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Chris Snee is not a baby like shockey, who should be traded or released. Plaxico will get his contract. Brandon Jacobs is a physical specimen and a good player, but when you have a 3 headed monster at the RB position it makes more sense to save cap room for other more depleted positions.

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the giants talked to jacobs already, they told him that they wont sign him to a big deal until he can prove to them that he can stay healthy for a whole season and then they will give him a huge deal

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Snee is an absolute beast on a very effective O-Line, not to mention that his contract is up at the end of the year. Thats why he got paid first.

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People are right, this is the slowest time of the year for the NFL. Come on MDS, I'm sure you've been around sports for too long for you write a piece like this. Look at the guys you mention,
Brandon Jacobs: as the guy mentions above, Jacobs has been very productive, but also very injury-prone. And with two other efficient runners in Bradshaw and Ward occupying the same position.
Jeremy Shockey: He's a knucklehaaaad - Charles Barkley You won a Super Bowl without him. You've been entertaining trade offers for this disgruntled flamboyant punk. Why the hell would you want to give him a new contract?
Plaxico Burress: Most deserving of a new contract, but when your going to sit out practice and demand f new contract, your probably going to be deleted from the boss's chrismas card list.
Osi Umenyiora: Osi Umenyiora is the exception, he has said all the right things and you can count on him being the next person in line for a new contract.
And let's get this straight, Snee isn't some scrub lineman that happens to be the son-in-law of the coach. If I'm not mistaken, I don't believe Snee has missed a game to injury since he's been a starter for the Giants. Snee is the best offensive lineman the Giants have and the O-line is the position the Giants don't have a lot of depth at. Snee has showed up for all workouts and hasn't been a distraction like some of these other Giants' players have been. I don't think this will be a big deal, these athletes are professionals and understand that Snee deserved a new deal.

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one down four to go.........the important puzzle...was just signed good for the Giants.....take care of Osi and Plaxico Now!!!!

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Ed in #4...You are dead on. Snee is worth every nickel they give him.

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you know, michael you're a total doorknob. there are absolutely zero similarities in the cases you compared. in case you never paid any attention, i'd be happy to enlighten you to the fact that it's very customary for teams to try to sign players to long term deals when they're in the last year of a contract. furthermore, when you know before the season that you're gonna want to resign the player, team tend to try to get it done before the season so as not to distract the player from football. the benefits are obvious: #1 is the idea of exclusivity; the main leverage players get is on the open market with mediocre teams falling over themselves to overpay them (i.e. javon walker and gibril wilson) #2 another obvious reason is because every year it seems, the price to sign free agents goes up. so if a team is certain they will want to resign a player, they would rather give him a deal in this market rather than next years' market. It is however NOT customary to renegotiate with players that are in the middle (or in osi's case, after the second year)of a long term contract that was signed at market value at the time. your article would lead me to believe you're either a fool or you're just trying to stir things up, which in that case why don't you make it a race thing (diehl and snee got new contracts, plax and osi don't)
but just to address your point, nobody in the nfl gets a raise. you're fooling yourself if you think otherwise. it's basically a binding contract with each party trying to find some leverage with the other. nobody ever argued that guys are getting what their value is. the value of a player today is based on the fact that you only have a certain amount of money (under the cap) to allocate to a certain amount of players each year, and how those players complete their team. it may be worth it for the raiders to pay GW and JW all that money if they think they tie their room together. but noone will ever tell you that GW is worth his salary compared to players at his talent level.

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Man...Dick Stein
You hit it right on the nose. Michael...why do you make that last remark about the family? You are a total no. 1 fkn doorknob. Do I have to repeat how good Snee is? I hope not. Do not compare where any of us work. Snee plays his guts out and its the Giant organization that rewarded him for it....Coughlin didn't write him the check you dumb ass. Mara and Reese did. God , who lets you idiots lose to write this stuff???

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