William Beatty News

Giants center Shaun O'Hara and Eagles defensive end Trent Cole have both been fined $15,000 for their part in a fight at the end of the Giants-Eagles game on Sunday night.

Major playoff implications will arise this week when the Giants travel to Washington to take on the Redskins.A The Giants are currently one game behind Dallas for the final wild card spot and hold the head-to-head tie breaker over the Cowboys.

Giants right tackle Kareem McKenzie could be out a few weeks with a knee sprain suffered on Sunday night against the Eagles.

A couple of injury updates to pass along out of the Sunday night game between the Eagles and Giants in New Jersey.

Kevin Boothe, a reserve lineman for the Giants, put his 315 pounds to good use when he recently sat in for Santa Claus.

Confusion over personnel caused the Dallas Cowboys to use two timeouts in a span of 38 seconds while the New York Giants had the ball in last Sunday's loss.

The hit was ugly, dangerous, illegal and unpenalized, but Giants tight end Kevin Boss said he has absolutely no issues with Cardinals safety Antrell Rolle for his blatant head-to-head tackle late in last night's game.

Robert Nicks, the father of the Giants rookie Hakeem Nicks, was nicknamed Philly after moving to North Carolina from Philadelphia, where he grew up a fan of the Eagles and the Phillies.

WHAT IT MEANS: It's a very important swing game for the Giants. In other words, which way are they going to swing - down or up? It will be very easy to dismiss their loss to New Orleans as an aberration if they're able to bounce back in a big way today.

After 38 straight games with the same offensive line dating back to the start of the 2007 season, the Giants finally had to make a lineup change Sunday night when right tackle Kareem McKenzie was inactive with an injured groin.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. There's no brushing this one away. The Giants essentially shrugged after last week's loss to the Saints, describing it as one bad game against one hot team.

In a match between Super Bowl finalists from the previous two seasons, neither the Giants nor the Arizona Cardinals played at a championship level Sunday night.

Through the entire off season we were waiting for the New York Giants to pull the trigger on a trade for either Braylon Edwards, or Anquan Boldin.

Andy Benoit will provide live analysis of Sunday night's Giants-Cardinals game. Check back for updates.

Andy Benoit will provide gametracking and live analysis of Sunday night's Giants-Cardinals game.

On the first play of the Giants ' season, Danny Ware returned a kickoff 17 yards but injured his elbow when he was tackled and has not played since.

The Giants struggled with the Saints receivers, but Larry Fitzgerald and Co. are on the docket this week.

Giants DT Chris Canty has missed five straight games with a calf injury, but says "this is the best the calf has felt since I injured it.'' Chris Canty had to be watching the Giants give up 48 points to the Saints and wishing he was out there to help lower that figure.

NEW ORLEANS - An already awful day for the Giants got worse late in the first half when Kareem McKenzie , their starting right tackle, had to be helped off the turf and carted off the field.

Giants tackles William Beatty, left, and Raphael Nguti practiced during Giants rookie minicamp in May.