New York Giants notes: Coughlin addresses Osi's unhappiness

Gary Brackett not being franchised is a great thing.

Really hope he hits the open market. He’s from Jersey so maybe he wants to come home?

this is a disaster waiting to happen. At least one unhappy player,(Kiwi or Osi) an emasculated rookie DC (hows he supposed to rebuild this thing if he’s got no say in personnel) or pouting sideline assache. If we keep him, we’re in for another long season (in the media)… with so so results on the field.
I know it’s an overeaction but i really think we’re best served movin him for some picks in an overly talented draft.

for pretty much every single one of those RFA’s that was listed as being worth a 2nd.

He said that he wanted to play every down (just like every other good player)

He also said that he didn’t want to be a backup and would rather retire than do that. Maybe to some that sounds like an ultimatum but I don’t think it is the same.

To be effective he said that he needs to play with the tackle a bit and etc to set him up and to be able to get good pressure on the QB and you cannot do that if you’re only there on 3rd down.

Tell me if this makes sense to anyone but me. Let’s step outside of football. Let’s try another profession, HVAC for instance. Let’s say you have a tremendous mechanic, one that has shown and proven day in and out. Now let’s say he falls on the job and herniates a few disks in his back. He recovers and eventually rejoins the company. However his motor skills, movement, and ability to lift heavy objects have been what his bosses hope temporarily affected by the injury. He goes out on a few calls, of high end clients who know his pedigree for being a good to great mechanic and screws up, not able to handle the stresses of the job yet, much to the clients’ unhappiness. They lose that account, and a few others that he handles, all because he is not yet capable to handle the physical demands of his job.

At the same time, other inferior mechanics lose some accounts as well, due to incompetence. At the end of the fiscal year, the big boss looks at his profit margin, see its significantly down, and only demotes the guy who came back from his injury, even though his success rate on jobs leads the company yet again, just in a down year. Well the mechanic hears this news, and at first accepts it like a good soldier, but eventually when he is still being blamed for the companies failure months later, bristles and responds openly to his detractors.

How’s that for a parellel? Lol. Point I’m tryna make if it wasn’t clear is everyone is acting as if osi hasn’t had a good year in years due to declining skills. He had 1 missed year, and 1 down year in what is a recovery year for his body. On paper, that makes it 3 years since a productive season. In reality, its been one. And I think osi is like ‘I put my best effort out there on a still whatever percent knee. And I’m getting killed for not putting up typical osi, pro bowl numbers?‘. Now wouldn’t you feel unjustly handled if that was you in whatever your profession was?

I kinda am defending osi here, and not because I’m sure of what he’ll be next year. You may all be right, he may be shot. I don’t know. All I know is its February. I haven’t heard any quotes from osi anywhere about anything in months. And yet were still telling him to shut up. He has shut up! He had a closed door meeting with his GM. Is he not allowed to talk to his boss behind closed doors? Stop killing osi for comments he made in an interview months ago, in which I remember a lot of you listening to and saying it was a fair interview, with one quote being blown out of proportion. Osi is one of our own. Why do we turn him into such a bad guy? We’ve already turned him into a scapegoat.