8/11 NY Giants Training Camp Quotes from Head Coach Tom Coughlin

The New York Giants are at about the midway point of 2010 training camp. Head coach Tom Coughlin is pleased with his team, thus far, but he's also ready for games to start.

"We're going to have to play," Coughlin said on Wednesday after the Giants' first practice of the day. "Obviously there's going to be some corrections and you're going to play people X amount of time and all of that business. Then you have to try and regroup, it's a very short week to decide where you're going as far as your ability to improve in that second week. We're on schedule, but any time you have the guys out of practice, it's not the same. At least when you know going in that a guy works one-a-day, and he stays focused on the practice he's not in, he gets a mental rep if he's in all the meetings and all that stuff. So when a guy is not practicing, you would hope they pay the kind of attention necessary. It's an unplanned event and football is a game of mid-stream adjusts, that's the term we use. We're constantly doing that."

The Giants take on the New York Jets this coming Monday night in the first 2010 preseason game for both teams. While the game is an exhibition, Coughlin is making sure his roster is ready for what many are calling the best current football team in New York. "We need to bridge from that first week to the end of this week with the improvement of the fundamentals and our schemes, and all the things we throw at them," Coughlin remarked. "Then, we'll try to come down with some type of a plan so that everyone can then study what's going to be in because right now everything's in. And then, let them play."

This doesn't mean Coughlin is willing to sacrifice for Monday's Jets-Giants non-rivalry showdown. "I want our guys to want to win, but you're not going to sacrifice the ability to evaluate personnel for that because that's what preseason is," Coughlin explained.

As Coughlin said, nobody will really get a good look at the 2010 New York Giants this coming Monday due to all of the injuries the team is going through. The hope is that a player unknown by many fans, a la Domenik Hixon from a few years back, will emerge as a bright spot in what has thus been a gloomy August for Big Blue.

All quotes via New York Giants Communications Office

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