Events Conspiring Against Eli, Giants?
Jan 29, 2009 Eagles Rumors
The Giants have an interesting off-season ahead. They’ve got two UFA running backs (Jacobs, Ward). They will undoubtedly re-sign one of them (Jacobs), but they will likely lose some valuable depth a pretty darn good runner.
Long time Giant Amani Toomer is a free agent. Plaxico Burress has a long-term deal, but the Manhattan criminal court may decide his NFL career will best be continued after a stay in the penitentiary. So re-sign Toomer, right? Well, there appears to be at least a little problem. He sounds more than a little bit peeved at the organization.
My agent and them have been talking a little bit, but I just think the way the season ended and how they started going away from me at the end of the year, I think it ultimately hurt the team and I think contributed greatly to our situation right now, being out of it.
I just think the last couple of games I wasn’t a big part of the offense and we lost … a big percentage of the games (four of the last five). I feel like you can’t tell me (that) didn’t play a big role in it. I think it did.
Reduced role for veteran with expiring contract leading to unhappy player. Sound familiar?
They’ve also have to figure out whether to keep the services of our favorite fat-ass middle linebacker, who has become enough of a liability that many fans are calling for his ouster.
Now, getting back to the free agents. The Giants do have plenty of cap room. And with Toomer, his ability has declined enough with age that just dropping him from the team might not hurt that much. But him and Plaxico? That would be a disaster.
Enter Anquan Boldin. The NY media is infatuated with the guy, and even though he’s still under contract they want him in a bad way. But this may be another situation that turns sour for the team. Just this week Larry Fitzgerald made public comments that he would be willing to restructure his deal to help the team retain Boldin. That certainly doesn’t guarantee a deal gets done, but with Boldin under contract through 2010 he would probably accept a shiny new deal from the Cardinals rather than causing too much trouble.
A lot of questions in NY this off-season. Next year could be the first time in his career that Eli has questionable talent running routes for him. Looking forward to that.
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