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Mike Garafolo ‏@MikeGarafolo

Giants have waived undrafted DB Janzen Jackson. He'd been struggling in camp. #nyg

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Cuts begin.... guy seemed very talented just had a lot of off field issues. Guess he didn't pan out in our camp.

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Nicks is now off the PUP

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Randall Liu ‏@RLiuNFL

Hakeem Nicks is only player in @giants history with 75+ rec, 1,000+ rec yds & 7+ rec TDs in consecutive seasons

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It would have been inconceivable early in Eli Manning’s career that anyone would suggest he was a better quarterback than his older brother. But now that Eli has won his second Super Bowl MVP award, he acknowledges that people sometimes tell him he’s better than Peyton.

“I correct them very quickly,” Eli told Jason Cole of Yahoo Sports.

In a wide-ranging interview with Cole, Eli talks about the sibling rivalry that he has never allowed to be a rivalry at all, saying that he has never considered himself better than Peyton and never been motivated by a desire to outdo the brother who was a high school star before him, a college star before him, a No. 1 draft pick before him, a Pro Bowler before him and a Super Bowl MVP before him.

“I’ve never tried to compete with Peyton,” Eli said. “I never tried to say I need to be better than him. I’ve accepted at times that I wasn’t maybe as good as him because he was the No. 1 high school player in the country. In college, he was going to be the first pick in the draft, so if I tried to go out there and be the same person and be better than him or the same person as him, I’m going to drive myself crazy. I’m going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential. If that’s better than him, great. If it’s not, so be it.”

Eli said he views Peyton as a quarterbacking role model.

“I think there’s always an approach growing up where you say, ‘Hey, I want to just get to Peyton’s level of player where he’s at,’” Eli said. “I admire Peyton and watching him on film and the throws he makes and the mechanics, I still watch in awe. He’s still at that top level as far as what he has done with the football. We have a great relationship and it’s a total support [system]. I call him or he calls me, like during the season last year. Especially during the playoff stretch, he would call me and just have little tidbits and pieces of advice a quarterback can talk about that you cherish.”

It remains to be seen which brother will go down in history as the better quarterback. But Eli will be fine with it if everyone says the best Manning was Peyton.

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Rogers has blood clot, Parker herniated disc, Austin back &

Trattou out several more weeks.

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Every team that wins the Super Bowl makes a point of stressing that no one gave it any respect. This usually means the media, and it's usually not true, but this offseason the paranoia felt by the New York Giants not only was justified, it was caused by remarks made by rival players, not harmless reporters.

From Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews saying recently that "(the Giants) didn't beat us (in the playoffs); we beat ourselves," to San Francisco 49ers safety Donte Whitner saying days later that the Saints and Packers "were the two best teams in the playoffs and once they went down we felt like it was ours to lose, and we let it slip through our fingers," everyone seemed to attribute the Giants' second ring in the Tom Coughlin era to classic good luck.

How else to explain such dominating football from a 9-7 regular-season team?

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Well, two longtime standard-bearers for the Big Blue, defensive linemen Osi Umenyiora and Justin Tuck, finally had enough. On Monday, they said to The Star-Ledger what all Giants fans must have been thinking for a while now.

"A lot of these teams, we punched them straight in their mouth. It's not like anybody gave us anything," Umenyiora said. "... All these people coming out and saying these different things, man, how crazy is this? Sour grapes."

"I don't know if it motivates us because we were there, and we know we beat these people fair and square."

Justin Tuck concurred. "There are some sore losers in the world, ain't (there)?" he asked.

"I saw Clay Matthews say his (statement)," Umenyiora said. "I looked up at the scoreboard, they lost by 17 points. How'd you give away a game to a team that beat you by 17 points? So all these people talking about last year, obviously they're still upset about it. But we've moved on, we've moved past it, we're looking to this year."

Tuck continued to hammer the theme home:

"Last time I checked we won the Super Bowl, and that's what everybody strives to get to every year. The better team won. You played better that day, that's why it's a game. That's why we have the slogan: 'Talk is cheap, play the game.'"

That kind of trash talk is almost as good as an actual game.

Quote (xnozx. @ Aug 14 2012 01:44pm)

One of a kind, pure class. Your son has followed in your footsteps.

His iconic legacy is still flowing through Giants stadium and the game of football that he helped propel to the game we love today.


Would have turned 96 today. What a great person.


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One of the most influential, iconic figures in NFL history.