Cam Skattebo scored three touchdowns as he and fellow teammate Jaxson Dart shined, and the New York Giants beat 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 ran untouched on his 20-yard TD run and connected with Wan’Dale Robinson on a 35-yard catch-and-run to the end zone.
The rookies, who each fumbled Sunday in a tough loss at New Orleans, responded as coach Brian Daboll hoped. Dart finished 17 of 25 for 195 passing yards and 13 carries for 58 yards after suffering a concussion test following a big hit, while Skattebo rushed 19 times for a career-high 98 yards.
The Giants (2-4) also sacked Jalen Hurts three times and knocked him out. Brian Burns connected with the Eagles quarterback twice to tie the NFL lead in sacks this season with seven.
Hurts overthrew a wide-open DeVonta Smith on a play in the third quarter that almost certainly would have been a touchdown had it been scored and in the fourth 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, in his last 15 games.
The Eagles (4-2) ran four straight times in the second quarter, with Hurts scoring on the final drive, and he completed a shovel pass to Dallas Goedert. But Hurts’ mistakes combined with weak defense contributed to their first consecutive losses since three in a row to end the 2023 regular season and then eliminate them from the playoffs.
It was just the Giants’ fourth victory in their last 18 games against the Eagles, their NFC East rivals.
