On the first day of training camp, Dexter Lawrence made it clear a pass rush that looked fearsome on paper would not matter much if the New York Giants could not stop the run.

Allowing 276 yards rushing in a 38-20 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday that dropped them to 2-6 certainly proved that sentiment to be correct. And it wasn't just former Giants standout Saquon Barkley doing the damage, as Tank Bigsby surpassed the 100-yard mark, too.

“It’s never just one thing when you give up 300 yards or whatever it was,” coach Brian Daboll said afterward. "Could be a call, could be run fit, could be a missed tackle — a number of things — but that was obviously way too many yards against the team that we knew wanted to run the ball.”

It started on Philadelphia's first carry of the ga

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