Giants have new OT Taylor

The New York Giants made an announcement on Monday, saying that offensive tackle Herb Taylor has been awarded to the team off waivers from the Denver Broncos. Thus the unfortunate tackle joins the third team since putting on NFL jerseys in 2007. Hope him to stay there long.


Taylor was originally a sixth-round draft choice by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2007. In two seasons with the Chiefs, Taylor played in 18 games with one start. Although he has primarily played left tackle in this career, has also filled in at the guard and tackle spots on the right side.

His relationship with the Chiefs ended on Sept. 4 when the team waived him. Five days later, the Broncos signed him to the roster. However, he was only on the active roster for one game and did not play. The Broncos waived him on Dec. 19 and re-signed him ten days later but waived him again four days later.

Four Giants players missed Thursday practice

Offensive tackle Kareem McKenzie and cornerback Corey Webster missed the New York Giants Thursday practice with knee injuries, wide receiver Mario Manningham missed the practice with an undisclosed illness and backup running back Ahmad Bradshaw was out with an ankle injury.


According to Giants Coach Tom Coughlin, it remains unsure whether McKenzie and Webster would wear back Giants jerseys to play next Monday night’s road game against the Washington Redskins. But he indicated that Webster is having a better chance to play than McKenzie.

Rookie Will Beatty, who already started an Oct. 25 game against the Arizona Cardinals as replacement to McKenzie, would get the starting job again if McKenzie could miss Monday’s game, and Webster’s possible replacement should be Aaron Ross, who started at safety last week after missing the first nine games with hamstring injury.

Former NFL star Taylor was arrested for hit-and-run crash

Ex-NFL linebacker Lawrence Taylor is facing charge of a second-degree misdemeanor after being released on bond following his arrest in traffic accident.


Playing for the New York Giants, Taylor was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 1999 and competed in ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” this year. But what he did on Sunday night in Hialeah, Miami was not so decent as a star used to wear NFL jersey.

A Florida Highway Patrol spokesman says Taylor left the scene after the accident causing property damage happened. There were no injuries in the hit-and-run crash and troopers did not conduct a sobriety test. Taylor’s excuse was that he thought he had hit a guard rail.

Anyway the rich former football player did not stay in the Miami-Dade County jail for long. Later that same night, he was released on $500 bond.

Giants OT McKenzie was inactive Sunday with groin injury

After starting 38 consecutive games together in the New York Giants’ offensive line, tackle Kareem McKenzie failed to start a 39th as he was inactive for Sunday night’s game against the Arizona Cardinals.


McKenzie was held out with a groin injury and replaced by Will Beatty, who was in his first year of wearing NFL jersey. Sunday’s game was the first game McKenzie missed since he missed a game late in 2006 season with a migraine headache. This time he got the injury in last week’s loss at New Orleans.

Other players inactive for Sunday game included receivers Sinorice Moss and Ramses Barden, offensive lineman Adam Koets, cornerback Aaron Ross, running back Gartrell Johnson, linebacker Michael Boley and defensive tackle Chris Canty.

Giants QB Manning will play against Saints in hometown

The New Orleans Saints’ Superdome is a familiar place to the New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, although this Sunday will be the first time he plays a game in the building. As the youngest son of Saints legend Archie Manning, Eli went to the Superdome almost every weekend the Saints were home. His returning to the Superdome just makes Sunday’s game even more attractive.


Eli appeared to be fine after playing less than a half in the Giants’ blowout win over the Oakland Raiders. But to be cautious, Coach Tom Coughlin only allowed the quarterback to take a limited number of snaps in Wednesday practice and said Manning will do a little more work in Thursday’s practice and step it up again on Friday.

It is expected that Eli’s family, including his father Archie, will be present to watch the matchup between two of the NFL’s five remaining unbeaten teams: 5-0 Giants V.S. 4-0 Saints. A good question is: will Archie wear Saints jersey to support his old team or Giants jersey to support his son's team?

Giants QB Manning’s six-year extension was officially confirmed

Nine days after the New York Giants and quarterback Eli Manning reached a tentative agreement, it was officially confirmed that Manning was given a six-year, $97 million extension.

The Giants would be glad to keep the quarterback through 2015 with the contract paying him $35 million of guaranteed money and an average salary of $15.3 million. The star quarterback has started the last 71 games for the team, the third-longest streak among active quarterbacks at the end of last season and was the first Giants quarterback to throw for 3,000 yards and at least 20 touchdowns in four consecutive seasons.

The contract will also make Manning the highest-paid player in the league, but Manning is just as low-key as usual, saying that he would not feel more pressure under the new contract and do his best for the team as he had done since he put on the giants jersey.


"My job is to play quarterback for the New York Giants and try to win games," he said. "Nothing has changed. My responsibilities have not changed. I am trying to go out there, do my part, play well and lead this team."

Former Giants star Burress will be arraigned on Aug. 20

Except for the updating of the arraignment date, it seems nothing new in the Plaxico Burress case which started from Nov. 29. But anyway, there are always new details released from the new report of old case.

It was reported that when Burress was at the Latin Quarter nightclub on Nov. 29, an unlicensed gun tucked into his waistband slipped down his leg and fired, shooting him in the right thigh. He was then charged of criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.

The arraignment was set on Aug. 20. If Burress is convicted of the two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of reckless endangerment, he will have to stay in jail for at least three and a half years.