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Giants’ Jacobs bites back at booing

Two days after taking on Giants fans for booing him during his lackluster performance in Sunday’s win over the Dolphins, Brandon Jacobs had calmed down yesterday. Sort of.

But anyone waiting for the unhappy running back to apologize for his comments is still waiting.

“As long as the players I’m playing [with], my teammates, my brothers [understand], that’s what I care about. I don’t care if I get booed,” he said. “They could boo me every day. But make sure you’re booing when I’m scoring touchdowns as well. You’re gonna see a change.”

Jacobs made those comments during an appearance at Essence School in Brooklyn as part of the NFL’s “Play 60” campaign, which encourages children to exercise for at least an hour a day. He was accompanied by his wife, Kim, who seemed to have a better handle on how her husband should have reacted to Sunday’s booing.

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After the Giants’ 20-17 win in which he rushed four times for just 10 yards a week after criticizing the team for not running the ball enough, Jacobs was miffed — both at his reduced role in the offense and by the fact he was booed after replacing the injured Ahmad Bradshaw.

Jacobs’ four rushing attempts were his fewest since Week 3 of last season, when he also had four carries.

After initially declining to speak with reporters after the game because he had “nothing positive to say,” Jacobs quickly changed his mind.

“The most positive thing [is] I got family at home and I got a fast car being delivered on Tuesday — that’s it,” he said.

“You can’t do that,” Kim Jacobs said yesterday. “In the heat of the moment, you have to remove yourself and relax. Being in that position, it’s not only his fault, but the finger gets pointed.

“It’s just like being the quarterback. It doesn’t matter if he missed a block or if he had a bad handoff, he has to roll with it.”

Yesterday, Jacobs said he had already “forgotten about Sunday.”

“Sunday is not even in my mind any longer,” he said. “Things didn’t go well for me because I’m not happy. But I’m going to try and do the best I can. I’ll give my teammates 100 percent effort and try to win some games, and whatever happens, happens.”

Jacobs said he wants to play three more years and vowed to perform better the rest of the season.

“I’ll show you [how to turn it around],” he said. “You’re going to see a change. I talked to a few of my teammates and at the end of the day, I am playing for them. I want to win for them. Them talking to me saying they don’t want to see me like that — we have to win games — and they won’t do it without me. So we have to get it done.

“I went home and I realized that I do want to play this game a little longer,” said Jacobs, who is scheduled to become a free agent at the end of the 2012 season and last week expressed his opinion that he probably would not remain a Giant.

Jacobs is making $2.9 million this season and is due a $500,000 roster bonus in March 2012. But the Giants can choose to decline his $4 million option.

“I don’t want to leave,” he said. “I talked to my wife and we have to have to get it done.”

The Giants only have had one 100-yard rushing game as a team over the past four games. That was two weeks ago against the Bills (33 rushes for 122 yards), when Jacobs did not play because of his ailing right knee.

On Sunday, the team ran for just 58 yards on 23 carries against the lowly Dolphins.

The team has a very un-Giant-like 599 rushing yards (30th in the league) and an average of 3.2 yards per carry (tied for 30th). But Jacobs will get his first chance to turn it around on Sunday against the Patriots in Foxborough.