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May 18 Special Report - The continuing downhill slide of Lawrence Taylor reached another low point Thursday with the announcement that he has put his Super Bowl XXV ring up for auction. Clearly in need of money, the troubled Pro Bowl linebacker who played for the Giants from 1981 through 1993 is expecting upwards of $100,000 for the ring.

To the Giants, receiving their championship rings Wednesday night was not only a reward for winning Super Bowl XLVI, but a snapshot of their determination to celebrate more titles. "Our thing now is we want to be a dynasty," defensive end Justin Tuck said after receiving his 14-karat ring. "We want to make it a dynasty."

NFL Network released another batch in the "Top 100: Players of 2012," and the Weeble Wobble came in at No. 62. Justin Tuck, the Giants defensive captain, ranked a spot ahead of Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley (63) and one behind Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers (61).

Kareem McKenzie remains a free agent and would like to continue his career, but said he would be happy with retirement. The 11-year offensive lineman believes he has some football left. He knows the Giants are moving on so he's waiting for a team to give him the call, working out in the meantime.

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Dave Tollefson - No chance he was going to miss spending a night with his former Giants teammates, who last night received their Super Bowl championship rings at a private ceremony at Tiffany and Co. on Fifth Avenue.
Brandon Jacobs has joined a crowded backfield led by Frank Gore. But he hopes to show that he still has plenty left in the tank. And Jacobs and Mario Manningham are looking forward to their new start with the Niners.
Amani Toomer, in conjunction with the NFL's "Fuel Up to Play 60" initiative, urged kids in West New York this morning to exercise, develop healthy eating habits and "Rethink Pizza."

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May 17 Those who were part of the magnificent Super Bowl run four years ago and were again part of another improbable run this past season had a goal in mind when designing their new championship rings. "We wanted it to be little different than the last ring," Eli Manning said.
Four trophies surround the Giants' iconic NY logo, which is set with round brilliant diamonds on an outline of blue enamel. The top of the ring also includes 37 blue sapphires channel set with text that reads "2011 WORLD CHAMPIONS NEW YORK GIANTS."
The players involved in the design process were particularly pleased the Super Bowl XLVI championship ring has blue coloring. The 2007 ring was white gold and diamonds without additional color. "The blue makes it a little different," Manning said. "We wanted some blue - the Giants are Big Blue. We definitely wanted to get a little blue to spark it up a little bit."
In the sparkling stones, Ahmad Bradshaw will forever see himself falling backward onto his rear end into the end zone for the most awkward-looking Super Bowl-winning touchdown ever. Antrel Rolle doesn't even need the ring because he recently got it tattooed on his left pectoral muscle, along with the Manhattan skyline, stacks of cash and the words "All In."

When Justin Tuck saw a picture of the Giants' championship ring on Twitter six weeks ago, he wasn't happy. And he wasn't happy when he saw it again on Tuesday night. The design, he said, shouldn't have been seen by anyone outside the Giants organization until all the players on the team had seen it for themselves.

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The ring was designed with input from Giants owners John Mara and Steve Tisch, general manager Jerry Reese, coach Tom Coughlin and team captains Eli Manning, Justin Tuck and Zak DeOssie as well as representatives from Tiffany.

May 16 Justin Tuck says he has done everything he can to clear his schedule so he can attend Game 2 between the Rangers and Devils on Wednesday night. But the Giants defensive end is going to be a little busy. The Giants will receive their Super Bowl rings at Tiffany & Co. but Tuck will have the Rangers on his mind as well as he has become a big Rangers fan.

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May 15 Terrell Thomas may have lost a full season of his NFL career, but he hasn't lost any of his confidence. He also is sure he hasn't lost his starting job. The ring isn't the only thing Thomas said he will have a "bittersweet" feeling on Wednesday night when the Giants are presented their Super Bowl championship rings in a private ceremony inside Tiffany's in Manhattan. Not surprisingly he'll be glad to get the ring. He just wishes he had been on the field to earn it.

The Giants signed three rookie free agents who attended the team's minicamp last week on a tryout basis: wide receiver Brandon Collins of Southeast Louisiana, linebacker Jake Muasau of Georgia State and safety Will Hill of Florida. The team also announced that safety Chad Jones has been waived/failed physical. Jones, the Giants' third-round draft choice in 2010, was seriously injured in an auto accident two months after being drafted and has yet to play an NFL game.
"This type of injury is often limb threatening, and can sometimes require amputation. He has made a remarkable recovery to date," said Dr. Scott Rodeo, a Giants associate team physician. "However, at this time he has residual sensory loss, muscle weakness, and tenuous soft tissue coverage in the involved lower leg. The resultant functional impairment precludes his ability to perform physically at the level required for professional football."

For years, Tom Coughlin has honored the servicemen and women who, as he likes to put it, allow us to "sleep under the blanket of freedom." This month, one branch of the military will return the favor by honoring the Giants' coach. On May 23, Coughlin will be one of five recipients of the Outstanding Civilian Service Award, the third-highest public service honor the U.S. Army can bestow upon a civilian.

May 14 A week before the NFL Draft, Eli Manning was asked by The Post what he hoped for from the team's newly imported young talent, and he didn't hesitate. "Get a skill position guy who can help us get carries, get catches, in some ways get that same production from the guys we lost last year," he said. The Giants try to make Manning happy, and there's no doubt they heeded the wishes of their quarterback in their draft selections.

The Giants had 37 different players attending all or part of their three-day rookie mini-camp on a tryout basis. Receiver Brandon Collins and linebacker Jake Muasau were the only two who will be coming back. Both players signed contracts with the Giants on Sunday as soon as camp was over. The additions of Collins, a 5-11, 180-pound receiver out of Southeastern Louisiana and Muasau, a 6-1, 243-pound linebacker out of Georgia State, give the Giants a full, 90-man roster heading into their full-team mandatory minicamp next month.

Ryan Perrilloux admits it got confusing at times when the Giants kept cutting him and bringing him back onto the practice squad last season. The third-string quarterback was waived and then either signed to the practice squad or had his practice squad contract terminated a grand total of 22 times last season, including the initial move of waiving him from the final roster at the start of the season.

Empty promises on draft day only fueled Joe Martinek's desire to make sure his NFL dream was not deferred for good. Not that the former Rutgers standout running back would have preferred being selected in the seventh round, which is where numerous teams insisted they were going to take him before conveniently going in another direction, chalking those decisions as part of the game's business side.

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May 13 The Giants finished their second day of practices at rookie camp. If this was the last chance for some to make an impression on the Giants, some players made favorable ones. The Giants saw glimpses of some big-play ability out of first-round running back David Wilson and second-round wide receiver Rueben Randle.

After having a solid first day, the morning practice was a bit spotty for running back David Wilson, who fell in into what appears to be an old habit of cutting back instead of waiting for holes to open up in front of him. He also didn't have much success on a couple of runs into traffic, though he continued to show a nice burst of speed.

Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewel was asked about the linebacker corps, having a lot of guys which seem to be outside guys and maybe no clear cut answer in the middle. "Yeah, that is going to be an area of emphasis for us this year. We are in the classroom, obviously, right now trying to get a feel for what our new addition - Keith Rivers - what he knows about our defense and how much he can understand and learn about our defense"

Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewell said the starting middle linebacker position is Chase Blackburn's, but there will be plenty of competition for it. Fewell emphasized that Boley has the ability to play the role, but it's up for grabs.
Michael Boley, Chase Blackburn, Greg Jones and Mark Herzlich all are in the mix at middle linebacker. Fewell said typically he is looking for a two-down middle linebacker and then perhaps another middle linebacker to play on third downs or passing downs. Boley was the team's middle linebacker on passing situations.
In 2011, Blackburn, Jones, Herzlich and Jacquian Williams all played middle linebacker (safety Deon Grant was listed as the starter in six games in which the Giants opened in a sub defense). Because the NFL has become such a passing league, the rugged linebacker in the middle of the defense is not as prevalent as he was five or 10 years ago.

Tight end Adrien Robinson, the Giants' fourth-round pick, caught just 12 passes during his senior season at Cincinnati, but the Giants believe he has the athleticism and physicality to perform in the NFL. An underutilized weapon in a Cincy offense that featured running back Isaiah Pead, he's a bit of a project with the chance to contribute immediately at a position of need for the Giants.
His athleticism, backed by a 4.51-second 40-yard dash time, is so stunning that when the Giants took him 127th overall, GM Jerry Reese, a man not known for spouting hype, invoked the name of super-athletic pass-rusher Jason Pierre-Paul, referring to Robinson as "the JPP of tight ends."

It's clear as soon as Markus Kuhn opens his mouth (think Arnold Schwarzenegger) he is no ordinary newcomer at the Giants' rookie camp this weekend. Just the second native of Germany ever to be drafted by the NFL, the hulking defensive tackle is trying to be just the second German native to stick in the NFL after the Giants made him a seventh-round pick last month.
Kuhn suffered a laceration on his right leg while moving some boxes about a week ago, accidentally slicing himself with a knife that was sticking out of a box. He needed stitches and was held out of action this weekend. "I can't say much because I haven't seen him practice," said coach Tom Coughlin.

Look Janzen Jackson in the face and ask him, point blank, if he is a bad guy. He doesn't flinch, doesn't wince and doesn't show much of anything, really. "I believe I'm a young guy who did some dumb things," Jackson said yesterday in between practices at Giants rookie minicamp.

Brought in as an undrafted rookie free agent, Julian Talley, like Victor Cruz, is a New Jersey native who went on to play wide receiver at UMass. Now he's also dawning the white No. 3 practice jersey around the Timex Performance center. A few years behind, Cruz's accomplishments serve as blueprints for not only Talley and players from smaller schools, but undrafted rookies as a whole.

May 12 The 2012 Rookie Minicamp Roster - The list includes the 2012 Draft Selections, Free Agents, Rookie Tryouts, and Veteran Tryouts.
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The Giants opened their rookie minicamp with the announcement that they have signed all seven of their selections in last month's NFL Draft, as well as eight rookie free agents, four each on offense and defense.

Day One Highlights: RB David Wilson showed some burst attacking some holes and looked shifty as well. However, there was one run where the rookie got caught running sideways on the left with nowhere to go as he tried to make something out of nothing. Gilbride said Wilson probably was just trying to impress the coaching staff.

At 5-feet-10, 205 pounds, David Wilson is no Brandon Jacobs. But he is fast and explosive. He runs through tackles. He's tough to bring down. And he can catch the football. In short, he might be just what the Giants need to resuscitate the league's 32nd-ranked running game that didn't wake up until it was nearly too late last season. .

The all-time leading rusher in New Jersey high school history and Rutgers alum Joe Martinek begins rookie minicamp as one of eight undrafted free agents. If it wasn't for the Giants' call, Martinek might have been making the much longer commute to Tampa, where his former college mentor Greg Schiano is in his first season as the Buccaneers head coach.
Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride envisions Martinek as a backfield option because of the versatility he could bring to the fullback position, especially as a threat as a pass catcher. "We're obviously playing him at fullback now and [we'll] see what he can do, but that fullback position is so versatile depending on who it is that's playing,"

Kevin Gilbride was impressed by RB David Wilson and WR Rueban Randle but it is too early to predict what type of impact they might have in 2012. Wilson, the running back from Virginia Tech selected in the first round of last month's NFL Draft, showed off his speed, explosiveness and elusiveness today as the Giants opened their rookie minicamp.
Kevin Gilbride on Rueban Randle, "He looks smooth and he's obviously thinking, like they all are. So you don't see maybe the explosiveness that we expect to see and know we'll see down the road. But in terms of going deep and just going down the field, he looked pretty good and did the things that we needed him to do, which was go catch the ball when we threw it to him."

Limas Sweed, two years removed from last NFL game, is trying to catch on with the Giants. Limas Sweed never imagined that he'd be here one day, on a football field with a group of kids, most of whom won't ever get any closer to an NFL game. He was once supposed to be the big-play receiver that was going to transform the Pittsburgh Steelers offense.
Sweed has a total of seven receptions for 69 yards in two seasons after suffering a torn Achilles and a shoulder injury. Sweed, 27, says he is fully recovered and has tried out for the Bears and Bengals and has three more tryouts remaining with other teams after this weekend.

Adrien Robinson was four yards short of where he was supposed to be, and instead of taking his route to the outside he turned in. Then the raw athleticism of the Jerry Reese-nicknamed "JPP of tight ends" took over. Robinson thrust his arms into the air and pulled down what seemingly came at him with the speed of a 90-mph spiral, and did so with ease, as if the fourth-round draft pick from Cincinnati was plucking a dollar bill falling from the sky.

Head Coach Tom Coughlin's first day comments included, "The defense is lined up half the time the wrong way and that type of thing. But when you figure you have your draft choices, your undrafted college free agents that have been signed and then the tryout people, they did all right."
Coughlin, though, on Friday did admit "I was very impressed with Randle out on the field this morning:" and there's little doubt the entire coaching staff, if they weren't already excited, enjoyed the first look at wide receiver Rueben Randle, the second-round draft pick from LSU.
It's not easy to tell much about running backs (and linemen and anyone else that plays a high-contact position) in non-contact drills. Quarterbacks and receivers, though, are much easier to evaluate.

At 26, Giants seventh round draft pick Markus Kuhn is the oldest of the Giants' seven draft picks. He's also the least experienced, at least when it comes to the game of football. Kuhn, a 6-4, 299 lb. prospect who speaks with a hint of a German accent, said he's never actually seen an NFL game in person. "Hopefully the first NFL game I see live is the first one I'll play in as well,' he said.

David Wilson, the running back selected in the first round of the NFL Draft, and Hosley, the cornerback taken in the third round, were three-year teammates who roomed together during their freshman season at Virginia Tech. Now they're helping each other take their first professional steps in this three-day camp.

Like all positions, there has been turnover on the Giants offensive line in recent seasons. And once again, it will become a topic of much debate as the team hits its checkpoints in the coming months and into the season. Offensive tackles Matt McCants and Brandon Mosley began their NFL journeys, and the two draft picks have shown they are anxious to learn.

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May 11 The defending Super Bowl champions get back to work this weekend, as the New York Giants hold their rookie minicamp in East Rutherford, N.J. Repeating is hard work, though, and there are good reasons why only one team this century has been able to do it.

With rookie camp set to begin this weekend here's Scouts Inc.'s breakdown of sixth-round pick Matt McCants. McCants is a project that Jerry Reese hopes could compete for a starting spot next season. Tomorrow we look at the Giants' seventh-round pick Markus Kuhn.

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May 10 Eli Manning has never been diagnosed with a concussion, but amid the swirl of discussion and controversy regarding head trauma around the NFL, the Giants quarterback admits "It's a scary deal." On the night of Aug. 16, 2010, the sight of Manning bleeding profusely from a 3-inch gash on his forehead and looking dazed as he jogged off the field during a preseason game against the Jets was a troubling image for the Giants and their fans.

Chad Jones' goal of being on the field with his teammates in an organized practice this spring will not be met this weekend. The former third-round pick, who suffered severe leg injuries in a car accident two years ago, has not been cleared to participate in Giants rookie camp, a team spokesman said.

With rookie camp set to begin this weekend here's Scouts Inc.'s breakdown of fourth-round pick Brandon Mosley. The Giants believe Mosley is old school, tough-minded and versatile like David Diehl. Diehl could start at right tackle this season with Kevin Boothe at left guard and Will Beatty at left tackle. Tomorrow we look at the Giants' sixth-round pick Matt McCants.

Giants coach Tom Coughlin, who served as the team's wide receivers coach for a portion of Stacy Robinson's time with the team, recalled the late Robinson as a "class act." Phil Simms shared many memories of Robinson, including a 49-yard catch against the San Francisco 49ers on Monday Night Football in 1986 that set up the winning touchdown.
Robinson in 2009 was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, cancer of the plasma calls in the bone marrow, according to a family statement posted on CaringBridge.org, a hospice website. In the Super Bowl XXI victory over the Broncos, Robinson led the Giants with 62 receiving yards, making three catches.
The 1986 championship season was Robinson's best. He had career-high totals of 29 catches for 494 yards and scored two touchdowns, despite missing four games with a sprained ankle. In a come-from-behind Monday night victory in San Francisco, Robinson caught five passes for 116 yards, including a 34-yard touchdown and an acrobatic 49-yarder that set up Ottis Anderson's go-head one-yard touchdown run.

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May 9 Osi Umenyiora hopes he was just exaggerating when he said there's a "strong chance" he'll end up in a wheelchair someday thanks to a lifetime of playing football. He just doesn't want to take the chance that it'll really happen to his son.

Eli Manning returned to the job he does best as the Giants held their first on-field workout with coaches present on Tuesday. The SNL audience included Manning's wife, Abby, parents Archie and Olivia, and offensive linemen Chris Snee, David Diehl and David Baas, as well as former center Shaun O'Hara, a close Manning friend.

The Giants drafted Rueben Randle in the second round and he's expected to come in and produce right away, just like Nicks did back in 2009. There's an opening on the outside opposite of Nicks, and Randle is going to have a chance to earn that role. Nicks had 790 yards in his rookie year. .

It used to be most rookie contracts weren't completed until June or July. But under the new collective bargaining agreement signed last year, these deals are a lot less complex and thus easier to negotiate. Case in point: the Giants have already agreed to terms on a deal with tight end Adrien Robinson.
With rookie camp set to begin this weekend here's Scouts Inc.'s breakdown of fourth-round pick Adrien Robinson. "Robinson could be a steal at this point, due to his combination of size, soft hands and top-end speed." Tomorrow we look at the Giants' other fourth-round pick Brandon Mosley.

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Stacy Robinson, who spent his entire six-year NFL career as a receiver for the Giants and was a member of two Super Bowl-winning teams, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. He was 50.

May 8 With the departure of Mario Manningham and Brandon Jacobs this offseason, the Giants have openings at backup running back and No. 3 receiver. Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride is hopeful the team's top two draft picks, running back David Wilson and wide receiver Rueben Randle, can help fill those voids.

Eli Manning was back in his element Monday in the Giants locker room a couple of days after his guest host spot on "Saturday Night Live." He said teammates teased him about wearing a dress on the show - they told him he looked good - and threw a few bananas at him, a takeoff on a somewhat risque portion of a skit he did.

With rookie camp set to begin this weekend here's Scouts Inc.'s breakdown of third-round pick Jayron Hosley. Tomorrow we look at fourth-round pick Adrien Robinson.

May 7 Special Report - There are reasons why NFL teams are so much more vitally interested in finding pass rushing defensive ends these days, and most of those reasons come from the offenses. There is more passing these days, far more, say, then even 10 years ago, and that means the quarterback is going to be back there reasonably exposed to the big, fast rushers. An off-shoot of this is the gradual evolution of bigger, faster ends, and the Giants' Jason Pierre-Paul comes quickly to mind.

May 6 Would Eli Manning let loose for a little fun on "Saturday Night Live", or would the Giants quarterback rigidly stare into middle distance at his lines? Manning did a little of both. The most successful spot was probably a pre-filmed short for something called "Little Brothers."
Eli's monologue saw him introducing his offensive line in the crowd and calling Saturday "definitely the third-most exciting night of my life" following those two Super Bowl wins over the New England Patriots.
It actually was kind of funny to see "SNL" writers have Manning talk several times using adult language dialogue. We may never hear Eli utter some of the words he did on "SNL" ever again.

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May 5 Eli Manning is not an obvious choice to host "Saturday Night Live." The two-time Super Bowl champion's public persona is not particularly funny. "That's the good thing about 'Saturday Night Live.' You can come in and maybe express a different side that people don't see," Manning said.
Giants.com takes you behind the scenes on the set of 'Saturday Night Live' as Eli Manning prepares for his debut!

Head coach power rankings 1-26.
1. Jim Schwartz, Detroit Lions. This guy took an 0-16 franchise with a roster that couldn't beat half the teams in Canada and turned it into a legitimate Super Bowl contender in just three years.
2. Tom Coughlin, NY Giants: Two Super Bowl wins since 2008 as well as the uncanny ability to deliver when he's pressed up against it has the Big Blue boss right near the top of our rankings.
3. Bill Belichick, New England Patriots: He's delivered double-digit win totals in every regular season since 2003 and has led New England to the Super Bowl five times over the last eleven years.

Like a bunch of Giants offensive linemen right now, David Diehl doesn't know where he's going to be playing come Week 1 - guard or tackle, left or right. All Diehl knows is he will be playing, period.
General manager Jerry Reese drew some comparisons between his draft picks and current Giants. See what OT Brandon Mosley had to say about playing like David Diehl.

With rookie camp set to begin next weekend, we're taking a look at Scouts Inc.'s breakdown of each New York Giants' draft pick leading up to next Friday's camp. Rookie camp is next Friday-Sunday. Here's Scouts Inc.'s breakdown of second-round pick Rueben Randle.

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Amani Toomer says Kurt Warner is 'a little disingenuous' to trash the NFL. "I think Kurt Warner needs to keep his opinions to himself when it comes to this. Everything that he's gotten in his life has come from playing football"

May 4 With rookie camp set to begin next weekend, now's a good time to take a look at Scouts Inc.'s breakdown of each New York Giants' draft pick leading up to next Friday's camp. First up, first-round pick David Wilson. Giants OTA dates are: May 23-24, May 30-June 1, June 4-5, June 7-8; rookie minicamp May 11-13, regular minicamp June 12-14.

The Giants likely received calls on Umenyiora during the draft, but again, no one made an offer Reese couldn't refuse. Umenyiora is especially costly because he would require a big long-term deal to make the trade sensible. The biggest obstacle of all here: The Giants aren't motivated sellers. They have Umenyiora under contract at a low price. He's valuable to them, and they can live through a little offseason drama. After all, they have done it plenty of times before.

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Harry Carson, early in his career back in the early 1980s, said he contemplated suicide while driving over the Tappan Zee Bridge. Then he thought about leaving his infant daughter without a father. Carson said he predicted a rash of NFL suicides because of the neurological damage that can occur from playing the game.

May 3 The Giants and their fans have studied every move Eli Manning has made the past eight years, but no one will ever have seen him the way he'll present himself this weekend, when he is the host of "Saturday Night Live."
In 2008 Manning politely declined the invitation from SNL's creator and executive producer, saying he wanted to focus on football and that he didn't want to host the show not long after brother Peyton drew laughs during his stint as host in 2007.
Rehearsals were still underway and Michaels said they were still in the process of narrowing down 40-45 scripts into the 12-13 that will be used, so Eli doesn't know yet exactly what he'll be performing live. He is mindful, though, of how good Peyton was on the show.

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New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma was suspended without pay for the entire 2012 season by the NFL, one of four players punished today for participating in the team's cash-for-hits bounty system.

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May 2 Giants GM Jerry Reese dismisses Osi Umenyiora's 'greedy pig' remarks, wants DE to retire with Big Blue. Reese dismisses Osi Umenyiora's harsh comments as 'offseason chatter,' adding that he won't hold a grudge against the disgruntled defensive end.
In an email to The Post, Umenyiora wrote, "Yes they offered an extension this year. Guaranteeing half of what [Mathias Kiwanuka] was guaranteed. So him telling you guys they offered an extension is technically the truth. And I'm very greedy for turning down half of what Kiwi just got. Lol."
"I'm not going to discuss Osi's contract situation with you guys," Reese said when asked about Umenyiora's contract. "But I can say this to you though -- the New York Giants are a better football team with Osi Umenyiora on our team. We respect him as a football player. Our goal is to have Osi play football with the New York Giants and retire as a Giant. That is what we would like to do first."

When the Giants selected two offensive tackles over the weekend, it reinforced a cornerstone of the franchise - competition. It just so happens that the battle for playing time is also reinforcing the cornerstone of any team - the offensive line.

May 1 Ahmad Bradshaw, who plans to be more of a leader this season to replace the departed Brandon Jacobs, said first-round pick David Wilson will be his "project." Seven years ago, Tiki Barber took Brandon Jacobs under his wing in the Giants' backfield. Soon thereafter, Jacobs became the elder statesman guiding Ahmad Bradshaw. And now, with Jacobs gone to the San Franscisco 49ers, Bradshaw will become the instructor for David Wilson, the Giants' first-round pick in this year's NFL Draft.
The first challenge will be learning the Giants playbook. At least Wilson will have a full offseason of coaching from the staff and mentoring from Bradshaw -- something Da'Rel Scott did not have last year due to the lockout. "As a Giant running back, it's one of the toughest things," Bradshaw said "You just have so many pass protections, so many pass route terms, so many run terms."
David Wilson is the most highly-touted member of the team's seven-member draft class. The team's first-round choice, Wilson is a running back with impressive speed, balance and instincts who rushed for 1,709 yards at Virginia Tech last year. Now, to earn some playing time with the Super Bowl champions, Wilson must learn to ... block? "

Every year during the draft, ESPN The Magazine throws a Pre-Draft party. This year, the party moved to the The Waterfront. The party is held the night before the draft and several of the first-round prospects come to celebrate just before being drafted the next day along with several NFL stars.. Numerous Giants came out to the party -- 23 in fact -- and were big celebs since they are Super Bowl champs.
No two N.F.L. drafts are alike. This year's draft was mercifully brief - the first round lasted only three hours, and teams selected in later rounds with Gatling-gun quickness - and it was such a swap meet that six of the first seven selections were made by teams that traded into their slots. It was also heavy on unpredictable selections, awkward embraces and Fighting Illini.

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Jonathan Goff has signed with the Washington Redskins as a free agent after four seasons with the Giants. Goff missed all of the 2011 season with a torn knee ligament.
Brandon Jacobs, was tied to a high-speed caravan of sports cars that was escorted to Atlantic City by two state troopers. Driving club linked to 'Death Race' celebrates lifestyles of the rich and excessive.

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NFL Draft 2012 - Rounds 1 - 7  |  Round 1 : Pick-by-pick analysis
Rounds 2-3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | Round 7

The 32nd Pick In the 2012 Draft - Giants selected running back David Wilson.
The 63rd Pick In the 2012 Draft - Giants selected wide receiver Rueben Randle.
The 94th Pick In the 2012 Draft - Giants selected cornerback Jayron Hosley.
The 127th Pick In the 2012 Draft - Giants selected tight end Adrien Robinson.
The 131st Pick In the 2012 Draft - Giants selected offensive tackle Brandon Mosley.
The 201st Pick In the 2012 Draft - Giants selected offensive tackle Matt McCants.
The 239th Pick In the 2012 Draft - Giants selected defensive tackle Markus Kuhn.

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Apr 30 One day after the Giants' GM insisted the team has offered Umenyiora a contract extension in each of the last two seasons, the unhappy defensive end fired back, saying Reese was distorting the truth to make him look like "a greedy pig."
It's been assumed that either the Giants were stringing along Umenyiora as he enters the last year of his contract or that they were low-balling him. He even had accused general manager Jerry Reese of being dishonest with the team's intentions

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