The New York Giants host the defending Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles tonight in the first of 15 Week Six National Football League games.
The Eagles are favored by a touchdown, seems right, given they are meeting a Giants team that has won only one game this year. The Giants also handed the New Orleans Saints their first victory of the season last week and are under the direction of a rookie quarterback. In recent weeks the Giants receiving corps has been depleted. Their best receiver, Malik Nabers, went down with a season ending ACL suffered during their only win of the season, a 21-18 home victory over the Los Angeles Chargers. Tonight, they are also missing another receiver, Darius Slayton is out with a hamstring.
So, run to the window and wager on the defending champs?
Well, the Eagles are confronting their own internal problems.
They lost last week at home, allowing a 17-3 fourth quarter lead to melt in a 21-17 loss to the Denver Broncos. In that game, the Eagles abandoned their signature run attack with more passes than they have attempted in any game in recent years. It didn't work.
“What happened to Saquon Barkley,” was yelled from the stands at Lincoln Financial Field while the much-maligned new offensive coordinator for the Eagles, Kevin Patullo, tried to appease a vocal receiving corps seemingly upset by the lack of a passing game. The most vocal wideout was A.J. Brown.