T.O.?
N.O.!!!!!!!
There is no other way to put this: Shame on you Jets, shame on you, Giants, if you sell your souls to the devil.
The Jets haven’t won a Super Bowl in 41 seasons and Rex Ryan has vowed to visit Barack Obama in the White House before his first term is over and Laveranues Coles is a Bengal, but shame on them if they even think about asking a coach-killer and quarterback-killer like N.O. to help them.
Close your eyes and picture the first time Kellen Clemens or Brett Ratliff or whoever is the starting quarterback at the start of the 2009 season overthrows N.O., or doesn’t see him open downfield, or throws to Jerricho Cotchery instead. Woody Johnson can sell those PSLs by fielding a winning team, not a dysfunctional team.
Tom Coughlin and N.O.?
Fuhgedabouddit!
If Jerry Jones can read the writing on the wall, do you really think John Mara and Steve Tisch will force N.O. on Coughlin and Eli Manning? The Giants won their third Super Bowl with the team concept. Case closed.
The Giants were enablers for Plaxico Burress when they looked the other way and gave him the big bucks before the 2008 season began and paid the price, all right. Now, as they keep their fingers crossed that he will not go to jail, that he returns scared straight and rehabilitated . . . or fetches value in a trade . . . it is no time to let the inmates run the asylum. Trust me, this time Kevin Gilbride will be the one throwing punches on the sidelines. N.O. generally isn’t a problem off the field – except when he ingests too many diet pills or does sit-ups in his driveway – just on the field, and in the locker room.
N.O. ruined the Cowboys. They didn’t win a damn thing with the guy. They didn’t even make the playoffs last year. He drove Jeff Garcia mad in San Francisco. Then Donovan McNabb mad in Philadelphia. Finally, Tony Romo mad in Dallas. Along with Jason Witten and Jason Garrett.
He isn’t worth the trouble. The only people begging for his arrival are tabloid editors. And probably A-Rod, who could use a soap opera comrade-in-arms.
All that aside, N.O. is a declining player. He is 35 years old. The Jets, who pick 17th, can find a quality wide receiver (Hakeem Nicks, Darrius Heyward-Bey, maybe even Jeremy Maclin) in next month’s NFL Draft. And it is such a bumper crop that the Giants, who pick 29th, will be able to land one as well.
And if Browns coach Eric Mangini is looking to unload Braylon Edwards, both local teams ought to be interested. Edwards was plagued by the dropsies a year ago, but he is a rare talent who would wel come a change of scenery.
Ryan needs a quar terback, not a quar terback- killer. He won’t get to the White House thinking N.O. will be shaking hands one day with the presi dent (or, sob bing, “That’s my president!”). He’ll get to the out house instead.