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A few Giants notes for a Tuesday.

  • Former GM Ernie Accorsi has been hired as a consultant by the NFL. His first duty will be to co-chair a new general managers advisory committee.
  • Teams are being held to an 80-player roster limit for training camp, and Tom Coughlin and his staff are trying to figure out how to work with that limited number.  “It is a big difference,” Coughlin said when the Giants wrapped up their mini-camp last week. “You will have to (change your planning). Hopefully, you will be as healthy as you can be and you won’t have to do a lot of radical changing. I’m not a mathematician, but most of you guys can figure out that by the time you include special teams, you are not talking 80, you are talking in the 70s. And then when you have people that are coming off surgeries and can’t work, even if it is the one (practice) a day type thing, you have to be sure that the other players at that position – even if they are young - don’t get the overexposures. But as a whole you still have to move forward. I can’t tell you when I went to a camp with 80 guys.”
  • Clark Judge of CBS Sportsline says Jeremy Shockey's teammates are the only ones who really know if Shockey can still fit in their locker room -- and their lineup.
  • One more on Shockey. Sporting News columnist Clifton Brown says the Giants should forget trading him . He says the Giants and the unhappy tight end need each other.

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Good point by Clifton Brown

It appears that the Giants ARE becoming complacent. Guys wanting new contracts, not staying in shape, and sitting out mini-camp for various other reasons. Shockey is never complacent and with Stray gone, we need guys who can tell their teammates where it’s at. I’m off the trade Shockey bandwagon. The Giants will never get decent value for him and I really don’t think they’ll get rid of him because Reese is too smart to sell him cheap. They can patch this thing up and if they can, then they’ll have someone around that will give this team the shot in the arm that it needs right now.

by potroast on Jun 17, 2008 9:44 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I think the Giants

should try for one more season to make the relationship work. But I don’t think a lot of the stars will be able to exhort their teammates to play harder after the antics they’ve pulled. Really, do you think the OL would play harder just because Shockey were to pound his fist and wave a towel? Heck, at this point I’m not sure the fans would cheer harder if he were to try to get them to.

by TerraByte on Jun 17, 2008 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Fans?

Yes. We’re fickle. One big mow over a DB with his helmet flying off & we’ll love him again. Players? Well, I see your point.

by potroast on Jun 17, 2008 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Great line in the sporting news article:

”...How’d that work out?” says Simms. “My old coach, Bill Parcells, once said, ‘I’m not in the habit of getting rid of good football players.’ And Coughlin reminds me more of Parcells than any other current coach.”

I actually like reading that. I’ve come full circle on Coughlin; I hope he lets his personality continue to creep out like Parcells has.

by Cody K on Jun 17, 2008 11:18 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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