfold of their final eight video games as favorites. Who wins this recreation and why?
It’s not possible for me to select the Giants to win this recreation. As a lot as I imagine the Eagles are removed from what they have been a few years in the past and I feel a totally wholesome Giants staff would have an opportunity, proper now they’re a large number.
They misplaced star LT Andrew Thomas for the season this week. They put OLB Kayvon Thibodeaux on IR with a fractured wrist final week. Dexter Lawrence (hip) and Brian Burns (groin) didn’t apply on Wednesday, and Daboll didn’t sound satisfied both could be accessible.
Malik Nabers (concussion) will in all probability be again, however that’s a variety of actually good gamers the Giants is likely to be lacking.
I truthfully suppose this Giants staff is likely to be higher than its 2-4 file, a minimum of when it’s complete. And once they defend the quarterback. However proper now they aren’t that.
They simply don’t rating sufficient factors, and so they appear to invent distinctive methods of taking pictures themselves within the foot far too typically.
