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Running back Brandon Jacobs says he hates the Cowboys as much as Dallas' DeMarcus Ware hates the NY Giants
In news that doesn't quite rank up there with "Man Bites Dog," DeMarcus Ware hates the Giants.
Oh, hey, whaddaya know? Brandon Jacobs hates the Cowboys.
Tuesday, during our first in a series of weekly interviews for SNY, I asked Jacobs about Ware's comments (he's only the latest in a long line of players on either side to use the "H" word when talking about the other team) and if the feelings were mutual.
"No question," he replied. "I hate the Cowboys with a bloody passion."
I asked him what the difference between a "regular passion" and a "bloody passion" was.
"You want to go into the game as being assassins," he said, referring to the feelings of bloody passion, "instead of tough football players in a game like that."
As an aside, I wonder how automatic this hate is. What I mean is, do you think Chris Canty now fully hates the Cowboys after signing with the Giants? I'd imagine he has some sore feelings after Dallas refused to pay him, but will his hate only fully mature when he sees his former teammates lined up across from him? I wonder...
Anyway, Jacobs and the Giants will be the Cowboys' first opponent in the opening of their new stadium. (I jokingly told the 6-4 Jacobs he'd better be careful not to bump his head on the video board.) Though I'm not sure how much input Jerry Jones & Co. had when it came to scheduling, Jacobs apparently took the Giants' being the first visiting team in the regular season to mean the Cowboys set their date the way colleges do for homecoming.
If that was the case, I would've thought they'd have lined up a cupcake like the Raiders (or SMU) to make sure they'd leave victorious. But it's Jacobs' time to chat, so I'll let him go.
"I'm really, really, really excited for the opportunity to be able to open up their new stadium and play against them," he said. "I'm glad they picked us. I guess it says something about them playing a certain team I guess they thought would be the first ones to go in there and get their first win (against)."
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Jacobs said plenty of interesting stuff during our 5-minute sit-down. He shared a conversation he had with Commanders DT Albert Haynesworth after Sunday's game in which Haynesworth said he didn't mean to take a shot at Jacobs last week and was surprised how his comments were portrayed. Jacobs said he told Haynesworth the most surprising part of the situation was Haynesworth (who's listed at 350 pounds) said he was only 250 in high school.
Jacobs and I also spoke about how he's been able to tone down the trash talk in situations like that. He's been able to get his point across in the past couple of years, but he's not the loose cannon he once was. He said a major reason for that is coach Tom Coughlin. "When you've got a coach in your face all of the time, asking, 'Why did you say that...'" Jacobs said. He also said some of his teammates have told him he's only making himself a target by firing back like that.
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But I thought the most interesting part of the conversation came when I asked him about the injury to RB/KR Danny Ware, who dislocated his elbow on the opening kickoff on Sunday.
"It's tough to see somebody like Danny go down, as close as we are and me knowing how hard he worked," Jacobs said. "But he did a no-no he wasn't supposed to do and I always tell him not to do and he did it. You can't brace yourself for a fall. Nothing good can come of that in the National Football League. Either you fumble the ball or you hurt yourself. He got the worst part of it; I'd have rather him fumble the football than have happen what happened to him.
"But it's a learning experience. He saw green grass, he was going down and he tried to stop himself from going down. He tried to put his hand down to stop him from going down and get into the hole he saw, and it didn't work out for him that way."
Finally, he concluded, "He'll be better. He's rehabbing his arm and he'll come back strong."
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In news that doesn't quite rank up there with "Man Bites Dog," DeMarcus Ware hates the Giants.
Oh, hey, whaddaya know? Brandon Jacobs hates the Cowboys.
Tuesday, during our first in a series of weekly interviews for SNY, I asked Jacobs about Ware's comments (he's only the latest in a long line of players on either side to use the "H" word when talking about the other team) and if the feelings were mutual.
"No question," he replied. "I hate the Cowboys with a bloody passion."
I asked him what the difference between a "regular passion" and a "bloody passion" was.
"You want to go into the game as being assassins," he said, referring to the feelings of bloody passion, "instead of tough football players in a game like that."
As an aside, I wonder how automatic this hate is. What I mean is, do you think Chris Canty now fully hates the Cowboys after signing with the Giants? I'd imagine he has some sore feelings after Dallas refused to pay him, but will his hate only fully mature when he sees his former teammates lined up across from him? I wonder...
Anyway, Jacobs and the Giants will be the Cowboys' first opponent in the opening of their new stadium. (I jokingly told the 6-4 Jacobs he'd better be careful not to bump his head on the video board.) Though I'm not sure how much input Jerry Jones & Co. had when it came to scheduling, Jacobs apparently took the Giants' being the first visiting team in the regular season to mean the Cowboys set their date the way colleges do for homecoming.
If that was the case, I would've thought they'd have lined up a cupcake like the Raiders (or SMU) to make sure they'd leave victorious. But it's Jacobs' time to chat, so I'll let him go.
"I'm really, really, really excited for the opportunity to be able to open up their new stadium and play against them," he said. "I'm glad they picked us. I guess it says something about them playing a certain team I guess they thought would be the first ones to go in there and get their first win (against)."
***
Jacobs said plenty of interesting stuff during our 5-minute sit-down. He shared a conversation he had with Commanders DT Albert Haynesworth after Sunday's game in which Haynesworth said he didn't mean to take a shot at Jacobs last week and was surprised how his comments were portrayed. Jacobs said he told Haynesworth the most surprising part of the situation was Haynesworth (who's listed at 350 pounds) said he was only 250 in high school.
Jacobs and I also spoke about how he's been able to tone down the trash talk in situations like that. He's been able to get his point across in the past couple of years, but he's not the loose cannon he once was. He said a major reason for that is coach Tom Coughlin. "When you've got a coach in your face all of the time, asking, 'Why did you say that...'" Jacobs said. He also said some of his teammates have told him he's only making himself a target by firing back like that.
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But I thought the most interesting part of the conversation came when I asked him about the injury to RB/KR Danny Ware, who dislocated his elbow on the opening kickoff on Sunday.
"It's tough to see somebody like Danny go down, as close as we are and me knowing how hard he worked," Jacobs said. "But he did a no-no he wasn't supposed to do and I always tell him not to do and he did it. You can't brace yourself for a fall. Nothing good can come of that in the National Football League. Either you fumble the ball or you hurt yourself. He got the worst part of it; I'd have rather him fumble the football than have happen what happened to him.
"But it's a learning experience. He saw green grass, he was going down and he tried to stop himself from going down. He tried to put his hand down to stop him from going down and get into the hole he saw, and it didn't work out for him that way."
Finally, he concluded, "He'll be better. He's rehabbing his arm and he'll come back strong."
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