January 05, 2025
UPDATE – Tanner McKee and the Eagles' reserves put away the visiting New York Giants, 20-13, to close out the regular season.
The game had no impact on the Eagles' postseason circumstance, but the backups came in and tacked on one more win regardless, putting the Birds at 14-3 for the regular season.
The Eagles also learned that the Packers will be their first playoff opponent next week in the Wild Card round.
Heres' the immediate coverage from Sunday:
• What we learned about the Eagles' backups in the Week 18 win over the Giants (Nick Tricome)
• Eagles will face Packers in Wild Card round of the playoffs (Jimmy Kempski)
And as always, you can run back through the conversation of Sunday's game as it happened down below.
EARLIER...
The 13-3 Philadelphia Eagles will close out their 2024-2025 regular season on Sunday with a meaningless matchup against the laughingstock New York Giants.
Locked into the 2 seed, the Eagles are resting starters, and listed an abnormally high 11 inactives for this matchup. That list includes Saquon Barkley, who is 101 rushing yards away from breaking Eric Dickerson's single-season rushing record, which has stood since 1984. The Giants have a number of their best players on injured reserve. Here are the Eagles' and Giants' inactives.
As we noted in our Eagles-Giants preview, a bunch of younger Eagles players who don't get a lot of snaps in more meaningful games will get a shot to show what they can. Tops on that list is Tanner McKee, who will likely get the start at quarterback.
The Eagles are 2.5-point favorites heading into this matchup. Here are our staff writer picks.
Feel free to discuss the game in the comments section below.
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