Going into the season, if you’d made a list of the half-dozen most important players on the Eagles’ defense, everybody on that list would have been out of Sunday’s 27-24 last-second victory over the New York Giants by halftime, except Brandon Graham and Malcolm Jenkins.
The Birds came in without corner Ron Darby (ankle) and safety Rodney McLeod (hamstring). They lost defensive tackle Fletcher Cox (calf) and middle linebacker Jordan Hicks (ankle) in the second quarter, long before a 14-0 lead entering the fourth had turned into a 21-14 deficit.
“Guys take a lot of pride, in our locker room.