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Patriots' Super Bowl benching mystery may never be solved: 'Grassy knoll'

It sounds like Bill Belichick may take this secret to his grave. More than two years removed from the Patriots' 41-33 defeat in Super Bowl LII, the NFL community is...

What ESPN did with its disastrous Booger Mobile

The Booger Mobile, ESPN’s sideline mobile high chair that received the scorn of "Monday Night Football" viewers, was one and done last season. ESPN executives realized that having Booger McFarland...

Giants may have found answer to major offensive line problem

Two snaps. That was the sum total of Chad Wheeler’s workload on offense in the first nine games of this season. Wheeler was promoted this week and moved in as...

The potential trades Giants could make before deadline

When Jonathan Casillas was reminded that Tuesday is the NFL trading deadline, and that the events of this sorry season, more than most, could trigger the Giants to make a...

Rookie ready for chance to solve Giants' abysmal running game

Four games into the season, rookie running back Wayne Gallman is more than ready to make his NFL debut. The Giants need him — badly. They drag the league’s worst...

Ben McAdoo's plan to fix Giants must start with Ben McAdoo

Welcome to McAdoomsday. That moment of truth in a young head coach’s career when the sky is falling and the fan base is in an uproar, and it is up...

McAdoo admits Eli Manning's rusty and dreads this headline

In his first practice since Wednesday, Giants quarterback Eli Manning looked predictably rusty. And as soon as coach Ben McAdoo admitted as much, it was going to be noteworthy, whether...

Giants cut down the pranks but ramp up the dancing in camp

Back when the Giants held training camp at the University of Albany, the camaraderie of the team often developed in the dorm rooms, where pranks and unwinding was a fixture...

Giants’ rookie kicker was perfect — according to him

Rookie kicker Aldrick Rosas received his first work during training camp and went 4-for-4 on his field-goal attempts. Or did he? Rosas hit the first three cleanly and the fourth,...

How the Giants' roster is shaping up as training camp begins

Players report Thursday and the Giants take the field Friday for their first training camp practice of the summer. Of the 90 players assembled, nearly 40 percent will not make...

How a behind-schedule rookie evolved into Giants' top RB

At this time last year, Paul Perkins was a nowhere man. Sure, he was a fifth-round draft pick, but there was no physical evidence around the Giants’ team facility that...

Everyone on Giants is focused on the only goal that matters

Some teams talk Super Bowl-or-Bust and it is little more than lip service. The Giants mean it, and they didn’t need to see Odell Beckham Jr. on the field at...

How Giants envision using Christian McCaffrey, their dream draft slip

The question was posed then answered with a question, which really is all you need to know about what the Giants think about Christian McCaffrey. “What can’t he do?’’ This,...

How Giants' additions could fix their predictable offense

PHOENIX — You knew what you were getting from the Giants on offense in 2016. They put three receivers on the field more often than any team in the NFL,...

Giants giving Shane Vereen one more chance to prove himself

The Giants had a deadline decision to make Monday regarding Shane Vereen, who did virtually nothing on the field in 2016 after tearing his triceps muscle twice. Vereen had a...

Shane Vereen downer chills Giants' Janoris Jenkins relief

Cornerback Janoris Jenkins escaped serious injury when he was forced out of Sunday’s 17-6 victory over Lions by an inadvertent knee to the back. But hard-luck running back Shane Vereen...

Ereck Flowers vs. sack-less Lions star: One slump must go

This is a strange one: Lions defensive end Ziggy Ansah has started 10 games this season and does not have a sack. He had 30 sacks in his first three...

Giants' baffled special-teams stud: Cowboys thought he'd stop me?

Dwayne Harris could not believe his eyes. He lined up as the gunner in punt coverage and saw someone he did not recognize across the line assigned to block him....

Jason Pierre-Paul doesn't have to be on field to inspire Giants

The Giants, as usual, gathered at their team hotel Saturday night for meetings, but what happened was not usual at all. They were showed a video made by Jason Pierre-Paul,...

Giants get injury clarity, but not all the help they wanted

The Giants will be getting some help for their sagging offense, but not quite all the reinforcements they were hoping to gain for their showdown with the Cowboys. Running back...