"C.C BROWN IS OUT OF THE STARTING LINEUP."

"The Giants have been really disappointed in (TE Travis) Beckum. He is so soft. He's a non-blocker."

Is Michael Boley scheduled to play this Sunday?

• The Giants are using a new jersey fabric and a new tailoring template, which has resulted in some small changes that Uni Watch doesn't like. Let's start with the NFL Equipment logo, which used to be positioned on a red triangle of fabric at the base of the collar. That red triangle has now been eliminated, and the logo has been lowered down beneath the collar. As you can see, that means the NFL logo and the team's "ny" logo are now stacked too close together and are also too close to the uni numbers. There's a similar problem on the back of the jersey, where there's a horizontal seam right where the players' names used to be. So they've had to lower the names (which are now sewn directly onto the jersey -- no more nameplates) and now they're too close to the uni numbers. Pfeh.

Meanwhile, equipment manager Joe Skiba has announced a change in pants protocol: When the Giants are forced to wear blue jerseys on the road -- like when they play in Dallas, say -- they'll wear these gray pants (which had previously been worn only with the white jersey) instead of these gray pants (which had previously been worn with the blue jersey, whether at home or on the road). You might ask, as Uni Watch has, why they need two different sets of gray pants to begin with, but that's another issue for another day.

From the Journal Inquirer, published Sat., Aug. 29 in sports clurb "The Eye":

"Now Eye knows why Michael Vick chose to attempt his comeback with the Eagles. Only those birdbrains in Philly -- who have been known to boo Santa Claus and cheer a career-ending neck injury -- could turn Vick's return to the NFL into a feel-good story."

Fantasy Football:

I need 7 bodies. A buddy of mine in Iraq and a friend of his wanna play. So I created a league. It's on ESPN. Scoring is performance based with one keeper from year to year. Send me an e-mail and I'll send you an invite. Draft time will be decided when i get a message from him today on when they could draft.
Should be in the next week or so.

e-mail me at:
ckmusic24@yahoo.com

NFC East teams have a combined 19 Super Bowl appearances and eleven wins, the highest marks of any division in the NFL. Each of the current NFC East's four teams has won at least three NFL championships during their existence, however only Philadelphia has yet to win a championship in the Super Bowl era. Given the division members histories and intense rivalries, many sports analysts and fans regard the NFC East as the toughest division in the NFL. In the early 1990s the division claimed four consecutive Super Bowl champions, as the Cowboys won two and the Giants and Redskins took one each (those same three teams won seven out of ten Super Bowls, from 1987-1996).

Corey Webster, CB, Giants

Webster's paid like a great player now, but he deserved to go to the Pro Bowl last season. Webster broke up 35 percent of the passes thrown at him a year ago, a freakishly high total and the league's best. He was in the top 10 in virtually every pass defense metric we can come up with, and had teams staying away from him by the end of the year. His transformation from healthy scratch in 2007 to shutdown corner in 2008 is remarkable.

According to ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio, the Browns’ initial demand for Edwards wasn’t just Kiwanuka. They wanted Kiwanuka AND the Giants’ first-round draft pick.

SNY just reported that the Giants have agreed in principle to acquire Braylon Edwards for 2009 1st and 5th round draft picks