You don't have to be cold and calculating all the time, but there are times when you have to be. Well, that's more than anything the Giants' theme this week.
move on.
Saquon Barkley, the former face of the franchise, has enjoyed a career resurgence so far in Philadelphia.
Valuable left tackle Andrew Thomas is no longer of any value on the field for the Giants this season.
Let's move forward from the tragic history of domination by this particular enemy.
Let's move on from home field disadvantage and Daniel Jones' brutal performance at MetLife Stadium.
Get away from all the negativity and do something to get your season back. Win a terrible game against a hated rival who hasn't impressed anyone so far this season.
It won't be good for the Giants (2-4) to harp on their shortcomings and dwell on what they don't have. Sunday's game against the Eagles (3-2) will have spring-like weather — it will be Barkley's first time playing, and he will soon become the second overall pick in the 2018 draft. against a team that drafted him as a great player.
If Barkley runs through the Giants, emotions in the building will run high and the Giants' patience will run low. And the Eagles do what seems like an eternity forever, clinging to the geographically closest punching bag.
The Giants need to move forward. As he sat at his locker earlier this week, left guard John Runyan Jr., one of the new additions, took emotion and personal feelings out of the equation. The locker to his left was empty because Thomas was not on site as he was recovering from surgery in Charlotte, North Carolina, to repair a Lisfranc injury in his left foot and is aiming to return in 2025.
“He's a great player, a great teammate, a great human being,” Runyan said, passing through the pleasantries. “He's resting now. His locker is right there.
“I hate to say it, but at the moment we are going in a different direction with him. This season he won't be able to help us on the field anymore. He will also help us in the locker room and off the field. We will miss AT, but we have to move forward without him. That's the way this league works.”
That has to be the case for the Giants as well. move on.
It was very difficult to do that against this particular enemy.
The Giants are 6-27 in their last 33 games against the Eagles (including playoffs). They are now 3-13 in this series and have lost five of their last six games.
Their only win in Week 18 last season came after the game ended with the Giants ending their season and the Eagles taking their foot off the pedal and resting their starters for the playoffs.
Therefore, it has frequently been vilified in public.
To prevent that from happening again, the Giants must overcome the loss of one of the league's top left tackles.
Perhaps they will turn to 2022 third-round pick Josh Ezeudu, who failed to replace Thomas early last season under extenuating circumstances.
He worked almost exclusively as a security guard and was thrown into an unfamiliar field.
This year, he has served as a backup left tackle in this emergency situation.
The return of rookie wide receiver Malik Nabors, who missed the past two games in concussion protocol, will likely help in a big way.
The Giants are coming off a tough 17-7 loss to the Bengals in which Jones' longest pass completion was just 15 yards.
Neighbors will have to consider stretching the field against the Eagles' young secondary.
Neighbors might help Jones actually throw scoring passes.
Jones has had no touchdown passes and at least one interception in five straight home games (starting last season).
This matches the incompetence shared by Jimmy Clausen (2010) and Trent Dilfer (1995-96) as quarterbacks since 1975. That's really terrible.
No matter what happens, Berkeley will be at the center of the story that will be created in the future.
Either the Giants get him or he gets the Giants.
That way, perhaps both sides can move forward.
