Saquon Barkley sat on the Eagles’ bus as it entered the parking lot for his first trip as an opposing player to MetLife Stadium. He had his headphones on and was doing his best to drown out the noise — literal and figurative — before facing the New York Giants.

By then, Barkley and the Eagles had long silenced the Giants crowd, who booed him every time he touched the ball until they were worn down, much like the Giants' vaunted defensive line. Barkley showed that in the first quarter, when he caught a short pass along the sideline and literally ran over Dane Belton.

Barkley and the Eagles turned his homecoming to MetLife Stadium into a laugher by the fourth quarter, as the Giants' offense led by Daniel Jones, despite the return of Malik Nabers, spent much of an eventual 28-3 loss to Philly failing to get out of its own ways.