New York Giants OT Nate Solder and CB Adoree’ Jackson see things differently than DT Leonard Williams and understand why fans are booing.
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The New York Giants, who are now 1-5, are beginning to incur the wrath of their usually loyal fanbase with their losing ways. On Sunday, the crowd let their displeasure with the team’s play known as a river of boos flowed throughout MetLife Stadium during their 38-11 squashing at the hands of the Los Angeles Rams.
Defensive tackle Leonard Williams told reporters after the game that the boos do bother him and, like some New York Mets players did this year, don’t think his team deserves to be booed.
“They do bother me, honestly. Obviously, we’re in our own home stadium. I don’t want to be hearing boos from my own fans,” Williams told reporters. “I understand that they have a right to be upset as well because they’re coming to see us put good football on the field. We haven’t been winning up to date. But at the same time, I don’t know, I don’t like that.
“I don’t think anyone deserves to be put down no matter who you are. I’m not going to go to a salesman and tell him that he’s not a good person or ‘boo’ this person because he’s not doing his job or something like that.”
Veteran offensive tackle Nate Solder was asked his take on getting booed by his own fans.
“I heard this study once that said the testosterone levels of the fans goes down after a loss, so what that tells me is they’re in it with us. They’re in there, tooth and nail, they’re fighting the fights in their minds and going through it with us emotionally,” Solder said. “I think I understand where they’re coming from because, quite frankly, we feel the same way a lot of times. We are not playing up to our standards. We need to continue to play better, so we’re with them on that. We want to see improvement as much as they do.”
As for how his teammates might be taking it, Solder said he didn’t know.
“I haven’t had that conversation with guys. I don’t know how other guys felt about that. I think you’ve got to embrace the fact that we’re not where we are, or where we want to be, and we’ve got to improve. We’re with the fans on that,” Solder said. “We can take it two ways. We could say, ‘Oh, they hate us,’ or, you can say, ‘Hey, they’re really wanting the best for us. They really want us to see improvement. They really want their team to be what it could be.’ That’s how we are, so we’re all together on that.”
“Obviously, us not performing well goes to them booing, so we don’t want that to happen,” added cornerback Adoree’ Jackson. “We just have to go out there and execute better and play better. We’re obviously just as frustrated as them, but at the end of the day we’re going out there and trying to compete…you don’t want to get booed, especially not at home. But to eliminate that, get back in the lab and just keep grinding until things turn out the way you want to.
“You don’t really want to get booed, but at the end of the day, we aren’t doing anything to not get booed, so we’ve just got to change that.”
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