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Giants lose LB Kawika Mitchell to Buffalo Bills and LB Reggie Torbor to Dolphins.
There is an order to the universe, and that universe includes teams coming off Super Bowl triumphs. The newly minted champs want to be paid and, usually, they are. So, consider this the most fortunate of timing for Giants safety Gibril Wilson . He became an unrestricted free agent today at 12:01 a.m., and there will be big money awaiting him out there somewhere.
"You can't knock those guys," linebacker Antonio Pierce said. "This is a business. They are Super Bowl champs and they deserved to be paid like it. It happens on every Super Bowl team. The coaches get rewarded, the players should get rewarded. Everyone should be rewarded." Continue
Restricted free agents
QB Jared Lorenzen
SS James Butler
Unrestricted free agents
HB Derrick Ward
DE Adrian Awasom
DT Russell Davis
LB Kawika Mitchell
LB Reggie Torbor
FS Gibril Wilson
LS Ryan Kueh
P Jeff Feagles *re-signed 2 years*
PK Lawrence Tynes *re-signed 5 years*
It was around this time last year that Giants general manager Jerry Reese started getting serious flak for his job performance. We're talking nasty letters, even nastier phone messages and plenty of skepticism about his ability. Guess that Super Bowl victory answered those questions, don't you think?
Reese made only one key free-agent signing last year, and even giving Kawika Mitchell a one-year deal at the veteran minimum drew criticism. After releasing a handful of players that included left tackle Luke Petitgout, the first-year GM wasn't very popular among Giants fans. Continue
Tom Coughlin's new contract with the Giants covers the next four seasons, is worth about $21 million and moves him into the upper echelon of the NFL's highest-paid coaches. There are only minor details and contract language to be completed, and the deal could be announced as early as next week.
The $5.25 million average will place Coughlin below only Mike Holmgren, who will earn around $8 million in what will be his final season in Seattle, and presumably New England's Bill Belichick, who agreed to an extension last season. Belichick was believed to be making $4.2 million per year in his old deal. Continue
Michael Strahan wouldn't divulge any definitive plans about his possible retirement, but some of his teammates think the possibility of repeating the Giants' Super Bowl success might be too enticing for the 36-year-old to ignore.
"Michael's coming back, don't listen to all that," fellow defensive end Osi Umenyiora joked yesterday at the NFL Super Bowl XLII Champions DVD premiere screening in Times Square. "Another ring," Umenyiora said when asked what it would take for Strahan to return. "I think we can win more." Continue
One night after Hollywood hailed its stars on the red carpet at the Academy Awards, an impressive array of still-glowing Giants last night were afforded similar royal treatment for the premier of the 2008 Super Bowl XVII champions DVD.
As the Giants New York Giants strode a (Big) blue carpet at the AMC Empire 25 Theater in Times Square, one player who easily qualifies for a lifetime achievement award was especially excited. "To watch this the way it was sensationalized makes it even sweeter," Strahan said of the DVD, which goes on sale in stores today.
"You know what's coming, but I'm like, 'Get it Plax.' You see him catch the ball and everybody's jumping up and down, it's the best feeling in the world." A feeling so good might Strahan, 36 years old and after 15 seasons with the Giants, want to come back for one final curtain call? Continue
Plaxico Burress just finished a remarkable season in which he battled a painful injury and finished with a Super Bowl-winning catch. Now he may be looking to cash in. Burress' agent declined to shoot down speculation on Saturday that the Giants' top receiver is looking to renegotiate his deal. Burress has three years and $10.5 million left on the six-year, $25 million deal he signed in 2005, but there have been rumors that he's looking for more. "That is going to be between myself and the Giants," agent Drew Rosenhaus said. "I can't comment on that publicly."
Burress, of course, would appear to have some leverage after catching 70 passes for 1,025 yards and 12 touchdowns in the regular season and another 18 passes for 221 yards and a score in the playoffs. The whole time he battled a sprained ankle he suffered on Aug. 2. He even played in the Giants' Super Bowl win just five days after slipping in the shower and hurting his knee. Continue
Jerry Reese is trying to play hard-to-get at the NFL Scouting Combine but is having little success. Everywhere he goes, someone is bearing down on him offering up a healthy dose of congratulations.
"A lot of 'attaboys' here, a lot of pats on the back," the Giants New York Giants general manager said yesterday during his press briefing in Indianapolis. "You try to run from people so you can watch the players. Everybody's happy for us. It's exciting to be on top in this environment right now, but you can't pat yourself on the back, you have to move on and try to get ready for a new season." Continue
Fresh off a Super Bowl victory, the Giants are still looking to make roster upgrades. There is speculation they're interested in dealing for Falcons cornerback DeAngelo Hall, who said Friday he will not return to the team after new general manager Thomas Dimitroff told him the club would consider offers for him. Add in another potential target of the Giants: Seahawks cornerback Marcus Trufant.
According to a league source familiar with the Giants' situation, Trufant is on their radar as a potential acquisition once the trading period begins next Friday. Seattle has designated Trufant as their "franchise" player, meaning Seattle has virtually exclusive negotiating rights with him for the 2008 season. But that does not preclude them from making a trade. He is coming off his best season, with a career-high seven interceptions. Continue
NFL network reported that the Giants were interested in trading their 1st pick in this years draft for Falcons CB DeAngelo Hall. Stay tuned.
One year after refusing to renegotiate Michael Strahan's contract, the Giants might have a change of heart. Co-owner John Mara said Thursday the Giants might be open to redoing Strahan's deal if the defensive end decides not to retire. He is currently signed only through next season and is due a salary of $4 million.
"We'll have to talk about that and see," Mara said. "I'm not ruling it out." The 36-year-old Strahan hasn't informed the Giants of his plans yet, although he's expected to do so sometime in March. "Well, we'd like to know," Mara said. "But you know what? He's earned the right to take his time. We certainly want him back." Continue
Giants co-owner John Mara described the impending contract extension for Tom Coughlin as "really not a sense of urgency," which is proof of the inevitability of the situation. The deal will get done in the next few days, and talks figure to heat up now that Mara, a member of the NFL's competition committee, has completed his meetings at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.
Mara said there are no real problems with the negotiation, and, soon enough, Coughlin will agree to what will most likely be a four-year extension worth slightly more than $20 million. That would link Coughlin to the Giants until he turns 65 years old, a fitting conclusion to a coaching career that reached the pinnacle with this season's stunning Super Bowl title. Continue
Tom Coughlin entered the 2007 season not knowing if it would be his last with the Giants. But after upsetting the previously unbeaten Patriots and winning Super Bowl XLII, the coach is close to reaping the rewards of a long-term extension.
Two league sources familiar with the Giants' situation told Newsday yesterday that there are few hurdles left in negotiations, and that a deal could be completed sometime this week. One source said the contract will be a four-year extension through the 2011 season. No financial terms were disclosed, but the deal likely will average about $5 million - or perhaps slightly higher - per season. Continue
Antonio Pierce was slapped with a summons on Wednesday charging him with animal neglect after one of his pit bulls escaped his property and was found to be underweight and sick, according to a report.
Two pit bulls apparently either pushed open or snuck under a gate in a fence around Pierce's property in Monroe Township, N.J., while the Giants' linebacker was in Arizona, a few days before Super Bowl XLII. According to the report in the Newark Star-Ledger, one dog was discovered to have a respiratory illness. The other dog apparently was fine. Continue
Jeremy Shockey disappeared from the Giants soon after he suffered a broken left leg Dec. 16, choosing to stay away during the Super Bowl run. But Shockey isn't going anywhere next season.
Despite speculation around the league, Giants general manager Jerry Reese told Newsday yesterday morning in an e-mail that Shockey "is our starting tight end." The Giants have no plans to trade Shockey as they prepare for free agency and the draft, nor are they considering releasing him this offseason.(Newsday)
It took Jeff Feagles 20 NFL seasons to get to and win his first Super Bowl. But rather than ride off into a championship sunset, he decided to come back for more. Feagles, the Giants' punter who recently became the oldest player to play in a Super Bowl, signed a two-year contract Tuesday morning. He will turn 42 next month and is looking forward to his 21st season. He said he never considered retirement.
"Oh, not at all," Feagles said. "What made my decision a lot easier is my family is here for good. I felt great during the season. The Giants have assured me they're convinced I can play for a couple more years. I've convinced myself that I can do that. We'll just take it year by year." Continue
Kicking the Giants into Super Bowl XLII turned out to be very lucrative for Lawrence Tynes. The hero of the NFC Championship Game, who booted the game-winning 47-yarder in overtime after missing two previous attempts to win it, Tynes was close to agreeing to terms Monday on a five-year, $7 million contract, an NFL source confirmed. Tynes was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent on Feb.29.
The 29-year-old, Scotland-born kicker, whom the Giants acquired from the Kansas City Chiefs last May, got off to a rough start this season, missing three kicks under 35 yards in the first eight games. But he finished with respectable numbers, nailing 85.2% of his kicks (23 for 27) including 11 of his last 12. Continue
The ball was in the air for what felt like a lifetime, and David Tyree David Tyree was perfectly willing to wait it out that long if that's what it took. All around him, the Super Bowl had come to a complete standstill. All around him, every eye, thousands of them, were fastened on a football. "I couldn't hear a thing," Tyree said. "I felt like I was all by myself."
There were, in reality, 71,101 spectators inside University of Phoenix Stadium. There were a couple hundred others, give or take, patrolling the sidelines: players, coaches, photographers, officials, various other folks with lanyards and credentials around their necks. All of them entranced by the football. All of them seized by the moment. Continue
One week after the 2004 draft, I conducted a survey of 17 GMs, coaches and personnel experts around the NFL and asked them who got the better of the Giants' franchise-altering trade with the Chargers for Eli Manning. An astounding 13 gave the edge to the Chargers.
Now that Manning is a Super Bowl champion and Super Bowl MVP, that trade can no longer be questioned. He also has earned a grace period - for a couple of games, at least - if he reverts next season to how he played for most of his first four years. Continue
Already what the Giants did against the Patriots has become a part of the skyline of sports in New York, up there with anything, up there with Bobby Thomson and Joe Namath and Mark Messier and even Willis Reed, up there in that high a place. You even heard some of the players talking afterward about this being their own football version of the Miracle on Ice, even though nobody was ever an underdog like the U.S. kids were against the Soviets in Lake Placid, even though these Giants never should have been a 12 or 13-point underdog to the Patriots in the first place. Continue
There is no rest for the weary, not even for the Super Bowl champions. And so, Giants general manager Jerry Reese and his entire scouting department yesterday were gathered together at Giants Stadium for the first day of pre-draft meetings, five days after the Giants New York Giants shocked the world with their 17-14 upset of the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.
It would be perfectly understandable if, before getting down to plotting their initial strategy for the NFL Draft on April 26 and 27, the men responsible for putting together one of the best draft classes in team history - at least as far as immediate contributions - took time to bask in the glow of a job well done. Continue
In the moments after the Giants beat the Dallas Cowboys to advance to the NFC Championship Game, John Mara joked that the happiest man on the planet was probably Gary O'Hagan - Tom Coughlin's agent. With every win in the postseason, Coughlin's price went up. Imagine how much it's going to cost to keep him now.
The Giants' owners are about to find out, because they're expected to open negotiations early this week on a long-term deal for the coach they nearly fired 13 months ago. They've already had a preliminary conversation with O'Hagan, but the real talks are still coming. Continue
Here's what Steve Spagnuolo spurning Daniel Snyder and the Redskins yesterday and staying with the Giants New York Giants means: The Giants will have a real chance to repeat their unforgettable trip up the Canyon of Heroes. It means there is a better chance that Michael Strahan Michael Strahan comes back for a 16th season.
Eric Mangini left Bill Belichick's side and jumped at the chance to coach the Jets New York Jets two years ago in part because his father succumbing to a heart attack when he was 16 taught him that you live for today when opportunities present themselves, in part because his pal, Mike Tannenbaum, was on the brink of succeeding Terry Bradway as GM. To each his own. Continue
Steve Spagnuolo is staying with the Giants New York Giants . The excitement of the astonishing 17-14 victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII had been followed by trepidation among fans that they would lose their first-year defensive coordinator. After all, it was the defense that pulverized Tom Brady and paved the way for the titanic upset.
The concern of the fans turned to genuine fear when Spagnuolo was courted and interviewed by Redskins owner Dan Snyder for the vacant Washington head coaching job. After nearly 36 hours of talks, it seemed likely that Spagnuolo would take the money and the prestige and sign with the Redskins. Continue
After a trip down the Canyon of Heroes on Tuesday afternoon, Steve Spagnuolo got another hero's welcome from the Washington Redskins. But the Giants aren't ready to let their defensive coordinator get away without a fight. According to a source close to the 48-year-old assistant, the Giants have already told him they're willing to do whatever they can to keep him if he ends up getting offered the Redskins' head coaching job. That would include a raise, a contract extension, and possibly even the title of assistant head coach.
However, they're only willing to go so far, and it doesn't appear that the Giants will do for Spagnuolo what the Dallas Cowboys did last month for offensive coordinator Jason Garrett. To prevent Garrett from leaving for either the Atlanta Falcons or Baltimore Ravens, the Cowboys gave him a new contract reportedly worth $3 million per season. Continue
At the celebratory and joyous rally for the Super Bowl champion Giants yesterday afternoon at Giants Stadium, one of the loudest and longest ovations was given to Steve Spagnuolo. The display of appreciation and admiration was not only a byproduct of the way his defense in Super Bowl XLII abused Tom Brady and held the Patriots record-breaking offense to a mere 14 points.
It was a reputation-enhancing performance on the big stage for Spagnuolo, the first-year defensive coordinator. That was reason enough to salute him, but the euphoric crowd wasn't offering simple gratitude. The noise grew louder and louder as a slightly sheepish-looking Spagnuolo waved and nodded. "You only get this in New York, coach," said Bob Papa, the Giants New York Giants ' radio voice and master of ceremonies. Continue
The moment - unlike the Patriots' season - was perfect. Eli Manning stood Tuesday as the Super Bowl MVP before a crazed New York crowd, the key to the greatest city in the world clutched firmly in his hand and the Vince Lombardi trophy nearby.
It was the scenario the aw-shucks southern boy envisioned when he forced his way into Big Apple on draft day 2004 - the biggest success, on the biggest stage in the sporting world. "I would not trade any moment for this moment right here," a beaming Manning said on the steps of City Hall, where the Giants quarterback and his teammates were cheered yet again for their upset of the now 18-1 Patriots. Continue
They return home as true Giants now - these longshot underdogs who pulled off a series of improbable upsets to become Super Bowl champions. Now a ticker-tape parade and the cheers of their fans await them on Tuesday morning when they'll ride up the Canyon of Heroes and be feted at City Hall.
"I was a rookie and coming out of the hospital [from knee surgery] when the Yankees had one of their parades and I thought to myself, 'I want to have one of those before I am done here,'" veteran wide receiver Amani Toomer said. "Now is the time. I can't wait." Frenzied fans got a jump start last night, braving the cold at Newark Airport to see the World Champion G-Men land just before 7 bearing the Vince Lombardi trophy. Continue
It wasn't that long ago, actually mid-December, weeks before the Giants got on their world championship run, when it looked like Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning, after years of trying, just didn't have that special something it takes to make it in New York.
No coach and quarterback in the NFL had ever been ridiculed more than Coughlin and Manning. That's what made it even sweeter Monday that they were at the day-after news conference for the winning coach and Super Bowl MVP with a championship over the imperfect Patriots. The struggles were just part of the process. Continue
The Patriots had just scored the go-ahead touchdown on Tom Brady's pass to Randy Moss, and Eli Manning trotted onto the field with 2:39 to play. Former Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi, watching the game from the stands at University of Phoenix Stadium, turned to his son, Michael. "This is how they define players," Accorsi said. "If Eli is what we thought he was, he's got to do it now."
The game was on the line for the Giants. And so was Accorsi's reputation. He had engineered a massive draft-day trade for Manning in April 2004, all in hopes of reaching a moment like this. Accorsi, not to mention every other Giants fan around the globe, was a nervous wreck. Continue
He'd stuck his aching foot in it this time, it seemed. Plaxico Burress had made that guarantee before he ever stepped on a plane to Arizona, and then this past week he could hardly walk without a limp, without more fluid accumulating on his knee and the tendon pulling from the bone.
Burress had not been much of a factor in this Super Bowl, had watched while David Tyree, Kevin Boss and even Amani Toomer made the biggest catches. He'd made exactly one catch for 14 yards. But now the Giants were 13 yards away from the goal line, from something truly amazing, and Burress was running a slant-and-go in the end zone. Continue
So, do you think Eli Manning is going to get booed at home next year? Remember, it wasn't that long ago when Giants fans viewed Manning as a disappointment, maybe even a - gasp! - bust.
Now, that's suddenly a distant, distant memory.Last night, Manning cemented his place in franchise history with a drive that gave the Giants one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history - a 17-14 win over the previously undefeated New England Patriots. Minutes later, Manning was named Super Bowl XLII MVP, one year after his brother Peyton took home the MVP from the Colts' win over the Bears. Continue
You never know when the moment is going to find you, or when the game is going to summon you. That was how David Tyree David Tyree approached this game, same as he's approached his whole career. Two years ago he made the Pro Bowl on special teams. But he never wanted to label himself a special teams specialist. Officially, he is a wide receiver, even if he'd only caught four balls for a total of 35 yards all season.
"You always have to be ready, you always have to prepare," Tyree said last night, maybe 45 minutes after the Giants New York Giants had completed their stunning 17-14 win over the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. "You have to get after the games as if you'll be asked to answer the bell. So if you're asked, you can deliver." Continue
The Giants had the perfect answer for the suddenly imperfect Patriots: a big, bad defense and an improbable comeback led by their own Mr. Cool quarterback, Eli Manning. In one of football's biggest shockers, New York shattered New England's unbeaten season as Manning hit Plaxico Burress on a 13-yard fade with 35 seconds left in the Super Bowl. Sunday's 17-14 win was the Giants' 11th straight on the road, and the first time the Patriots tasted defeat in more than a year.
It was the most bitter of losses, too, because New England (18-1) was one play from winning, but its defense couldn't stop a 12-play, 83-yard drive that featured a spectacular leaping catch by David Tyree, who scored New York's first touchdown. Continue
There is no alternative. Not for the Giants New York Giants . Not now. Not anymore. They cannot lose, because if they do this magical tale they have weaved like a suit of gold grows tattered and frayed. They were warned before ever arriving here that no one remembers the loser and the Giants above all else are determined to make this a moment to cherish forever.
After all they have been through, the grind of a good but not great season, a playoff express with layovers in sunny Tampa and haughty Dallas and arctic Green Bay, the Giants stop here and confront the most daunting challenge in this game's storied history. Every championship must be earned but has any team ever dealt with what awaits the Giants tonight in Super Bowl XLII at the University of Phoenix Stadium? Continue
Plaxico Burress joined his teammates for the Giants' 50-minute walk-through yesterday at the Cardinals' practice facility in Tempe, and coach Tom Coughlin sounded a positive note about Burress' knee and ankle injuries. Said Coughlin, "I think he's a little bit better ... He gets a little bit better each day and hopefully, we'll be able to have some further improvement [today]." Continue
Bill Belichick and the Patriots were accused of being Super Bowl cheaters on Saturday, but the Giants ensured there was no way the New England spymaster would be able to spy on them.
According to a startling report in the Boston Herald, members of the Patriots' video department illegally filmed the St. Louis Rams final walk-through at the Superdome in New Orleans one day before the Patriots shocked the 14-point favorites six years ago in Super Bowl XXXVI. The report quoted an unnamed source as saying the Patriots employee stayed behind after New England had its walkthrough in order to tape the Rams as they practiced their formations. Continue
The quarterback's right ankle will be sitting out there in plain view, wrapped or unwrapped, a giant bull's-eye for the targeting. And if Tom Brady goes down, if Matt Cassel is suddenly standing in the pocket for the Patriots, then this Super Bowl on Sunday becomes a very different sort of affair.
So what are the Giants to do about this famously aching extremity? Should they tackle low, tackle late? Is it worth a 15-yard penalty and a vaguely guilty conscience? Or does a sense of gallantry demand they ignore the red cape flapping in front of them? Continue
It hasn't just been one of the story lines at this Super Bowl, it has been a huge story line for the whole Giants' season, that Tom Coughlin has, at the age of 61, turned into a good guy. People have jumped on that the way they used to jump on the idea that he wasn't a good guy. Or a good football coach. Extreme makeover, New York Giants edition!
It doesn't mean you were breaking a law if you tried to run him out after a couple of first-round losses, by the way. Coughlin has been around long enough to know that coaching or managing is a hardball league, especially in New York. We can talk about incentive clauses with Joe Torre and all the rest of it, but one of the reasons he isn't managing the Yankees anymore is because somebody finally wanted to talk to him about three first-round losses in five years with the biggest payroll in the history of the human race. If you can move Torre now, you could move Coughlin after last season. Continue
When Plaxico Burress arrived at Giants' hotel headquarters hours after giving The Post his 23-17 Super Bowl prediction, he proclaimed his troublesome right ankle 97 percent. Then he didn't practice Wednesday. Not to worry. He was going to practice Thursday. Then he didn't practice Thursday, and we were told there was swelling and soreness in his left knee. Worry.
Considering he had been able to practice on an intermittent basis since November, this was clearly a setback, and at the worst possible time.So yesterday, 48 hours from Super Bowl XLII, all eyes were on Burress when the Giants hit the practice field. Eli Manning's eyes, Tom Coughlin's eyes, the eyes of New York. Continue
Eli Manning, clad in his white jersey, No. 10 in red, began walking away from the hype and the hoopla and the hysteria toward Super Sunday when a member of the New York media asked him this question: "If you had a chance of being a spokesman for any product, what would it be and why?"
"I have no idea," Manning said. He smiled. "Spokesman for the Giants." And from all indications, he is ready to speak loud and clear. Ready to beat Tom Brady and Bill Belichick and win the game that will make him one of our forever sports heroes. Unlike his big brother, Eli Manning is not the celebrity quarterback. And he will never be, no matter how many endorsements may be waiting for him down Madison Avenue. Continue
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