#Eagles’ dominance is weighing on the Giants

Sterling Shepard is the only current Giants player to beat the Eagles while playing for the Giants. That was in early November 2016. Eli Manning threw four touchdown passes — two to Odell Beckham Jr. and one to Shepard, a rookie at the time — in a 28-23 Giants victory at MetLife Stadium.

Since then? Nada.

The Giants take an eight-game losing streak in the series into Sunday’s game with the Eagles. Reaching back even further, the Giants have lost 12 of the past 13 against their closest geographic rival in the NFC East.

In late November 2018, when the streak stood at four consecutive Giants losses to the Eagles, Beckham said, “I was looking back on my career, I was trying to think of the last time we beat the Eagles. I know they’ve been giving it to us. It’s time for that all to turn around.’’

Two days later, the Eagles beat the Giants for a fifth straight time.

Joe Judge, in his first year as the head coach, is 0-1 against his hometown Eagles, losing 22-21 after his team back in Week 7 blew a 21-10 fourth quarter lead.

Linebacker Blake Martinez, in his first year with the Giants, was with the Packers the past four years and admits these one-sided series can play mind-games on the participants.

“I don’t think it’s any of the confidence portion, but it’s definitely something you think about throughout the week, knowing that you can either end that streak or continue the streak type of thing,’’ Martinez said.

Inside the building, longtime Giants executives are sick of losing to the Eagles. The Giants also have an extended (seven game) losing streak to the Cowboys.

“Obviously on the Patriots, [I was] on the right side of a lot of them,’’ safety Logan Ryan, another first-year Giants player, said. “When I went to Tennessee, they never beat Andrew Luck. They were like 0-and-something against the Colts or 1-and-whatever against the Colts. We were on the wrong side of it, and we didn’t care. I don’t think players care.

“I think playing in this league for eight years, the division games matter. I think they’re the toughest games. I think when you play somebody twice, I think it’s tough because they know your tendencies. They know your players. They are going to work on what hurt them last time. They’re not going to make the same mistakes. They’re going to come with something different. It’s tougher to prepare because you know them so well so they might change it up on you.’’