Jul 20th 2008 10:32AM by Ryan Wilson (author feed)
Filed under: Giants, NFC EastIt only makes sense; the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl, and promptly assume the role New England made famous: claim no one takes you seriously despite your status as Super Bowl champions.

And with the 2008 training camps less than two weeks away, now seems like the perfect opportunity to fire up the “nobody respects us” sentiments. Particularly since most media outlets don’t have the team faring nearly as well this year. Nearly six months [after the Super Bowl], the Giants don’t seem to feel any richer, and they’ve yet to discover a wealth of national respect. They’ve already heard predictions that they won’t even win their division this season, and they’ve seen the power rankings that have them somewhere below the upper echelon of the league.

“I’m not surprised,” said running back Brandon Jacobs. “But if we haven’t shut up a lot of doubters yet, we can still shut them up next year.” I’ll admit, on the Rodney Harrison Disrespect Scale, this is about a 2, but as a general rule of thumb, nobody should pay attention to preseason predictions because they inevitably turn out to be embarrassingly wrong.

And to Jacobs’ credit, as far as he’s concerned, 2007 is over:Continue Reading