Giants know win over Eagles will have no bearing over this rematch

PHILADELPHIA — If only the Giants could make it so that this was not a separate entity but more so the fifth quarter of a game they started 17 days ago, only in a different venue.Get texts from Paul Schwartz with all the latest Giants news and insights, exclusive to Sports+ subscribers.

If that were the case, the Giants would be leading 34-17, infused with confidence, with the Eagles still trying to figure out what the heck happened to their running game and their usual physical supremacy over the Giants along the line of scrimmage.That is not the case.These teams met Oct.

9 at MetLife Stadium, the Giants exorcized a great many demons with a rousing victory, then the season moved on to reality for both sides.The Giants and Eagles experienced diametrically different results the week after facing each other and now come together again, this time at Lincoln Financial Field, for a rare rematch so quickly after the first encounter.“Outside looking in it’s, ‘Oh we just played them and all this,’ and it feels like that as a player,” tight end Daniel Bellinger told The Post.

“But ultimately you really just got to wash it and think that this is a new week.Whether it’s the same team we played or not, we got to treat this like a new week, new game plan and refocus that we’re getting ready to play a new team, not the one we just played.”The Giants hoped beating the rival Eagles — and doing it so convincingly — would be the springboard to all sorts of good things to follow.

Then they went out and dominated the rugged Broncos, on the road in Denver, surging into the fourth quarter ahead 19-0 and leading 26-8 with 10:14 remaining.It all came crashing down after that in a 33-32 loss that included a late-game foible and exploits from rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart, and a complete fourth quarter meltdown from a Shane Bowen defense that was supposed to be above such folly.The Eagles after that “Thursday Night Football” setback heard how they are not...