The New York Giants are a dangerous team for the Green Bay Packers this weekend.

Sure, their record wouldn't suggest that. New York is 2-8 and riding a four-game losing streak. They just fired head coach Mike Daboll and coming into this game against the 5-3-1 Packers, they're going to be down quarterback Jaxson Dart, safety Anthony Johnson Jr., tackle Evan Neal, EDGE Chauncey Golston, EDGE Kayvon Thibodeaux and wideout Darius Slayton.

That's not to mention running back Cam Skattebo and star wideout Malik Nabers, who are both out for the season.

The Giants are depleted and they appear to be reeling, but the Packers aren't in great shape either. They're down star tight end Tucker Kraft and star offensive lineman Elgton Jenkins for the season. Cornerback Nate Hobbs is out with a knee injury, defensive end Lukas Van Ness is questionable with a foot injury, and wideouts Matthew Golden (shoulder) and Savion Williams (foot) are questionable as well.

The Packers are also riding a two-game losing skid of their own and it seems like they're one bad game from watching the wheels fall off on this season.

Throw in the fact that the Giants could very well be due for a "dead cat bounce" under interim head coach Mike Kafka in this one, and the Packers in no way can take this game anything other than seriously, especially on the road.

In fact, the Packers are uniquely positioned to have insight into what the Giants are going through right now. If anybody knows the positive impact an interim head coach can have on a team, it would be running back Josh Jacobs and special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia.

In 2021, both were with the Las Vegas Raiders when Jon Gruden was fired. Bisaccia had the same role in Vegas at the time and he was promoted to interim head coach. He led the Raiders on a four-game winning streak to end the regular season and even got them into the playoffs.

Josh Jacobs knows that Green Bay Packers could face a very tough and motivated opponent in the New York Giants 

Teams in these moments can be dangerous, and Jacobs knows that all too well.

"The impact, it's almost like wherever you (were) at before that point doesn't matter," Jacobs said earlier this week, according to Mike Spofford of the team website. "It's like a new fresh air. You want to go hard for that coach and also for your team. You want to finish the right way.

"So it's something that I know not to take lightly, playing against a team like that, it kind of almost rejuvenizes the team."

In light of Jacobs' comments, it should be expected that the Packers will be playing a rejuvenated Giants team, while the Packers are coming in flat and in search of some rejuvination themselves.

That's a scary place to be in if you're the Pack, but they have to shut off that noise and simply focus on playing winning football. That's the only way they're going to get out of this tailspin.

"It's really just about us this week," Jacobs said. "That's the main thing I've been trying to preach to the guys that we're going to go as far as we want to go. So it's really about us."