Brandon Jacobs: I don't take anything back I said
New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs reacts before an NFL football game between the Giants and the St. Louis Rams. (Sept. 19, 2011) Credit: AP
Brandon Jacobs said he won't take back any of his comments about Giants fans and their booing, making it all the more likely that the fans will continue to vocalize their displeasure.
"When you come out and you get booed like they do us, we're only out there for ourselves," Jacobs said Wednesday morning in an interview on WFAN. "We go out there and we play hard, we do whatever we have to do, and it's up to them whether or not they want to boo. And that's what they do. So that's what we have cheering for us."
"Giants fans are going to be Giants fans," he said later in the interview. "They're great when you're up and . . . they kick you when you're down."
Jacobs, who ran 12 times for just 21 yards in Sunday's loss to the Eagles, groused about playing time but since taking over for an injured Ahmad Bradshaw three games ago he has run for 148 yards on 48 carries.
After the Dolphins game, when fans booed him, he said the only thing he cared about was his family and a fast car he was having delivered later that week. After Sunday's loss, he said that booing is "the best thing they do here."
In Wednesday's interview, Jacobs said that playing at home feels like a road game and the team feels like "we're out there by ourselves." He also suggested that the dissatisfaction does indeed affect the team.
"We already have trouble overcoming adversity," he said. "For them to add more to the pot and stir it up that way, it makes it even harder for us to do something . . . The things that we're going through this year, as far as playing at home, that negativity, it's hard to bring us up through that. We don't want to hear things like that when we're playing at home in games we still have a chance to win. That's really hard."
Jacobs said he is misunderstood by most, but when it comes to the fans and their booing he was very clear. " . . . We need them to lift us up, not take us down," he said.
Notes & quotes: CB Will Blackmon, who played five games for the Giants last year, was signed to replace CB Michael Coe (shoulder), who will have surgery and was placed on injured reserve.
