NFL-Giants: NY Giants football news

The Giants this off season will be monitoring the heart rates of 15 players as a kind of test study to see if they can identify when players overtrain and stuff. Apparently runners and other track and other endurance athletes have been doing this a while – a lower heart rate at rest indicates better conditioning and there are implications for how much recovery time is needed.

Surprisingly, no NFL team has yet to do it according to a quote in this article. Let’s hope it helps cut down on injuries.

Not long ago I said the 12.5K fine on Flozell Adams was a joke. Today I’m saying the 5K fine on Dockery from the Chargers game is a joke. He didn’t run into the return man, he was backing up.

Man it’s tough when your team plays like crap, the refs are morons, and the league officials are worst of all. I hope Giants football gets a lot better real soon.

Ohm Youngmisuk writes about Ernie Accorsi’s opinion. I criticized the guy but he got the Giants a lot of the pieces they needed for their Super Bowl victory over the Patriots.

Accorsi says Eli will win us more Super Bowls. If he does, I don’t care how much money he makes. I was just happy that this post is still relevant even though I wrote it a while ago. Even 15 million a year can be justified. He needs to play like in the Super Bowl run – not like he did against Philly last season.

Not unlike with the Favre thing, and the Jets getting all the media attention, this article says the Jets are going to snag more headlines than the Giants this year even though they will lose more games.

Interesting article here about the 17-18 game season talks. Seems that John Mara is the only owner not in favor:

“I don’t know if there is anyone else,” Mara said. “… I just think it’s pretty tough on the health of your players late in the season… but it [a longer regular season] is coming.”

According to the Star Ledger, the agent for Plaxico Burress, Drew Rosenhaus, reportedly sent an email to teams this week indicating that Burress (and Boldin and Chad Johnson) is available via trade.

The Giants are reportedly furious with the email, and assistant GM Kevin Abrams countered by notifying the league that New York has not authorized Rosenhaus to pursue a deal. Rosenhaus has since issued an apology.

Ralph Vacchiano talks about the Gaints and Plax and money. The Giants don’t want to pay the man for shooting himself in the leg and missing the biggest part of the season. I can’t say I blame them but this has to hurt the chances of Burress coming back to the Giants next season…

1. Cowboys @ $1.612 billion
2. Redskins @ $1.538 billion
3. Patriots @ $1.324 billion
4. Giants @ $1.178 billion
5. Jets @ $1.170 billion

Not that it matters much but I think it’s interesting.

If you’re on the 90 year waiting list for Giants season tickets, you may get a chance thanks to the new stadium. The Giants will be charging a one time personal seat license (PSL) fee for the right to purchase season tickets. The fee is $1,000 to $20,000 per seat.

In my opinion, this will mean more people selling their seats online and looking at the seat as an investment asset rather than a family tradition.

Some have complained about the NFL cracking down on player celebrations. Now the NFL is cracking down on fan fun. The NFL fan conduct code says no more drunkeness so the next time you go to a Giants game, be aware of the rules. You can’t start tailgating as early and you could lose your season tickets if you misbehave.