New York Giants News and Notes: The Countdown Begins Edition
by Mike Farley on Jan 30, 2012 7:13 AM EST
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Good morning fellow Giants fans, and welcome to the Monday before the Super Bowl--one that our New York Giants are in, in what is probably the biggest spectacle in pro sports. It's kind of surreal, isn't it? And like it or not, there are many parallels to 2007, moments when it's impossible not to flash back in our collective mind to that wild, amazing run. It's also amazing when you think that there are 30 teams at home, and players like Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers who will, if they so choose, be watching the game on TV. It's going to be a fun week, so let's kick things off with some hype.....
As NY Giants and New England Patriots prepare for Super Bowl XLVI, it was their respective owners John Mara and Robert Kraft that helped end NFL lockout - NY Daily News
If they handed out a trophy for saving the 2011 NFL season, then Giants co-owner John Mara and Patriots owner Robert Kraft would be standing on the podium together accepting the award from the 2,000 players in the league. So, it’s appropriate the Giants and Patriots are playing in Super Bowl XLVI.
Super Bowl 2012: N.Y. Giants’ Victor Cruz, Hakeem Nicks and Mario Manningham a triple threat - The Washington Post
The NFL’s top trio of wide receivers came together because of conviction. They’re the result of a sound football plan. The success of the New York Giants’ Victor Cruz, Hakeem Nicks and Mario Manningham shows what’s possible when a general manager actually is capable of evaluating players.
Giants DE Jason Pierre-Paul a difference maker - WSJ.com
What stands out for the rest of the Giants these days — more than his one-handed catches in practice while laterally jumping over rectangular foam obstacles — is what the 23-year-old Pierre-Paul is doing on the field. Not only is he the best player on the Giants' defense, he is now among the best in the NFL.
Super Bowl — Belichick in Jovial Mood as Patriots Arrive - NYTimes.com
But a bubbly — really — Belichick arrived at the Super Bowl on Sunday, and got off a joke about Hoosier hospitality that may even endear him to Indianapolis Colts fans who are a bit apoplectic that their team’s most hated rival will be practicing in the Colts’ facility this week. "I never had too much hospitality here until I went for it on fourth-and-2," Belichick said. "Since then, I’ve been greeted in a lot more friendly manner than I was in the past."
Now THAT is funny. Did Bill hire a joke writer for this week?
Road to the Super Bowl: Bob Tucker, lonely light from Giants' dark times, still shines | NJ.com
But if you grew up a Giants fan in that queasy period, this was your guy. Bob Tucker was a sure-handed tight end who was as constant as the northern star, a strong and silent pro who made you tolerate an otherwise hapless team.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady should beware planning Super Bowl party too soon, as NY Giants have used slights as motivation before - NY Daily News
"We have the greatest fans in America. You guys have proved that year in and year out with your support," Brady said. "I wish I could take all you guys to Indy with us. We’re going down there, and we’re going down there for one reason. We’re going to give it our best and hopefully we have a lot more people at our party next weekend." He didn’t say he was hopeful of having a party. He said he was hopeful of having a lot more people at the party.
A big deal will be made of this, but I don't think it's a big deal at all. Do you?
NFL Playoffs: D-line is heart of Giants - ESPN
The only aspect of the conversation that kept Reese routinely grinning was the equalizer he had on his own roster. Four years earlier, the Giants had won a Super Bowl with a defensive line that had rattled Brady and the New England Patriots' record-setting offense. Ever since then, the Giants had believed so much in applying pressure through their front four that Reese had added another first-round pick to his defense (end Jason Pierre-Paul) and doubled-down on his belief that the best way to contend for championships is through relentless, unforgiving pressure.
Who needs Stickum when you’ve got ‘sticky’ gloves? - Boston.com
If the Super Bowl comes down to a key catch by Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots, say, or Victor Cruz of the New York Giants, they’ll have more than merely their hands to thank. Those two players, like plenty of NFL tight ends and wide receivers, wear "sticky’’ gloves made with a rubbery material on the palms to help hold onto a football. Consider these mitts the 2000’s‘ answer to the 1970’s‘ Stickum, the gooey substance famously used by Oakland Raiders defensive back Lester Hayes and receiver Fred Biletnikoff, among others, before it was banned three decades ago.
Super Bowl new to an old neighborhood – USATODAY.com
You're just in time for the Lucas Oil Stadium neighborhood tour, where we find out how many different things can be within 12 blocks of a Super Bowl. It might be winter, but for this Roman numeral, everything is close to everything.
Giants’ Cruz catches attention along with passes - KansasCity.com
But Sunday night, Cruz, who grew up in Paterson, N.J. — just a short ride from the Giants’ stadium — has a chance to be the Super Bowl’s version of baseball’s David Freese, a hometown product who overcame some personal demons and led his boyhood team to a world’s championship.
Super Bowl gets silly with wacky wagers, strange superstitions - NFL News | FOX Sports on MSN
The Super Bowl is a week away, but it's already getting crazy out there:
NY Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and movie moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein to throw a celebrity packed pep rally to cheer the team to the Super Bowl - NYPOST.com
New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and movie moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein are throwing a Manhattan celebrity pep rally to cheer on the team as it prepares for the Super Bowl.
Raptors' Forbes pulling for good friend Cruz - Giants Blog - ESPN New York
Toronto Raptors reserve forward Gary Forbes will likely be flying from Miami to Washington D.C. during Super Bowl XLVI. But before the Raptors’ team charter plane takes off following next Sunday afternoon’s game against the Heat, Forbes will call one of his closest friends, New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz, to wish him luck.
Blackburn gets himself, fans geared up for big game | The Poughkeepsie Journal | poughkeepsiejournal.com
In one week, Chase Blackburn will be in Indianapolis, playing the biggest football game of his career. On Sunday, the Giants linebacker was in Poughkeepsie, meeting several hundred local fans hungry for another Super Bowl championship. "Life is good and the fans are pumped," Blackburn said at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center, where he signed autographs for fans as part of The Man Show. "They have a lot to be excited about, you know. I’m happy to be here and show my face on a couple of autographs, and give them a little encouragement. Try to come back with a win this week."
Super Bowl XLVI summons the higher ire of New York vs. Boston - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee
The rivalry that has produced the Curse of the Bambino, Bucky Dent, Bill Buckner, David Tyree's catch and disagreeing forms of clam chowder - exposing the nastiness of arrogance and an inferiority complex along the way - has returned. In the Super Bowl, no less. New York and Boston's vitriol might not be on the level of Yankees-Red Sox as the New York Giants and New England Patriots prepare for Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis on Feb. 5, but the deeply ingrained disdain between the Eastern corridor metropolises is in play.
In Super Bowl XLVI, NY Giants and New England Patriots meet again as hunter is now the hunted - NY Daily News
The theme of the last two weeks of the playoffs for the Giants was "revenge," but that’s not what they’re seeking this time. They’ll arrive in this Super Bowl city on Monday afternoon having already proven they’re good enough to beat the Patriots. The trick now is to do it again. As the Packers and 49ers found out the last two weeks, beating the same team twice in a season isn’t easy. Against a Hall of Fame-bound coach like Bill Belichick, it can be especially hard.
Whew. Lots of material to follow this week, so keep it here at BBV, and let's go Giants!
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Chase. What a story
So what do the Giants do at MLB next year? Herz status? Jones? How bad was Goff’s injury? Is Chase more than a fill in?
Lots of options, but no Ray Lewis in there.
Go Giants!
Bring lawyers, guns and money to get me out of this one! Stand in the Fire.
I'm gonna go on a limb
And predict an ‘open competition’.
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by pataroons on Jan 30, 2012 7:51 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I'm thinking that is a question best left till after the draft (which is after FA this year)
So we will have a better idea of who is actually in competition
When you see the team bring in the number of LBs we did last off season, it means the team is looking to make changes at that position. Wouldn’t surprise me to see more attention paid to that position this offseason.
Eli is our King!
It's very likely...
…that a good quality MLB will be available at either 31 or 32 overall.
It is what it is
I sure hope they're not looking for LB in first round
O Line all the way!! Weakest part of the team.
by NYStateofMind on Jan 30, 2012 4:12 PM EST up reply actions
Should be a pretty heated LB battle in training camp...
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
everyone knows Chase Blackburn
and I don’t think anyone can say that they expected him to be as good as he’s been since he came back. He was always just a special teams guy and a decent fill in. When he started for Pierce when he was injured, the drop off was imense and it was obvious Chase just wasn’t that good.
I’d love to keep him as a backup and I’m sure he’d love to stick around unless he gets some guaranteed dough elsewhere.
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
It's funny because I would now say he is about the same as Pierce
Slow as hell, but with enough smarts to put him in the right position to make the play and be a strong presence on the defense. The tipped ball that was going to V Davis last game showed a lot about his knowledge of the opponent since we know his speed couldn’t have been the reason he got there.
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The drop off wasnt immense at all actually, there was one but it wasnt "Immense"
from a physical standpoint at all. The drop off came mentally but thats to be expected cause Pierce was like the Peyton Manning of LB’s.The times he filled in especially in that Bengals game when Pierce went out wasnt bad at all.
It was down right good actaully.
Peyton May Have The Wins!!
But Eli Will Have The Rings!!!
Skydiving?Forgot your parachute? TUCK AND ROLLE! On fire? TUCK AND ROLLE Got shot? TUCK AND ROLLE Lost your car keys? TUCK AND ROLLE Failed that history test? TUCK AND ROLLE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SuCwrZrNQM&feature=related
unfortunately I don't see Blackburn making the team
he has performed well enough to get signed elsewhere…
Here we have Jones and Herz and Paysinger and Boley and J-Will and Kiwanuka under contract. I wouldn’t be surprised of they don’t even bring Goff back. Their 7th linebacker may come from the draft…
You PLAY to WIN the GAME.
Dear Tebow, please let the Giants beat the Patriots.
by Simms-McConkey on Jan 30, 2012 9:38 AM EST up reply actions
Goff and thats it!
Peyton May Have The Wins!!
But Eli Will Have The Rings!!!
Skydiving?Forgot your parachute? TUCK AND ROLLE! On fire? TUCK AND ROLLE Got shot? TUCK AND ROLLE Lost your car keys? TUCK AND ROLLE Failed that history test? TUCK AND ROLLE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SuCwrZrNQM&feature=related
agreed
i think if we resign him, it really should not even be a competition.
Giants Mets, JPP is a MONSTER
how bad was his injury?
nothing to keep him from getting back to 100%…right?
Bring lawyers, guns and money to get me out of this one! Stand in the Fire.
Good Morning Mike
Quick question:
Out in the Wisconsin hinterlands, are they pulling for the Giants or the Pats?
Or have they become apathetic about the game?
Eli is our King!
most people I know are bitter
and rooting against Giants. But some feel like they have to pull for the NFC team and want to know they got beat by the best team.
That's what I expected
Seems like when an underdog wins, the favored teams fans have a particularly hard time with it. I don’t blame them.
Eli is our King!
People need to chill out.
Absolutely nothing wrong with Brady’s comment. Jeepers.
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by pataroons on Jan 30, 2012 7:50 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Indeed
nothing wrong with that statement whatsoever.
I think
When we have to parse the words to find a slight against the Giants that we know they are being very careful not to give the Giants emotional tinder for the game. To me, that spells RESPECT. And it goes both ways. Giants have been very complimentary of their team, and rightfully so.
Go Giants!
Bulletin Board material is for the regular season
When you’re a contender, and you play a bottom feeder, it matters. You don’t want to motivate a bad team, to play their Super Bowl against you.
Anyone on either of these teams that needs extra motivation should be replaced by next year. It’s the Super Bowl. Both teams make it a point to accumulate hyper-competitive players.
Eli is our King!
And yet
Both teams are being very careful not to provide any thus far. You’re right, logically it shouldn’t matter. But a lot of great coaches through the years have told their teams to keep their lips buttoned, especially before big games. I think some of these guys do feed off their emotions and play better when they think the other guy has disrespected them. Everyone is wired differently and has buttons to push. Lot’s of emotional gamesmanship goes on before big games as they try to find that fine edge. Bulletin board stuff will always be a part of that.
Go Giants!
I think that the fear is having it become a story
Worst thing from Brady’s party quote, if they ask every teammate about it. Now some of these guys aren’t the sharpest to begin with. Next thing you know it’s all the press wants to talk about. Personally I don’t like when my teams players are too amped up.
In 2008, the playoff game with the eggs was going all our way. Then we commit stupid stupid penalties on punt returns. One doesn’t hurt, but the other turned good field position out of the windy area into, backed up in the windy area. Personal fouls, on special teams by an amped up guy hurt the team. I prefer to see our team come out with natural intensity that doesn’t cause you to lose focus.
Eli is our King!
That's definitely part of it
The wrong quote becomes the big headline and the story of the week. That can distract from a team’s focus. It is the last thing a coach needs to deal with this week. There are so many press people down there itching to be the guy that “breaks” that storyline. I think it’s hard not to have someone step in their own feces and track it all over the locker with the wrong answer. Teams know it’s a minefield of leading questions by the press, and they coach the players to give the vanilla quote respecting the other team and expressing quiet confidence in their team. It also helps set the right mindset, which is RESPECT ALL AND FEAR NONE!
Go Giants!
Yes, but as Brady found out last time
You don’t want to give any team ADDITIONAL motivation.
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Yeah like comment on their score total...
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
Still love when they play that one
I saw it two days ago and laughed harder this time than I ever did before.
Go Giants!
You know it...
My wife, who has no interest in football, hates Brady and when I showed her that she hated him even more.
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I didn't see anything at all wrong with what Brady said...
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
F Brady and F his comments
This is Super Bowl week. I catch Brady grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……. LOL!
Why is Tom Quinn still here? I loves me some Coach Clawfin.
Hahahaha!!!!!!
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
Nothing wrong with it
But how much hell did we give Vernon Davis for his post game party plans?
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he should have had his party
he was head and shoulders above his offense that day
You PLAY to WIN the GAME.
Dear Tebow, please let the Giants beat the Patriots.
by Simms-McConkey on Jan 30, 2012 9:40 AM EST up reply actions
Bob Tucker
Nice article. He really was just about the only good thing on the O side during his tenure. Too bad. He was there either 10 years early or 10 years too late.
Yeah Tucker....What a great TE....
Those were the days when we had about one player a year to entertain us….The dark, gloomy years…haha…
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
Yeah
We could use Tucker next Sunday. He was a difference maker on a team of non-factors.
Go Giants!
Yes there have been a host of good players...problem always was they were peppered in
There with bums…
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
It was nice to see an article from The Poughkeepsie Journal....
That was out paper when I was growing up…I lived 15 miles south of there Fishkill…Been to the Civic Center many many times….Nice memories…
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
Nice
I grew up just outside of SYR, but spent a few summers working at Resorts in the Catskill’s. Played some BBall down in Poughkeepsie a few time. The folks on this post that were not around during the dark period, if they think this was a tough year to watch the G-Men, well lets just say that 17 year stretch was not easy
by Jimmy Orange on Jan 30, 2012 8:46 AM EST up reply actions
Local papers
I think they mean something different to the over 50 generation. I grew up reading the Jersey Journal. Lot’s of great writer’s in the sports pages they printed every day.
Go Giants!
Izenberg and Murray
To name two. Both were syndicated and Murray was a west coast guy. But boy, could they write! It seems lie a lot of things, writing skills in newspapers has gone downhill. They don’t even bother to proof read half the time.
Go Giants!
Yes I read alot of news from the internet...
But I have to read the local paper every morning with my coffee…
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
I was born in Poughkeepsie
but grew up in Beacon….Till my parents packed us up an moved to texas :O back in 1980…
by Giant_In_Texas on Jan 31, 2012 8:13 AM EST up reply actions
Wow...I went to Beacon High School...
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
Speaking of bitter fans...I can understand some of that...The old blood will root for the NFC..
But there isn’t anyone mored bitter than BGN…I was bored so I went over there and did something I rarely do…Comment in a fanpost over there…Their hate for the Giants is incredible…Damn near bit my gead off when I said they should root for the NFC East rep…That has always been my philosophy…NFC East..Then is we have no rep..than NFC..
The funny difference between APC and BGN is Green Bay lost a championship game..The Eagles just plain failed…
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
BGN is to SB Nation as
/b/ is to 4chan. The only difference that something funny actually comes out of /b/ every once in a while.
I have not yet begun to procrastinate
i would never ever root for the eagles in the sb
I would congratulate them but if an eagle fan came in and said what you did i rather punch them in the face
by jhMLB on Jan 30, 2012 9:31 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
The good news is
That this statement has very rarely been put to the test. Hopefully we will never have occasion to either prove or disprove it.
It's a triumph of number crunching over the human spirit...aaaaaand, it’s about time. -- Play-by-Play Announcer, The Simpsons.
by MookieTheCat on Jan 30, 2012 2:02 PM EST up reply actions
LOL
That’s like making fun of the monkeys at the zoo. Next thing you know, they are throwing a hand full of feces at you. My friend got hit in the head with a handful at the San Diego Zoo like that. Then when another friend laughed at him, he said he got you too wise-guy. So then he hands the feces encrusted napkin to the guy to rub it off. Of course, there wasn’t any in his head till he wiped it on with the dirty napkin. We laughed at him for days! LOL
Go Giants!
If we win it all there will be full fledged keening at BGN.
It will all be about how " illegitimate" we are as champs … and it will be priceless.
Oh man that would be the best!!!...and it will be...
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
I had no problem rooting for Dick Vermeil when he coached the Iggles
He had class. Still hate the team though. What was it, 1981 when we went into Philly and won the wildcard game? No that was sweet
Yeah I rooted for the Eagles when represented the East, and I liked Vermiel also...
And I would again under the same circumstances..But those fools don’t believe me over at BGN….but screw’em, I paid my last respects to them yesterday…and I was nice to them..haha
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
Jason Reid's WaPo piece on our WR triplets provides a guy like me a lot of fodder...
Nicks:
"We’ve got some great young talent around here," Nicks told reporters last week while the Giants began preparing for the title game at Lucas Oil Stadium, "and we’re all capable of [stepping up and] making [big] plays whenever we have to."
Reese:
Despite intense media and fan criticism, Reese stuck to his plan, expressing confidence the Giants "have some young guys who we expect to step up [and make big plays]."
Mario:
"We love [stepping up and making] big plays," Manningham said. "Sometimes, we joke around and see who is going to make the first big play. That’s how our receiving corps is. We don’t wait for someone to make a play — we go make it."
by Step up and make big plays on Jan 30, 2012 11:01 AM EST reply actions
The Big Boys
look for Canty and or Anvil to have a big impact in the SB
Yes
We’ll need that push up the middle, it was a key to stopping Brady in 2007. Don’t forget Rocky! He’s been pretty good in the rotation as well.
Go Giants!
Yeah Rocky boy has been effective...
"When I was a boy and I had no sense..I got my pecker caught in an electric fence..Well it curled my hair, tickled my balls and made me shit in my overalls..."
So how is the media saturation in NYC?
I’m living in Africa right now and needless to say I appreciate the digest form of this due to my very low bandwidth, a lot more at least than I will appreciate watching the SB from 1:30 – 5:30 am when I am working the next day. I have noticed that some online sports outlets have been remarkably quiet (click on the NFL tab on ESPN.com and you get the Pro Bowl score…yay) and was wondering what things are like around NYC. It’s just very weird to have such difficulty soaking up the excitement.
It's a triumph of number crunching over the human spirit...aaaaaand, it’s about time. -- Play-by-Play Announcer, The Simpsons.
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