NFL Week 13 predictions: Picks against the spread for every game

Every move you make, every step you take, I’ll be watching you. You know it had to sting for Giants co-owner John Mara to watch Saquon Barkley rush for 255 yards and two touchdowns (70 and 72 yards) and compile an otherworldly 302 yards from scrimmage in the Eagles’ 37-20 victory over the Rams on Sunday night. You know this because you watched “Hard Knocks” this summer on HBO and saw Mara tell GM Joe Schoen that Barkley was the Giants’ most popular player by far and that it would hurt his heart to see him end up with the Eagles. Through 11 games, Barkley has 1,392 rushing yards and 12 total touchdowns.He’s topped 100 yards seven times and 140 yards five times.

He’s broken off runs of 55, 59, 65, 70 and 72 yards.It takes the Giants a quarter or more to match any of those plays. Ironically, Barkley is making one Giants GM look good and that’s Dave Gettleman, at least in this one regard.

Gettleman was criticized when he selected a running back No.2 overall in 2018 but countered by saying he thought Barkley was a “gold jacket” guy.

If Saquon keeps this up, he will be going to Canton on roller skates, to borrow a Bill Parcells phase. The issue has gone beyond whether Schoen will be fired for the Giants’ pathetic 2-9 record, for his defiance of Mara’s wishes (if what was portrayed on “Hard Knocks” was what was really going on), or both, or if he’ll survive. More than that, the real indictment of Schoen and coach Brian Daboll and their predecessors is that the Giants couldn’t figure out how to win while they had Barkley in blue.He had three 1,000-yard seasons and a 962-yarder for them around his multiple serious injuries, and for that he had the opportunity to play in a total of two postseason games. So now the Giants travel to Dallas for a Thanksgiving matchup that rightly could be dubbed the Turkey Bowl.

The Giants have lost six games in a row and scored an average of 12.3 points per game.The Cowboys broke their own five-game s...