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for the Eagles to stop in the first half of Sunday’s game as he picked up 131 yards from scrimmage and scored two touchdowns to help the team build a 19-3 lead.It was much easier for the Eagles to slow Barkley down in the second half because the Giants stopped giving him the ball. He had 15 touches in the first half and five touches after the break as the Giants offense stopped moving the ball in the face of an Eagles comeback.Among the coaching decisions made by Pat Shurmur in the second half was using backup running back Wayne Gallman for an entire series in the third quarter and Shurmur said after the game that “had nothing to do with the outcome of the game.” He also said the team got “off schedule” with sacks and penalties that kept them from using Barkley.Wide receiver Odell Beckham shared his dissatisfaction with the offensive plan after the game http://www.authenticsnewyorkgiants.com/cheap-rhett-ellison-jersey , but Barkley was more circumspect when asked if he took issue with how things unfolded.“No. I mean, the offensive coordinator and the head coach are coaches for a reason,” Barkley said. “I know everyone wants to be a coach and think what we should call, but they know what they are doing, and theye putting us in the position to win. Like I said multiple times http://www.authenticsnewyorkgiants.com/cheap-connor-barwin-jersey , if I carry the ball 20 times or carry the ball three times, no matter how many times it takes to win the game I willing to do. But we just didn finish this game and that the difference.”Barkley’s been a consistent bright spot amid the gloom of this Giants season and his unwillingness to point fingers is a likable trait even if he’d be right to wonder how the Giants thought they could win without giving him a lot of work.Pat Shurmur: Giants coach says “everything counts” in evaluating players The New York Giants preseason game on Friday against the New York Jets is their third, the traditional “dress rehearsal” game in which starters play the most snaps of any time before the regular season.Giants coach Pat Shurmur on Wednesday said that in terms of evaluating the 53-man roster this game isn’t any different than the other preseason games.“It’s part of it. It’s one of the four games we look at. It’s just like any other game. I think you’ve got to put equal stock in all the games,” Shurmur said.” It’s not like old Catholic school, you know. You can’t throw out your worst test. They all count http://www.authenticsnewyorkgiants.com/cheap-ray-ray-armstrong-jersey , everything counts.”Will Odell Beckham Jr. play?Shurmur keeps being asked if the star wide receiver will take some reps against the Jets. He keeps finding ways to deflect the question, saying Wednesday that Beckham has “gotten so much work behind the scenes, we’ll just have to see how it plays out.”That’s Shurmur’s way of, again, telling the media nicely that he isn’t answering the question.On starting center Jon HalapioThis http://www.authenticsnewyorkgiants.com/cheap-b.j.-goodson-jersey , to be honest, is an odd quote from Shurmur.“Jon is very smart. He blinks fast. He makes good decisions in terms of getting us going in the right direction. He generally plays center for us at this point.”On how the Giants will handle the days before and after games“Tomorrow’s a mock game, I’ll have a traditional schedule. They’ll come in on Monday, we’ll watch the tape, settle all debts. That way if they are a little angry with me they can go home on their off day http://www.authenticsnewyorkgiants.com/cheap-kerry-wynn-jersey , simmer down and come back on (Wednesday). Basically I think it’s important to clean up the game film and otherwise then come back Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday and train. Saturday have a traditional mock game, which is more mental.”