2013 Week 5 - Eagles @ GIANTS

Week 5 Preview: Today's focus is on [1] Defense: specifically can the defense stop Vick. [2] Offense: yet another week wondering whether a rushing attack finally appear in a Giants offense.

Headed to the game, I am hoping for the best, but believing that the SPORTS REPORTER who has had the Giants number all season may have a good preview of today's matchup: The 0-4 SU and ATS Giants belong in the Museum of Natural History: once-fearsome creatures, now basically extinct; once-productive humans, now wandering around aimlessly. Anyone with a pulse has been blowing them out since the middle of last season. The Eagles are the team of the future, but they’re still committing sins of the past with all the turnovers (but they didn’t turn it over in Denver! Yay, Eagles!). The common denominator between Philly’s turnover problems under Andy Reid, and now under Chip Kelly, is quarterback Michael Vick. Philly is running the ball for better than 5.0 yards per carry. The Giants are running it in the 3.0 range. If the Eagles are running the ball well, it means that the ball is out of Vick’s hands and less likely to be turned over. Besides needing a new o-line, new running backs, a new defense, and two new coordinators, the Giants have turned the ball over 16 times in four games. Maybe the Eagles – who, let’s face it, have had the Giants number for a while -- have spread their bird flu on the Giants’ offense. Red zone difficulties have plagued both offenses. PHILADELPHIA, 23-22.