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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Linebacker Keith Bulluck had been New York Giant for less than 48 hours when he jumped on this conference call with reporters, but he grew up just outside New York City and picked up the local trait of speaking your mind. It hardly matters to Bulluck that he was with Tennessee Titans the past 10 years, and he’s never spent a season in the rigorous NFC East, where every division game feels like a blood rivalry. Bulluck wasn’t around for the Giants’ nosedive to an 8-8 record a year ago, either. And he doesn’t care.
The way Bulluck was talking warranted a double take. Shouldn’t this guy be a headhunting, smack-talking Jet instead?
“For everyone to be talking about Dallas, Washington, an...
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Linebacker Keith Bulluck had been New York Giant for less than 48 hours when he jumped on this conference call with reporters, but he grew up just outside New York City and picked up the local trait of speaking your mind. It hardly matters to Bulluck that he was with Tennessee Titans the past 10 years, and he’s never spent a season in the rigorous NFC East, where every division game feels like a blood rivalry. Bulluck wasn’t around for the Giants’ nosedive to an 8-8 record a year ago, either. And he doesn’t care.
The way Bulluck was talking warranted a double take. Shouldn’t this guy be a headhunting, smack-talking Jet instead?
“For everyone to be talking about Dallas, Washington, and Philadelphia and not talking about Big Blue is absurd,” Bulluck told reporters Monday, the same day that ESPN’s pre-season NFL power rankings came out ranking the Giants only the league's 16th best team. (On Tuesday, SI.com ranked the Giants 19th, behind even the Eagles, who are breaking in unproven quarterback Kevin Kolb.)
The rest of the Giants also may feel overlooked. But none of them have said it like Bulluck. It’s usually not their style.
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