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After a feel
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The hope that the Tommy DeVito feel-good story recently injected into Brian Daboll’s dismal second season with the New York Giants is about to be extinguished.
New York’s three-game winning streak ended with Sunday’s 24-6 lossat New Orleans, leaving the Giants (5-9) with a very slim chance of making the playoffs for a second straight season.
New York has three games left and needs to win them all and get a lot of help to get back to the postseason. That’s unlikely with two games against the defending NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles and one against the playoff-contending Los Angeles Rams (7-7).
It seems the best the Giants can do is play spoiler. It’s not a fun role.
“It’s definitely difficult,” inside linebacker Micah McFadden said. “I don’t think anybody in this building thought we’d be where we are at this point. But as far as motivation, we’re process-driven here. We stick to what we do each week and that’s just focusing on winning one game at a time.”
Beating Philadelphia will not be easy. The Eagles beat the Giants three times last season, including an embarrassing 38-7 decision in the divisional round of the playoffs.
“Every game is pretty difficult,” McFadden said. “Every team in the NFL brings it every week. It’s always going to be a difficult challenge. No doubt, we’ve definitely got a tough few games down the stretch here. Just got to go find a way to win a couple of them.”
This was supposed to be the year New York closed the gap on the Eagles and Cowboys in the NFC East. Instead, it has grown.
“We have a great culture here,” right guard Ben Bredeson said Monday. “It’s a very process-oriented mindset, that’s something that Dabs preaches all the time. We’re looking to improve from the last week and correct the mistakes and move forward to the next week and go win a game one week at a time.”
One thing that was missing Sunday was takeaways. The Giants had 12 in the previous three games.
“He’s been playing well, really all season,” Daboll said. “Got a lot of confidence in him, but he’s been really playing well these last few weeks. Stout, good knockback, productive. He’s certainly done a good job.”
“We just didn’t execute well enough,” Bredeson said.
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