The Giants’ Kryptonite surely is not the Washington Commanders.
The 🌱Giants had not won in almost a month before Sunday, wꦦith their last win coming Oct. 22 against the Commanders.
Big Blue beat them again on Sunday, led by Tommy Devito’s first NFL win.
A 31-19 victory to get to 3-8 with the 2-8 Patriots coming to MetLife Stadium on Sunda༺y has the Giants breathing some fresh air in what has been an incredibly disapp🦹ointing season.
P🦂rince Amukamara was a key part of the Giants defense that beat the Patriots in Super Bowl ꦜ2012.
He joined me and Brandon London on a new episode of the “Blue Rush” podcast.
Besides reacting to Sunday’s victory and this Giants season, the former cornerback who signed a one-day contract to retire a Giant before this season dropped some stories from that game and his Giants days.
Watching film after winning the Super Bowl
Brady tried a Hail Mary in the final seconds of Super Bowl 2012 that came close to being caught by Rob Gronkowsk — but luckily for the Giants it was knocked away by Antrel Rolle.
The day after the win, secondary and safeties coach that s🐻eason for the Giants Dave Merritt had them watching film of the play.
“I think that was the only play that he wanted to show. But yeah, I remember that vividly,” Amukamara recalled. “And it’s so funny, now that Coach Merritt is with KC, and he’s been in a couple of Super Bowls since then, he always puts us in a group text and shows us that play just so he remembers to coach it.”
“All in”
Plenty of giants attention has been pulled into the Wink Martindale-Xavier McKinney media call-outs in recent weeks, something Amukamara has⭕ seen before with defensive coordinator Perrey Fewell. It was a situation where the Giants found their ra🔴llying mantra in 2011-12.
“He was calling calls where Mike Boley, our linebacker didn’t like it, a couple of our DBs didn’t like it, so we started changing the calls,” he said. “Or, the defensive linebackers started changing the calls cause he’s a captain and stuff like that, and it wasn’t working for us. And so that’s where the ‘All in’ term came from, because first we had a bible study and the phrase of the bible study was ‘All in’ and then Justin Tuck and Antrel Rolle kind of ran with tha.”
The $500,000 Brady jersey
Alright, one more awesome story from this must-listen podcast: Amukamara was once offered $500,000 for a signed Tom Brady game-used jersey and turned it down. He said he wouldn’t have even taken $5 million for it.
“The funny thing about that is that somebody offered me $500,000 for the jersey already,” he said. “And I said, ‘Yeah, there’s no way.’ Because to me that jersey’s priceless because that’s like a signed Michael Jordan jersey.”
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