There’s only one way the supposedly ‘miserable” Philadelphia Eagles let the New York Giants come to Lincoln Financial Field and play Grinch on Christmas Day, and that is if they beat themselves.
It’s been done before, like the three interceptions Jalen Hurts threw in an unsightly loss to the New York Jets, the three fumbles they coughed up against the Dallas Cowboys, and the 10 penalties they committed in the same Cowboys loss.
If it happens, the Eagles will have lost four straight games for the time in the three years that Nick Sirianni has been the head coach.
If they simply take care of business and don’t overlook an inferior opponent that enters with a 5-9 record, they will move to 11-4 and remain on track to win a second straight NFC East title, and maybe rediscover the confidence they had back when they were sitting at 10-1.
The Eagles are minus-six and it’s not a good look when they have just six interceptions, a season after having 17 on their way to the Super Bowl.
Of course, the secondary doesn’t have a playmaker like it last year when safety Chauncey Gardner-Johnson accounted for a league-tying six all by himself.
The Eagles would take that – they need that, as does the quarterback – after failing to complete more than 60 percent of his passes in three of the last four games, failing to throw a touchdown pass in the last two games, and throwing two more picks, each in the fourth quarter of last week’s loss to the Seattle Seahawks, to give him 12 on the season.
