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Falcons at Giants Both the Giants and Falcons need a win badly. Both teams are 5-4, slumping and hampered by injuries.

IT IS Tom Coughlin, more than anyone, who stands as a source of comfort for a desperate team with its back against the wall.

New York Giants' Justin Tuck at the New York Giants practice at the Timex Performance Center in East Rutherford, NJ 11/18/09 This photo is part of the following galleries: Giants practice before taking on Falcons on Sunday

If you ask running backs coach Jerald Ingram, it might be a guy with four career carries: Danny Ware .

Charles Woodson and the Green Bay Packers blitz the Dallas Cowboys and Tony Romo, 17-7, on Sunday, keeping the New York Giants within striking distance of first place in the NFC East.

Justin Tuck said "the plan" is for him to play without a shoulder harness at some point this season.

The unofficial end of the Giants 2009 season might have come yesterday on a holding call on usually-reliable Chris Snee followed by a massive breakdown by a defense that earlier flirted with looking as if it had gotten its act together.

If you're wondering what's gone wrong with the New York Giants, look at the final three-plus minutes of their 21-20 loss to the San Diego Chargers.

Coach Tom Coughlin said the focus is on making corrections "so we don't have to see that again." The day after the Giants' 21-20 loss to the Chargers, coach Tom Coughlin was surprisingly upbeat in his conference call with reporters.

Several defensive players -- most notably Antonio Pierce and Justin Tuck -- this past week mentioned communication problems as part of the reason for the breakdowns in recent weeks as the Giants allowed 48 points to the Saints and weren't any better in last week's 40-17 loss to the Eagles.

Eli Manning and the other New York Giants quarterbacks skate-by with a C+. Justin Tuck said the Giants might have lost their confidence.

In his final moment on the field Sunday at Giants Stadium, San Diego quarterback Philip Rivers fired a dart through the heart of the Giants ' defense and maybe their hopes for the season.

Justin Tuck looks on from the bench against the San Diego Chargers . Desperate times for the Giants? You'd better believe it.

Justin Tuck and the Giants have the mindset that next week's game against the Chargers may be a must-win. Justin Tuck looked around the Giants' locker room Monday afternoon and declared that team confidence is as high as it's been in nearly a month.

Coming off of a two-game winning streak against division opponents, the San Diego Chargers head to New York to face a Giants team that has lost three straight.

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

EAST RUTHERFORD a ' "Miscommunication" has been the word bouncing around the Giantsa TM locker room this week when defensive players try to explain the deficiencies of the past few weeks.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:08 p.m. Chargers' next opponent: New York Giants 1:15 p.m. Sunday at Giants Stadium The last time many New Yorkers really paid close attention to the Giants, it was mid-October and Big Blue was 5-0 and on its way to the Super Bowl.

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.

Everyone anointed the Giants as the team to beat in the NFC after they started 5-0 by beating up on many bad teams in the schedule.