The Atlanta Falcons go on the road on Sunday to New York to take on the Giants in what should be am intriguing match up. Both teams are on 2-2 coming into Week 5 and have the opportunity to push on and rise above .500.
The game will take place from the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and can be watched on the Fox network, or online through live stream on Direct TV's NFL Sunday Ticket by clicking here.
The Giants have made great progress over the past two weeks; after starting the season 0-2, there were concerns that they would repeat last year's atrocious start of 0-6. However, they have suddenly clicked together over the past two weeks and have come out with two very good wins to get back to 2-2. They will be desperate to continue their winning run and claim a third straight win today.
Today's game comes amid news that the NFL will begin on Monday to test players for human growth hormone (HGH).
Earlier in September, the NFL and the NFLPA announced that they had agreed to a new drug policy; that new agreement was widespread but included HGH testing for the first time in the NFL's history.
A letter written by NFLPA president Eric Winston to players has been leaked, and was published on NFL.com.
The letter reads: "As you know, the new Performance Enhancing Substances Policy includes HGH testing. Testing for HGH will begin on Monday, October 6th.
"Each week of the season, 5 players on 8 teams will be tested. No testing will occur on game days. We negotiated to ensure that the methodology of testing be conducted in the most professional and safest manner for players.
"Importantly, after three years of negotiating, players won the right to challenge any aspect of the science behind the HGH isoforms test in an appeal of a positive test."
If any performance enhancing drug policy violations are found, including HGH, the case will then be passed onto and handled by an independent arbitrator.
