"After about an hour of discussing my current contract...[Giants' GM Jerry Reese] told me that two years from the start of the 2008 league year, if I was currently playing at a high level, we'd either renegotiate my current contract so that it would be equal to that of the top five defensive ends playing or I would be traded to a team that would do that. Before leaving the meeting, I asked Mr. Reese twice if he was absolutely sure that would be the case. He then told me that he was an honest and church-going man and that he would not lie, which I believed to be the case."
-Osi Umenyiora, NY Giants' DE
"Overrated n soft 3rd best d-line on his team honestly"
-Lesean McCoy, Philadelphia Eagles' RB, in response to Umenyiora's quote
Well nothing to see here, folks. Ho hum, just Osi griping about his contract for the million-bajillionth time and then getting his asshole shredded by a division rival on twitter. The only thing worse than that would be letting a division rival come back from being down 24 points in your building in less than eight minutes, but that could never happen. Let's be fair though, Osi had 11.5 sacks and 10, yes TEN forced fumbles this past year. Those are Dwight Freeney type numbers. Now the Football Ranter is not suggesting Osi is as good as Freeney. He's not. But defensive ends who put up those kind of numbers make fucking bank in the NFL and Osi's contract is definitely below market value. However, Osi spent all of the '08 season on IR, then spent all of '09 gargling camel semen as the Giants employed the famous "bend over, spread cheeks" defense. Not exactly the track record you look for when someone asks for a 70 or 80 million dollar contract. In essence, both of the above quotes stink.
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