IS GETTING ITS DRAFT BOARD READY
Giants middle linebacker Antonio Pierce was not buying into the notion that this year's Eagles are just like last year's Giants -- a team that went on the road and won in the postseason and had to face the top seed in the second round. Not unless the Eagles win the Super Bowl.
After asking a reporter what the date was to emphasize his point, Pierce said, "I won’t know anything about any team until February 1st or 2nd. So you can’t call any team – you can’t be called the NY Giants of 2007, any other team can’t because that team won the Super Bowl."
Pierce added that this year's Giants team has something last year's version lacked.
"The psyche of the team this year is a group that understands what it takes to win the championship," he said. "We have 35 or 40 players that were on this team last year, coaching staff, front office, everybody. They know what it takes to win the championship. So what we have this year is experience. And that is what we are going to use this Sunday."
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The Giants had their entire team on the practice field for the first time since Oct. 3. Defensive end Justin Tuck (leg injury) and longsnapper Zak DeOssie (shoulder) were limited. Since the injury about three weeks ago, Tuck's practice time has been cut, but he has played most of each game.
Asked how much the injury affected Tuck, coach Tom Coughlin said, "That is just speculation. Everybody at this time of the year, after they have come through 16 games, everybody has something. But it has limited his practice time from time to time."
Les Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News since 2002. Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
Paul Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982. He has spent most of his 27 years at the paper covering the Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo came to the Daily News from the Fort Worth (Tx.) Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually wa s boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose two sports coats to blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley, a University of Oklahoma grad and very dangerous to be around following a Sooner loss, have been married 29 years and have raised 2 terrific daughters – Allison, 26, a lawyer and graduate of Boston University School of Law; and Amy, 23, who graduated from Clemson and works in marketing and sales for a professional baseball team.
