Did the Senator win the battle against the Pats?

[Jimke]

This is definitely true, but didn't you get the sense the team seemed a little, I don't know, lackluster? I agree with the original poster, this news coming out last weekend was a complete and total downer for me (Tomase is truly the devil, as far as I am concerned) and these players, after thinking this was all behind them, have to deal with it all over again 24 hours before the biggest game of their lives? Of course they all knew about it, and I really cannot help but feel it somehow someway affected each and every one of them.

I think it affects you and I but not the players. They probably didn't

even read Tomase's column. I think the players may have been over

confident and thought the Giants would roll over and accomodate them.

 

[Mayday Malone]

I believe that the players had an idea of what was out there, and felt the same way most of us did; "Let's get the season over with and then focus on this issue." Unfortunately for all of us, the Giants weren't given the memo.