Giants middle linebacker Antonio Pierce will be out indefinitely with a bulging disc injury.

Michael Strahan's last pep talk to the Giants came on the sidelines during Super Bowl XLII , just before their championship-winning drive.

THE Giants came back from their bye week saying all the right things yesterday, conducting business as usual almost as if their four-game losing streak were a distant memory.

While pondering during their bye week how they managed to squander a massive margin of error accumulated during a 5-0 start, the Giants were granted some extra margin of error when Atlanta, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Chicago all lost last week.

Clint Sintim, left, and Danny Clark of the New York Giants prepare for Sunday's game against the Atlanta Falcons.

EAST RUTHERFORD a ' Danny Clark recalls the guy who took him under his wing, both in college at Illinois and with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Giants are finally healthy. For the first time all season, the Giants had all 53 players practice on the field Thursday after going long stretches without players such as Aaron Ross , Chris Canty and Michael Boley among others.

Giants linebackers Danny Clark and Clint Sintim will continue to split time in the base defense against the Falcons this Sunday.

The New York Giants feel like they won a game last weekend - and they didn't even play.

I'm guessing these things were a lot funnier when the Giants were winning. Or at least when it was the offseason.

Giants linebacker Clint Sintim practices during rookie mincamp in East Rutherford, N.J. Three days after his first extended play in an NFL game - an experience of about a dozen snaps - Clint Sintim still was bubbling with excitement.

Is Giants coach Tom Coughlin holding in that F-bomb longing to be free? As a Philly fan, my delight at the Giants' latest broken rung in their descent back to the pack was cut short by the Eagles' botching of their opportunity to get a leg up on the Cowboys.

Brandon Jacobs gained 31 yards on the Giants ' first drive on Sunday and averaged 6.1 yards per carry for the game.

It will be back to the drawing board for defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan, left, and Giants linebackers Danny Clark and Antonio Pierce during their upcoming bye week.

With the Giants reeling after a three-game losing streak,Tom Coughlintold his players Wednesday that their game against theSan Diego Chargerson Sunday "is a one-game season for us." And judging by their response, that's a reality they already faced.

No one needs to hype the importance of Sunday's game against the Chargers to the Giants because Tom Coughlin already has.

The Giants are entering a critical stretch of their season with a need to regain their identity.

The core of this Giants team has risen to the challenge so often the past few seasons that even when darkness is shrouding the light there's the belief that some soothing rays of sunshine will soon peek through.

Walking through the locker room after the Giants went over corrections from another embarrassing loss, it was hard to tell that they were coming off a third straight setback and were no longer in first place in the NFC East.

Danny Clark of the Giants says he gets a lot of long looks from curious motorists when he drives his Smart car between Manhattan and the team's practice complex in New Jersey.