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Reese sizes up East
9:46 AM Thu, Feb 21, 2008 | Permalink
Albert Breer E-mail News tips
Just got done with a nice conversation with Giants GM Jerry Reese, a really pleasant guy. And I asked him, point blank, who the favorite in the NFC East is.
No subject will get a team official stammering like that one. Making even more of a loaded question is the fact that the division champ won 13 games, and another team in the division won the Super Bowl.
"In the NFC East? I don't that anyone's favored," Reese said. "You've got to go in and play well, and battle it out as you go. All the teams are good in the NFC East. Everybody probably thinks they're the favorite. Every team could win. I don't know that there's a favorite.
Pressed, Reese allowed that most people will likely look for the Giants to unseat the Cowboys.
"It's still early in the game," he cautioned. "Giants are probably the favorite, just because we won. But I don't think the Cowboys are afraid of us. I don't think the Commanders are afraid of us, I don't think the Eagles are afraid of us."
Reese continued on about how the division -- the only one in the NFL that finished 2007 with all four of its teams with a .500 or better record -- is tough as nails. And while that's difficult to deal with during the regular season, he really does believe that it helped the Giants in the playoffs.
As the theory goes, making it through a good, balanced division prepared them to battle through three road playoff games just to get to a Super Bowl they wound up winning.
"It's a grind for us every week," he said. "You get calloused in that division. So when you get to the playoffs, you've been tested in so many ways. There's no easy games, it's a headache every week. It's a physical, physical division, no one had a losing record. It's a good training ground if you're going to make it to the playoffs."
To wrap up, here's his five-cent analysis of the Cowboys: "I just know they have a physical football team, they put a physical, physical product out there. You gotta be ready to bang heads when you go to Dallas."
9:46 AM Thu, Feb 21, 2008 | Permalink
Albert Breer E-mail News tips
Just got done with a nice conversation with Giants GM Jerry Reese, a really pleasant guy. And I asked him, point blank, who the favorite in the NFC East is.
No subject will get a team official stammering like that one. Making even more of a loaded question is the fact that the division champ won 13 games, and another team in the division won the Super Bowl.
"In the NFC East? I don't that anyone's favored," Reese said. "You've got to go in and play well, and battle it out as you go. All the teams are good in the NFC East. Everybody probably thinks they're the favorite. Every team could win. I don't know that there's a favorite.
Pressed, Reese allowed that most people will likely look for the Giants to unseat the Cowboys.
"It's still early in the game," he cautioned. "Giants are probably the favorite, just because we won. But I don't think the Cowboys are afraid of us. I don't think the Commanders are afraid of us, I don't think the Eagles are afraid of us."
Reese continued on about how the division -- the only one in the NFL that finished 2007 with all four of its teams with a .500 or better record -- is tough as nails. And while that's difficult to deal with during the regular season, he really does believe that it helped the Giants in the playoffs.
As the theory goes, making it through a good, balanced division prepared them to battle through three road playoff games just to get to a Super Bowl they wound up winning.
"It's a grind for us every week," he said. "You get calloused in that division. So when you get to the playoffs, you've been tested in so many ways. There's no easy games, it's a headache every week. It's a physical, physical division, no one had a losing record. It's a good training ground if you're going to make it to the playoffs."
To wrap up, here's his five-cent analysis of the Cowboys: "I just know they have a physical football team, they put a physical, physical product out there. You gotta be ready to bang heads when you go to Dallas."
