Tuesday’s Giants News: Diehl Gets 6-Year Extention
The NY Giants hooked up David Diehl with a new 6-year contract extention worth about $31 million. Diehl played left tackle last season without making left tackle money. Add winning the Super Bowl to your resume, and I guess you can get a $31 million contract. Expect Diehl to be the starting left tackle for a few years because he’s getting paid to do so.
Jay Fund Event Recap - Michael Eisen tells us how successful the Jay Fund Event was this weekend.
Breakfast Matters - John Schmeelk pointed out that Brandon Jacobs paid a visit to George Washington High School in Manhattan. The purpose of Jacobs’ visit was to encourage children to eat three meals per day.
New York Times:
Coughlin’s Playful Side Has Deep Roots in Florida - John Branch also covered Tom Coughlin’s charity event this weekend.
The Star-Ledger:
Differing opinions on Strahan - Mike Garafolo lets us know how some Giants think that Michael Strahan will be back, and others think he will retire. Garafolo also provided this video where Strahan tells us nothing new.
Giants reward Diehl with extension - Mike Garafolo reported that the Giants gave David Diehl a six-year, $31-million contract extension. Diehl is a stud. He bounced around the O-Line as requested by the team. He ended up playing left tackle last season when the Giants cut Petigout. Most of us never expected Diehl to be able to fill that void, but he did and deserves his extention.
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Today’s news is all about Big Blue’s vist to the White House yesterday. All of the articles below overlap. The funniest thing I read about it was that President Bush really believes in the Jessica Simpson jinx, and he blames her for the Cowboys losing to the Giants. I would have told you that the Giants won because of multiple factors like Wade Phillips has an awful Postseason record, Tony Romo chokes in the Playoffs, T.O. is not a win first player, and the Giants ‘D’ was downright nasty in the 2nd Half of that game. If President Bush wants to blame Jessica Simpson then that’s his choice. I really don’t care. Seeing Jerry Jones’ face after that game was priceless. Seeing T.O. pretending to cry was also priceless. I would love to see that more often.
On Friday, Big Blue will be hosting a workout session for some draft hopefuls. Most of them are local athletes which we wrote about a couple of days ago. With the draft coming up soon, we’ll see if the Jints take any of the players that they’ve been scouting.
While Jerry Reese went to the pro day at LSU, two Giants scouts were check out players at Rutgers. The Draft is about a month away now. I’m always so impatient about it because I want to know what type of talent will be on the Giants the following season. When you pick 32nd, so many things can happen which makes it almost unpredictable. However, it’s worth picking 32nd because they are the reigning Champions.
So the other day, I was on the phone with one of our other Giants Bloggers, Phessional. We were discussing Super Bowl XLII. He said that he still can’t believe that Big Blue won. I agreed with him because it still feels like it didn’t happen. Where did that come from? How did they beat the 18-0 Patriots (or what the experts called ‘the greatest team of all time)? How many times have you pinched yourself since then? What I realized is that I’m awake.
So Brian Kelly signed with the Lions and Trent Green is expected to sign with the Rams today. So the Giants are still searching for another cornerback and a backup quarterback. You would think that the it would be easier for the Super Bowl champs to fill their needs than teams like the Lions and the Rams. Both of them are dome teams which I don’t like anyway. Green already played for the Rams so he might feel comfortable there, but they were 5-11 in 2007. Both of these teams must be opening their checkbooks for these guys because it makes no sense for a player to choose the Lions or the Rams over the Giants…
It’s finally official, Tom Coughlin will be back as the Coach of the New York Football Giants. The Jints gave Coughlin a four-year contract worth $21 million, as was speculated. So Tom will be the Coach through 2011, and he will be there when the they open up in the new stadium. Coach Coughlin got the Giants to the Playoffs three years in a row, lets hope we get there seven years in a row when he’s finished here in New York.
The Dirty Birds ended up cutting Takeo Spikes which creates $5 million in cap space. It seems like the NFC teams that have been the busiest in the free agent markets have been the Saints, the Eagles, the 49ers, and the Vikings. Besides the Niners, the other teams were fighting for a Playoff berth at the end of last season so their recent additions could be enough to get them into the Playoffs next season.
