EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants might have to walk the plank if they don’t get better at taking possessions away from opponents.

Sitting on the sideline during practice this offseason is a wooden chest – a “turnover chest,” if you will – that contains no gold, silver or jewels. But to the Giants, what does go in there is even more valuable.

When a defensive player gives the heave-ho to the offense by creating a turnover – an interception, a fumble recovery – he gets to place the football inside the chest while the entire unit celebrates.

“You’ll hear our guys say it and I say it ad nauseum: ‘Be a damn pirate,’” defensive coordinator Shane Bowen said Thursday before the Giants’ heated practice session that ended after tempers flared. “We’ve got to find ways to get th

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