Several times a week, The Trenches will present team reports from Sporting News' 32 NFL correspondents.

NFL players tend to downgrade the importance of regular-season games because they are merely one of 16 that take place every year.

Still, the New York Giants, who are in the midst of a four-game losing streak, know that the next game on their schedule, against Atlanta, is a big game in many ways.

For starters, the Giants are very much intent on transferring everything they accomplished during their self-scouting process during their bye onto the field of play in the form of fundamentally sound football from this point forward, as New York will probably need to win five of their remaining seven games if they want to be playing in January.

"The most important thing to me is our team, and the word 'opportunity' and the fact that what we do is the most important...

The race for the AFC playoffs looks like it will have a fantastic finish. It started out in triumphant fashion,...