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Myers: Pay Burress, but trade is best Shock treatment
Myers: Pay Burress, but trade is best Shock treatment
One month before training camp and the Giants are a team in turmoil. The stars of this show are Jeremy Shockey and Plaxico Burress. Here's our solution: Trade Shockey. Pay Plaxico.
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Giants should pay Plaxico Burress, but trade Jeremy Shockey
Giant Football Blog — ... to the White House and a big party last week at Tiffany's to distribute their Super Bowl rings, a five-month celebration of one of the most unlikely championships in NFL history. Now they get the predictable and distasteful by-products of success: Distractions, dissension, controversy and me-first replacing team-first. One month before camp and they are a team in turmoil. The stars of this show are Jeremy Shockey and Plaxico Burress. Here's our solution: Trade Shockey. Pay Plaxico. Continue

Shock jocks
ESPN.com - NFL Nation Blog — ... Daily Hashmarks reader and New York Daily News columnist Gary Myers thinks the Giants should give Burress the new contract he wants and trade Shockey. He thinks the Giants should've taken the Saints' offer of a second-round draft choice for Shockey in April. Are the Saints still interested? I was told this morning that New Orleans still covets Shockey. ...

New York's shock jocks
ESPN.com - NFL Nation Blog — ... Daily Hashmarks reader and New York Daily News columnist Gary Myers thinks the Giants should give Burress the new contract he wants and trade Shockey. He thinks the Giants should've taken the Saints' offer of a second-round draft choice for Shockey in April. Are the Saints still interested? I was told this morning that New Orleans still covets Shockey. ...

Time to send Shockey packing
Big Blue View — ... Is a trade the only way out of this Jeremy Shockey mess? Shockey apparently had a shouting match with GM Jerry Reese during mini-camp, and now coach Tom Coughlin is referring to him simply as "an issue." Ralph Vacchiano said yesterday in his Blue Screen blog that "a trade might not be such a bad idea." That's a stance that was advocated earlier in the week by Daily News columnist Gary Myers. The Giants need the firepower Shockey brings, but that is canceled out by the problems he's capable of causing. They ...

Saints News: 6.15.08
Canal Street Chronicles — ... by Shockey, sportswriters and fans alike. After the shouting match, it may well have reached the point where Reese will entertain offers. The Saints tried to make a deal around draft time, while the Buccaneers also may have an interest. The Giants won the Super Bowl as a team. They don't need Shockey tearing that down. - Big Blue View Here's our solution: Trade Shockey. Pay Plaxico. - NY Daily News This sure looks like Shockey is trying to stir ...

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