Nick Sirianni Cleared to Return Plus 5 K
Nick Sirianni is good to go.The Eagles head coach was cleared from the NFLs COVID protocols and will be on the sidelines for Sundays game.Call it a Christmas miracle, if you like, but Sirianni went from looking and sounding sick on Sunday to looking much better on Friday.On Saturday, he pa sed all the nece sary tests and protocols and will be there to try to help his team win their Kevin Plawecki Jersey fifth game in the last six and climb to 8-7, putting them above .500 for the first time since they won in Week 1.Whenever they tell me I can, said Sirianni on Friday when asked if there was a cutoff point between po sibly getting cleared to when kickoff arrives at 1 p.m. You know, I'm ready to go. So, they tell me if it's a minute before the game I'll be there. If it's two days before the game, I'll be there. When they tell me I can go, I'm ready to go. Preparing the same way obviously as if I was in the building all week. The sooner the better.The news wasnt so good for LB Shaun Bradley, a Pro Bowl special teams alternate, after he was placed on the COVID list. The team elevated safety Jared Mayden from the practice squad for the second time this season.MORE:Here are five keys to an Eagles victory:Jalen Hurts. The Eagles QB was an efficient 20 for 26 with 296 yards, two rushing scores, and a pa sing Craig Kimbrel Jersey touchdown in Tuesday nights win over Washington. Twice this week, he was asked about the Giants, a natural question given his three-interception, 17.5 pa ser rating against them in the Nov. 28, 13-7 lo s to New York.I flushed that a long time ago, he said in the aftermath of the team Carl Yastrzemski Jersey s seventh win. I forgot about it. I get to play them this week.RELATED:Scroll to ContinueTwo days later, he was asked again.I got a lot of fire going into this game because its the next game, Hurts said. Its the next game. Every week something happens good, bad or indifferent and its always an opportunity for me to learn from it. Ill learn from two days ago and well move on forward to Sunday.Clearly, Hurts will need to perform better.Ride the hot hand. That would be Dallas Goedert. The tight end is coming off back-to-back career-high receiving yards, but for some inexplicable reason, was a nonfactor in th4 Eagles lo s last month to the Giants. He was targeted just three times and had only one catch. The one catch he Nomar Garciaparra Jersey made on a screen went for zero yards.RELATED:Turnovers. Force them and dont give up any. The Giants have forced 20 turnovers, which are seven more than the Eagles have and New York got three of them last month in its 13-7 win. Meanwhile, the Eagles will likely face QB Jake Fromm making his first NFL start after being drafted in the fifth round by the Buffalo Bills out of Georgia in 2020. As defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon likes to say, rush and cover, cover and rush. Do that and maybe Fromm coughs it up a time or two.Shut down Saquon Barkley. That is something that hasnt been a problem for any defenses the Giants have played this year. The Penn State RB has Johnny Pesky Jersey yet to run for more than 65 yards in any game this year. Still, he is more than capable of doing that and the defense has to make sure it doesnt happen against them.Keep Evan Engram in check. The Eagles havent done a good job covering tight ends all season. Of the 22 touchdown pa ses they have allowed, 10 have come from tight ends. They are good at turning no-name tight ends into household names. They did a better job last week against Washingtons nondescript duo of Ricky Seals-Jones and Justin Bates, but those two still have five receptions for 58 yards combined. Engram is capable of putting up big numbers, though the Eagles did a decent job holding him to three catches on six targets for 37 yards in their first matchup this month.