Although the New York Giants ’ 2026 schedule is just days away from being released and figures to be easier than the hardest slate the NFL handed them last fall, one element many fans want to know is when the organization will have to go through a miniature gauntlet in the NFC West. While the division had three of its four teams enter the postseason dance at the end of the regular season, there was a good case to be made that the most impressive team was the Los Angeles Rams, whom the Giants will travel to SoFi Stadium to face this season. No, the Rams did not finish as the lone team at the pinnacle of the sport–a distinction that went to their rivals in the Seattle Seahawks, who defeated them in the conference championship game before beating the Patriots in Super Bowl LX–but they did boast one of the league’s high-potent offenses that ran through the majority of their opponents in a 12-5 campaign.…