Giants Lose Fourth Straight Game, Head Into Bye Week

There’s no hiding that the Giants’ 21-20 loss to the Chargers at home hurts. With 16 regular season games every one of them counts. 10-6 and 9-7 are miles apart compared to a one loss difference in record for a team in any of the other three major North American sports. Of the Giants’ three losses prior to their loss this week to the Chargers, the Giants were beat. Plain and simple. They were beat up by the Saints, put up a good fight but still lost to the Cards and handled by the Eagles.

So does this one hurt more than the other ones knowing that the Giants outplayed their opponent and still lost? It has to. You could argue that the Giants were the better team on the field but it didn’t transfer to the final score. The Giants dug their own hole deeper by shooting themselves in the foot against the Chargers. A win would have done wonders mentally for this team heading into their bye week. They would have been 6-3 and tied for first place in the NFC East. As it stands the Giants are 5-4, on a four game losing streak, with the third best record in their division.

Looking ahead to the remainder of their schedule, two of their last seven games can be slated in as wins (@Washington and Carolina). The other five (Atlanta, @Denver, Dallas, Philadelphia, and @Minnesota) are all going to be tough games. There’s a chance this team goes 7-9 or 8-8. What looked like a strong start by the Giants (5-0) now looks like the Giants were only bottom feeders. They’ll be considered bottom feeders until they prove otherwise.