War of words with Cowboys escalating

by Ed Valentine on Aug 15, 2008 7:00 AM EDT in New York Giants News

Following his enlightening interview with Giants' GM Jerry Reese, ESPN's Matt Mosley promised even more goodies from his visit to training camp at UAlbany.

He didn't disappoint. I mean, he really, really didn't disappoint.

To begin, Mosley has a piece on Brandon Jacobs racheting up the war of words with the hated Dallas Cowboys.

After calling the Cowboys an "arrogant group," Jacobs followed with this:

"I guess they won their Super Bowl rings in training camp, because they didn't win it last year," he said.

I'm not sure whether the Giants have heard about Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips referring to them as "last year's champs" during training camp in Oxnard, Calif., but I'm certain it's something they can work with. As GM Jerry Reese told the NFC East Blog on Wednesday, the Giants "play the role of the underdog as well as anyone."

God, I hate the Cowboys. Interesting that there were comments in Thursday' 'Roundtable' about how Redskins fans were pretty easy to get along with. The Cowboys and their fans are, generally, umm, let's say easy to hate.

Mosley also delivers with an excellent interview with Eli Manning.

Here's a snippet.

He's listened to the pundits (many on this site) pick the Cowboys to win the NFC East and he heard about Donovan McNabb saying that the Eagles will win the NFC.

"It makes you want to go out and earn it again," he said. "When everyone's praising you all the time, you start to believe it."

Manning doesn't have a problem with people who say the Giants simply got hot at the right time because he pretty much agrees.

"I want to know why we weren't more consistent last season," Manning said. "Why did we have to wait for those last five games to play like that?"

We would all like to know, Eli. And, we would like to see you play like that all season this time.

Offensive tackle Shane Olivea has been placed on injured reserve, leaving the Giants without a backup offensive lineman whom they had been very excited about after acquiring him as a free agent.
Here's your Thursday practice report.
Man accused of trying to blackmail Giants coach Tom Coughlin. This is a strange, sad story.
Plaxico Burress being helped by orthotics.

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Olivea

I had high hopes for him. Another Reese coup, I thought. TC raved about him a few times. Ah well, life goes on.

by george cronin on Aug 15, 2008 8:11 AM EDT reply actions

Sigh

by potroast on Aug 15, 2008 9:01 AM EDT up reply actions

Practise report

Gerris must be coming on strong because he’s now getting reps with the 1st team (or ta least I hope that’s why). This is great news. On the other hand, I’m getting very concerned about our WRs. None of our top guys have been practicing for awhile now. No Burress, Toomer, Smith, or Manningham. Are their injuries worse than we’re being led to believe?

As for the Jacobs, he didn’t waste any time starting in on the ‘girls now did he? Good. I like it when he’s mad.

by potroast on Aug 15, 2008 9:01 AM EDT reply actions

Don't sweat the WRs' Pot

I think Plax read about Joe Don Looney who never wanted to practice in camp either. I believe the coach at the time(Allie Sherman?) asked Y.A. Tittle to go have a talk with him about it and the next day when neither of them showed up the coach asked Y.A. why he didn’t talk to him his reply was something like" I did and I decided not to practice too". Except for the mystery “quad "thing I bet our receivers will be fine.
Terry must be vacationing in Mexico , I figured he had this site on "Dallas alert mode”and would have been ripping BJ a new one by now.

We're only gonna score 17 points?

by big blue wrecking crew on Aug 15, 2008 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions

I hope your right about the WRs

I guess the other thing I worry about is that they’ll go into the season with no practice time with Eli. Burress and Toomer probably don’t need to get their timing down with Eli, but I’m sure the young guys do. We used to always rip Shockey for not making it to mini-camp to get their timing down, so this has to be a concern. It’s appearing likely that they’re not going to go into the season in stride, which would be a nice thing for once.

Nods on Terry.

by potroast on Aug 15, 2008 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions

pot, I have a particular concern re

Plax. I have a personal history with ankles (and knees, for that matter), and i don’t like what I’ve been hearing re Plax, what with orthotics and a new injury, etc. I won’t feel comfortable until I see him being his usual sefl (i.e. pre ‘07) in a game situation. I think JR and Rosenhaus are both worried about his ankle, that’s why the contract talks are going on so long. JR wants max incentives, Rosenhaus none (if he had his druthers.) Amani’s age is a concern as well. It takes longer to come back, the older you get. I take comfort from what I’m hearing re the young guys. Lots of potential, although WR is a tough position for a rook to step into. It looks like Mannheim will not be playing in ’08—too little training camp time.

by george cronin on Aug 16, 2008 6:07 AM EDT up reply actions