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Eagles Are In For a Giants Surprise

 
  If the Eagles believe they will be facing the same lame duck Giants they faced last month, they will be in for a rude surprise. The Giants will be in their "imposing their will," mode, as I heard Carl Banks say, come Sunday. All season long when the Giants had to step up and take it up a notch, they've come through. When they played the Pittsburgh Steelers earlier this year and the pundits were fanning the flames of match up hysteria, the Giants rode that sentiment to fantastic finish and beat them. When the Carolina Panthers, arguably the second best team in the league, came in to Giants Stadium strutting their prowess, the Giants made all their fans forget the earlier meaningless losses to the Cowboys and Eagles with a dramatic and electrifying fireworks in overtime. When the season was still young and the Giants needed to continue their domination, they rattled off six straight victories against teams with a winning record. The only aberration I can think of was the Cleveland ... (link)

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