Big Blue aim to deliver a KO of L.A. in UK

LONDON — This always was sitting out there, shielding the Giants from the bye week sitting seven games into the season. They knew before they could take a break, they had to endure their longest road trip and everything involved with a game across the Atlantic Ocean on foreign soil.

The Giants are 3-3 and Sunday morning New York time (smack-dab in the afternoon here) face the Rams, also 3-3, in the first NFL game at Twickenham Stadium, a revered rugby venue, as part of the NFL International Series.

“I look at it as an opportunity for us to see what we’re made of,’’ Eli Manning said.

No one really knows what the 2016 Giants are made of. They snapped a three-game losing streak with last week’s victory over the Ravens and arrived in England with the Josh Brown controversy hanging over their heads. Brown, the disgraced kicker with what is now known to be a long history of domestic violence, is banished from the team, placed on the Reserve/ Commissioner Exempt list, as the Giants try to move on and head into their bye week feeling good about themselves amid unusual surroundings.

“The schedule’s different, you got to see how guys respond to this,’’ Manning said. “Guys got to show how important it is to them, that they’re going about their business, that they can handle this type of situation. There’s no excuses. We’ve got to go out there and play our best football.’’

Unlike the soggy rainstorm that the Giants in 2007 played through at Wembley Stadium in the first NFL International Series game, the weather this time around is supposed to be picture-perfect: 55 degrees and sunny at kickoff, with some clouds (of course, this is England, after all) arriving later in the evening. The Giants arrived overseas Friday morning, had a chance for some sight-seeing but not much.

“We didn’t come out here to play in a football game, we came out here to win a football game,’’ linebacker Jonathan Casillas said.

“The biggest thing for me on a trip like this is building that team camaraderie,’’ Victor Cruz said. “I think you are really going to find out a lot about this team as far as toughness, as far as who we are. We spend a lot of time together on this trip and you just get to know each other better, and I think it will bring us closer and in turn make us a better football team.” paul.schwartz@nypost.com