Welcome to the Morning Donut which is your customized sports page for your love of the New York Giants. Here are the top links about the Giants today. Training camp is here and the Giants embark on a brand new season. There is hope and anticipation in the air. There are nerves of rookies hoping to make the team and the dread of the veterans that wish they could skip ahead to the regular season. Here is what everybody is talking about.
Eli Manning stars as ‘Bad Comedian Eli Manning’ in new DirecTV commercial by Dan Salomone (Giants.com)
"In what has become a yearly tradition, the Giants’ two-time Super Bowl MVP just released his latest commercial for DIRECTV NFL Sunday Ticket that is sure to go viral like some of the quarterback’s past hits."
Harvard study predicts Giants will win NFC East by Dan Salomone (Giants.com)
"Now you’ll need a degree from the college to understand fully how HSAC’s Kurt Bullard crunched the numbers, but the bottom line is the Giants topped the NFC East in the three main categories of the feature: Approximate Value (AV), ELO Rating (a head-to-head calculation originally developed for chess players by the physicist Arpad Elo), and odds to make the playoffs."
Steve Tisch on JPP: It’s complicated, but we only want best for him by Josh Alper (Pro Football Talk, NBC Sports)
"There was a six-to-eight week timeline given for Pierre-Paul’s recovery from his surgeries, which won’t leave much time for him to get used to playing again before the start of a season that will go a lot better for the Giants if he’s able to be a factor up front on defense."
Eli Manning and Giants working toward contract extension: report by Ebenezer Samuel (NY Daily News)
"There’s reason to exercise patience, too, since there’s plenty of uncertainty around the team. The Giants have endured three straight playoff-less seasons, and if 2015 is another nightmare, it remains possible that owner John Mara will start rebuilding."
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