I called it a 'guarantee', and I think it was definately a back door guarantee.
Did Tuck make a direct promise? No. However,
Who makes excuses after games?
The loser.
How does Tuck know the Cowboys are going to lose?
At the very least, Tuck is assuming the Giants will win this game through these comments. That is cocky and arrogant. If Crayton made these statements about 'not wanting to hear excuses', this guy from the DMN would have jumped all over it, and ESPN would have plastered these comments all over TV to feed the Giants' need to be 'disrespected'. That should have been the highlight in the DMN's headline, imo. These comments would have been used against the Cowboys in order to 'help' the Giants if a Cowboy would have made them.
After all, some of them want the coach fired. They like printing Patrick Crayton's comments from last year in the headlines, don't they? Crayton just talked about 'marking his territory'. Tuck's comments pertain to the outcome of the game before it is even played.
It wasn't very hard to expose Tuck's comments about "making excuses" after the game, and I'm sure the Cowboys have these words posted.
Tuck sure changed his tune today. He is throwing roses at the Cowboys, today, after he seemed to be taking this game for granted and assuming victory. He sure sounded like this game was in the bag. After all, he doesn't want to hear any 'excuses' from the Cowboys after the game. Tuck is telling me that the Giants are going to win when he talks about 'not wanting to hear excuses'. He sounds like this game is in the bank when he makes those statements. That can be interpreted as a 'guarantee'.
The Cowboys' players are not stupid. They know what Tuck said, and they will play their butts off in order to make him pay on Sunday.