Opening Day notes: Coughlin raves about Olivea

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It all happens fast and furiously at training camp, so please try to keep up. Here are a few more tidbits from Opening Day: • Tom Coughlin seemed excited about newly signed Shane Olivea, the former Chargers RT who recently had a four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s drug policy overturned by the league. “We have been kind of researching this for quite a while,” Coughlin said. “We worked him out the other day, he is in outstanding shape, and he is very hungry, very anxious to ... [link]

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TC: 'Team over self'
Published 7/24/2008 by ETVal at Big Blue View
... be able to maintain that attitude. It will be one of the things to watch for as the season unfolds. Here is the full audio clip of Coughlin's press conference. Giants assistant coaches also met with the media Wednesday, and you can find audio clips of their press conferences here. If you want to read the transcripts of all the press conferences, do that here. There were a couple of good pieces of information in Ralph Vacchiano's opening day notes. Among them: David Tyree is likely headed ...

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