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HEAR IT: Mike Francesa rips Giants star Odell Beckham, urging him to ‘grow up’ and not turn into another Jeremy Shockey Tweet email Mike Francesa is not entertained by Odell Beckham's antics. (Sipkin, Corey, New York Daily Ne/New York Daily News) BY Brett Bodner NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, January 9, 2017, 3:20 PM Mike Francesa would like to see Odell Beckham catch the ball or “get lawst.” The Sports Pope opened his Monday afternoon show discussing the Giants playoff debacle and early exit from the playoffs following a 38-13 loss to the Packers. He refused to get into the receivers partying on a boat in Miami last week, noting it was only a sign of immaturity, as was the receivers taking warmups without shirts. “Nobody cares if he wears sleeves, catch the ball. Nobody cares if he’s out there with no shirt on, catch the ball. Nobody cares if you can make one handed catches, try making two handed catches!” shouted Francesa. “Catch the ball. Grow up.” Mike Francesa said the Giants should tell Odell Beckham Jr. to grow up before he becomes the next Jeremy Shockey. (Szagola/CSM/REX/Shutterstock) Francesa added that maybe someone in the Giants organization will help Beckham so that he won’t turn into Jeremy Shockey Part 2.0., saying the former giant tight end left people saying “he never really was as good as we thought he was going to be.” GIANTS KEEP 'EM, DUMP 'EM: Time to VOTE on who stays and who goes The radio host said the whole idea of being a celebrity has come to Beckham in spite of him not winning first. “Now you become a star by outrageous behavior and doing something outrageous like making a one-handed catch when basically you drop every fourth ball,” Francesa said. “I’d rather a guy who doesn’t make one-handed catches, but doesn’t ever have a problem making two-handed catches.” Ever since the loss, the Giants have been getting heat for their partying and many are pointing to it as a sign that they weren’t focused enough to beat the Packers. Odell Beckham Jr. failed to make catches in the big moments on Sunday's Wild Card game against the Packers. (Matt Ludtke/AP) Francesa also felt the Giants failed to make a statement by warming up without a shirt, noting how the Packers win games in the cold all the time. Odell Beckham, Victor Cruz don’t address media on breakup day “You know how you show those guys that the cold doesn’t bother you? By catching the ball!” Francesa exclaimed. “They’re not going to be impressed that you’re running around with your shirt off, they don’t care.”

Giants deny report that they trashed plane after season-ending loss to Packers Tweet email BY Pat Leonard Daniel Popper NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, January 10, 2017, 1:32 AM The Giants unequivocally denied a Monday report that their players had trashed a United plane on the flight home from Sunday’s season-ending 38-13 loss in Green Bay. “That is false,” a team spokesman said. Now, Odell Beckham Jr. certainly has a reputation for destroying property after reportedly punching that hole in the wall at Lambeau Field Sunday night. But on Monday, several Giants players didn’t even understand the question when asked about the rumored plane incident, first reported by United passengers on Twitter. “Listen to this,” one Giants player said to a teammate when approached, as if to say ‘Get a load of this guy.’” There was reportedly a mechanical issue, in fact, that delayed the plane scheduled to operate United Flight 934 from Newark to London’s Heathrow Airport at 8:30 a.m. Monday. So there was an aircraft swap, creating a delay. The flight didn’t take off until 11:47 a.m. NO FLOWERS POWER The Giants used the No. 9 overall pick on Ereck Flowers in 2015, and the offensive lineman has failed to live up to expectations in his first two NFL seasons. The Giants seem perplexed after being asked if they trashed a plane. (Jerry Lai/USA Today Sports) Jerry Reese provided a blunt assessment of Flowers’ development Monday, insinuating the Miami product could lose his job as the Giants’ starting left tackle. “He’s still a young player. But it’s time for him to show us the fruits of being a first-round draft pick,” the Giants GM said. “I still think he has a chance to do that. We’ll evaluate that. Is he the left tackle? Should he be in a different position? We’ll evaluate all that. But I do think he’s a big, strong kid that has a chance to be a really good player.” Flowers’ struggles this year came primarily in pass protection, where he appeared overmatched against edge rushers. He was called for a league-leading nine offensive holding penalties in the regular season. And the Packers’ Clay Matthews burned Flowers for a strip sack and fumble recovery in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s loss. “He’s learning to trust is technique,” Ben McAdoo said. “With young players, the way they come into the league now, they have to take a leap of faith with their technique as far as the bending, keeping your elbows tight and striking with your hands in pass protection, finishing the way you’re capable of finishing. Those are things that need to improve.” McAdoo was then asked if he’s content with Flowers’ progress this season.

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Perception is the only real issue for party-hearty Giants By Steve Serby January 3, 2017 | 1:15am Modal TriggerGiants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Getty Images MORE FROM: Steve Serby Anyone who knows Odell Beckham Jr. — and the list on Sunday night in Miami Beach included Justin Bieber, Khloe Kardashian, Trey Songz, Fabolous and, gulp, Johnny Manziel — knows how driven he is to win a Super Bowl. And anyone who knows Victor Cruz knows how much it means to him to be back in the playoffs chasing his second and possibly last chance to salsa in a Super Bowl in his beloved No. 80 Giants jersey. And when Beckham, Cruz and rookie receivers Sterling Shepard and Roger Lewis Jr. show up Tuesday morning at the Quest Diagnostics Center for Ben McAdoo’s team meeting, they will begin preparation for Sunday’s wild-card playoff game in Green Bay with as much seriousness and dedication as anyone perhaps except Eli Manning, who wouldn’t know Justin Bieber from Justin Pugh. McAdoo made as much of an issue of his boys being boys in their spare time at the start of his first playoff week as head coach as Bill Parcells used to make when Lawrence Taylor would show up on no sleep on Sunday’s at 1 p.m. and then proceed to chase the quarterback from one end of Giants Stadium to the other and sack him three times or so and wreck the game. And remember when John Matuszak skipped out on the Raiders’ 11 p.m. bed check to go dancing on Bourbon Street until 3 a.m. three days before Super Bowl XV? “I asked him, ‘John, do you really think at 6-7, 315 pounds you wouldn’t be noticed on Bourbon Street?” Oakland coach Tom Flores said once. “He said, ‘Coach, I was out making sure everyone else was in.’ To keep from laughing, I just said, ‘Get out of here, go to your meeting.’ ” And while the Raiders ran up $15,000 fines for breaking team rules that week, tightly wound Eagles coach Dick Vermeil enforced curfew every night. The Raiders won 27-10. In a 2013 interview with Playboy, this was Broadway Joe Namath: “I spent the nights before the Jets’ two biggest games that year — for the AFL championship and the Super Bowl — with girls. But I don’t consider that bad or foolish of me. Look, I’m a football player, and that’s my number one thing. I’m not about to take a chance on how I perform by breaking my own schedule. But I’ve been playing football for a long time, and by now, I know what I should do and shouldn’t do to stay ready at all times. The night before a game, I prepare myself both mentally and physically for the next day. I think a ballplayer has to be relaxed to play well; and if that involves being with a girl that night, he should do it. If some ballplayers don’t feel that way, they shouldn’t do it. But I feel that way.” McAdoo treats his players like men, and if he has any problem with them jetting away for some shirtless fun on a boat on their off day, he will never take it public, and if he or anyone else in the organization had an issue with it, it would be because it is not a particularly great optic with so much on the line so soon, and opens you up for social media derision. Tony Romo is referenced even now because he took Jessica Simpson on a well-documented bye week Cabo vacation … and then lost a playoff game at home to the Giants. “You don’t go to Cabo the week before a playoff game. You just don’t do it,” Troy Aikman railed afterwards. “It didn’t take away from his preparations. I know that. But to say, ‘I don’t worry about perception,’ you better worry about perception, because it’s a big part of making it through some very difficult times.” For the party-hearty Giants receivers, they should understand there is a catch to all this: If you allow the spotlight of celebrity to shine down on you just before you embark on the journey of a lifetime, you better show up and perform like Giants.

Giants rip Redskins’ heart out on road to clash with PackersBy Paul Schwartz January 1, 2017 | 7:32pm More On: new york giants LANDOVER, Md. — Eli Manning did not say he had that feeling, but he has a certain feeling he has felt before and the Giants are hoping their franchise quarterback is onto something. “Proud of this team,’’ Manning said. “I think there’s a uniqueness and something special about this squad of guys. We are finding ways to win games. Not perfect, it could be prettier at times but we are winning games. That is a good quality to have.’’ The Giants have a quality that allows them to keep playing at a time when the NFL truly gets down and dirty. They closed out a successful and eye-opening regular season Sunday with a 19-10 victory over the Redskins at FedEx Field, eliminating Washington from the playoffs and allowing the Giants to head into the postseason feeling pretty darn good about themselves. “I like this football team,’’ first-year head coach Ben McAdoo said. “I think we have talented men of integrity in the locker room and that’s where it starts and that’s where it ends.’’ There is no end in sight for the Giants (11-5), who will end a five-year playoff drought this weekend in Green Bay. This is the third time since 2007 the Giants will face the Packers in a playoff game at hallowed Lambeau Field. The Giants are 2-0 in those games, but they were beaten by the Packers at Lambeau 23-16 on Oct. 9. “Obviously Green Bay beating us, I think we did some good things at the very end of that game that gave us confidence to go out there and play those guys,’’ guard Justin Pugh said. Said linebacker Keenan Robinson: “You got a guy like [Aaron] Rodgers, when the playoffs come around, he really turns it on.’’ The Giants had nothing to play for Sunday, already locked into the No. 5 seed, yet sent an NFC East rival packing with another pulverizing defensive performance featuring two interceptions of Kirk Cousins by Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, utter disdain for the Redskins ground game and four sacks coming from all sorts of angles. Once again, the defensive bludgeoning made up for an incomplete offensive showing. The Giants ran for a season-high 161 yards — rookie Paul Perkins (102 yards) became the first Giants player this season to hit the century mark — but scored just 13 points on offense. That is not going to cut it in the playoffs. They got their final touchdown when cornerback Trevin Wade scooped up a desperation backwards lateral by Jordan Reed and ran 11 yards with the fumble recovery into the end zone with no time remaining. Devon Kennard celebrates sacking Kirk Cousins.Getty Images“I mean obviously we want to pick it up,’’ Manning said. The Giants ended the season scoring 14, 10, 17, 19 and 19 points in their final five games. The game had all the meaning in the world for the Redskins, who were in a win-and-in scenario as far as their playoff fate. They lost and are out, eliminated by an NFC East rival that did not mind at all being the team to send the Skins packing. The Redskins fell behind 10-0 at halftime and the Giants looked like the team that needed to win to stay alive. “I think they made us flat,’’ Redskins coach Jay Gruden said. “Giants made us flat. Terrible start.’’ Fittingly, the Giants sealed the game with a defensive gem, with Rodgers-Cromartie intercepting Cousins with 1:12 remaining. Cousins was looking for Pierre Garcon but instead found DRC, a turnover that killed the Redskins’ season. True to his word, McAdoo played his starters and never really made any mass substitutions, though backups were sprinkled in liberally in the second half. McAdoo was most cautious with Odell Beckham Jr., who did not play much in the second half and finished with five catches for 44 yards. Beckham kept his poise even though his nemesis, cornerback Josh Norman, tried to bait him and was called for two penalties against Beckham: an unnecessary roughness call in the second quarter and an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the third quarter. “I personally feel like it’s been dead for a long time, I feel like I put that to bed,’’ Beckham said of his history with Norman. “If I sneeze wrong it might be a problem so I felt like today I just did a good job of just coming out and playing football and trusting coach and his decisions.’’ McAdoo said limiting Beckham’s snaps in the second half had nothing to do with saving Beckham from Norman. “It had zero factor,’’ McAdoo said. “At some point and time in the game I was going to take him out of the game.’’ The Giants led 10-0 at halftime and played it conservatively on offense in the second half. The Redskins tied the game on Cousins’ 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jordan Reed with 8:13 remaining. With the crowd finally engaged and the intensity rising, the Giants found the winning points on an eight-play, 58-yard drive fueled almost entirely by Manning’s best throw of the game: an all-in-the-air 44-yarder to seldom-used Tavarres King, who went out of bounds on the Washington 25-yard line. That set up Robbie Gould’s 40-yards field goal with 2:12 remaining. “Ten wins are good but 11 is awesome,’’ linebacker Jonathan Casillas said. “I don’t remember the last time the Giants did that. It’s a good way to finish the regular season and will give us some momentum moving into the playoffs.’’ blix

Giants' road to the playoffs: Win and in, other possible scenarios By Ralph Vacchiano | Dec 20 | 7:30AM Ralph Vacchiano | Facebook | Twitter | Archive This is all you really need to know about the Giants' playoff scenarios: Win on Thursday night in Philadelphia and they are in. It's that simple, which is a rarity this time of year when figuring out tiebreaker scenarios is more confusing than trying to figure out which bulb is broken on the string of Christmas lights over your garage, thus causing 100 feet of lights to suddenly go out. (Hint: It's the last one you check -- always.) The tiebreakers and scenarios can be even more confusing when you factor in ties. Usually I don't, but there have already been a couple of ties this year. That's why you should keep it simple. In fact, a win by the Giants not only clinches a playoff spot but I'm pretty sure it clinches at least the No. 5 seed -- or top wild card spot. Yes, the NFC East isn't out of reach yet, but the wild card remains the more likely scenario. And at this point, the Giants are looking at a first-round trip to Detroit. Or maybe Green Bay. Or possibly Atlanta or Seattle. But forget all that for the moment and focus on the simple second sentence of this story. Win and they're in. In case you can't just keep it simple, here's everything else you need to know: Yes, Virginia, the Giants can still win the NFC East. They need to win at Philadelphia and at Washington in their final two games and hope the Cowboys lose at home against the Lions and at Philly in their finale. It's possible, but don't forget that no team coached by someone other than Ben McAdoo has beaten the Cowboys this year. So if the Cowboys suddenly lose their last two games, they'd have bigger problems than losing the division title. No, the Giants haven't clinched yet. And it all has to do with one nightmare, three-way tie scenario: The Giants are the odd team out if they finish in a three-way tie for two spots at 10-6 with the Bucs and Lions. (Forget the Packers, because if they get to 10-6 they win the NFC North on tiebreakers over the Lions.) As far as I can tell, that's the only way the Giants don't get in the playoffs with 10 wins thanks to the Redskins' loss to the Panthers on Monday night. And yes, it's more complicated than it sounds. The Bucs have to go 10-6 and not win the NFC South, which means the Falcons (9-5) have to go 2-0 to lock up the division. (I believe if the Falcons go 1-1 the Bucs win the division and the Giants would not miss the playoffs in a three-way tiebreaker with the Lions and Falcons.) And the Lions (9-5) have to go 10-6 and not win the division, which means the Packers (8-6) have to finish 2-0 to lock up the NFC North (on tie-breakers by beating the Lions twice, as I just said). And since the Lions and Packers play in the season finale and the Packers have to win that game to make this fantasy come true, the Lions have to win in Dallas on Dec. 26 to get their 10th win. So … are keeping up with me so far? If the Giants go 0-2, the Bucs go 2-0, the Lions go 1-1 by winning in Dallas but losing at home to the Packers and they all finish 10-6 (deep breath here), the Falcons go 2-0 and the Packers go 2-0 to win their divisions then the Bucs, Giants and Lions are all tied at 10-6 for two wild-card spots. In that scenario, with three teams tied from different divisions, the NFL first works to figure out the top team (or the No. 5 seed in this case) and the first tiebreaker is "head-to-head sweep," which isn't applicable in this case since the Bucs haven't played either team. The next tie-breaker is conference record. And in this scenario, the Bucs would be 8-4, the Lions would be 8-4 and the Giants would be 7-5. So the Giants would be "eliminated" from the No. 5 seed and the Lions would end up getting it based on the next tie-breaker - common games. Then the NFL would work to determine the sixth seed between the Bucs and the Giants and the first tie-breaker, again, would be head-to-head, which is again not applicable. The second tiebreaker is conference record, which the Giants would again lose (8-4 to 7-5). So the Giants would be out. And I'm pretty sure that's the only way. Which means … If the Giants do lose out, can they still make the playoffs? Why, yes … yes they can. They would simply need to avoid those nightmare scenario that I just painstakingly outlined above. So the Giants would just need a loss by either the Bucs or Packers to get one of the two wild-card spots. A Lions loss in Dallas next week would also do it, since either the Lions or Packers have to lose in Week 17. One of them, in that scenario, would win the division. The other would have only 9 wins. How do ties factor in? Shut up. So, in summary … Win and they're in. Try to forget everything else for now. (IMPORTANT NOTE: I'm really good at math, but they didn't teach tiebreakers in AP Algebra in High School, so I reserve the right to change and update this as new information becomes available - or, you know, if any of you point out mistakes).

Meet the ‘Savages’: The Giants force with a Super Bowl vision By Steve Serby December 18, 2016 | 8:24pm Modal Trigger Odell Beckham Jr. readily concedes that Defense Wins Championships, and if you don’t think these Giants can win the Super Bowl, you better think again. Beware the New York Football Giants. “Hey, if we score 17 points and the defense holds ’em to six, our offense is good enough for me,” Beckham said after Giants 17, Lions 6, “so we’ll keep doing what we’re doing.” What they are doing is providing Déjà Blue reminders all over again to the glory days of yesteryear, mostly Déjà Big Blue, carrying an offense that is dangerous only when Eli Manning gets the ball in Beckham’s hands. Or, in this case, his left hand, the only hand Beckham needed for a Beckham-esque 4-yard touchdown in the right flat that iced the game. As he walked out of the locker room, he was asked to describe the personality of his defense. He needed just one word, just as he sometimes needs only one hand. “Savages,” he told The Post. You could have put No. 56 jerseys on all 11 of them. Or No. 13 jerseys. Remember, they have been doing this without Jason Pierre-Paul, and in the first minute of the second quarter Sunday, they lost Janoris Jenkins (back). So Leon Hall forces a Zach Zenner fumble at the Giants 4 in the second quarter and beastly Olivier Vernon recovers it in the end zone. So Damon “Snacks” Harrison, Johnathan Hankins, Landon Collins and Vernon strangulate the Motown running game. So Matthew Stafford guns for his ninth fourth-quarter comeback and Big Blue refuses to let him in the end zone. Savages. “We all want to be great, we all want to be known, and that’s how we play,” Collins said, “we play like savages, yeah.” They defended every last yard, made every yard The Longest Yard. Savages. “It’s right on course, right on course,” Jonathan Casillas. “I like it. We’re turning into that for real as it approaches the last few weeks of the season. I think that’s a pretty good name for us.” With left guard Justin Pugh back, the Giants ran the ball better (32 attempts, 114 yards), Eli Manning played error-free, and Big Blue defiantly held the fort until Beckham (six receptions, 64 yards) used his left hand as a Venus Fly Trap. “It just kinda happens,” he said. “You practice it, you practice it. It’s why you practice right-hand layups, you practice left-hand layups. “Pretty much all my life I wanted to be left-handed. Just could never really make that happen, so I try my very best, I brush my teeth with my left hand, shoot basketball with my left hand. I try my very best if I’m good at one thing be good at the other.” Beckham was standing on the bench exhorting Giants fans when Big Blue had Stafford pinned deep in his own end late in the fourth quarter. I asked him what he likes best about his defense. “I think it’s the swagger,” he said. “They don’t just come here Sunday and turn it on. It’s every day in practice. They come up with turnovers in practice, they come up with stops in practice. They practice the way that they play. It’s great to be on a team where it feels like family. And it’s been that way since the beginning of the year. “I’ve been preaching about Super Bowl this year. You don’t just say that stuff just to say that stuff. You speak things into existence, I truly believe that. And that’s what we’re doing right now, we’re trying our very best to the Super Bowl, that’s the goal. And it starts one game at a time.” This is swagger: “No matter what the other team presents to us,” Casillas said, “I feel like we have the answer.” They’re in it to win it once they get in it, and at 10-4, it is now a game of clinches for the Giants. “I said it before, I heard offense wins games, defense wins championship, so if they keep playing like that, I guess we have nothing to worry about,” Beckham said. “But at the same time, like going back to the greedy thing, I just want more for us. I want to see Vic [Cruz] in the end zone twice, I want to see Shep [sterling Shepard] in the end zone twice, I want to see the running backs rush for 175 yards, 500-something total yards, putting up 35, 40 points. Like seeing the Madden numbers almost, video-game numbers. As selfish as it is for me to request that every single time and not be OK with anything less than that, that’s something that I’m working on myself.” Imagine how scary this team would be if Manning (20-of-28, 201 yards, 2 TDs) gets hot. “I feel like we left some meat on the bone,” Beckham said. “The breakout game is coming soon.” Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard that before. In the meantime, have no fear, the Savages are here, with Beckham always ready to lend a hand.

Giants’ defense gets surprise boost from versatile vet By Paul Schwartz December 15, 2016 | 2:05am Modal Trigger Well into this season, Devon Kennard was informed he not only would be playing strong side linebacker, but he was wanted, and needed, as a pass rusher at defensive end. That was just great with Kennard. Then came the “but.’’ He also was wanted and needed at defensive tackle, inside, where Damon “Snacks’’ Harrison and Johnathan Hankins — the big boys — play. “The first thing I thought was, if it’s [a running play] they run right at me and I’m inside, that’s going to be something really new for me, getting a double-team by a center and guard or guard and tackle,’’ Kennard told The Post on Wednesday. “It happened once in a game, and it ended up we got a stop so it was fine. It’s definitely different. I’m not Hank or Snacks. I always joke with the linebackers, I go, ‘If I get a double-team, you all better come and hit those gaps ASAP. Don’t leave that double-team on me too long.’ ” Kennard was laughing as he spoke, happy his role within a rollicking Giants defense has expanded. “I think it’s something I’m growing at,’’ Kennard said. “Especially rushing inside, that’s something I’ve never done. I feel like I’m a versatile, multiple-type player who can do a lot of different things, and they’re starting to use me as such.’’ At 6-foot-3 and 251 pounds, Kennard has a chiseled physique and could be the picture in the dictionary under “ideal strong side linebacker size.’’ Devon KennardPhoto: Getty ImagesA 2014 fifth-round pick from USC, Kennard started six games as a rookie and had 4.5 sacks. At last, it looked like the Giants had a mid-round, home-grown legitimate linebacker prospect. Injuries limited him to nine games last season and stunted his development. This season, he was filling a complementary role on defense until the game against the Rams in London. That is when Kennard’s three-position role was hatched. With the loss of Jason Pierre-Paul to abdominal surgery, Kennard’s snap count figures to rise. He spends most of his time in the linebacker meeting room, but on occasion sticks his head into the defensive line room to check out the pass-rush plan for the week. “I have to know everything,’’ he said. Kennard made an impact in the Giants’ 10-7 victory over the Cowboys despite playing just 39 of the 66 defensive snaps. He dropped Ezekiel Elliott for a 6-yard loss and sacked Dak Prescott for a 6-yard loss in the second quarter, forcing a fumble that Dallas offensive lineman Doug Free was able to recover. It was the first sack for Kennard in more than two years. Kennard will enter 2017 on the final year of his contract. The more he can do, and do well, will make him a more desirable player for the Giants, or anyone else out there. “Absolutely,’’ he said. “I feel there’s a lot I can do on the football field and I’ve done some of everything, I feel whatever position they put me in, if they allow me to work at it and grow as a player at it I can excel anywhere on the football field, whether it’s true linebacker, playing in nickel situations like I did last year or if it’s just base linebacker, which I’ve done this year. And now rushing, I feel if you give me the time to mature into what you’re asking me to do and learn and figure it out I can excel at whatever.’’

Eli Manning was a mess — and this Giants disaster falls on him By Steve Serby December 5, 2016 | 2:25am | Updated Modal Trigger MORE FROM: Steve Serby PITTSBURGH — This was a Steel Hurtin’ all right, a day when those two Super Bowl championships seemed like distant memories, a day when Giants fans would have traded Eli Manning for Ben Roethlisberger in a Big Apple minute. This was a test of their mettle, and Manning and the 8-4 Giants, 24-14 losers, were anything but iron men with iron wills. This was a jolting, jarring slap in the face, the first blast of December football that left the Giants’ six-game winning streak strewn across Heinz Field, a sobering and humbling reminder that the road to the playoffs is littered with desperate teams fighting every bit as fiercely as they are for January football. Bring on the Cowboys? Yeah, right. These aren’t the Steel Curtain Steelers of yesteryear, with “Mean” Joe Greene and L.C. Greenwood and Jack Lambert and that crew, but on a day when the Giants needed Manning to lift them, carry them past Big Ben and keep the NFC East title dream alive, he looked as if he were seeing ghosts. Manning threw two interceptions, including the critical mistake from which the Giants could not recover. Victor Cruz shouldn’t have bothered making the trip. He was targeted the same number of times as Amani Toomer. Manning was 9 yards away from taking the lead in the second quarter when he looked for Larry Donnell, of all people, in the end zone. And didn’t get enough air under it. And found Lawrence Timmons at the 2 instead. And Timmons returned the gift interception 58 yards to the Giants’ 40. Three plays later, Roethlisberger escaped the pocket to his right and hit Antonio Brown with the 22-yard TD pass against Janoris “Jackrabbit” Jenkins that made it Steelers 11, Giants 0. “I tried to squeeze it in there,” Manning said. “I thought I could get it high enough to Larry Donnell and kinda put it on that back shoulder a little. Lawrence got a little wider than I thought and thought I could get it there. Obviously any interception’s a bad decision, so it obviously hurts when it takes away points.” It was an uphill climb the rest of the way, and Manning couldn’t climb it. Maybe you can beat the Browns scoring seven points in 59 minutes. Not the Steelers. And certainly not the Cowboys. And if Ben McAdoo doesn’t fix it quick, the Giants will be in big wild-card trouble. “We need to be more efficient,” McAdoo said. Manning was 1 yard from a first down and 3 yards from a touchdown midway through the third quarter when, after all the inefficiency and listlessness and disjointedness, he had finally begun targeting Odell Beckham Jr. and connecting with him and from the shotgun, forced an incompletion under duress over the middle to tight end Will Tye, who was blanketed by Ryan Shazier, when running back Paul Perkins was virtually free in the left flat and a better option. “Had pressure right up the middle, and tried to hit to Will quickly,” Manning said. “Good defensive call by them.” The Giants defense soon gifted Manning the ball at the Pittsburgh 17 when Damon “Snacks” Harrison stripped Le’Veon Bell and Eli Apple recovered. Two plays later, Manning faked an end-around to Beckham and tossed a screen right to Rashad Jennings for the 13-yard touchdown that made it Steelers 14, Giants 7 with 6:30 remaining in the third quarter. But Big Ben immediately answered the bell when Landon Collins lost tight end Ladarius Green on the 20-yard TD pass that made it Steelers 21, Giants 7. Apple then gifted Manning the ball with an interception at the Giants’ 47, but on fourth-and-13, as Manning scrambled out of the pocket to his right, he threw across his body, an underthrow for Sterling Shepard, who was open early, that was intercepted by Sean Davis. “If he could have got a little more mustard on the ball, we had a chance for a big play, but it’s tough running to the right and throwing back across your body,” McAdoo said. He later missed an open Shepard from the Pittsburgh 24. The Giants cannot win big games with Manning’s downfield game in disrepair, if he is able to complete one pass — on one target — to Beckham for 10 yards in the first half, and forgetting Cruz was back on the team. He targeted Beckham 17 times in the second half. “It really came down to those red-zone trips where we got no points off,” Manning said. There is no margin for these errors by Manning on another day when he has no running game and finds himself down 2-0 thanks to an end-zone holding penalty on offensive lineman Ereck Flowers. By the time it was Steelers 14, Giants 0 at intermission, Manning had completed nine passes, and six of them were to Jennings and Tye. The defense, which has been burdened all season with covering for the offense, was Ben And Break early. Late in the first half, when Roethlisberger needed 17 yards on third down, he flipped a middle screen to Eli Rogers and got 18 to position Randy Bullock for a chippie field goal. Manning struggled with the deep ball in Cleveland and this was more of the same right from the gitgo. A prayer for tight end Jerrell Adams wasn’t answered and interference was called on a disbelieving Beckham. “You never know when we can break out,” Manning said. They’ve been saying that from the start of the season. “We just gotta do a better job to help our defense out,” Beckham said. Bring on the Cowboys? Yeah, right. “It’s a big game, and we gotta win this one,” Manning said. If he doesn’t play better than this, if he doesn’t play better than Dak Prescott, if he doesn’t start getting his team in the end zone, they won’t.

How the Giants plan to prepare for the NFL’s dirtiest player By Steve Serby November 10, 2016 | 7:28pm Modal TriggerOdell Beckham Jr. and Vontaze Burfict Photo: Getty Images; AP He all but tried to decapitate and did concuss Antonio Brown in the playoffs, and he was such a repeat offender the NFL suspended him three games for the start of this season for violating its player-safety rules. He is Pro Football’s Dirtiest Player, which means Beware, Odell Beckham Jr., on Monday night. When receivers talk about keeping their head on a swivel, they are talking about the clear and present danger presented by Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict. Ask Brown. Ask Ravens tight end Maxx Williams, whose head and neck were greeted by the crown of Burfict’s helmet last season even while he was out of the play. Ask Cam Newton, whose surgically repaired ankle was twisted by Burfict following a tackle on the goal line. Ask Martellus Bennett, hit in the back of the knee by Burfict. This is the wrong guy to trot your Big Blue Bull’s-eye anywhere near. “I’m very aware of who he is and where he’ll be at on the field,” Beckham told The Post. “I don’t want to sit here and say he’s the player that everybody’s trying to box him to be, I’m sure he’s not that guy. I don’t quite know him exactly like that, but … “You just gotta be aware. Protect yourself.” Burfict sounds like the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde off the field and on it. “Cool off the field, on the field, you never know,” Beckham said. “You just gotta keep your head up … play football.” Told Burfict is considered by many the dirtiest player in football, a crown Ndamukong Suh used to wear, Beckham seemed philosophical. “Once somebody gets labeled something, it’s hard to get out of that anyways,” Beckham said. “Once you get put in that box, there’s no really getting out, ’cause it’s always gonna resort back to that. “He could turn into a modern-day Buddhist, and still, one little incident, he sneezed on somebody wrong, and he’s back to being a dirty player.” Beckham will nevertheless be aware of Burfict when he ventures over the middle. “One thousand percent,” Beckham said. “I’m aware of anybody when I’m going across the middle. You don’t really want to take any of those.” Once upon a time, there was a St. Louis Cardinals guard named Conrad Dobler, who would bite opponents in the trenches and leg whip them and punched Mean Joe Greene and kicked Merlin Olsen and wound up on the cover of the July 25, 1977, Sports Illustrated cover with “Pro Football’s Dirtiest Player” printed above his photo. “If they played every game under a full moon,” one foe said, “Dobler would make All-Pro.” There was former Raiders safety Jack Tatum, who wrote a book entitled “They Call Me Assassin,” who left Darryl Stingley a quadriplegic following a violent collision, who once said: “I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.” There was former ’roid-rage linebacker Bill Romanowski, who broke Kerry Collins’ jaw and spit in the face of J.J. Stokes. Burfict, who has contributed more than $275,000 in fine money to Roger Goodell’s kitty, is a worthy successor. The good news is Burfict will not be covering Beckham. The bad news is Josh Norman is the equivalent of a mosquito bite compared to how hazardous to a receiver’s health Burfict can be. “I love Burfict; that’s all I got for you,” said former Bengals teammate Leon Hall, now a Giants’ defensive back. Why do you love him? “I just like him as a person,” Hall said. “In general, I like him as a football player. I’m sure he’d like to have some things back, but that’s what makes him as good as he is.” Beware, The Dirtiest Man In Football. “We got to be aware of everyone, but obviously he’s a guy that likes to be physical, and we just got to make sure we got an eye on him when we’re coming on those shallow routes and we’re coming across the middle,” Victor Cruz told The Post, “keeping our head on a swivel.” Cruz watched a replay of Burfict’s hit on Brown a couple of days ago as part of his preparation. “You just want to make sure that you’re never in that position, because he likes to hit hard, and he’s obviously gotten in trouble for some excessive hitting and some things like that,” Cruz said. “So you just want to make sure you know where he is when you’re coming across the middle and try to, you know, take care of yourself.” Nobody’s perfect. But nobody’s Burfict.

Report: Odell Beckham Jr. fined $36,000 for blindside hit Kevin Boilard - 42 minutes ago 0 Odell Beckham Jr. has reportedly been fined $36,000 for a blindside hit on safety Kenny Vaccaro during the New York Giants' matchup with the New Orleans Saints in Week 2. Via Jay Glazer of FOX Sports: This news comes as Beckham prepares for his rematch with Washington Redskins cornerback Josh Norman. When they met last season (Norman was on the Carolina Panthers), Beckham was suspended for a game due to dirty hits he delivered on the defensive back. 5 Giants of intrigue vs. Redskins (Week 3)Start SlideShow Now that he has been punished by the NFL twice for these hits, Beckham will have a tough time avoiding a reputation as a dirty player.

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Odell Beckham Jr. meets Josh Norman again — and it’s up to Ben McAdoo to manage the mayhem BY Pat Leonard NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Sunday, September 25, 2016, 1:56 AM It’s here — the highly-anticipated rematch between Odell Beckham Jr. and Josh Norman, a Week 3 matchup the Giants were so amped up for that Janoris Jenkins and Victor Cruz were trash-talking Norman and Washington even before they beat the New Orleans Saints in Week 2. It’s here – the undefeated Giants (2-0) and winless Washington (0-2) in an early, must-see NFC East clash, with Washington players so desperate that Giants coach Ben McAdoo on Friday compared them to “hungry animals.” Yes, it’s already out of control, and kickoff is still to come. The main event, Beckham vs. Norman II, is producing pregame propaganda about how much Beckham has “grown” since last season’s embarrassing flip-out on this same MetLife Stadium turf. But the fact is no one can accurately assess if that’s true until Beckham demonstrates maturity on Sunday. So far, the only evidence we have suggests neither Beckham nor Norman truly has “moved on,” as every coach and player tried to convince us this week. The two nemeses spent the offseason trading social media insults: Beckham saying Norman is only famous because of a run-in with a star like him; Norman mocking Beckham as a baby and a one-catch wonder. On Wednesday, Norman chuckled when asked if he’s moved past Beckham’s spearing headshot last fall. “God tells us to forgive all, so I’m working on that,” he said. In their meeting last season, Odell Beckham Jr. and Josh Norman, then a member of the Carolina Panthers, tussled several times on the field. (Julie Jacobson/AP) Then Friday, Beckham tweeted a link to a Bleacher Report article – reposted on Beckham’s own blog – that suggested the Beckham-Norman rivalry could compare to Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. Beckham can’t help himself; Norman can’t either. Their GPS systems are both pre-programmed for a crash course Sunday at 1 p.m. in North Jersey. “It’s mental warfare,” Beckham said of Washington’s plans to get under his skin. “It’s the art of war.” The game won’t be boring, but it will have to be managed and controlled, which is why the No. 1 man to watch on Sunday won’t be Beckham or Norman – it will be Giants head coach Ben McAdoo. McAdoo will be juggling several delicate, high-profile issues in front of millions of fans and viewers. Calling the offensive plays – as he’s done the first two weeks after two seasons as offensive coordinator – will be a distant third on his list of top three most important responsibilities in this game. Number two will be his handling of Beckham. Number one will be his leadership in the matter of player protest against oppression, racial injustice and police brutality, which are serious and complex issues for a young, white, first-year head coach to navigate in just his third week on the sideline. Ben McAdoo will have his hands full Sunday trying to control Odell Beckham Jr. in what will surely be a heated affair. (Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images) First, the matter of Beckham’s attitude: Tom Coughlin erred badly in Week 15 of last season by leaving Beckham on the field despite his immature antics, which allowed the fiasco to escalate to unprecedented levels. Washington coach Jay Gruden said Wednesday he doesn’t think he’ll have to pull Norman off the field if the mayhem recurs because “I think it would be the referees that would do it.” But the officials didn’t step in last year. That was part of the problem. Even if Sunday’s crew is on high alert, armed with the NFL’s new rules to enforce ejections in the event of major personal fouls, that does not excuse McAdoo and Gruden of responsibility for limiting the chaos. Still, McAdoo’s collaboration with his players this week to send a socially-impactful message without involving the American flag is his most critical and complicated of tasks. It is also an undertaking that promises to help define McAdoo, only 39 years old, among his players. “The league is a platform to make a difference. I encourage them to,” McAdoo said earlier this week. “I would like to be involved in that. Anything I can do to help. Still, I feel that you can make a difference outside of the anthem … I would like to do something outside of the anthem, (such as) actions, away from the facility, to give back and pay back to the communities.” McAdoo welcomed Rashad Jennings and other Giants players into his office to promote dialogue on a sensitive issue. Jennings said the players intend to stand for the anthem on Sunday. Frankly, the team may not send any message on Sunday specifically. Maybe they’ll organize a mid-week event, if McAdoo wants their actions “away from the (Giants) facility,” to raise awareness. But the blue-collar McAdoo, whose father worked in the coal mines of Western Pennsylvania, will be a fascinating man to watch handling a difficult Sunday – one of high drama with Beckham vs. Norman II, heavy pressure facing a division opponent, and social significance above all.

Keenan Robinson getting Giants fired up to face his former team BY Daniel Popper NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, September 24, 2016, 12:23 AM Keenan Robinson can’t wait to face his former team. So it’s no surprise the linebacker — who spent his first four seasons in Washington before signing with the Giants in March — gave an impassioned speech to the Big Blue defense Friday that aimed to keep his teammates focused on their short-team goals: a 3-0 start to the season and a win over a division opponent Sunday at MetLife Stadium. “I just speak from the heart, man,” Robinson said of his speech. “Every day, we have to come to work, no matter if we’re 0-2 like they are or 2-0. We have to make sure we put in the work, because every team in the NFL will come ready to play. “We have to make sure we never overlook anybody.” Earlier this week, Robinson was stirring the pot ahead of the Giants’ clash with Washington. Amid reports of fractures in the Washington locker room, Robinson offered insights from his own experience. “When I was there, three out of four years, it was the same thing,” he said. “Once they get down, they start pointing fingers.” That didn’t go over well in Washington. For one, DeAngelo Hall told reporters he didn’t even know Robinson was playing for the Giants. “I didn’t know he was on that team. You can print that,” Hall said, via ESPN. “That’s all I’ve got to say about that.” It’s yet another trash-talking storyline in a week full of them for these two teams. Obviously, Odell Beckham Jr. and Josh Norman’s ongoing feud has received most of the attention. But Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins and Washington receiver DeSean Jackson have traded barbs as well. The buzz is palpable. And Robinson is itching to take the field and back up his words. According to defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, Robinson has been giving coaches and teammates pointers in the meeting room about what Washington likes to do on offense — bits of information he picked up during his time in D.C. Keenan Robinson played for Washington the last few seasons and after ripping old team earlier in week, he aims to help his new team keep focus heading into rivalry game Sunday. (Michael Ainsworth/AP) “He’s all jacked up this week,” Spagnuolo said of Robinson, who saw his defensive snap count increase from 30 plays in Week 1 to 52 plays in Week 2 as he’s proven himself to the Giants coaching staff and carved out a role in nickel coverage and other sub packages. “He’s been really good that way.” That Robinson gave the speech to the defense Friday is a bit of an abnormality. He’s only been with the organization for a few months. But coaches nonetheless asked him to speak. And it truly is a testament to the trust the staff has in all the new free-agent defensive additions, who’ve already proved themselves as genuine leaders inside the Giants locker room. Last week, Damon (Snacks) Harrison gave the speech to the defense before Big Blue took down the Saints. And secondary coach Dave Merritt Sr., who’s been with the Giants organization since 2004, also specifically mentioned defensive end Olivier Vernon and Jenkins as leaders for the Giants. “The guys we’ve signed here that can step up and actually are not afraid to speak and say what’s on their mind,” Merritt said Friday, “that’s very comforting.” Robinson said “it’s weird” that new guys have been the ones delivering the speeches and emerging as the vocal front men. But he credits the coaching staff for creating a culture in which that quirk can be a benefit. “They still consider us leaders and guys that can step up and make an impact or step up and feel like they have a presence on this team,” Robinson said. “And that just shows how much they respect us, whether we’ve been here or not.”

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and I'm in orange

What is the website that shows football tv coverage for each region?

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First row stream 3 now working now that the game is almost over

I am so pissed off right now. You are not funny.

Every stream on every site has been taking a shit all day! I missed the TD and most of this game

i can't get full screen but this is better at least during half time thanks.

And it just took a shit 10 minutes ago anybody got anything better?

First row working perfectly

Giants kicker Josh Brown won't talk until Sunday, violating NFL's media policy BY Seth Walder NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Friday, September 16, 2016, 9:32 PM Giants kicker Josh Brown says he won't speak until after Sunday's game. (Tom Canavan/AP) Giants kicker Josh Brown did not speak with reporters on Friday, officially violating the league’s media policy. Earlier in the week, Brown — who was arrested for domestic violence and accused of being violent toward his then-wife on over 20 occasions — said that he did not wish to speak until after Sunday's game against the Saints. When asked about Brown's silence, a team spokesman indicated only that Brown will speak Sunday. The NFL media policy requires that players be “regularly” available during the game week, with the exception of two stars who only must speak to the press once per week outside of games. The Giants kicker, who was suspended for the first game of the season, has only spoken to an in-house reporter since Aug. 18, when he referred to his May 2015 domestic violence arrest as “just a moment.” Later that day, the Daily News first reported the widespread accusations against Josh Brown, including that he pushed then-wife Molly Brown into a door while pregnant. No charges were filed stemming from that arrest. Afterward, Molly Brown received a protective order against Brown; he was arrested for violating that order in July 2015. Earlier this week Deadspin obtained obtained and published a letter by Robert W.H. Price whom Brown saw for anger management. Price opens that letter by saying, “Josh is participating in an anger management program with Elite Minds, LLC due to the type of domestic violence that he has perpetrated in the past.” CELEBRATION FINE Odell Beckham Jr. and Victor Cruz were each fined $12,154 for their celebration after Cruz’s game-winning touchdown over the Cowboys last week. As Cruz did his usual salsa dance, Beckham came over and acted like a photographer pretending to take a picture. SNACKS LEADS THE WAY Damon Harrison is settling in to his role as a leader. Ben McAdoo revealed Friday that Harrison gave a “great” speech to the defense. Steve Spagnuolo asks someone to make a speech each week, according to Harrison, and tapped him on Friday. Jonathan Casillas was the first defensive player to give one. Landon Collins said the speech was mostly about how Harrison worked his way up from being an undrafted free agent into the big-time player he is today. “Snacks is a great leader,” Collins said. Harrison said he had a similar role as a leader with the Jets last year, but no one knew about it. Mara: Giants knew of allegations against Josh Brown “It was the same thing with the Jets, it was just behind closed doors. You could talk to anybody there; it was the same thing,” he said. “I didn’t expect for it to happen here so soon, but apparently guys listen to what I have to say. I don’t know why, man.” JPP QUESTIONABLE Jason Pierre-Paul is officially questionable with a shoulder injury. The Giants didn’t practice Friday, but if they had, Ben McAdoo said Pierre-Paul wouldn’t have practiced. However, Pierre-Paul said Thursday that he will play against the Saints.