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elchalje wrote:Sinorice is Santana 2. Same moves, same speed. Giants alredy have put in the screen in the flat for him. Meanwhile, model citizen LaVar is blowing everyone away with his great attitude and ability. He is already a true Blue.
He will be gong for sacks situated behing Michael Strahan. Awesome potential. And, he is flat out hungry!!!!!

tcwest10 wrote:Hunger was never a problem with Arrington. Working within the team and staying healthy? A whole 'nother thing, that.
Does LA have his very own Big Blue table in the trainer's room yet?
How about his very own set of blue crutches, a box of blue sharpies and maybe some nice blue pom-poms...you know, for something to do on Game Day?
He won't be playing, that's for sure. Lavar's career in any uniform can be equated to the stationary bike that CLL mentioned.
Going...nowhere...fast.

elchalje wrote:Sinorice is Santana 2. Same moves, same speed. Giants alredy have put in the screen in the flat for him. Meanwhile, model citizen LaVar is blowing everyone away with his great attitude and ability. He is already a true Blue.
He will be gong for sacks situated behing Michael Strahan. Awesome potential. And, he is flat out hungry!!!!!

Chris Luva Luva wrote:Its official, LA's new name is Crutches.

Love it!!!!

tcwest10 wrote:Sounds like you need to be more selective in where you spend your Saturday nights, my friend.
Dallas fans? People dressed up like Giant players?
C'mon. Doesn't somebody around here have something for this kid to do on a weekend where he's around a better crowd?

JansenFan wrote:It could have been LaVar.

JansenFan wrote:It could have been LaVar. There used to be a Dallas fan around here that claimed to be his best friend.

3. Can LaVar Arrington make the Giants forget their horrible 23-0 playoff loss to the Carolina Panthers?

That is a tall order, even for Arrington, who has been a happy workaholic this off-season with his new team. Just last week, the Giants were still talking about that loss and Tiki Barber was still questioning the coaching staff. Plus, some players believe Plaxico Burress is still mad at Eli Manning for never throwing him the football. Still, the Giants will help make the NFC East the most interesting division in the NFL this season as Arrington moves to strong-side linebacker. There is even talk of switching to a 3-4 defense, but that would make Michael Strahan very unhappy.

1. Dallas is talking Super Bowl now that Terrell Owens is a Cowboy, but won't he be a bigger distraction than a positive?
Owens figures to be on his best behavior this season. Dallas does have a playoff chance, but the biggest question is whether or not Kyle Kosier, who received $5 million to leave the Lions to replace future Hall of Famer Larry Allen, and RT Jason Fabini (an old lineman from the Jets) will be able to protect Drew "I Can't Scramble" Bledsoe. No matter how many times Owens is open, waving for the football, if Bledsoe is on his back (49 sacks last season), the Cowboys won't have any big-play ability. In every close game down the stretch, Bledsoe was constantly under pressure last season and throwing quite a few unwise interceptions.

Chris Luva Luva wrote:

3. Can LaVar Arrington make the Giants forget their horrible 23-0 playoff loss to the Carolina Panthers?

That is a tall order, even for Arrington, who has been a happy workaholic this off-season with his new team. Just last week, the Giants were still talking about that loss and Tiki Barber was still questioning the coaching staff. Plus, some players believe Plaxico Burress is still mad at Eli Manning for never throwing him the football. Still, the Giants will help make the NFC East the most interesting division in the NFL this season as Arrington moves to strong-side linebacker. There is even talk of switching to a 3-4 defense, but that would make Michael Strahan very unhappy.

1. Dallas is talking Super Bowl now that Terrell Owens is a Cowboy, but won't he be a bigger distraction than a positive?
Owens figures to be on his best behavior this season. Dallas does have a playoff chance, but the biggest question is whether or not Kyle Kosier, who received $5 million to leave the Lions to replace future Hall of Famer Larry Allen, and RT Jason Fabini (an old lineman from the Jets) will be able to protect Drew "I Can't Scramble" Bledsoe. No matter how many times Owens is open, waving for the football, if Bledsoe is on his back (49 sacks last season), the Cowboys won't have any big-play ability. In every close game down the stretch, Bledsoe was constantly under pressure last season and throwing quite a few unwise interceptions.

Its amazing just how much crap these analysts are full of. They push as at the bottom of the East when in every area they knock these two teams we're superior.

The Giants are in self destruct mode even WITHOUT T.O!
Id expect big trouble in little blue if they have bad preseason outtings. That wont carry well into the regular season with their morale already bottoming out.

hkHog wrote:

Chris Luva Luva wrote:

3. Can LaVar Arrington make the Giants forget their horrible 23-0 playoff loss to the Carolina Panthers?

That is a tall order, even for Arrington, who has been a happy workaholic this off-season with his new team. Just last week, the Giants were still talking about that loss and Tiki Barber was still questioning the coaching staff. Plus, some players believe Plaxico Burress is still mad at Eli Manning for never throwing him the football. Still, the Giants will help make the NFC East the most interesting division in the NFL this season as Arrington moves to strong-side linebacker. There is even talk of switching to a 3-4 defense, but that would make Michael Strahan very unhappy.

1. Dallas is talking Super Bowl now that Terrell Owens is a Cowboy, but won't he be a bigger distraction than a positive?
Owens figures to be on his best behavior this season. Dallas does have a playoff chance, but the biggest question is whether or not Kyle Kosier, who received $5 million to leave the Lions to replace future Hall of Famer Larry Allen, and RT Jason Fabini (an old lineman from the Jets) will be able to protect Drew "I Can't Scramble" Bledsoe. No matter how many times Owens is open, waving for the football, if Bledsoe is on his back (49 sacks last season), the Cowboys won't have any big-play ability. In every close game down the stretch, Bledsoe was constantly under pressure last season and throwing quite a few unwise interceptions.

Its amazing just how much crap these analysts are full of. They push as at the bottom of the East when in every area they knock these two teams we're superior.

The Giants are in self destruct mode even WITHOUT T.O!
Id expect big trouble in little blue if they have bad preseason outtings. That wont carry well into the regular season with their morale already bottoming out.

Where'd you get those quotes?

Giants' Solitary Receiver Explains Absences
By DAVID PICKER

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., June 15 — The day after the Giants were trounced by the Carolina Panthers in the N.F.L. playoffs last January, Coach Tom Coughlin held a mandatory season-ending meeting. Every player attended except for Plaxico Burress, the wide receiver with a reputation for marching to his own beat.

At the Giants' minicamp Thursday, Burress publicly explained for the first time why he skipped the meeting.

"It wasn't a protest about nothing," said Burress, who did not speak to the news media Wednesday, the first day of minicamp. "It's just I'm a competitor. I love to win. You know, the way we went out, it was kind of humiliating to me. And that's the way I felt. And that's what I chose to do, and I don't regret my decision of not doing it.

"It kind of made me sit back and look at myself on tape of that game over and over and over again and ask myself: What did I do wrong?"

Burress was held without a catch in the Giants' 23-0 loss to the Panthers at Giants Stadium. He said he was extremely frustrated with his performance because he considered himself to be among the elite players at his position. He did not contact team officials in the weeks after the loss.

When a reporter suggested to Burress that his teammates must also have been frustrated but that none of them skipped the meeting, he said: "We all express our emotions different as people. That's just human life."

He added: "I don't feel I have to really explain myself to anybody. The best way for me to explain myself is to go out on that football field and score touchdowns and make plays."

Burress, who spent the first five years of his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers before signing with the Giants last year as a free agent, finished the 2005 season with a team-high 76 catches, 1,214 receiving yards and 7 touchdowns. His numbers dipped toward the end of the regular season as quarterback Eli Manning struggled with his consistency.

Burress dispelled the notion that he was frustrated with Manning toward the end of the season.

"I can't get better without him, and I want everybody to understand that," Burress said. "I can't take my game to the next level without my offensive line and without him."

He then included running back Tiki Barber in that group. "That's just how football is; it's not track," Buress said. "I can't just go out and get better by myself."

Yet Burress has chosen to work out during the off-season with a private trainer in Miami instead of attending the team's voluntary workout sessions at Giants Stadium, known as O.T.A.'s, for organized team activity.

He said that the weather in New Jersey was not suitable for someone like him who has to run a lot. Tight end Jeremy Shockey and defensive tackle William Joseph are also working out in Miami.

Coughlin hinted that he was bothered by Burress's decision to train away from the team. When asked how Burress looked during practice Thursday, Coughlin said: "The whole idea is to communicate better and be on the same page. And that is what the intent of the O.T.A.'s were and the intent of the minicamp, etc. So obviously, we have probably got a ways to go there."

EXTRA POINTS

For the second consecutive day, linebacker LaVAR ARRINGTON participated in only one of the two workout sessions because of Achilles' tendinitis.

"It wasn't a protest about nothing,"

Redskin in Canada wrote:

"It wasn't a protest about nothing,"

Dear Mr. Burress,

Can you please clarify your true position on this issue?

You meant to say:

a) It was a protest about -something-?

or

b) It was not a protest about -something-?

or

c) It was not a protest about everything?

or

d) It was not a protest about -anything-?

or

e) It was a DARN protest but I do not want to explain it to you guys in the media, the spoiled QB, or my stupid out-coached coach!

Thanks in advance for your kind response.

Yours truly,

RiC