Giants great Eli Manning says these two players were his toughest teammates

New York Giants legend Eli Manning reveals who were the two biggest badasses he played alongside during hi 16-year NFL career.

Throughout his 16-year career, New York Giants legend Eli Manning played alongside plenty of tough guys. In fact, Manning himself was among the toughest players on the field even though it wasn’t well-represented through his quirky personality.

But who would Manning say are the biggest “badass” teammates he played alongside?

While there are plenty of options, Manning narrowed it down back in September.

“We had a couple running backs with Ahmad Bradshaw and Brandon Jacobs,” Manning told Kevin Clark on This is Football. “Both of those guys, if I were ever to go into a fight I’d want those guys on my side. I think you would have to literally kill them to get them to stop coming after you.”

Manning specifically recalled Jacobs’ truck-stick hit on Green Bay Packers defensive back Charles Woodson in the 2007 NFC Championship Game.

“Brandon Jacobs… We’re in Green Bay (in the) NFC Championship Game,” Manning said. “We run outside and he meets Charles Woodson about four yards down the field. And I think Brandon — it’s like he never even knew Charles Woodson was there. Just totally ran right through him; Woodson kind of bounces off and it just set the tone for that game.”

Manning shared a similar memory of Bradshaw, who flattened New York Jets defensive back Brodney Pool en route to the endzone back in 2011.

“I think Ahmad, obviously, he had one versus the Jets in 2011,” Manning said. “He runs right through a safety at the goal line and just plows through ’em and goes into the endzone for us to kind of take the lead and keep the lead and to win that game.”

Both of those runs helped propel the Giants to Super Bowl titles. And there’s no denying just how badass both Jacobs and Bradshaw were.

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Giants announce legend autograph dates for training camp

The New York Giants have announced the dates for autographs from franchise legends during training camp.

The New York Giants have announced their training camp schedule, along with the dates for autographs from Giants legends.

The 2023 NFL season is about to be underway but not before all 32 teams enter training camp. For New York, training camp will be from July 26th to August 5th.

These practices will all be opened to the public with the opportunity for autographs from different positional groups each day. In addition to that, at least two legends will be joining the fans for autographs each day.

On July 26th from 8:30 a.m. ET to 10 a.m. ET, Super Bowl-winning wide receivers Mario Manningham and Hakeem Nicks will make an appearance.

On July 27th from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., members of the Super Bowl XLII-winning team, Ahmad Bradshaw and Rich Seubert, will join the fans.

On July 28th from 3:30 p.m. ET to 5 p.m. ET, Pepper Johnson, William Roberts, and David Tyree will all be signing autographs.

On July 30th from 8:30 a.m. ET to 10 a.m. ET, Joe Morris, Roman Oben, and R.W. McQuarters will be at camp singing autographs.

On July 31st from 8:30 a.m. ET to 10 a.m. ET, Sean Landeta and Rodney Hampton will be signing autographs.

On August 1st from 3:30 p.m. ET to 5 p.m. ET, Mario Manningham will return with Stephen Baker and Ottis Anderson.

On August 3rd from 8:30 a.m. ET to 10 a.m. ET, Jonathan Casillas and Jay Bromley will sign autographs.

On August 4th from 8:30 a.m. ET to 10 a.m. ET, Lewis Tillman and Howard Cross will sign autographs.

On August 5th from 3:30 p.m. ET to 5 p.m. ET, Ahmad Bradshaw will return with Jeff Feagles and Kareem McKenzie.

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Former NFL running back’s son will visit Notre Dame this week

The bloodlines are quite good with this visitor

There is alway something about second-generation football players that is very appealing to any collegiate program. That’s exactly the case with Xayvion Bradshaw, son of former NFL running back Ahmad, who today announced that he will be visiting South Bend on a official visit later this week.

The Virginia wide receiver plays a different position than his father, but that really doesn’t matter much. At six-feet tall and 170-pounds, the younger Bradshaw already holds offers from Arizona State, Purdue, Virginia, West Virginia and others could also end up on the other side of the ball as a cornerback.

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The Irish currently have fifteen commits in the 2022 class, three receivers committed while there is just one defensive back. The versatility that Bradshaw possess would make him a very intriguing prospect if he ends up selecting Notre Dame.

Throwback Thursday: Giants, Victor Cruz crush Jets’ spirit on Christmas Eve

In our latest Throwback Thursday, we revisit Christmas Eve in 2011 when the New York Giants crushed the New York Jets’ spirit.

The New York Giants have never played a game on Christmas Day. In fact, only four teams had done so before 1989 and that was in the 1971 playoffs when the league couldn’t avoid playing games on Christmas that year.

The Giants have played on Christmas Eve, however. Six times as a matter of fact. The first game was in 1989 against Bo Jackson and the Los Angeles Raiders in the bitter cold at Giants Stadium (I’m still cold from that game).

The latest game was in 2017 when they were shutout, 23-0, at the hands of the Cardinals in Arizona. In between there was a 9-7 victory against Dallas in 1994, a 35-20 loss in Washington in 2005 and a 30-7 home loss to New Orleans in 2006.

The most memorable Christmas Eve game occurred in 2011 against the New York Jets. Both teams were in playoff contention heading into this Week 16 matchup and needed to win out to qualify for the postseason. This was perhaps the most important game in the history of the rivalry due to the elimination factor.

Tensions were a bit high as the Jets tore down some the Giants’ Super Bowl banners in the runway on the way out onto the field. Head coach Rex Ryan then tried to psych the Giants out by sending former Giants star receiver Plaxico Burress out to handle the opening coin flip.

The Jets (8-6) scored first on a five-yard pass from Mark Sanchez to Josh Baker. The Giants countered in the second quarter with a Lawrence Tynes 21-yard field goal and the longest play from scrimmage when Eli Manning hit Victor Cruz on a short pass and Cruz did the rest, racing past several Jet defenders for 99-yard touchdown.

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The Giants never looked back. The defense played a stellar game. Ahmad Bradshaw’s 14-yard touchdown run near the end of the third quarter extended the Giants’ lead to 17-7. Tynes opened the fourth quarter scoring with a 36-yard field goal.

The Jets narrowed the Giants’ lead to six with a one-yard Mark Sanchez sneak but the Giants kept the Jets at bay the rest of the way. Chris Canty forced Sanchez into an intentional grounding penalty in the end zone for a safety and then Bradshaw iced the game with a 19-yard touchdown run to give the Giants a 29-14 victory.

“They did a lot of talking and we let our play do the talking for us,” said safety Kenny Phillips. “We will just leave it at that.”

“We know it’s going to be hyped up – it should be,” Giants defensive captain Justin Tuck said. “I know we did a good job of saying, ‘Talk is cheap, play the game’ all week, but we knew they were going to talk a lot and we talked a little bit ourselves. We’re not that innocent. The thing we did is we came out and backed it up. That’s the most important thing. It was a must-win game for us and we get to go off to the next round, play for a playoff berth.”

The next week, the Giants took out the Cowboys at home, 31-14, to win the NFC East crown. Four games later, they were Super Bowl champions for the second time in four seasons.

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Best Giants draft picks by round since 2000

Draft season is upon us, so travel back in time as we look at some of the best New York Giants draft picks by round since 2000.

With the free agency frenzy now in the rear-view mirror and April just around the bend, it’s time to begin looking ahead (and back) at the NFL Draft, its impact and what it could mean for teams in 2020 and beyond.

While there will be weeks of coverage ahead of the 2020 NFL Draft, we here at Giants Wire decided to kick off draft season with a look back at the New York Giants’ best draft picks by round since 2000.

Here they are in reverse order:

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Round 7: Ahmad Bradshaw (2007)

Bradshaw is far and away the Giants’ best seventh-round pick since 2000. Unless, of course, you wanted us to tab Matt Dodge or Bobby Hart for this position. No? Didn’t think so.

Bradshaw immediately took the Giants by storm in 2007 and helped propel them to a Super Bowl XLII title (and later, a Super Bowl XLVI title).

In total, Bradshaw spent seven seasons with the Giants and then three more with the Indianapolis Colts before retiring following the 2015 season.

In 103 career games, Bradshaw gained 4,928 yards and scored 36 touchdowns, adding an additional 1,493 yards and 12 touchdowns through the air.

The 23 teams with the most comp picks since 1994

Tom Brady and Dak Prescott are two of the top players picked by teams using compensatory NFL Draft picks.

The great Gil Brandt tweeted a list of the teams with the most compensatory draft picks since 1994. Taking a look at what teams wound up with the most picks and who some of them turned out to be.

Los Angeles Chargers 20 picks

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The Chargers selected JaTavis Brown in the fifth round (175th overall) of the 2016 NFL Draft. Brown was the first linebacker drafted from Akron.  He also became the 15th player drafted from Akron since the inception of the NFL Draft in 1936. In 2018, he posted a career-high 97 tackles and he has 265 total tackles in his NFL career.