rln Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 See link to Giant's official site below: http://www.giants.com/news/eisen/story.asp?story_id=7648 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Great to see. He's already made it 1000 times further than most on this page predicted. I was watching Bengals camp on NFL TV this past weekend. We officially have a "Matt Cherry Sighting." Bengals look pretty stacked at WR, so Matt has his work cut out for him to make the squad. Say what you will about Owens...but guys like Chase and Matt embodied all the positive things a Zips supporter could ask from an Akron student athlete. Best of luck to both of them !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Say what you will about Owens... If you insist..... Owens was a high school coach who surrounded himself with mostly high school coaches. If he was any good, he wouldn't be at Ashland now. Think about our past two coaches. Faust was put out of coaching after Akron and Owens is at Ashland. 18 years of...... ..........sorry guys, I just couldn't hold it back any longer. Getting back to Blackburn....... After watching the game Saturday night, I have to admit that Blackburn did look really good. Much better than I thought he would. Still a long way to go though, but a positive sign is that the team ran that article on their web page. There is usually more than meets the eye with team web pages. I say it's better than even money now that he makes the team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Additional Blackburn column: Webster impresses coaches in first Giants game By MARK JOHNSON The Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. - Rookie free agent Chase Blackburn had Cleveland quarterback Charlie Frye on the run. Scrambling out of the pocket in Saturday's preseason game, Frye made it to the sideline and got a pass off just before his former Akron teammate could lay a hand on him. "I had called him the night before the game and told him I was going to try and get a hit on him," Blackburn recalled. "I had never got to hit him (in college), he always wore that red jersey in practice. So he was saying, `I won,' because I didn't get a hit on him. We had a laugh about that." What people aren't laughing about anymore are Blackburn's growing chances of making the Giants roster. The 6-3, 247-pound linebacker was initially given little chance of making the team. In fact, his picture isn't even in the Giants media guide. But Blackburn has won the respect of his teammates and has impressed coach Tom Coughlin, who singled him out for doing "a pretty darn good job," against the Browns, recording five tackles, three solo. The Giants could use the help at linebacker. Barrett Green is the Giants' only projected returning starter who is recovering from a serious injury, and his presence in the lineup along with fellow linebackers Carlos Emmons and Antonio Pierce is considered crucial to the Giants improving a rush defense that allowed opponents to gain an average of 134.8 yards per game last season, fifth-worst in the NFL. Click Here! Pierce was acquired in the offseason from Washington where he led the team in tackles last season. While the coach's praise has given the 22-year-old Blackburn more sureness, he isn't taking anything for granted. "It's a confidence booster for me, but I know that as a free agent it's a week-to-week and day-to-day thing," Blackburn said. "I have to prove something every day to make it. That's the only way I can think about it." While Saturday's 17-14 loss to Cleveland was a memorable experience, the setting wasn't all that unfamiliar for Blackburn. Blackburn grew up in Marysville, Ohio, about two hours from Cleveland. He's a lifetime Browns fan and even used to join fellow fanatics in the rowdy section. "Growing up and watching the Browns all my life, then getting back to play there, was awesome," the 22-year-old Blackburn said. "It was an incredible experience." "I used to be in the Dawg Pound (for Browns games), and I looked over there before the game and I saw everybody yelling for me. It was pretty interesting." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipsrifle Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 What is really pathetic is that it took the New York Giants to post an article about two recent UA grads going against each other in a pre-season game. Nobody in NY even knows where Akron is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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