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Lawrence Tynes delivered the winning points on a 36-yard field goal and Eli Manning provided plenty of fireworks with 384 passing yards, but the Giants' receiving corps was the impetus for New York's 34-31 overtime win over Atlanta on Sunday.

After breaking down film, Scouts Inc. gives its take on what to watch in the NFL this weekend: Can the struggling New York Giants be fixed? They had a bye week to try to fix some of their problems, but the more film you watch, the more you realize that some of these problems may not be fixable.

THE Giants came back from their bye week saying all the right things yesterday, conducting business as usual almost as if their four-game losing streak were a distant memory.

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LOOK at the way the Bad News Giants have played for the past month. Now look at the schedule.

One drip led to another as a sterling 5-0 record turned into a tarnished 5-4, and quite suddenly the Giants are in danger of getting washed away from a once-promising season.

The Giants took the first shot at saving their season and failed miserably against the Chargers.

If you're wondering what's gone wrong with the New York Giants, look at the final three-plus minutes of their 21-20 loss to the San Diego Chargers.

Go ahead and admit it: The image you witnessed in the third quarter of the Jets' last game against the Dolphins isn't what you expected to see out of Braylon Edwards.

Notes: Played two years of junior-college ball before amassing 152 tackles at Arizona .

The Giants have absorbed a string of terrible losses this season: a beating in New Orleans, an embarrassment at home to Arizona, a rout in Philadelphia.

The answer to the question, can the Giants get into the end zone, is No. Their drive stalled in the red zone after a play in which Steve Smith was originally credited with a reception was overturned after a replay review.

Philip Rivers and Eli Manning will forever be linked by the 2004 NFL draft, in which Manning was selected first by the Chargers, then traded to the Giants for Rivers, whom the Giants selected fourth.

The game was in the final minutes and beyond hopeless, but there was Tom Coughlin on the sidelines, coaching like he needed a touchdown to win another Super Bowl.

Rodney Hampton rushes for 6,897 yards and 49 scores in his eight seasons with the Giants.

He looks the same. Still rumpled and boyish, seems as if he just rolled out of bed, even though it's after 2 o'clock on a rainy afternoon last week at the New York Giants ' expansive new practice facility.

For years, the Eagles' secondary was tormented by the tall receiver, and nobody fit that bill better than Plaxico Burress, the Giants' lanky, slithery former wideout.

Steve Smith burst onto the scene this season -- his first as a starter -- and just as he was beginning to really have some fun, the league hit back.

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

Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw, who said his injured ankle was grabbed on right before his fumble against the Cardinals , flew to see a noted orthopedist in North Carolina Wednesday.