Former Giants quarterback Tim Hasselbeck says that the team is better off not having injured tight end Jeremy Shockey with them at the Super Bowl. And he didn’t just say that they are better off, he says that they are happy not to have him around.
“People there are relieved he’s not around. There’s this big stink about he’s on injured reserve,” he said. “How come he’s not on the sideline supporting his team? Let me tell you something, they don’t want him there.”
“They’re going to say all the right things, ‘Oh yeah, we’d love to have him around’ and all that stuff because he’s their teammate, he’s under contract next year and you can’t do that,” he added. “But when they’re talking to people and it’s not necessarily being reported they don’t want him around. He’s a distraction.”
“Eli is playing better without him because he doesn’t feel like he has to force the ball to him,” said Hasselbeck, who played four games with the Giants in 2005. “I was in the offensive meetings where they said ‘Listen, we need to get the ball to Jeremy early to keep him involved so he doesn’t start going crazy.’ Any time you have to start forcing the football to somebody to keep them happy it’s not good and bad things happen.”
These comments make perfect sense considering how often Eli Manning throws INT’s when looking for Shockey.
Micah Warren is the sports editor for Blast MagazineComments
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