Skip Bayless tried jinxing the Eagles before the first quarter was over

If sports fans were given one hundred guesses about who had the first bad take about the Eagles-Giants NFC Divisional Round game, they’d only need one. Skip Bayless has reached the final stage of the host being eaten by a parasite, and has burrowed bad takes so deeply into his brain that he just can’t help himself.

Like clockwork, Skip burped up the first eye roll take of the evening, claiming that the game was over before it even had a chance to start.

Before the first quarter was over, with the Eagles up 14-0, Bayless wrote the Giants off. In the process, he blindly tempted fate and flirted with jinxing the Eagles.

Come on, Skip. The man knows how many unwritten rules this violates but doesn’t care.

It’s one thing to say the Eagles were giving the Giants a thorough ass-kicking — which is exactly what was happening out of the gate. It’s another thing to tempt the Football Gods on behalf of Eagles fans which is something no one this side of East Rutherford asked for.

Aside from hexes and jinxes, it’s just a bad take. Skip wasn’t wrong, the Giants looked awful, but there was a bunch of better ways to frame the take that gave the Eagles more credit than Skip was willing to give.

Hurts started the game 7-for-7 with two touchdowns, close to 100 yards passing, and a perfect passer rating.

Philadelphia’s top rated secondary had already picked off Daniel Jones and hit him so hard they knocked his contacts out. The Eagles running game was just as powerful as the passing game, with Miles Sanders hitting his over of 50 yards in less than one and a half quarters, and Jalen Hurts didn’t appear to need more than jogging speed to get behind the Giants defense.

There were a million ways to explain how the Giants were gettin absolutely minced by the Eagles, but Skip decided to channel his inner-Cowboys fan and write it off as nothing more than an unfair matchup that of course the Eagles would win.