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Next Saturday August 10th....... Giants vs Steelers @ Pittsburgh


Cannot wait!!!!

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Nicks Tells Fans to Relax: WR Hakeem Nicks, who has missed the last four practices with a groin injury, answered questions from the press at a commercial shoot on Monday. Nicks said that staying healthy for all 16 regular-season games in 2013 is not only important for the Giants, but also for his future contract situation. In his four seasons with the Giants, Nicks has never played a full 16-game regular-season schedule.

“It’s important,” said Nicks. “My career counts on it, this season counts on it. The offense, just being what I am to the team, I think it is going to make a big difference…This is a critical season for me. I just look at it like I am going out here to play ball. Stay healthy, change my diet a little bit, those are things that I am focused on. I just want to have fun and win every game if we can. That is the main focus.”

Suffering foot and knee injuries in 2012, Nicks said he was feeling good before injuring his groin. “I felt real good,” said Nicks. “Honestly, I felt like I had my burst again, I felt like I was in and out of my breaks. I felt my timing was back with Eli the way it normally was.”

“Honestly I feel like (the critics) are just on the outside looking in, so they really don’t know the situation,” said Nicks. “I know the situation. I’m the one wearing these shoes. So to all the fans, like I said before, it’s not about me being lazy or anything like that. It’s about making the right decisions, about making sure that when it is time to go for the season opening game, I will be full ready to go and it’ll be on.”

“That’s nothing I really worry about,” Nicks said. “It’s football. It happens to the best of us. I think it’s the media market that I’m in, they like to put it on blast a little bit more. It comes with the territory. You just got to know, it’s football, anything can happen when you step on the field…There is nothing you can really get upset about. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. You can never change that. But I know what I am obligated to do. I know the way I am going to play this game. And I am going to be playing it for a long time.”

Quote (Grizzy_Green @ Aug 5 2013 09:30am)

Our depth is great across the board and we're staying healthy. Gotta love it

Quote (xoxocrazi @ Aug 6 2013 12:48pm)

My AAron Dobson to have a better season than your bum ass second year WR

lmk noz 

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Damontre Moore is doing all the right things - both on and off the field - at training camp.


There was a reason Justin Tuck left a note in Damontre Moore’s locker for the rookie to read as soon as he arrived in the Giants’ locker room. Moore had talent, but he also had baggage. Even Tom Coughlin had admitted his work ethic in college was a bit of a concern.

So when Moore arrived in the spring, just a few days after being selected in the third round of the draft, he opened a short note from Tuck that read, “I hope you’re ready to work.”

It was advice he clearly took to heart.


Three months later, Moore, a defensive end from Texas A&M, has been one of the early stars of Giants training camp, flashing his talent on the field and seemingly doing all the right things off it. He’s seen plenty of action with Jason Pierre-Paul still sidelined after back surgery, and his abilities and energy have earned raves from teammates and coaches.

He’s still a work in progress — and his work ethic is being closely watched. But so far everyone seems to love what they’ve seen.

“So far, we haven’t found (his) limit yet,” said Giants defensive line coach Robert Nunn. “He’s been very good in the past. He’s handled everything we’ve given him, both in OTAs and starting off training camp. I think he’s going to give us a lot of versatility and do some different things for us, and I really see him contributing as a rookie.



“He’s got some growing up to do. He’s got to help us on special teams. But the guy is off to an outstanding start.”

The Giants needed that from Moore as they try to revive their struggling pass rush without knowing for sure if Pierre-Paul will even be on the field for the Sept. 8 opener at Dallas. They had high hopes for Moore, despite his reputation and a poor showing at the scouting combine, because of the 12½ sacks and 21 tackles for a loss he had as a junior last year at Texas A&M.
Despite all his talent, Damontre Moore comes with some serious baggage as well.
Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News
Despite all his talent, Damontre Moore comes with some serious baggage as well.

In his three-year career, he had 26½ sacks, which helped the Giants ignore his baggage (which included a 2011 arrest for marijuana possession). With Osi Umenyiora gone they envisioned him as their fourth defensive end. With JPP out, he has a chance to move up to No. 3.


But only if “DaMonster” — his nickname from college — continues to heed Tuck’s words.

“I think the jury is still out,” said Mathias Kiwanuka. “For a young guy, he’s physically gifted, he’s very talented, he pays attention and he’s got that drive and that fire. You see him flying around on the field. (But) for a young guy like that it’s about staying in tune with the material because he’s got all the physical gifts and he’s got to stay healthy. The sky’s the limit for him.”

Moore said he’s spent his first months in the NFL listening to and watching the other Giants defensive ends, trying to absorb everything they want him to learn. “Anytime they see me doing something wrong or see I could do something better, they always give me words of advice,” he said. And he said he’s fueled by everything from the questions about his desire to slipping to the third round of the draft to being labeled, he believes, as “a one-trick pony.”



So far, he’s proven to the coaches that he may have many tricks up his sleeve. Coughlin said, “He’s been a young man that’s gotten our attention.” Nunn seemed thrilled by what his student had done so far in camp.

“He’s got some rookie in him, there’s no doubt,” Nunn said. “But it’s the good kind of rookie. He’s someone you have to tell to slow down, you never have to tell him to speed up. He’s off to an outstanding start and, like I said, I really believe the guy is going to contribute early.”

Moore said he was “pleased” to hear that, but he understood those words come very early in his career.

“I try not to focus on it,” he said. “I go out there and do it, and then right after that, learn from it and then right after that, put it out of my mind and then go out there and do it again.”

In other words, just as Tuck told him, Moore knows there’s still plenty of work to do.