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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of Papa's Perspective. I'm Bob Papa.

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Speaker 1: Thursday night, the Giants take on the Philadelphia Eagles. So

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Speaker 1: let's think back to last year, right, The Philadelphia Eagles

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Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl, the first and franchise history. Yet

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Speaker 1: the Giants nearly beat him, not once, but twice. That's

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Speaker 1: how close the margin is in the National Football League

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Speaker 1: between winning and losing. The Giants got another taste of

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Speaker 1: that last weekend when they went against the Carolina Panthers

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Speaker 1: and lost on a sixty three yard field goal. In

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Speaker 1: my opinion, the short week is the best thing that

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Speaker 1: could have ever happened to the New York Giants. Rather

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Speaker 1: than dealing with a week of media scrutiny about everything

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Speaker 1: that's going on with the team and the close loss,

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Speaker 1: and having to deal with answering questions all week long

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Speaker 1: about last week's game, one day of media avails a

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Speaker 1: walk through on Wednesday, and the game will be played

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Speaker 1: on Thursday night. Not a lot of time to think

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Speaker 1: or dwell upon the negatives or the would have and

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Speaker 1: should have been could have's that didn't happen against Carolina.

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Speaker 1: It's right back to business and guess what with the

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Speaker 1: way things are going in the NFC East, and with

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Speaker 1: the way the teams performed last weekend, it's all right

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Speaker 1: there right in front of the New York Giants. There

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Speaker 1: is a golden opportunity for the Giants to get their

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Speaker 1: first division win of the season, get their second win

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Speaker 1: of the season, and insert themselves right in the race

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Speaker 1: for the NFC East title. Nobody's running away with this

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Speaker 1: division right now, and the Giants need to put their

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Speaker 1: best foot forward. So how do they do it? Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: has a very exotic group of blitz packages and ways

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Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback, but there are ways to

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Speaker 1: make plays down field. Last year, Sterling Shepherd had two

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Speaker 1: one yard receiving games against Philadelphia. O'Dell Beckham Jr. Has

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Speaker 1: two in his career, and the Giants are expected to

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Speaker 1: have Evan Ingram back, So the Giants have to score

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Speaker 1: points when they're get in the red zone be really efficient.

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Speaker 1: These are the two best red zone defenses in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: If the Giants tackle better than they did last week,

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Speaker 1: it gives them a great chance. And that's my perspective.