but didn’t Shockey want out of NY in 2008? If so, where would any animosity come from?

As you said some fond memories do exist, but I like this team a lot better without the diva act.

I have fond memories of Shockey dating back to his days at the University of Miami. I was ecstatic when the Giants drafted him, and I’ll never forget what a force he was that first preseason and during his rookie year. That said, I had grown tired of his act and was glad the Giants traded him after proving they could win without him.
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that sums it up for me….thanks Ed.

with Payton and Fassel. Coughlin came and Wellington wanted the team to get disciplined. Shockey and Strahan and Barber, were used to running things their way and
that was a philosophical mistake by ownership. So in comes Coughlin and the babies begin to whine.

A parent can’t spoil their child for years and years and then try to instill some order when the kid is a spoiled, arrogant, entitled brat. The Giants made Shockey and he didn’t want to get with the new program.

In Shockey’s defense, you can’t attack Shockey and then allow Burress to be late because he’s a nice guy and the playmaker but at least Burress could control himself and not get into shoving matches with the GM.

I was glad when they got rid of him. I hated all the histrionics he would go through when the ball wasn’t perfectly thrown to him. Plus I was always leery of players drafted out of Miami because despite their talent they always seem to come with a lot of baggage.

The one thing I hated the most was the fact that he, along with Plax, would disappear in the off season instead of working with Eli to try and improve their teamwork.

I was so pleased when I read that during this off season WRs like Smith and Manningham made it point to seek out Eli and work with him on the passing game.

I said this the day they got rid of him and I’ll say it again: good riddance.

I read the article and this is revisionist history at its best. Reese did not spar verbally with Shockey. Shockey was yelling at the GM in a public event. He sold out his coach to the media multiple times but “he was expecting a little more respect than I was receiving.” The guy is the most undiciplined route runner and had a temper tantrum everyting he was missed on a pass play. This a BS fluff piece. For years management did the best they could to keep the guy happy. I’m sorry, I’d rather have a guy that would run through a wall for the team not the other way around.

If the preseason trucking and INT are the high and lows, then close seconds to both are the catch over and on top of Dawkins, and the second worst is his premature celebration on one of the Feely misses

18 posts and nary a nice word about someone who averaged 61.8 recepts and 704.7 yards to go along with 4 and a half TD’s in a tiki/brandon/plax dominated red zone. And let’s not forget to mention the intangible stat: the 100% he left on the field. There is a lot of ungratefulness in BBV lately, and it saddens me. i will however, on Sunday pay homage to the man like i do every Sunday – lucky number 80 jersey will be displayed proudly.

the post was created. and we are commenting. that’s how it works. And the last time i’ve checked, Jeremy Shockey plays for the team we are facing this week. So relevant, this conversation is.

For this week…because i know Jeremy’s name will be dragged through the mud further and further as Sunday draws near. But this will come up again, it has no choice – because Shockey will be spat upon again. And as we all know, history is doomed to repeat itself. I wish Shockey well and health, because he put his all into being a G-Man, and all I ask is that other people do the same. That is all…..

CJ, nice! you picked up on my subtle Yoda nod.

it seems that we are proving this year that a well rounded receiver corps is more effective in the long run than a single star surrounded by guys who seldom get a clutch throw. If your big receiver has an off day or another team does their job and takes him out of the game, the offense is stymied. With any one of four guys able to step up and have a great game it just seems harder for our opponents to game plan us.

Guys like Shockey and Burris will never care as much about their team as they do their own stats in my opinion. It’s always “all about them.”

in 2007, Shockey was dropping a lot of catchable passes (7.1 percent through Nov07). All I know is the Giants started to play a heck of a lot better when he left the lineup in 2007.

… I was very suspect when we traded for the Shock-meister. I was thinking, “Uh oh, they just brought a party-head to New Orleans. What can go wrong?” But, I do think now that he’s matured a bit and maybe been humbled by a few things and that’s good. I don’t really think he or the G-men should have any hard feelings toward each other, ya know, cuz when these guys come out of college, they’re still kids in a lot of ways. Some are more mature, some aren’t. Surely, the scouts would have known what kind of character Jeremy was before they drafted him, so if you have any bitterness towards Jeremy, maybe you should share it with them.