Live Blog Eagles vs. Giants: In Search of Odell Beckham Jr. and Eli Manning

Beckham sees his first target under the sign of the Giants

During training in New York, Manning made three assists, but it's a 46-yard run from Saquon Barkley that put them in a goal position. Beckham was not targeted on the driveway, with a pass for Barkley and the other two for Shepard. The training ended with a field placement. After an Eagles punt, Manning was sacked from his own 9-yard line for an 8-yard loss. On 3 and 15, Manning dropped Beckham, who collected 12 yards for his first game reception. Eagles still up, 7-3, almost at the end of the first quarter.

Manning chosen on second attempt

The Eagles won the draw and chose to postpone. In the first game of the Giants, Manning went to Latimer for 8 yards. At the second descent, he targets his tight end, not OBJ, and the pass is intercepted. Not a good start for New York! The Eagles then marched on the field and quickly scored a touchdown.

8:10 pm ET: Odell Beckham Jr. said negative things about his neighborhood, Eli Manning and the Giants' offense in general. We will now see them play after the very public comments, and we will keep you posted on the performance of both players and the evolution of the game on Thursday, so keep it here!

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NFC East is in a deplorable state, but it was not quite planned. So you see a lot of football prime time. Sure Thursday Football, the New York Giants will host the Philadelphia Eagles in a battle of teams under .500, but still fighting for division. The game is set at 8:20 pm ET on NFL Network and FOX (live streaming via FuboTV, FOX Sports GO, NFL, Amazon).

Philadelphia are second in the division with a 2-3 record, with wins over the Falcons and Colts, but defeats against the Buccaneers, the Titans and more recently, the Vikings. Thursday's game will be their first division game. New York is 1-4, and at the bottom of the division. Their only victory was a tight match against the Texans, as they fell into the hands of the Jaguars, Saints, Panthers and their Cowboy rivals.

Offensive halfback Saquon Barkley has been upbeat for New York, but the offensive is still struggling to score points. Eli Manning has only six touchdown passes in five games and an average of 250.8 passing yards per game. Since returning from injury, Carson Wentz has looked good for the Eagles, completing 67.2 percent of his passes for 914 yards, five touchdowns and one interception.

The NFC East teamed up to score 0-4 in the fifth week, with Washington dominated by the Saints. Monday night football. It will probably not be much to win this division, so any head-to-head match is extremely crucial.

Below you will find everything you need to know to follow Thursday's action.

• Time: ET20:20
• Location: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J.
• TV: NFL Network, FOX
• Diffusion: FuboTV, GO Sports FOX, NFL, Amazon
• odds: The Eagles opened as close favorites by 2.5 points for the match

• In their final injury report, the Eagles ruined D.J. Alexander, Nathan Gerry, Corey Graham, Haloti Ngata and Darren Sproles. The team now only has three healthy people and a seriously weakened unit team.

• Evan Engram is missing for the Giants, but it looks like Olivier Vernon is playing for the first time this season, which is great news for the team.

• The Eagles called Tre Sullivan from their training team because they are short of safety devices. They gave up defensive lineman T.Y. McGill in a corresponding move.
• Philadelphia allows a lot of pressure, and much of this pressure has been blamed on Lane Johnson, but the people of Bleeding Green Nation think it's a myth and plunge into some movies.

With a quarterback like Carson Wentz – full-bodied, determined to prolong play, willing to fit in the pocket, break the board – pressure mapping can lie. It seems that the offensive line is abandoning itself precipitately, while doing what it is reasonably entitled to do.

Of the seven experts who choose SB Nation, five take the Eagles and two others choose the Giants. The OddsShark computer joins the majority of players, while the coin landed in New York this week.