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Giants Insider: Defense must get off ground

So much for the Giants’ dominating run defense.

For the first five weeks of the season, the Giants held five straight opponents to less than 100 yards on the ground, despite a rash of injuries. But on Monday, it was once again a point of concern as they surrendered 233 rushing yards to the Cowboys in their Week 7 victory.

“It’s something we talked about (Monday) and we’ve definitely got to address,” said linebacker Devon Kennard. “We’re a defense that takes pride in being run-stoppers and we’ve done that all year, but we have slowly let it creep in to where Dallas was able to do that.