Monday, August 08, 2005

So happy I'm not a Giant fan

They're still talking about the mean Jets. Some quotes with my comments:
  • "There's going to be a lot of animosity, you can count on that," Giants linebacker Barrett Green said Monday. "In the preseason game, there's no question about the rules, there's no question about hitting people. They're going to get hit, hard."
Forget about getting ready for the season. They're gonna get revenge on the Jets! What's the over/under on cheap shots against Pennington?
  • "Obviously, they had different intentions out there than we did, and it showed," said Green, a starter who is coming back from ACL surgery and sat out both sessions Saturday. "I don't think there were a whole lot of people over here on the blue side who were too happy about it. They had a few smart comments they made about how that's how they practice, but we're very capable of practicing that way, too. But we didn't get a chance to do that."
They didn't get a chance of practicing hard?
  • According to quarterback Eli Manning, the Jets showed a wider variety of defensive looks than the Giants expected, which threw off the offense's timing.

    "You're allowed to do some blitzes, but on a lot of plays they were lining up in a Bear defense, in a 3-4, moving people around, bringing the strong safety in and blitzing. And we just kind of wanted to get our basic plays run instead of having to check off. We didn't really game-plan for that stuff."

I think that's what his brother Peyton said about the Patriots last year.
  • (More from Barrett Green:) "They got a lot of free shots in [Saturday], and they know it," he said. "Our coaches wanted us to display class and character out there, and that's what we did. Nobody is happy about what happened, but it's over, we learned from it, and it's definitely made us closer. And we'll see them in the third preseason game."
Jeremy Shockey is all about "class and character." I might have to watch a preseason game this year.

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