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Fix it or sell it Woody!
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this is why the giants win super bowls.
Yesterday, quarterback Eli Manning said he'd be willing to listen if the Giants approached him about reworking his contract to get Victor Cruz in the fold.
And today, right tackle David Diehl said to count him in. "I would be willing to do some things to restructure and help other guys out and keep a great teammate ... like Victor Cruz," Diehl said tonight on NFL Network's "NFL Total Access." "I have restructured before in my 10 seasons of being a New York Giant. It is not something I am unfamiliar with. That’s part of the business in the NFL.” In Diehl's case, he would likely have to take a pay cut. The 10-year veteran offensive lineman only has one year left on his contract -- with a base salary of $4.475 million and a cap figure of $6.903 million -- so the cap dollars can't be pushed into future years. The Giants have managed to make a series of low-cost free agency moves that fir under the cap, but will need more space down the line, potentially to sign rookies in the summer. Will Diehl end up redoing his contract? “Nothing’s happening as of yet," Diehl said. "I have been there the last seven weeks after having my knee scoped and having some surgery. I have been going there, in and out each and every day. We will see what happens, what happens [and] plays out here with Victor Cruz and everything like that.” Cruz, who set the Giants' single-season receiving record in 2011, is a restricted free agent. Negotiations with the Giants toward a long-term deal have so far not been fruitful. “You are talking a critical piece of to our offense," Diehl said. "It is important to get a guy like Victor Cruz back to go inside with Hakeem Nicks coming off injury.” Diehl added, "He doesn’t want to go anywhere, he wants to stay a New York Giant, just like we want him to. Obviously now this is now structuring the money, getting him a deal that he thinks is fair, that he wants to sign. Like I said, knowing from my coaches that I play for on the Giants, or teammates, we definitely want Victor Cruz in our locker room. He is going to help us win football games and get us back to the Super Bowl.” |
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Money now -- and a lot more when I get into that
office. You can take that to the bank.
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Plenty players on lousy teams have restructured their contracts in order to help acquire/retain players as well.
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Ask Namath aka JDub why jets haven't W SB's since SB3.
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Bye week buh bye Rex
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Already a thread.
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Not a SOJF
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This is why Nike aka GMCJets should not be allowed to create threads.
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You didn't show them, Mark :(
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Section 135
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Plenty of Jets player have restructured over the past couple years, including Suckchez.
Brady just restructured to keep Welker, while Kraft and Belly low-balled him and they ended up paying Amendola a king's ransom. This isn't why the Giants win super bowls, they win super bowls because they are the luckiest organization in sports: Norwood wide left, Packers missed FGs, Favre ****ting the bed, Eli being sacked but player heard whistle and let him go, Tyree catch, Lee Evans dropped TD vs Pats, Welker drop/Brady overthrow, Manningham catch. Giants hours have 1 SB victory and that's 1986. Also, if the Jets played in the NFC East over the past 15 years, they would probably have had a shot at some Super Bowls. Going up against the Pats every year has been rough. NFC East would have been a lot easier road: 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2010, |
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Yep, it's also why the Jets win superbowls
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Must also be why teams like the Ravens and Peyton's Colts never win super bowls...cuz their QBs are too busy taking max deals and not restructuring! |
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And I thought it was making those critical plays at the right time.
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waiting for our pass rush thunderbolt
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"Jimmies. We rustle them."-CKC for lyfe
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They also resigned Carr keeping a good BU. They know good depth wins. The thing people dont get is they can loose Cruz and still be well off. Jernigan and Randle where both high round picks and I could very well see them dipping into the well again this year given the WR depth. After OLB and maybe DB it is not like they have a lot of holes.
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more accurately spoken, this is why teams who draft well, develop talent well, coach them well, and play free agency well put their teams in position to win the league championship. good teams do that. everything after is a crapshoot if the best team has 60/40 odds in the reg season, and the playoffs are 52/48.
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Am I the only one that finds TX way more tolerable than GMC or SAR?
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recovering from turf toe
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Why do people act like restructuring is some sort of sacrifice? If it cost them anything to do it then they just simply wouldn't. It doesn't affect total payout one bit, and just makes players harder to cut in the future.
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