The New York Giants face the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday in th

e latest game in one of the best rivalries in the NFL. It’s a game that Odell Beckham Jr. is looking forward to Janoris Jenkins Color Rush Jersey , and more importantly, looking forward to winning. On the Giants - Eagles rivalry The NFL is full of rivalries, but some of the best reside in the NFC East. And even in a down year for the division, the games are always hard-fought. While the Giants had the edge in this particular rivalry early in Eli Manning’s career, the Eagles have had the edge of late. It’s a state of affairs that grates on Beckham. “I’m not a doctor, neurologist, or whatever, but I just know that it’s on our minds,” he said. “It’s on my mind for sure. For the new guys who are just coming here, like (G) Jamon (Brown), and people who haven’t gone down to Philly and played in the Giants vs. Philly. It’s a fun experience. The fans are very nice, very welcoming (laughter). It’s going to be a battle. We’re both battling. They’re battling to get, in our division, first place, and we’re battling to win our last six games, and whatever happens after that is what happens. We just got to come out and we got to bring it to them the way that we’ve been doing the past couple weeks.”He added, “I don’t like losing, period. It doesn’t matter who it is. The nature of it – Philly, Giants. It can’t go on forever.”And if Beckham has its way, “forever” will come to an end Sunday afternoon, saying. “It’s time,” he said. “Time’s now. We got six more games, two down Riley Dixon Color Rush Jersey , six left so that’s what we’re focusing on.”On his goal of winning eight in a rowBeckham admitted that he fell asleep during Thursday afternoon’s game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins, saying, “I think I fell asleep. The food hit me.”However, a reporter noted that the Giants weren’t featured on a graphic of the remaining schedules in the NFC East... A fact of which Odell approved. “Yeah, I wouldn’t want it any other way.” Beckham said, “I’ve been doubted all my life. We’re being doubted, but we’re standing strong together and we just keep it pushing. It makes it for a better story when they leave us out of it and then it’s like, wait a minute, we’re right back in it, so none of what I’m saying matters, none of what we’re asking matters if we don’t go out and win Sunday. It’s all about going out there and winning, so that’s the goal. That’s what we plan on doing.”The plan? Beckham enunciated that during the Giants’ bye week: Win the final eight games and earn a shot at the playoffs. Win all of the remaining games, but don’t tell Beckham that he said that they needed to “run the table”. “Exact words weren’t run the table,” he said, “but it was win eight games in a row and that’s the goal. Regardless, I don’t care who beat who yesterday, if we don’t handle our business, none of it matters. We need the Cowboys, the Redskins, and the Eagles to lose all their games for the rest of the season and we need to win all of ours for the rest of the season, but at the end of the day, if we don’t handle our business, it doesn’t matter what anybody else is doing. Our focus is us and beating the Eagles this week.”What has changed for the Giants? The Giants are in to the “easier” part of their schedule following their bye week Mario Edwards Jr Color Rush Jersey , but their opponents haven’t been the only things to change in the second half of the year.“We’ve just been putting it together in all three phases, Beckham said. “To keep it real, we only won the game by four points and three points. Some of the losses we had were by three points and four points, so it’s just finding ways. Like I said, we’ve been in these close games before, we know what it’s like when it’s down to the nitty-gritty. We know what it’s like when it’s down the nitty-gritty, so we just found a way to pull them up.”The Giants’ wins have been tight, and they haven’t been especially pretty, but they have been wins with positive signs from the team.“We’re not starting drives inside our own 20, Corey’s (Coleman) doing a good job of giving us field position, 40, 50 yards kick returns putting us – it’s different play calling when you’re there and you’re not backed up. We’re doing that, we’re running the ball well. The O-Line’s really been a difference. They’ve just come out and done a phenomenal job the past two weeks in run blocking, protecting for Eli, Eli’s making throws and like I said, it’s just all three phases. Defense coming up with four turnovers, everybody’s playing at a high level.” The New York Giants have once again fallen to the Philadelphia Eagles in a heartbreaking fashion.Up 19-3 with two minutes left in the first half on Sunday it looked like the Giants were going to run away with the game and win their first game in Philly since 2013. Instead, the teams (many) flaws caught up with them and their lead (and any hope of meaningful football in December) slipped away. The Giants’ defense is a long way awayDespite James Bettcher’s reputation for fielding ferocious defenses, nobody seriously thought that the Giant would field a good defense in 2018. For a variety of reasons, there were simply too many holes to play with any kind of consistency. Not only are the Giants playing at a talent deficit against most offenses, but they simply don’t have the players to run the scheme effectively. Bettcher wants to run an aggressive blitz-heavy scheme, but it is impossible to do so without a reliable free safety or at least three solid cornerbacks. The Giants are also lacking in speed on the front seven, both in coverage over the middle and rushing the passer. The problem is that while the Giants have some players with upside Nate Solder Color Rush Jersey , they have too many holes at positions which demand athletic (and either draft or free agency) premiums to fill without a significant investment. It will be a struggle to do that and address the needs on the Giants’ offense. They can free up cap room, but they can’t do so without creating more holes that will need to be filled.The Giants are still undisciplinedMany of the same problems that plagued them all season long cropped up again and caused them to cough up a two score lead after half-time. Crippling penalties to hurt themselves and extend opponents’ drives. You just can’t win when you’re going backwards at 10 yards a clip on offense or defense, and it’s even worse when you’re doing it to yourself.Defenders missing tackles and being out of position. The Giants have struggled to tackle cleanly all season long. Players in coverage have been out of position or too easily fooled by offensive eye candy. The result has been plays which should have been short gains instead go for chunk yardage. Plays which should have resulted in stalled drives turned in to big plays and drive extenders. The Giants simply have not been able to get off the field when they needed toBad clock management from the coaching staff. The Giants moved torturously slowly in their last drive of the first half before Manning forced a ball to a triple-covered Odell Beckham which was intercepted. The coaching staff burned a time out needlessly before calling a foolish swing pass on a third-and-18, costing them the ability to stop the clock in the Eagles’ two-minute drill. The Giants’ effort seems to wane when they are playing with a lead. They don’t try to stick the dagger on offense, and instead try to run out the clock — regardless of how many quarters are left. Too often the defense appears to assume the play is over once first contact is made or if the ball looks to be going to another area of the field. The games against San Francisco and Tampa Bay were entirely too close considering the caliber of quarterbacks (and defenses) the Giants faced. New York’s own play is a big reason why. They let bad teams hang around, and now let themselves get beaten by an under-performing good team.Landon Collins needs to play downhillThis isn’t something we just learned — we’ve known it since 2016. But it is something that James Bettcher seems to be learning (or accepting) over the last couple weeks. In the first half of the season, Collins played a role similar to Tony Jefferson in his last season with the Arizona Cardinals. That is as a “do it all” safety who can play the deep half of the field as well as come up and defend the run. But that isn’t Collins’ game. He can play in coverage, but he excels in short areas underneath, and struggles when he has to turn and run with a player down the field. That was how he was used in the second half of the game, and he had an impact, making several tackles behind the line of scrimmage and blowing up some quick passes. The problem is that Bettcher doesn’t really have any players who can cover the middle of the field and some times has no choice but to put Collins in an unfavorable match-up. Collins can still make impact plays as a strong safety, but until the Giants can find a linebacker with range and a reliable free safety, the Giants’ won’t be able to use Collins to his full potential.The Giants are too easily thrown off their gameAfter the game, head coach Pat Shurmur said that penalties and negative plays knocked the Giants out of their game plan. However, the Eagles made some in-game adjustments on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball, and the Giants simply had no answers. Saquon Barkley was dominant in the first half, racking up well over 100 yards and both of the Giants’ touchdowns with runs and receptions. In the second half he got the ball a handful of times. The Eagles’ secondary had no answers for Odell Beckham Jr. and Sterling Shepard in any area of the field. But after a few halftime adjustments, the Giants looked completely lost on offense. They spun their wheels for a grand total of -5 yards on offense through the third quarter and most of the fourth. In part, it was because despite the evidence against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the offensive line still can’t run block particularly well. But also the Giants took entirely too long to recognize and adjust to a simple change in coverage shells and a switch by the Eagles’s offense to running the ball after a couple RPOs. This isn’t how a good, or even improving, NFL team is supposed to deal with the ups and downs of a game.