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Shockey Workin hard?; he said so himself..
Topic Started: Apr 26 2005, 12:07 PM (77 Views)
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April 26, 2005 -- SOUTH BEACH, Fla. - For Jeremy Shockey, skipping the Giants' offseason workout to do his training here is not about bucking the authority of Tom Coughlin or the team. It is about drinking from the Fountain of Youth, and chugging the potion that helped turn him into the rampaging Big Blue Blond Bad Boy who electrocuted defenders in his path and electrified Giants Stadium as the most hyped Oklahoma rookie since Mickey Mantle.
Somewhere along the way, Shockey lost his swagger, and here, in the 90 degree heat, with fellow pros and hungry collegiate players from his University of Miami alma mater, he ignores pleas from Coughlin and Eli Manning to come north for the sake of team unity and join his teammates in the voluntary offseason program and tortures his aching body in a maniacal obsession to be The Best Damn Sports Show period.

"It's not about me causing controversy," Shockey says. "I love the organization; I want to retire a Giant. I have a lot to prove to myself. I want to be the player I was my first year, not just physically, but mentally as well.

"I'm not trying to separate myself from the players. What people don't understand is I'm going the extra mile. You show me another player that runs as much and lifts as much as I do in the NFL.

"I know in my heart I'm doing the right thing. I'm preparing myself like I did my first year. For me to get the swagger back, I had to at least try it."

Coughlin has reached out several times to Shockey.

"Obviously he wanted me to come up there to build team unity," Shockey said. "I understand his point ... But it's voluntary. I can't just do what I've been doing for the past two years. It wasn't working.



"I'm trying to help myself; in the overall picture, it's going to help the team. I think he knows in his heart I'm doing the right thing to help the team."

Except Coughlin wants everyone marching to the same Big Blue drum.

"Some people beat to a different drum and want to get pushed as hard as possible," Shockey says. "I'm that kind of person. I'm not the kind of person they need to keep a finger on and kinda watch and make sure they work out 80 or 90 percent of the time. I work out 100 percent 100 percent of the time."

He didn't appreciate Manning publicly calling for him to show. Shockey, "disappointed" Manning had gone public, called the quarterback immediately. Manning had tried to call; Shockey's number was changed temporarily, and he didn't get the messages in time. The two have since cleared the air.

"I understand his point; he wants to win as bad as I do," Shockey said.

"I want to have a good relationship with Eli; he has, and always will be, my friend, and we're gonna win a lot of games together. The last thing I want to do is offend him or the Giants."

Shockey will be at Giants Stadium next week to catch passes from Manning, and is certain that when the coach and quarterback see him, they will better understand. Because look at him now. He is 254 chiseled pound s, with eight percent body fat, thanks to a Spartan workout regimen that has to be seen to be believed and a strict diet high on protein.

"I'm tak ing care of business," he says.

"I'm not trying to be an average tight end in this league," Shockey says. "I'm not going to be average in any thing I do in life."

His pride was wounded in 2004. He had no preseason (broken foot, ham string) and no fire.

"I dropped too many balls," Shockey says. "I got stopped on the 1-yard line three times. I never got stopped on the 1-yard line!

"I'm going to try to get the energy back in the stadium. Play fear less like I did my first year. I'm gonna get the dog back in me ... let me correct myself ... the dog IS back!"

Shockey says he wants to avoid a repeat of last season (61 receptions, 666 yards, 6 TDs).

"I didn't have that sixth gear last year," Shockey says. "I didn't feel the power. I didn't have that dog in me. I didn't have the look in my eye that I wanted it worse than anybody else did.

"I wake up every morn ing looking in the mir ror," Shockey says, "knowing I could have helped the team a hell of a lot more than I did last year.

"The disap pointment," he says, "I never want to feel that way again."

Former Hurricanes Santana Moss, Edgerrin in James, Willis McGahee, Bubba Franks, Reggie Wayne and William Joseph, his Giant teammate, have been working out with him. So has new teammate Plaxico Burress. Shockey starts his Gladiator program at 10:30 a.m.

"I'm not bleeping partying; I'm not just sitting around in the bleeping sun," Shockey says.

Hardly. Four times a week, inside a sandpit that is 60 yards long, Shockey runs sprints back and forth eight times, with a 30-second rest in between. There are no sandpits in Jersey.

"You almost want to die," Shockey says. "Your heart feels like it's going to beat out of your chest."

When that part of the workout mercifully ends, he jogs back 200 yards on quivering legs to the weight room, where he wills his way through 14 or 15 different exercises.

"I'm about puking at that point," Shockey says.
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I saw this earlier and, while I'm very aware that talk is cheap, I did like both what he had to say and the writer's description of his workout and the shape he is in. He KNOWS that last year wasn't acceptable. Rightlly or wrongly, he feels that participating in the offseason workouts the last couple of years haven't worked for him. Considering he lost almost half the '03 season due to injury and his problems last year, he may not be wrong. Team unity is a wonderful thing but if this gets him to produce, not to mention getting Joseph and Burress to step up their games, then it sounds worth it to me.
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Exactly.

Noone knows his body like he does. People like to complain about how he isn't playing like he did his first year, but, when he goes to try to get that back they complain anyway.

Damned if you do; damned if you don't.
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BlueHeart
Apr 26 2005, 10:53 PM
Exactly.

Noone knows his body like he does. People like to complain about how he isn't playing like he did his first year, but, when he goes to try to get that back they complain anyway.

Damned if you do; damned if you don't.

Amen to that. I may be wrong, but Shockey also never proclaimed himself the greatest TE since Ditka, yet alot of critics act as if he did.
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He's been doing things his way since we drafted him. How's that workin' out for him so far?
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I don't remember him working out in Miami instead of Jersey before this year.

10G- Damn straight.

Oh and...Love ya, but, pick another crayon. :lol:

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27Hampton
Apr 27 2005, 09:25 AM
He's been doing things his way since we drafted him. How's that workin' out for him so far?

To the best of my knowledge he has attended the Giants offseason program the last two years. This is backed up by what he says in the article.
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Oh......well........then.........I know you are, what am I? :P
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My apologies Blue. Didn't mean to step on your color LOL. Won't happen again.

Hamp: No offense inteded.
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:lol:

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None taken 10. When I'm wrong, I'm wrong. It happens once or twice per year. :lol:
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That's a few dozen less than me so you are ahead of thegame.
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shockey will be fine. so relax everybody :yes:
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indeed.
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