It was like an after-school backyard game everyone who loves football used to play, only with helmets and pads in front of silent thousands in a major stadium. That’s the feel Sunday’s game had between the New York Giants and Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field.
That, and the fact that no one really wanted to be there. It was not exactly a ringing endorsement for NFL Week 18 when the TV cameras caught Eagles’ resting wide receiver A.J. Brown barely awake on the bench. Brown was only expressing the sentiment everyone else suffered.
There was so little energy and noise that the quarterback’s signals echoed throughout what felt like an empty Linc.