PHILADLELPHIA — Big games after Thanksgiving, with December closing in, are not manufactured or designed or debated. They are earned.
The Giants have not earned the right to affix Sunday’s encounter with the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field with “big-game’’ status. The humdrum records of the other three teams in the NFC East are what they are, and they are why anyone is paying attention to what the Giants do in Week 12 — a time when contenders begin the push to firm up their grips or loose hold of their place in the division and conference pecking order.