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Justin Tuck looks on from the bench against the San Diego Chargers . Desperate times for the Giants? You'd better believe it.

Justin Tuck and the Giants have the mindset that next week's game against the Chargers may be a must-win. Justin Tuck looked around the Giants' locker room Monday afternoon and declared that team confidence is as high as it's been in nearly a month.

Coming off of a two-game winning streak against division opponents, the San Diego Chargers head to New York to face a Giants team that has lost three straight.

The Giants are entering a critical stretch of their season with a need to regain their identity.

EAST RUTHERFORD a ' "Miscommunication" has been the word bouncing around the Giantsa TM locker room this week when defensive players try to explain the deficiencies of the past few weeks.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:08 p.m. Chargers' next opponent: New York Giants 1:15 p.m. Sunday at Giants Stadium The last time many New Yorkers really paid close attention to the Giants, it was mid-October and Big Blue was 5-0 and on its way to the Super Bowl.

The core of this Giants team has risen to the challenge so often the past few seasons that even when darkness is shrouding the light there's the belief that some soothing rays of sunshine will soon peek through.

Everyone anointed the Giants as the team to beat in the NFC after they started 5-0 by beating up on many bad teams in the schedule.

Walking through the locker room after the Giants went over corrections from another embarrassing loss, it was hard to tell that they were coming off a third straight setback and were no longer in first place in the NFC East.

As he left his team in the visitors' locker room at Lincoln Financial Field, Tom Coughlin kept calm as he waded through the wreckage of yesterday's 40-17 loss to the Eagles that suddenly left the once 5-0 Giants mired in a three-game losing streak at mid-season. In what was described as a firm but not loud address, Coughlin laid out the facts in ...

Steve Smith wasn't necessarily idling on the bench, but the third-year pro has jumped into another stratosphere this season.

"You prepare for Westbrook," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said during a conference call yesterday.

NY vs. Philly. Let's play two! When the Giants and Eagles clash with the NFC East lead at stake, they'll only be the opening act in a Broadway-Broad Street twinbill.

What gnaws at the Giants, as much as Donovan McNabb picking up the phone on their sidelines at the end of their playoff loss last January at Giants Stadium, is this sickening reality: McNabb dropped back to pass 106 times in three games last year against them, and wasn't sacked a single time.

The stakes are high, with , the Giant Killer, looking like a longshot to play Sunday when New York comes to visit the Eagles .

As busy as it normally is at Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia for a Philadelphia Eagles home game, the town will be bopping to the extreme Sunday, on perhaps one of the most memorable sports days in the City of Brotherly Love's history.Not only are the hated NFC East-rival New York Giants in town seeking a measure of revenge against an ...

The New York Giants haven't forgotten. The playoff loss to the Eagles to end last season was bad enough.

The Cardinals offensive line has played pretty well the past couple of weeks. And when you consider they went against the likes of Mario Williams and Patrick Kearney, thata TMs something to build on.

Maybe it was the sight of members of the 1986 defense, including Lawrence Taylor, trotting out onto the field prior to kickoff.

Rookie Hakeem Nicks scored on a bizarre 62-yard pass play after catching a ball batted by Cardinals safety Dominique Rodger-Cromartie and the New York Giants took a 14-10 halftime lead over Arizona in their nationally televised game Sunday night.