Quinn says the NFL does not have an epidemic of Alosi's

Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. Sometimes you’re Sal Alosi, sometimes you’re Tom Quinn.

The Giants’ special teams coordinator has plenty to be thinking about this week because his unit was pretty terrible against the Vikings on Monday night. But what we all wanted to ask him about was the situation with the Jets and Alosi, the strength and conditioning coach who stuck out his leg to trip a Dolphins gunner during a punt on Sunday.

“Sidelines are a busy, busy place,” Quinn said. “I’ve gotten hit once by one of our own guys. Domenik Hixon in 2007, he released and I’m watching the punt go and all of a sudden he slammed right into my back. There are a lot of people on the sidelines. I counted the other day and I think we had 40 people that weren’t in uniform that were there – the coaches or trainers or whoever else. There is a lot of collateral on the sidelines and those guys do run into people at times.”

Quinn said he doesn’t really talk to his gunners about situations like running into walls that the Jets supposedly set up. “The tough thing is that the rule is that you can’t keep running down the sideline,” he said. “You have to get back in and as you make an attempt you’ve got to make sure that you’re in more than the other people as you do it.”

Quinn said he doesn’t think the Jets’ interference with the Dolphins gunner is a league-wide “epidemic,” as the question was posed to him.

“It also depends on where the ball is being kicked,” he said. “With punts there are only a few instances where it would come into play.”

Alosi found one. And so did Quinn when he was flattened by Hixon.

“My neck still hurts,” he said. “Those guys are coming fast. It’s dangerous."