Giants reshaped defense gets tested during practices

Giants receiver Victor Cruz did team drills against the Cincinnati Bengals on Wednesday.

That sordid affair left a bitter taste in Coughlin’s mouth for a number of years until now as Coughlin’s Giants are about to embark on a two-day joint practice session with the Bengals, their 2015 preseason opening opponent, beginning on Tuesday.

The New York Giants are heading into their first preseason game of the summer, as they will travel to Paul Brown Stadium to take on the Cincinnati Bengals. He made enough of an impression upon the coaching staff in his first training camp that the Bengals signed him to their practice squad. “A.J. has been doing this for four years”.

He looked sharp making a cut on an out route against Bengals corner Darqueze Dennard, but Eli Manning wound up being flushed from the pocket and threw the ball in the other direction. “I’m looking for him to have not a good season, but a great season”. “So, I’m kind of going in whatever it is, is whatever it is”.

The Bengals first joint practice with the Giants got off to a shaky start that has been described by many as embarrassing.

“I brought him by James’ house and kind of lifted up Jimmy a little bit and put a smile on his face”, Hill said, adding that Wright just had surgery on his injured knee that landed him on season-ending injured reserve last month.

“I don’t get too caught up in worrying about how many balls I’m catching or all those different things you can’t control”.

Cruz will not play in Friday night’s preseason opener and he’s not at all concerned about that. The Washington Redskins and Houston Texans had to practice separately after a few scraps broke out in their workouts this past weekend.

Giants coach Tom Coughlin and Bengals coach Marvin Lewis laid down the groundwork for the practices in the spring. That’s what makes it insane what he did in those games, he wasn’t healthy in any of them.

“All of us are very competitive”, Hill said. Cincinnati is a chippy group, which is why we’re going up against them. “There wasn’t any fights, no brawls or anything like that, so that was good”, Guenther said. And given that there aren’t locked-in starters, there’s a good chance we’ll see a continuous rotation with every safety on the roster throughout the game.

The Giants have gone through such a frequent conferences now alongside rehearse, and that’s likely just why Amukamara was at introduced along, while others, namely defend Geoff Schwartz, cornerback Chykie Brown, linebacker Jameel McClain and remaining handle Will Beatty weren t.

Cruz wants to practice, but he also understands the big picture.

“There is a 16-game season that we want to grab a hold of and be ready for”, he said. “My shoulder has never felt better than it has as long as I can remember.

“I’m just listening to the plays, going through the routes in my head, and what everybody has”, Cruz said. If they take it up to another level, then you just go with the flow. “If you can make some plays, you’re going to be a rock star up there”.