It was a tale of two halves Sunday for the Eagles and Giants.
It was also a tale of two halves for Saquon Barkley.
Barkley dominated in the first half with two touchdowns and 127 yards on 15 touches, but in the second half, things took a different turn and the rookie RB. He saw just five touches for 15 yards. We all know how things ended for the Giants (see Roob's observations).
Safe to say, Giants fans were not happy about Barkley's lack of playing time and took to Twitter to vent their frustrations.
*Saquon rushes for 100 yards in the first half*
Shurmer- Lets sub Gallman In and have Eli sling the ball all second Half— Heated Giants (@miagiants) November 25, 2018
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Offensive line crumbling
Shurm forgot Saquon exists
Defense getting burnt
We lost our lead pic.twitter.com/BnS0vh3u3s— Pissed MARA (@EmperorMara) November 25, 2018
Nice adjustments coach... 🙄let's just not give Barkley the ball after he carved up the Eagles in the first half. JOKE— john reese (@johnnybud16) November 25, 2018
Trying to figure out how Saquon only had 5 touches in the second half pic.twitter.com/F2HFFYb6Tm— Riley Ludwig (@riley_ludwig) November 25, 2018
Saquon goes 9 carries for 99 yards in the 1st half.
The Giants begins to win.
The Giants defend this lead by giving Saquon just 4 carries in the 2nd half.
The Giants begin to lose.
A sad story.— Aidan Brown (@idan_brown) November 25, 2018
Another great day of play calling from Shurmur. Let's NOT give the ball to Saquon in the second half after a monster first. #NYGiants pic.twitter.com/I11cGjyowA— Keisha Wilson (@keishawilson98) November 25, 2018
No. You stopped giving @saquon the ball.. 15 touches in the 1st half. Only 4 the 2nd half. Ridiculous and unacceptable!!— Joeyl_10 (@Joeyl_Dai10) November 25, 2018
Even Odell Beckham Jr. took a swipe at his coaching staff.
Odell Beckham Jr. on not the #Giants not taking advantage of banged-up #Eagles secondary: "That's more of a question for coach. Coming in, knowing that they struggled in the secondary, personally I would have loved to attack them. But it wasn't in our game plan."— Pat Leonard (@PLeonardNYDN) November 25, 2018
Meanwhile, Eagles fans were singing a different tune.
when the other team misuses Saquon Barkley for half the game and it greatly benefits your team pic.twitter.com/6NLMvbJYbR— Stephen Pianovich (@SPianovich) November 25, 2018
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