Jacobs figures he'll have to leave Giants

Brandon Jacobs said in a magazine interview that he doesn't foresee playing for the Giants once his contract runs out. The big assumption there is that he'll still be around to see his deal (which has this and next year remaining on it) to its conclusion.

Jacobs took a pay cut to come back this season, in which he is due $4.4 million in base salary. With a $500,000 roster bonus due in March, the 29-year-old running back probably is right to think his time with the team is drawing to a close, but wrong if he thinks it will be his decision.

That didn't stop him from telling Men's Fitness that neither he nor Ahmad Bradshaw is getting enough carries this season and that their roles in the offense are "confusing."

"I just can't wait to get a true opportunity to get out there and show myself again," he said in the magazine. "Next year, hopefully. This is a business and you have to look at it that way. I just want to get out there and show myself. It's going to have to be for another team, but it is what it is. It comes with the territory."

Jacobs missed the last two games with a left knee injury. In the four games before that, he averaged 9.5 carries per game. Last season, his first as a backup to Bradshaw, he averaged about 9.2 carries.

"Being an athlete, I want to go out and perform and be able to help my team," Jacobs said Thursday. "It's really aggravating. It's really frustrating. What can I do? No one's getting the ball. There are teams all around the league not really running the ball well, and their backs aren't really getting the carries they normally get."

Jacobs was in a jovial mood for a player who is unhappy. He wore a Halloween mask and joked with reporters about wearing it for Sunday's game. He said his knee feels strong and that he expects to play against the Dolphins. That might help assuage some of his frustrations.

"I'm sure he'll have a lot more fun being on the field with us this week," Bradshaw said. "Being running backs, we want the ball. I think that's just where it's coming from."

Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride did not seem flustered by Jacobs' dissatisfaction.

"It'll be the first time ever when I hear that they don't want the ball more," Gilbride said. "That will be a first, whether it's a running back or a receiver or anybody else. I don't even worry about that."

Jacobs said he does not regret converting some base salary for this season into incentives, even though his lack of playing time puts those incentives further from his reach.

"I can't do anything about it," Jacobs said Thursday of his lack of carries. "I want to be happy. That's where I want to start at. I want to be happy and be able to finish my career in the right way."

Will the right way be the Giants' way?

"That all depends on how this year ends," he said. "That's going to make that decision clear or not clear."