With no power in their home on Tuesday thanks to Hurricane Sandy, Giants tight end Martellus Bennett and his wife decided to check into Hotel Boothe.
“I actually stayed at [teammate] Kevin Boothe’s house,” Bennett said yesterday. “They had power, we didn’t have power, so we went over there.”
The Hurricane Sandy disaster certainly impacted the Giants. Bennett and Boothe bunked up, a number of players lost power, etc. But, overall, the storm’s effect on the Giants was in small doses rather than large ones. They slightly altered yesterday’s practice schedule — working in the late afternoon instead of the morning to accommodate coaches who had lost preparation time earlier in the week — their home video watching will be limited due to a lack of power and there are lifestyle adjustments that need to be made.
“We don’t have any cable or Internet right now,” Victor Cruz said of his family’s house, quipping, “It just feels like 1990 all over again.”
In any event, the Giants practiced yesterday for the first time since Sandy hit — all of their players and coaches were able to make it to the training complex — and they’re preparing to host the Steelers on Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium. The issue now is whether their game preparation will be hurt, but the Giants don’t expect that.
“It’s not going to affect us at all,” Jason Pierre-Paul said.
Added Zak DeOssie, “Business as usual around here.”
Tom Coughlin said he believed that after yesterday’s practice, the Giants would be in line with their normal preparation schedule for a game week. And Eli Manning got a head-start on his preparation for Pittsburgh, heading to the Giants’ facility on Monday morning to load his computer with film. He then spent time watching it Tuesday.
Either way, multiple Giants echoed a Coughlin-ism.
“As Coach Coughlin says, it’s a mid-stream adjust,” Cruz said. “So we just have to be able to mid-stream adjust to these things and learn how to prepare throughout any circumstances. Because I guess it’s just the nature of the beast. But as the term says, the show must go on. We’ve got to be ready to play.”
“They have heard [me say ‘mid-stream adjust’],” Coughlin said. “They heard it last week. They heard it with regards to dealing with the potential, if you will, over the weekend of the storm and they’ll no doubt hear from me again today.”
The last time the Giants dealt with a disruption similar to this was two seasons ago when they were scheduled to face the Vikings on the road. A heavy snowstorm in Minnesota diverted the Giants’ charter flight to Kansas City, and when the Metrodome roof was damaged, the game was moved to Detroit and from Sunday afternoon to Monday night. The Giants came away with a 21-3 win.
Because some Giants players don’t have electricity, they can’t necessarily watch as much film at home as they might normally. Said Michael Boley, “For a lot of guys, if you want to watch extra film, you’re going to be around here [at the training center] for a while.”
Bennett, meanwhile, wasn’t sure if he was going to stay at the Boothes’ again last night, since it depended on whether the power at his West New York home had been restored.
“It was great [having Bennett]. My son loves him,” Boothe said of his two-year-old. “He thought Martellus was there solely to play with him.”
Pierre-Paul, however, wasn’t willing to let teammates crash at his place.
“They can’t stay with me,” he said. “I don’t like to see ’em after work.”
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