As the Giants head into their last week of the preseason, they’ll essentially be broken into two teams:
One that will play on Thursday against the Patriots, and one that won’t.
“The guys that we know are going to play in the game we’re going to use a portion of practice to get them ready to play the Patriots,” Pat Shurmur said on Saturday. “It’s important that some of the guys that might not be playing in this game, it’s like training camp, so the padded practices are important and the work that we do is important, especially the Giants-on-Giants phase of things.