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After the Giant-sized egg Tom Coughlin’s team laid at FedEx Field last Sunday, this week’s matchup with the Jets has nothing to do with owning the town or bragging rights, or even stretching out a winning streak in this intra-stadium rivalry.
It’s about making the playoffs and, not coincidentally, saving a job.
Granted, a Giants win Sunday guarantees neither. But at 5-6, with undefeated Carolina coming up in two weeks and a road game in Minnesota immediately thereafter, if they don’t notch their sixth straight victory over the Jets, it will stand as just one more black mark on a team under a “win now” mandate from ownership.