Philadelphia Eagles vs New York Giants Match Player Stats On Dec 28, 2014

SportsDirect Inc. staff
Dec 28, 2014

Eagles 34, Giants 26: Mark Sanchez threw a pair of touchdown passes and Trey Burton scored on a blocked punt as visiting Philadelphia ended its season by snapping a three-game skid.

The Eagles (10-6) appeared to be playoff-bound after defeating the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day, but that was their final victory before Sunday, when they prevailed despite another huge game from Giants rookie sensation Odell Beckham Jr. The LSU product caught 12 passes for a career-high 185 yards and a touchdown and finished his rookie season with 91 catches for 1,305 yards and 12 TDs.

Sanchez was 23-of-36 for 292 yards, hitting rookie Jordan Matthews eight times for 105 yards and a score, while LeSean McCoy contributed 99 yards on 17 carries. Eli Manning went 28-of-53 for a season-high 429 yards with a TD and an interception for New York (6-10), which had won its previous three games.

A pair of first-quarter TD passes by Sanchez - a 44-yarder to Matthews and a 1-yard strike to Brent Celek - provided an early 14-7 advantage for Philadelphia before New York's Josh Brown kicked three field goals to put the hosts on top 16-14 with 2:02 left in the second quarter. Philadelphia's Cody Parkey kicked a short field goal at the halftime buzzer and the Eagles pushed their lead to 24-16 early in the third when James Casey got a hand on Steve Weatherford's punt and Burton scooped up the loose ball and ran 27 yards to the end zone.

Brown's season-high 53-yard field goal brought New York within 24-19 with 4 1/2 minutes left in the third quarter, but Chris Polk's 1-yard TD run extended Philadelphia's advantage to 31-19 early in the fourth. Beckham's 63-yard catch-and-run TD with 11:47 remaining made things interesting, but Parkey kicked a field goal about four minutes later and Manning was intercepted by Nate Allen in the waning minutes to seal it.

GAME NOTEBOOK: The blocked punt was the first of Weatherford's career, the first touchdown of Burton's career and the first time the Giants had a punt blocked for a score since 1993. The Eagles returned three blocked punts for touchdowns this season alone. ... New York WR Rueben Randle set a career high for receiving yards for the second straight game. He recorded 132 yards on six catches last week against St. Louis and notched six receptions for 158 yards on Sunday. ... Beckham surpassed 100 receiving yards in seven of his final nine games. His previous career high was 156 yards, accomplished Nov. 3 against the Colts.