New York Giants’ Parris Campbell recorded NFL’s fastest speed in 2022

During the offseason, the New York Giants made it clear that speed is a priority. Both general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll have verbally discussed it, and the players they’ve brought in are proof that speed is a focal point.

Signing wide receiver Parris Campbell is a prime example of adding speed to the offense. His first three seasons in the NFL were rough as he battled through injury, but last season he played in all 17 games, starting 16 of them.

As part of his series, “Baldy’s Breakdowns,” NFL Network analyst Brian Baldinger analyzed some of Campbell’s tape. On the play that he looked at, Campbell reached a speed of 22.11 miles per hour.

According to Next Gen Stats, it was the fastest recorded speed by any ball carrier in 2022.

Speed among the receiving corps is a much-needed aspect for any football team.

Daboll and Schoen took this team from a shambles and made it into a respectable franchise again last season. This season, they look to build on that progress and take it to the next level. Adding players like Campbell gives Daniel Jones more options which leads to more opportunities, which, hopefully, leads to more points than whichever team the Giants are facing.



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New York Giants sign DT A’Shawn Robinson: Contract details

The New York Giants came to terms with veteran defensive lineman A’Shawn Robinson on Monday, inking him to a one-year, incentives-laden deal that could net the former Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams star up to $8 million this season.

Robinson, 28, is entering his eighth NFL season. He was a second-round draft pick by the Lions back in 2016 out of Alabama and has played in a total of 93 games in his pro career, including a Super Bowl.

The 6-foot-4, 330-pound Robinson will become part of the Giants’ defensive line rotation and add much-needed talent and depth to their run defense.

As for where the Giants are finding the cap space to sign players these days, Spotrac shows them with approximately $3.36 million in available cap space but it’s unclear if any players have restructured their deals that the team has yet to report.

Over the Cap shows the Giants at just under $1.5 million in space.

Both the Spotrac and Over the Cap figures do not account for Robinson’s signing.

Note: This article will be updated as additional contract details are released.



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Jon Feliciano signing with 49ers, Giants now need new center

It was expected that the Giants would lose one of their experienced centers in free agency.

Now both are gone.

Jon Feliciano, who played in and started 15 games last season, agreed Monday to a one-year contract with the 49ers, The Post confirmed. He followed Nick Gates (three years, $16.5 million with the Commanders) out the door.

Feliciano’s departure comes as a surprise given that he followed general manager Joe Schoen, head coach Brian Daboll and offensive line coach Bobby Johnson from the Bills to the Giants last offseason.

Feliciano expressed an interest in re-signing, and Schoen said before free agency opened that “you’ve really got to make sure that you don’t let a lot of leadership walk out of the building” in reference to Feliciano’s intangibles.

Ben Bredeson, who had a brief stint at center for the first time in his three-year career last season, is now the top in-house option, especially with the glut of young guards like Josh Ezeudu, Marcus McKethan, Jack Anderson and Shane Lemieux battling to play opposite Mark Glowinski.

The Giants could add a veteran starter like Ben Jones or Connor McGovern or look to a draft class led by Big Ten products Michael Schmitz, Olusegun Oluwatimi and Joe Tippman (or both options) to fill the hole.


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Feliciano, 31, graded as the No. 31-ranked center out of 36 qualifiers by Pro Football Focus last season.

Quarterback Daniel Jones will have his fifth different primary center — Jon Halapio, Gates, Billy Price and Feliciano — in as many years when next season begins.


The Giants signed former Duke cornerback Leonard Johnson after he worked out on Monday, The Post confirmed.

Johnson, who had six interceptions in 42 games for the Blue Devils, suffered a torn ACL training for the 2022 draft and was out of the league last season after going undrafted.

He received a three-year contract with minimal guarantees, similar to the standard for an undrafted rookie.

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Giants prepared if Mike Kafka, Wink Martindale leave

Brian Daboll did such a good job hiring Giants coordinators last offseason that he might have to do it again sooner than later. 

Offensive coordinator Mike Kafka interviewed Sunday to be the head coach of the Colts, Texans or Panthers, while defensive coordinator Wink Martindale interviewed with the Colts. Because the Giants are out of the playoffs, the stocks of Kafka and Martindale could heat up as searches become more urgent and openings get filled. Teams cannot interview coaches of the four remaining playoff teams until Jan. 30 at the earliest. 

If Martindale was to be hired, the Giants could turn to an in-house candidate in hopes of running the same blitz-heavy scheme. Outside linebackers coach Drew Wilkins would be a top candidate to coordinate for his mentor Martindale unless he wants to create his own identity, and defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson is overdue an opportunity after 16 years as an assistant. 

“Being around Wink, if a player shows up, he’s going to feel like an All-Pro. Well, as a coach, if you are around Wink long enough, you feel like Bill Parcells,” Wilkins told The Post. “He inspires that confidence in everybody. So, I do feel like I’d be ready for an opportunity. But I absolutely love the Giants, and the way the Mara and Tisch families take care of your family and make this place feel like home.” 


Mike Kafka has interviewed with other teams about their head-coaching opportunities.
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The Giants are less likely to turn in-house if Kafka is hired, though Daboll’s other two finalists in last year’s search could be available: Texans offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton could be replaced by a new head coach, and Browns wide receivers coach Chad O’Shea just interviewed for the Jets coordinator vacancy. Daboll’s influence on the playbook and game plans also helps on that side of the ball. 

“You always have to have a plan because you never know what’s going to happen if Wink gets a job, if Kafka gets a job,” Daboll said. “So, you have to go through the whole process.” 

Martindale told Daboll about Wilkins last offseason that “if it doesn’t work out with me, you need to hire this guy. He is a special talent in this league.” They spent nine seasons together on the Ravens’ staff and outside linebacker Jihad Ward, who played under Wilkins in both places, refers to Wilkins as “Wink Jr. — a good teacher who wants to see everyone win and get better.” 

“This is New York — this is where you want to be,” Wilkins said. “This is a spot I always wanted to live, and coaching at the Giants is prestigious. I probably wasn’t going to make it on Broadway, so this is my best opportunity. From a fantasy football perspective, you look at it like, ‘This guy goes there and this guy goes there,’ but there’s a very real-life element to it, all of my family truly loving it here.” 

Martindale repeatedly called Henderson “the best secondary coach in the league.” Henderson, who was retained from Joe Judge’s 2021 staff, worked with Daboll at other stops. 

“What a difference a year makes in that last year all of us in the building were wondering what was going to happen,” he said. “To be in the playoffs a year later is phenomenal.” 

What would he take from Martindale if he gets a shot to call plays? 

“Everything, hopefully,” Henderson said. “A lot of people are playing checkers and he’s playing chess.”

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Daniel Jones makes Giants intentions clear: ‘Want to be here’

Let there be no mistake. 

“I love this place,” Daniel Jones said on Sunday, as he and his teammates cleaned out their lockers, their season over and done with. “I want to be here.” 

No one gets everything they want, but in this case, it is difficult to conjure up a scenario in which Jones and the Giants are not together again for the 2023 season, and beyond. There is not much compelling evidence to suggest when it is time for the Giants to reconvene that Jones will be anywhere else but situated in his customary end locker stall. 

Immediately after the Giants were ousted from the playoffs with a non-competitive 38-7 loss to the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday, Jones was given two opportunities to state he wanted to return to the Giants — the team that selected him at No. 6-overall in the 2019 NFL Draft. Both times, he dodged and did not answer. As it turns out — and anyone who has been around Jones for some time would have figured this out — Jones was not ready to move ahead and express his own desires at a time when he was hurting from a blowout loss. 

“I don’t see how it got interpreted,” Jones said. “I didn’t see any of that.” 

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Before the loss had actually settled in, running back Saquon Barkley said he could not envision that being his last game in a Giants uniform. Jones was not nearly as introspective in the visitors’ locker room on Saturday and only slightly more revealing a day later. 

Asked if he has any doubts he will be back with the Giants, Jones said, “I don’t know. Right now more than anything thinking about this year and this team and the guys and how grateful I am to be a part of it. Special group of guys. I’ve really enjoyed being here, I have nothing but love and respect for this organization. I’d love to be back but we’ll see, there’s a business side of it, too.” 

Ah yes, the business side. Jones is clearly uneasy when his expiring contract, the massive salaries for starting NFL quarterbacks and where he fits in are topics for discussion. He actually fidgeted a bit when the subject was broached. 

“Um, yeah, I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite part of it,” Jones said. “I think you play for the love of the game and the opportunity to dedicate yourself to something and work to improve as a player, as a person, to me that’s what it’s about. 

“At the same time, at this level it’s a business and you can’t ignore that piece of it.” 

Jones said he is aware of what the market is, as far as what starting quarterbacks around the league earn on an annual basis. 

“Yeah, I got a good sense of that,” he said. 

Daniel Jones walks off the field following the Giants’ loss to the Eagles on Jan. 22.
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If so, he is cognizant that there are nine quarterbacks in the $40 million per year club: Aaron Rodgers ($50 million per year), Russell Wilson ($49 million), Kyler Murray ($46 million), Deshaun Watson ($46 million), Patrick Mahomes ($45 million), Josh Allen ($43 million), Derek Carr ($40 million), Matthew Stafford ($40 million) and Dak Prescott ($40 million). It is logical to make an argument that Jones deserves to be in the next tier, consisting of Kirk Cousins ($35 million per year), Jared Goff ($33.5 million), Carson Wentz ($32 million), Matt Ryan ($30 million) and Ryan Tannehill ($29.5 million). At 25 years old, Jones is younger than every quarterback in the top 14 in salary other than Murray — Jones is less than three months older than Murray. 

It is natural that Jones compares himself with the others at his position, in terms of success on the field and in financial dealings. 

“You try not to do that,” Jones said. “Over the course of these first few years I think I’ve learned outside of the contract piece of it, just when you watch other players throughout the league and you get into situations where you’re comparing yourself, I don’t think that’s ever fair and not all that productive. Every situation is different, you don’t know what exactly other guys are dealing with and they don’t know what you’re dealing with. At any position I think comparing players across the league, I think at least I’ve learned, I don’t know how helpful it is.” 

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As for any report that the Giants and Jones are close to a deal, Jones said, “I don’t think there’s much truth to that.’’ Of course, this is accurate, considering negotiations were never going to open up until after the season. General manager Joe Schoen believes there should not be any major decisions made until at least one week after the season has ended, in order to prevent emotion from clouding his judgment. 

Jones said he has had “positive” conversations with Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll when those talks have ventured into what comes next. 

“I think they think I made a lot of improvement this year,” Jones said. “I’ll let them speak for themselves when it comes to that stuff. We’ve had conversations, they’ve been positive and I’ve enjoyed playing for ’em.” 

This season and, most likely, on into the future.

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Leonard Williams speaks on potential pay cut from Giants contract

Leonard Williams wants to stay with the Giants and wants to see teammate Dexter Lawrence get paid big bucks, but those two things might not be jointly possible.

Williams is signed for one more year at an astronomical salary-cap hit of $32.2 million, which is the 12th-highest charge for any player in the league and the third-highest for a non-quarterback. He is coming off a season with 45 tackles and 2.5 sacks and the first games missed due to injuries in his iron-man eight-year career.

“I try to let things like that play out,” Williams said Sunday. “I believe the plan is the plan and things are going to work out the way they work out. I did my best this year. I fought through injuries and played my hardest. I’m sure I’ll end up somewhere, if not here. I want to play as long as possible.”

Giants defensive lineman Leonard Williams speaks to reporters on Jan. 22, 2023.

Giants defensive lineman Leonard Williams speaks to reporters on Jan. 22, 2023.


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Williams initially said that he “would probably consider” a pay cut from his $18 million salary, but he quickly walked back his words to say a pay cut is “probably something I would have to talk to my agent [about] and probably something I would have to see how [the Giants front office] is feeling.”

The Giants cut the player with the highest salary-cap hit (James Bradberry) going into this season because they were cap-strapped. More breathing room comes from $52.5 million in cap space for 2023, according to spotrac.com, but a lot of deals need to get done.

“It’s something I haven’t thought about yet, so it’s hard to answer right away,” Williams said. “I’m considering all possibilities.”

Leonard Williams on the Giants’ bench during a playoff loss to the Eagles on Jan. 21, 2023.
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In two previous negotiations since the Giants gave up all leverage with an in-season trade for Williams in 2019, Williams’ agents, Roosevelt Barnes and Brandon Parker, have squeezed out every penny, taking a franchise tag in 2020 and a top-of-the-market three-year, $63 million extension in 2021 on the heels of his career-best 11.5 sacks. The Giants could cut Williams to save $12.2 million against the cap for $20 million in savings. 

“I definitely love this team and I want to be here,” Williams said. “I want to play with Dex as long as possible. Playing with someone like that helps me individually, and we help each other and the defense when we have two stout guys up front.”

Lawrence is signed on a $12.4 million team option for next season and has a Giants tattoo on his bicep, so it’s clear that he sees himself getting a multi-year extension sooner or later. The defensive-tackle market is expected to explode, which could elevate Lawrence to $20 million-$25 million per year, according to contract analysts.

Dexter Lawrence walks off the field after the Giants’ loss to the Eagles on Jan. 21, 2023.
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“He deserves it,” Williams said. “The world got to see the fruits of his labor this year. He’s been playing outstanding all year.”

Williams missed three games with an MCL sprain in his knee early in the season and played through neck pain late in the season.

“I’m just going to rest it a lot for right now but at the same time, figure out a plan,” Williams said. “I don’t want this to be something that’s lingering for the rest of my career, and I definitely want to handle it as soon as possible.”

The belief is surgery is not needed.

“I started off with a stinger that I kind of ignored at first because I had a stinger a long time ago in high school,” Williams said. “After that, it started coming back more and more. After getting so many of them, it started causing a little bit of nerve damage. The trainers are telling me the main thing it needs is rest, which I wasn’t able to get during the regular season.”

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Giants’ dismal loss can’t change fact future is bright

On the last day of a football season that felt like the last day of a high school semester, the Giants’ Brian Daboll finally had to concede that there are things that are beyond the control of a football head coach, even an excellent football coach, even a coach who has spent the last 11 ½ months lending oxygen to a franchise and adrenaline to a fan base.

Even Daboll — never too rambunctious after wins, never too downtrodden after losses — couldn’t disguise the hurt in his voice and the fatigue in his bones.

“I wish we could do this again next week,” he said.

The Eagles flattened the Giants 38-7 Saturday night at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, and it honestly didn’t take very long for them to delete whatever mystery had been attached to the proceedings. The Eagles scored the first two times they touched the ball. They stopped the Giants on an early fourth down, which seemed to pick Daboll’s pockets of the surplus of pixie dust he’d carried around all year.

It was 28-0 at the half. The Linc was beside itself. Giants fans spent halftime checking out what was available on Hulu and Netflix.

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“A crash landing,” is how Daboll described it, again and again and again, and there really was no better wordsmithing on this night. The Giants, flying into the game on such a high, wound up colliding with the back end of a row of buses like Evel Knievel, only the buses were dressed in green Eagles uniforms.

“They did everything better than we did,” Daboll said.

They did. It was complete, it was thorough, it was an evisceration start to finish — and it doesn’t reduce by even one ounce what the Giants accomplished this year. If, back in August, you picked the Giants to win six games there was a term your friends used for you: eternal optimist. And even you didn’t get them to nine. Even you couldn’t have fathomed they would win a playoff game for the first time in 11 years.

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“It was a special thing to be a part of,” quarterback Daniel Jones said, and it was a special thing to watch, from the moment Daboll flashed two fingers at the end of the opener at Tennessee to the remarkable tsunami of faith that followed the Giants down the Turnpike for this NFC divisional playoff.

The sting will linger a day or two.

Then you will remember a stolen moment: Jones trampling the Vikings last week? Kayvon Thibodeaux ransacking the Commanders in Week 15? Saquon Barkley showing extended examples of why he was once described as being touched “by the hand of God?” Go ahead. Pick as many as you want. There are plenty of them.

Soon enough, of course, you will begin to think about something else.

You will think about next season, and the seasons to come, and you will want to ponder how this season ought to be a building block for something better, something greater, something sustainable. General manager Joe Schoen and Daboll, no doubt, will already have thought about that by the time you wake up Sunday morning, and there are few franchises in any sport right now whose fans trust their leadership more deeply than Giants fans trust Schoen and Able.

Of course there’s a world of difference, and sometimes a vast chasm, between what ought to happen and what does. Daboll sounded a familiar tone for longtime New York football observers when he said, near the end of his postgame gathering with reporters:

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“Disappointed. I wish we could’ve done a better job, I wish I could’ve done a better job. It feels like crap, that’s as honest as I can be.

“You have to work extremely hard to get to this spot,” Daboll continued. “It’s a hard place to get to, this division round.”

In that moment Daboll sounded precisely as his spiritual antecedent had, almost 24 years earlier. By January 1999, Bill Parcells had moved on to the Jets and in two seasons, he had them within 30 minutes of a Super Bowl. That didn’t happen, though the moment those Jets stepped off the field at Mile High Stadium, they were christened Next Year’s Champs.

Parcells, who’d seen this gauntlet before, looked 120 years old as he leaned against a wall just outside the Jets’ locker room, his eyes hollow and his voice soft.

“You realize just how much work you have to go through just to get right back to where we are right now,” Parcells said. “Free agency. The draft. Voluntary workouts. Training camp. Sixteen games. All of it. Just to get right back to where we’re standing.”

The Jets never did get back there under Parcells. Things happen. Players get hurt. Rookies don’t pan out. Seasons often behave with a mind of their own. So the Giants know, right now, immediately, that there are no guarantees about what’s next.

Still at the end of a day — at the end of a season, the end of a semester — it’s good to be a Giants fan, and good to be a part of this team’s future. One crash landing doesn’t change any of that. If anything, it makes you want to push the fast-forward button, you know?

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Brian Daboll leading Giants with actions over words: ‘Refreshing’

PHILADELPHIA — Brian Daboll was not planning to say much to his team Friday night, or Saturday afternoon, before it was showtime at the Linc. This is not college football. Daboll recognizes that the NFL is a players’ league, and that sometimes the players need the coaches out of the room. 

The guy can explode with the best of ’em on the sideline, as network cameras have relayed to millions of fans. Daboll got all over his most important player, Daniel Jones, in the opener at Tennessee, and that sent just as important a message about his first year as head coach as his endgame decision that day to go for two points and the win. 

Daboll is no shrinking violet during the week, either, when he feels the need to impose his will on the men in helmets and pads. He can do an awful lot of talking and messaging during practice. But even in a sport that puts a premium on coaching and unrelenting leadership, Daboll’s greatest strength is knowing when to back off, and when to shut up. 

“The night before a game, they’ve got to get ready to play,” he said. “It’s a little bit different [this week] because it’s a later game. So, I’ll probably even say less.” 

Daboll is a doer, not a talker, and if you want to know why the Giants are still alive in the Super Bowl tournament, and in position against the top-seeded Eagles to deliver what would be one of the franchise’s signature victories, you can start right there. 

His predecessor, Joe Judge, wasn’t a lousy head coach for all of his two-year stay in the Meadowlands. He came in with a good idea — to field a physical team that would represent the blue-collar, in-your-face ethos of the region. Judge talked a lot about building a program worthy of the support of the grinders in the crowd, but never actually built one. 

Brian Daboll has led the Giants with his actions over his words.
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Daboll pulled it off in Year 1 with much less bluster. Two years after Judge effectively promised world domination in his introductory press conference, Daboll said this at his first presser: “I’m not guaranteeing that we’re going to do anything.” 

And then he delivered one of the more improbable seasons in the modern history of metropolitan area sports by putting out there the kind of team that matched Judge’s vision. The kind of team that did make Giants fans proud. 

On further review, the job might not have been open for Daboll had the 2021 Giants employed, say, Tyrod Taylor instead of Mike Glennon as the backup quarterback. But Judge fired himself at the end of the season with a couple of bizarre moves, opening the door for someone much better at connecting with the human beings on the roster. 

Safety Julian Love, working for his third Giants coach, called Daboll “a breath of fresh air” and praised him for allowing players the freedom to be themselves. “That’s how I feel,” Love said, “and it’s been refreshing compared to what we had previously.” 

Outside linebacker Kayvon Thibodeaux, working for his first NFL coach, credited Daboll for building genuine relationships inside his locker room. “He’s done everything for the players, by the players,” Thibodeaux said. 

The result was a 10-7-1 season, including a road playoff victory over the Vikings, a 13-4 division champ. The vast majority of fans would have signed up for 7-10, no questions asked. Instead, Daboll gave them this precious chance to upset the 14-3 Eagles and advance to the NFC Championship game. 

The Eagles are favored to win for good reason — they are the better football team by a lot. In recent years, especially in Philly, they have owned the Giants as much as the Maras and Tisches have owned them. The smart money says the Eagles will be hosting the 49ers in a real heavyweight fight next weekend at the Linc. 

At the same time, the Giants have a history of unlikely postseason runs. They are 6-0 against No. 1 seeds since the playoffs expanded in 1990, and the two championships won in the Tom Coughlin-Eli Manning era came out of the big blue. 

Brian Daboll laughs at Giants practice on Thursday.
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The 2007 team wasn’t supposed to beat Dallas or Green Bay on the road, never mind the 18-0 Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. The 2011 team was 7-7 on Christmas Eve, before ripping Rex Ryan’s Jets and never losing again. 

That doesn’t mean Daboll is about to become the first rookie Giants head coach to win two postseason games. But his players are clearly motivated to do special things for him, in large part because he understands that none of this is really about him. 

“If you remember [Bill] Parcells’ Hall of Fame speech,” Daboll said last week, “[the players] are dinged up, they’re sore, they go through a lot all the way from OTAs on. So it’s a players’ game. I just respect what they do. I appreciate what they do.” 

And to show that appreciation, Daboll gives his team its space before games big and small. Saturday night is a big one. He won’t say much beforehand to his Giants, who have a way of doing their talking on the field.

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Jalen Brunson wears Jalen Hurts jersey before Knicks’ loss

Knicks guard Jalen Brunson is one of the top current athletes on the New York scene, but he won’t be rooting for the New York Giants on Saturday night.

Brunson was seen wearing a jersey of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts before the Knicks’ ugly 116-105 loss to the Wizards on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.

The 26-year-old Brunson, a New Brunswick native, is a big Eagles fan from growing up in southern New Jersey. Brunson has other Philadelphia ties when he was a key member of Villanova’s 2018 national championship team.

“I’m sure Twitter is probably going crazy,” said Brunson, who scored a game-high 32 points in the loss. “It is what it is.”

On Monday, Obi Toppin, a New Yorker, was predicting a Giants win, telling every reporter that walked into the locker room they would “whoop the Eagles ass.”

Brunson, on the other hand, has so far declined to offer a prediction on the showdown.

The visiting Giants are a 7.5-point underdog in Saturday’s NFC divisional clash which begins at 8:15 p.m. on Fox.

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NFL video reveals Giants’ Dexter Lawrence trash talk vs. Vikings

Dexter Lawrence does more than dominate opponents on the field. He enjoys some old-fashioned trash talk, too.

The Giants’ Pro Bowl nose tackle was mic’d up during Sunday’s wild-card win over the Vikings, and an NFL Films video shows the 25-year-old jawing at Minnesota center Garrett Bradbury.

“Five Six, you gonna take me out? You gonna take me out? You give me more hugs than my girlfriend give me,” Lawrence tells Bradbury in the clip. “Come on, man.”

Lawrence later says, “I know it’s hard. You signed up for this.”

The beginning of the video shows Lawrence attributing some of his success to Pilates.

“That Pilates be getting me right Leonard,” he tells fellow defensive lineman Leonard Williams.

“For real?” Williams replied. “A lot more flexible.”

Giants defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence walks off the field after a win over the Vikings on Jan. 15, 2023.

Giants defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence (97) hits Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) on Jan. 15, 2023.


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NFL Films also captured rookie linebacker Kayvon Thibodeaux praising Lawrence on the sideline.

“You’re the greatest player I’ve ever played with,” Thibodeaux tells Lawrence, who had six total tackles, including one for a loss, and four quarterback hits in the win over the Vikings.

Lawrence, a second-team All Pro, set career-highs across the board during the 2022 regular season with 68 tackles, 28 quarterback hits, 7.5 sacks, seven tackles for a loss and two forced fumbles.

Giants defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence speaks to reporters after practice on Jan. 17, 2023.

Giants defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence speaks to reporters after practice on Jan. 17, 2023.


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The former first-round pick will be part of one of the most fascinating matchups in Saturday’s Giants-Eagles Divisional Round duel when he lines up across Philadelphia center Jason Kelce, a six-time Pro Bowler and five-time All Pro.

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