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HEY, GIANTS: MAKE ANQUAN YOUR ‘GO Q GUY’

TAMPA, Fla. – Anquan Boldin was poised, polished, polite and professional when he met the media late yesterday and primed for a monster Super Sunday, when his Cardinals meet the Steelers.

Q Da Man.

More specifically, this is Eli Manning’s man.

This is the Giants’ man.

Boldin – they call him Q – has Giants fans salivating for him the way Mets fans are salivating now for Manny Ramirez, and with good reason.

Let’s make a deal, Jerry Reese.

Plaxico or no Plaxico, your quarterback needs help.

No one knows, of course, what will happen to Burress. Manning and some of his prominent team mates want him back, but that might be whistling in the dark of the jail cell Mayor Bloomberg wants him in.

Boldin – who spoke last week with Burress and is a Fort Lauderdale workout partner and friend – would be the best Go Q Guy in the NFC East the second he shows up.

Boldin may get into a sideline spat with Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride, like he did with Arizona’s Todd Haley, but he won’t be packing heat and shooting himself in the leg in some Manhattan nightclub.

I wanted to know his reaction when he found out what Burress did that fateful night at the Latin Quarter.

“Unfortunately . . . I wish that it hadn’t happened . . . I wish that he was a guy that was still with the Giants . . . I think if he was on that team, that their season probably would have turned out a little different but, things happen, and the only thing you can do is try to encourage him,” Boldin said.

Burress called Boldin last week to wish him luck. “He’s doing good. Obviously, he wants to be playing football, but I think he’s doing pretty good,” Boldin said.

We know Boldin can play, because at 28 years old he is a three-time Pro Bowler. How important will his presence be on the field Sunday? “It’ll probably be significant,” Boldin said.

We know he’s tough, because he recovered in three weeks from surgery on a fractured facial bone that required seven plates and 40 screws to repair following that facemask- to-facemask hit by Jets safety Eric Smith in Week 4 that left him mo tionless in the end zone. Someone wanted to know if Boldin sets off metal detectors and he smiled and said, “Naw, they’re titanium.”

Was there a hit when you knew you were fine once you did come back? “That was even before I got on the football field; I got head-butted by my (4-year-old) son,” Boldin said, and he and the crowd laughed. “Just playing with him at home. I knew after that I would be OK.”

This is one fearless competitor. I asked him what style receiver he is. “Just physical,” Boldin said. “I’m not the typical receiver – I don’t even consider myself a receiver, I just see myself as a football player.” Do you think you’re the most physical receiver in the NFL? “Probably,” Boldin said.

Boldin is only 6-foot-1, packing 217 muscular pounds – but there are Sundays when he plays 6-foot-5, and now that his hamstring has healed, you read it here first that this will be one of them.

“The hamstring is fine,” Boldin said. “It hasn’t been a problem for the last couple weeks.”

Talk about motivation: Boldin is unhappy with his contract, which has two years remaining on the four-year, $22.75 million extension he signed after the 2005 season. The Cardinals took care of Larry Fitzgerald (four years, $40 million), but not Boldin. He won’t allow himself to think about the Giants looking for a new Go Q Guy.

“That doesn’t help me,” Boldin said. “My only goal is to win a Super Bowl, and thinking about what somebody else needs or what somebody else wants doesn’t help me at all.”

There was his notorious sideline shouting match with Haley, the offensive coordinator, over not being on the field during the game-winning drive in the NFC Championship Game. Some viewed it as the insubordinate act of a diva. Boldin – and those who know him – will tell you it’s because he is passionate about winning. “At this point it’s a non-issue . . . we put it behind us as a team,” Boldin said.

After that game, Boldin blew off the onfield celebration and scurried out of the locker room before most of the media could barrage him with questions. “That’s a situation that is dead and done,” Boldin said. “I don’t wish to speak on that.”

His teammates love him. Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner loves him.

The Giants will love him. Manning will love him. More than any first-round draft choice.

Go get your Go Q Guy.

steve.serby@nypost.com