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July 21, 2004
Signing rookies
Drew Stojny is signed. The Giants have a lot of work to do if they want to sign their other free agents before training camp. Of particular interest will be how the Giants sign Eli Manning. Manning was drafted #1 but the Giants can only afford to pay him #4 money because of the rookie cap. Accorsi doesn't anticipate a problem:
"We've got fourth-slot money, and you can't change that,'' Giants General Manager Ernie Accorsi said by telephone yesterday. "But I don't think it's going to be a problem. We and Condon can be creative enough to overcome that. Obviously this is not a player that you're going to cut early in his career, so you can do some things with the structure of the contract to overcome it. That, so far, has not been a problem. . . . We have a good relationship with Condon. If there is a delay, I don't expect it to be a major one.''
One has to imagine that Manning will be easy to work with considering how adamant he was about not playing in San Diego and all the marketing money available in New York. Posted by James Trotta at July 21, 2004 6:31 PM
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