Smith: Giants offer? What Giants offer?

Steve Smith said he's over his time with the Giants. He also said he never heard about a long-term contract offer early last season, before he suffered a knee injury that required microfracture surgery -- an offer that Giants co-owner John Mara said the team made that would have left Smith as one of the highest-paid wide receivers in the NFL.

"If they did, how come I didn't know about it?" Smith said Thursday night after the Eagles beat the Jets, 24-14, in the teams' final preseason game. "If that was the case, you don't think I would have signed it? I didn't know about it."

Smith also took issue with Tom Coughlin's statement after Smith spurned the Giants for the Eagles on Aug. 10. Coughlin said Smith still was four to six weeks away from being healthy enough to play. Smith was activated off the physically unable to perform list only five days after signing with Philadelphia and practiced for the first time last week.

"I didn't know what he was talking about," Smith said. "I had a good rapport with Dr. Warren [Giants orthopedist Russ Warren, who performed Smith's surgery], and he thought I would have been ready for the fourth preseason game if I was still there.

"I'm over it. It's part of the business of football when you get hurt. But it's great to be an Eagle."

Mara said on a radio show two weeks ago that the Giants made a "huge" offer to Smith's agent, Ben Dogra of CAA, early last season but that "his agent turned it down and wanted to wait and test the waters in free agency."

Once Smith was hurt, all bets were off. The Giants made an offer this summer, but Smith went with the one-year deal offered by the Eagles with $2 million guaranteed and a chance to team with DeSean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin at wideout.

"I don't think Mr. [Jerry] Reese [the Giants' general manager] contacted my agent the way Mr. [Howie] Rosenman [the Eagles' GM] did," Smith said.

Smith -- who holds the Giants' single-season reception record with 107, set in 2009 -- said he isn't 100 percent yet but still hopes to be active for the Eagles' season opener in St. Louis a week from Sunday. The Eagles host the Giants on Sept. 25, a game he definitely is thinking about.

"I'm circling Week 1," he said. "I hope they have a few packages for me to work into."