Film breakdown: How the Eagles defense outsmarted Eli Manning

Then the bottom fell out of the Giants’ bucket.

The dominant defensive performance will bring to mind a Sunday night win over the Giants around the same time last season, when the Eagles shut out their division rival.

After the Eagles beat the Giants on Monday night, one of the big topics of conversation was Eagles quarterback Sam Bradford. Despite an inconsistent offense (Bradford now has nine INTs versus seven TD passes on the season), the Eagles defense does seem to be gelling. Which reminds us, have we used the déjà vu reference yet? “We got the five yards, got the first down and went down and scored”.

Special teams: Led by Tom Quinn, the special team looked promising coming into last night’s game. You have to generally play well to get 27 points and win by 20 right? We’ve got two really intelligent safeties that get everyone lined up in Malcolm [Jenkins] and Walter [Thurmond], and that really helps. The suspension stems from an incident a year ago when Enunwa was arrested for simple assault on his girlfriend at a New Jersey hotel.

For all his shortcomings, perceived or real, even Kelly’s harshest critics have to admit he’s assembled a team that has character and will fight through adversity instead of running away from it. The Dallas Cowboys. Who benefits from Eli Manning looking like the Eli Manning most of Philadelphia was hoping he’d be? Manning has thrown 10 touchdown passes against just two interceptions for a 100.2 rating. There is no more reason to panic in Philadelphia, because the Eagles are back to.500.

But for Giants defensive end Damontre Moore, he says that can be a tough thing for him sometimes. “They did a great job rolling a few coverages late”.

“I could go back in, but I wasn’t going to be all the way 100 [percent]”, Ryans said. We’ve talked about that, [Bradford] getting more familiar in terms of what we’re doing.

The health of Beckham also could be an issue.

Beckham, targeted 21 times, caught 12 passes for 185 yards and a score against the Eagles last season. But in the past two games, he’s combined for 192 yards on 42 carries with two touchdowns. On their second drive, the Giants were moving down the field and got all the way to the Eagles’ 23-yard line when Eli Manning tried to squeeze a ball to tight end Larry Donnell. They also expect to enter this game with confidence having won three of their four meetings with the Giants since Chip Kelly stepped in as head coach.

The Eagles had three takeaways, sacked Manning three times and forced two intentional grounding penalties.

“We put ourselves in a bad position, didn’t accomplish what we needed to, didn’t take advantage of the opportunities that were there for us”, Coughlin said. “I’m always juiced up”.

“I think it’s important”, center Jason Kelce said about turning opponents’ mistakes into Eagles’ gains.

The Eagles wore for only the third time in their franchise history all black uniforms.

Lincoln Financial Field was shaking that night. So they had that going for them.

Is Sam Bradford a Super Bowl-caliber quarterback? If we can get him started at the line of scrimmage and get him to the second level, he can get through a lot of arm tackles.

For the Eagles – particularly the defense – it’s a matter of playing to the sellout crowd. “Brandon (Graham) is here for three years, Connor (Darwin) is here for three years”. But at least we had the new “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” trailer at halftime, which is really all that mattered to most.