Canty predicts Giants will parade on Tuesday

INDIANAPOLIS -- Chris Canty isn't looking past the Super Bowl. But he thinks New Yorkers should keep their calendars cleared for early next week.

Canty, in a television interview with WNBC during Wednesday's's media availability, was asked to give a message to the Giants fans back home. He obliged, providing the latest layer of bravado and bluster that has filled the air in Super Bowl week.

"Get ready for a great game on Super Bowl Sunday," he said, looking into the camera, "and get ready for a parade on Tuesday."

This is a team that once sneered that "talk is cheap." Now it's like Facebook stock. The Giants have been taunting the Patriots since shortly after Lawrence Tynes' winning field goal sailed through the uprights in San Francisco, showing supreme confidence in their chances of winning Super Bowl XLVI and a complete disregard for anyone who questions or disagrees with their attitude.

Even when asked if his remarks might find their way to a Patriots bulletin board, Canty could not care less.

"Doesn't matter," Canty said. "Obviously, Tom Brady made a statement at their pep rally. Obviously, both teams are here to try to win a football game."

The Giants seem to be the only ones who are comfortable talking as if they know the result, though. Sure, Brady made a reference to a victory party at Gillette Stadium next week when addressing 25,000 or so fans at a bon voyage pep rally in New England. But he wiggled away from those comments later in the day. For the most part, it's been the Giants whose comments should come with a spoiler alert for giving away the ending.

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"I think we're going to win the game," linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka said with a smile when asked bluntly for his prediction. "I know what you're trying to do. But you don't come out here and say we're going to go out there and give it our best. I believe every guy in that locker room thinks we're going to win the game. If they didn't believe that, they shouldn't be in the locker room."

The Giants hit the practice field at the University of Indianapolis for the first time yesterday, finally putting aside the silliness of Super Bowl week and getting ready for the task at hand and making their predictions (but not guarantees!) come true.

"I know that I'm going to go in and run full speed, because I need it," Jason Pierre-Paul said before practice. "I feel like I've been off for like two weeks now without practice, and that's just not me. I feel like I'm home just relaxing. I know that I'm going to pick it up full speed, and when it is time to play, then I'm going to play."

Other Giants apparently felt the same. According to the pool report from practice, the Giants appeared "exuberant and loose."

Even Tom Coughlin noticed it. "They've been excited about getting back to work for the first time in a few days," he said.

All of the Giants participated in the practice, too, although linebacker Jacquian Williams (foot), receiver Hakeem Nicks (shoulder) and cornerback Corey Webster (hamstring) were limited. Coughlin said earlier in the day that running back Ahmad Bradshaw, who has a cracked bone in his right foot, would sit out. But Coughlin said Bradshaw wanted desperately to be a part of the team's first Super Bowl practice.

"I just hope he's OK tomorrow," Coughlin said.

Even if he's not, somebody else on the Giants undoubtedly will express the belief that they're going to win on Sunday. "Next man up" has been their motto for most of the season as they battled a string of injuries. Now it appears to be "next man up to the mic" as they take turns with bold proclamations.

"I don't get concerned about the big talk backfiring," Kiwanuka said. "I just don't like to overhype the situation too much. You can start feeling yourself too much and start expecting the words to get the job done. That never happens. You have to have a little humility in there, but you also have to be as confident as you should be."