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By JASON BROWN  Best of the rest Chargers at Giants, 3:15 p.m., KTVT/11The line: New York by 5These two teams have one victory against a winning opponent between them, and the Giants have gone into a complete tailspin.

At least two starting positions are likely to change on the Giants' defense when they try to end a three-game losing streak Sunday against the San Diego Chargers at Giants Stadium.

So what has gone wrong for the Giants during their three-game slide? How about everything, says Sirius host and Giants' play-by-play man Bob Papa.

Giants safety C.C. Brown has started since Kenny Phillips went on IR, but he was not working with the first team during Friday's practice.

DT Chris Canty , out since the first week of the season, is hopeful of returning Sunday against the Chargers.

Giants defensive end Justin Tuck was blunt Monday when he expanded on comments made Sunday by middle linebacker Antonio Pierce about how the defense had a communication problem during a 40-17 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles .

The Giants said no one should panic when their defense got strafed by Drew Brees and the Saints two weeks ago.

There's no way you can spin Sunday's loss to the Saints as being about the failures of Eli Manning .

Chris Canty wants to wear his No. 99 jersey on the field, but doctors still won't let him go.

What happened in the secondary? There were plenty of plays in which a cornerback seemed to be looking for help in a certain spot but didn't get it because a safety was being suckered in by play action.

As they were beating up on the Giants, Drew Brees and the Saints might have helped not only the Cardinals, but all those other offenses in the coming weeks set to go up against what used to be a formidable Giants defense.

Photo credit: Kathy Kmonicek / AP Rex Ryan, left, will try to restore order for the Jets this weekend against the Raiders, who are coming off an expected win against the Eagles.

The beat down the Giants received at the hands of the Saints was tough to watch.

Posted by ESPN.com's Matt Mosley NEW ORLEANS -- This was supposed to be a measuring stick game for both teams.

Pressure Drew Brees The Saintsa offensive line is allowing one sack per game, which is one of the reason Drew Brees has a 108.4 quarterback rating.

That's a significant indicator of a great team - dominating the games on the schedule that they're expected to dominate.

Andy Furman, who runs the Ultimatenyg blog and who has contributed occasionally to the Fifth Down, sent us this item from one of his posts: Lots of people have been talking about the Giants vs.

The following quotes are from NFL scouts, coaches and front-office personnel, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Football Insiders: Check out Stewart Mandel's College Football Overtime . NEW YORK -- So we're a quarter of the way through the season, except for those four luckless teams that had the dumb Week 4 byes.

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