Giants have been providing nothing but misery

ATLANTA — It has been 77 days since the Giants last won.In a brutal sport with extreme physical risk, the need to find ways to keep pushing forward and force a smile every now and then amid the losing is essential for mental and emotional well-being. No one on the outside cares much about the feelings of those inside the building.

Rest assured, it is a struggle going through a nine-game losing streak.The Giants won at Seattle in Week 5, and since then it has been months of losing.

Nine consecutive walks off the field with nothing to show for all the sweat.Nine straight locker-room post mortems.

Nine weeks of media sessions peppered with questions about failure and disappointment. Can there be anything other than misery extracted from any of this? “Yeah, I think you try to enjoy the process with the guys in the meeting rooms, on game day making the adjustments,’’ offensive coordinator Mike Kafka said.“The results will come.

So, you’ve just got to believe that part of it, and I think we do, and it’s been tough.Those things have been tough.

That’s in the past.‘What can we control today?’ And that’s our mentality.

That’s our mindset.’’ It is tough to discern what the collective mindset of the Giants (2-12) will be Sunday as they face the Falcons (7-7) inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium.No Giants team in the previous 99 years has ever lost 10 consecutive games, and that is the infamy that awaits this group if what has happened every week since Oct.

6 happens again this weekend. This game is a pivot point for the Falcons, as they sent veteran free agent addition Kirk Cousins to the bench — in the midst of a playoff race — to give rookie quarterback Michael Penix Jr.his first NFL start.

One way or another, this will be a significant development for the Falcons. Not so for the Giants, as they continue to turn the most important position on the field into an irrelevancy or a redundancy or a calamity.Take your pick.

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