Giants crush Eagles as Super Bowl champions lose second straight game | NFL

Cam Schatipo ran for three touchdowns while he and fellow rookie Jackson Dart shined, and the New York Giants defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 34-17 on Thursday night to hand the defending Super Bowl champions their second straight loss.

Skattebo bulldozed his way into the end zone from four yards out and twice from the one-yard line. Dart rushed untouched for a 20-yard TD and connected with Wan’Dale Robinson on a 35-yard catch-and-run to the end zone.

The rookies, who each stumbled Sunday in a tough loss to New Orleans, responded as coach Brian Daboll had hoped. Dart finished 17 of 25 for 195 yards and 13 carries for 58 yards after taking a concussion test following a major injury, while Skattebo rushed 19 times for 98 yards.

The Giants (2-4) also sacked Jalen Hurts three times and optioned him. Eagles quarterback Brian Burns has hit the ground running twice to tie the NFL lead in sacks this season with seven.

Hurts knocked DeVonta Smith wide open on a play in the third quarter that would have almost certainly been a touchdown if it had been on the mark and in the fourth quarter it was intercepted by Cor’Dale Flott, who returned it 68 yards. It was Hurts’ first interception of the season and only his second, the other being in the Super Bowl, over the last 15 games.

The Eagles (4-2) punted four straight times in the second quarter, and Hurts scored on the final attempt and had a shovel TD pass to Dallas Goedert. But Hertz’s mistakes combined with the faltering defense contributed to its first consecutive losses in three consecutive matches, ending the 2023 regular season, then eliminating it from the playoffs.

It was the Giants’ fourth win in their last 18 games against the Eagles, their NFC East rivals.