What we know now about these Giants and what we know soon after now will mean all the difference.
By around midnight Sunday night, the Giants either will have shown themselves to be a worthy contender in the NFC playoff chase, or else living on fumes off last year's Super Bowl triumph.
They are rested and healthier than they have been in weeks, in first place in the NFC East, riding a two-game losing streak, playing at home, brimming with incentive and talking up this six-game closing stretch with all the proper urgency.
The challenge of facing the Packers always is immense, but if the Giants aren't up to it, if they continue to go 0-for-November, what's to say they are going to awaken any time soon?
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"Dallas is right on our tails. We know what our schedule is like the rest of the way,'' Justin Tuck said. "They're coming in our house, Sunday night football, the whole world gonna be watching. This is probably a team, if everything goes right, we'll see again in the playoffs, hopefully. We both are fighting for positions in the playoff race.
"We've played [shoddy] football the past couple weeks. We really would like to swing this momentum back in our favor. We really like to come out this football game feeling very confident about where we are as a football team heading into the rest of the schedule. It will be a great measuring stick for our football team to see exactly where we are.''
A look inside the game:
BEST BATTLE
Packers LT Marshall Newhouse vs. Giants DE Jason Pierre-Paul. Newhouse has started every game, but he hardly is a franchise left tackle. Last season, his first as an NFL starter, he allowed eight sacks and eight quarterback hits, according to Pro Football Focus. Newhouse is greatly improved but figures to need help here. Pierre-Paul has shown flashes but, unlike 2011, hasn't had that "wow'' game, yet.
HIT THE SACK
The Giants used to get all the pub about being a feared defensive front, but it's the Packers who come in as the masters, as their 33 sacks is second only to the Broncos' 35. Actually, it's not the Green Bay front that is applying the pressure, as LB Clay Matthews leads the Pack with nine sacks — no one else on the team has more than three. That's why the absence of Matthews to a hamstring injury is so huge. He cannot be replaced, so the Giants catch a big, big break.
ELI SAYS HELLO AFTER BYE
Naturally, Eli Manning says he hasn't given his remarkable post-bye success any thought, but it's real and it's spectacular. In his past four games coming off the regular-season bye week, he has thrown 10 touchdowns and only one interception. He hasn't had a vintage performance in more than a month, hasn't compiled a quarterback rating above 78.9 in five games and hasn't thrown in a scoring pass in three straight games for the first time since he was a rookie.
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