Mark Cannizzaro

Mark Cannizzaro

NFL

Giants hope Eagles continue to be terrible at home

The Giants are the 1-6 team fighting to keep their season alive, so they should be the fragile, vulnerable team when they play the Eagles Sunday in Philadelphia, right?

Not exactly.

The Eagles, despite being 3-4 and just one game out of first place in the NFC East, have lost their last nine games at Lincoln Financial Field — something that has to be rattling around uncomfortably in their minds as they have been mired in a rare home-field disadvantage.

“Yes, we are very aware of that,’’ Giants safety Ryan Mundy told The Post on Friday when asked about the Eagles’ home-field futility. “It’s been discussed. That’s an alarming statistic. I think they’re something like minus-15 in turnover ratio in that stretch, so that’s something that we need to take advantage of. It’s been noted.’’

This season’s 0-3 start at home dropped the Eagles’ overall regular-season record at the Linc to 49-42. Last week’s 17-3 home loss to the Cowboys set their franchise record for home futility.

“It’s an embarrassment,” Eagles center Jason Kelce said.

“I don’t know the reason for it,” Eagles linebacker DeMeco Ryans said. “I wish I knew.’’

Jets coach Rex Ryan is known to call out Jets fans and plead for more support when he senses a kill. He did it a week ago with the hated Patriots coming to town. Whether the tactic worked and was a factor in the Jets’ overtime win over New England is up for debate. But surely the added rabid nature of Ryan’s riling up of the fans could not have hurt.

Giants coach Tom Coughlin does not do these things. It’s Ryan’s style, not Coughlin’s.

If these were Ryan’s Jets — not Coughlin’s Giants — going to Philadelphia on Sunday to play an Eagles team that has been this vulnerable at home, he would have been on his bullhorn all week imploring fans to caravan down the Jersey Turnpike, crash The Linc and turn the place into a Jets home game.

There are surely plenty of disgruntled Philadelphia fans ticked off about the home losing, and Giants fans who still believe and revel in sticking it to the Eagles. They can become intrepid travelers like the Steelers fans who invaded MetLife Stadium two weeks ago and turned a Jets home game into Heinz Field East.

Giants defensive tackle Mike Patterson, who spent the last eight seasons playing for the Eagles, understands the impatient dynamic of the Philadelphia fan better than anyone in the Giants locker room.

“They’ve got 53 guys on their roster and I wouldn’t be surprised if some players let some doubts creep into their minds,’’ Patterson said. “If we start out well in the game, go out and shut them down early, maybe the fans start booing. That gets to the offense and they start losing patience themselves and start having miscommunication issues.

“You can sense that as a defense. I’ve heard some pretty good booing there over the years. I came in during the [Donovan] McNabb and ‘T.O.’ [Terrell Owens] era, so I got a taste of it.’’

The Giants want to give the Eagles a taste of that Sunday, and it starts with shutting down Eagles running back LeSean McCoy, who is the NFL’s leading rusher with 685 yards (4.9 yards per carry) and three touchdowns. The most immediate way for the Giants to discourage the home fans is to stop McCoy the way they did on Oct. 6 at MetLife Stadium, when they held him to 46 yards on 20 carries.

The Giants are six days removed from a dominant defensive performance against the Vikings, limiting Adrian Peterson, the NFL’s reigning MVP, to just 28 yards on 13 carries.

“Our No. 1 goal is to take McCoy out of the game,’’ cornerback Terrell Thomas said.

They took Peterson out of the game and won because of it.

“That was impressive, to shut the league’s MVP down,’’ Mundy said. “But this is an ongoing test.’’

McCoy, whose 952 yards from scrimmage is a franchise record through seven games, is next. He rushed for only 55 yard on 18 carries in last week’s loss to the Cowboys and ripped himself for his performance.

“I just wasn’t myself,” McCoy said. “I felt like with a game like that where my team needed me and depended on me, I didn’t show up. I started doing too many individual-type plays and not really going with the plays and just doing my own thing.

“I felt like that was probably my worst performance since my rookie year, but I’ll bounce back this week for sure.’’

If that McCoy promise is not enough to lift the spirits of the Eagles, then perhaps they can take solace knowing that their last home win came against the Giants — a 19-17 victory on Sept. 30 of last season.