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As their two biggest rivals loaded up for playoff runs and their neighbor tanked for control of the draft, the Giants sat idly at the NFL trade deadline.

The counterintuitive but enticing possibility of trading draft picks for a receiver who could accelerate Jaxson Dart’s development and complement a healthy Malik Nabers next season never materialized.

The thought of trading Dexter Lawrence or Kayvon Thibodeaux — like the Jets dealing away Quinnen Williams and Sauce Gardner — for draft picks was unpalatable with jobs to be saved by the play on the field.

And so the team that takes the field Sunday against the Bears will be

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