WR Steve Smith walked the line between fact and trash talk today. While he certainly wasn’t  trying to rile anyone up, he did give the Eagles secondary a bit of extra motivation (as if they need it in this rivalry). This is what he had to say about the unit.

“I think sometimes they get caught with their eyes in the backfield,” Smith said. “You can run right by them sometimes. We’re not going to be surprised if we’re wide open down the field on a play.

“(The big plays) are going to be there. There are going to be a few plays where we’re wide open. We’ve just got to make a play.”

The Giants have some of their own fodder going into the game. In last years playoff defeat (probably fodder enough) Donovan McNabb ran out of bounds on the Giants sideline and then mocked the team by picking up one of the coaches phones. LB  Danny Clark on the incident:

“We kept the picture up all offseason. It sits pretty heavy on us.”

Bottom line the Eagles and Giants need no extra motivation when they play each other, but you never know what lights an extra fire under specific players.