New York Giants News And Notes: Off Day Notes

haven’t really heard about the other 3 RB’s besides BJ and AB. How have their practices been going?

I hope Brandon starts. AB is awesome as a change of pace

Going back to when it was Tiki and BJ, I always thought it made sense to start the smaller, faster, shiftier guy first. My reasoning: At the beginning of the game, everyone is fresh, moving full speed, etc. so the little guy who can make people miss make more sense and everyone gets winded chasing after little guys, the DL starts to wear down from battling the opposing OL all game, and that’s when you bring in the hammer, let him break through the first line when they’re wearing down and then watch the bowling pins fall. His very first season, they used him like this and he’d blast through for 7-8 yards a touch. They also need to realize that he’s horrible as a goal line back.. He’s just too damn big to get through when there’s 3 tons of man packed around the goal line. Short and stocky like LaRon McClain who can get under a big man and pop him back? good, dude same size as DEs, not as effective. Hell, use Tim Brown as the goal line back, he can just walk under the linemens’ legs and just sneak right in.

Pierce was on ESPN Radio this afternoon and he talked about Osi and Sheridan. I blamed Osi for many things last year. It looks like I wasn’t so wrong after all.

I know the Osi blowup didn’t sit well with a lot of people. And when I say that I mean that you don’t have one your star players walk out of a defensive meeting room when he’s getting, you know, corrected by a coach, especially the defensive coordinator. That didn’t sit well with, amongst, a lot of the guys. But it doesn’t send the right message with the DC as well as far as what his leadership is and the respect level. I think that was very disrespectful, one, by Osi.

He went on to say that Sheridan never made any adjustments. He just kept throwing the same slop on the wall. Pierce said that Sheridan’s unwillingness to change the defense and Osi making Sheridan lose the respect of the players “steamrolled” into the poor season the defense had last year.

Lastly, he admitted that there was no pride shown by the Giants in the Carolina game. I, and anyone with sight, could see that the team quit. Coughlin sugarcoated it when he said that the team fought hard but Pierce said it himself and he was a leader on the team.

bleedblue12 is right. I honestly think that it is a creed that is told to them when they join the media. The media is all about selling papers and getting ratings and they know that fans want to read and hear controversy. If Pierce was going to talk about former teammates in this way, he would have been did it. I just wonder he he will carry that over to telling us what really took place on the night Plaxico shot himself for the sake of dishing the “News.”