Rolle is late, Tuck is mum and Collins is the Best Man in this week's Bottom Five
Another week, another game, another list. Yes, it’s time for us to unveil the Bottom Five Things to Look For in Sunday’s game between the Titans and the Giants.
Just to set the grounds rules: There are plenty of places where you can go and read about the top five things to watch for, the top matchups, the top keys to victory. Basically a quasi-educated fan can put that together on their own. But here we like to do things differently, so we list the Bottom Five.
And away we go:
5. Eli Manning will get chewed out by Tom Coughlin for throwing a pass to heavy-handed fullback Madison Hedgecock. Manning will explain that it was an accident, that he meant to fling the ball into the bench area but his finger stuck to it and the ball sailed at Hedgecock. He’ll be fined $10,000 and security will spend several minutes trying to pry the ball away from Hedgecock.
4. Antrel Rolle plans to arrive at New Meadowlands Stadium at 11 a.m. for a 1 o’clock game. He winds up missing the first quarter while stuck in pregame traffic.
3. Instead of a fiery pregame speech to the team, Justin Tuck decides to try a new approach to his captaincy and mimes his message. “It’s ‘Leading by Charades,’” Tuck later explains. Then he pretends he is trapped in an invisible box. When a reporter suggests that maybe Tuck isn’t cut out to be an emotional leader, the defensive end simply points to his nose.
2. Brandon Jacobs apologizes for being in such a bad mood since the summer and says that it was because he went to see the psychological thriller “Inception” and became very confused. “I just wanted somebody to explain it to me,” he says. After a meeting with Tom Coughlin in which the coach lays out the plot of layered dreams and multiple levels of subconscious, Jacobs emerges with a better attitude and a weight lifted off his shoulders.
1. In a quiet ceremony in the tunnel outside the Titans locker room during the second quarter, Neil Best “retires” Kerry Collins’ number. Best vows he will never again recognize a Giants player who is issued the No. 5 jersey.
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