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Santonio Holmes to NY Media: ‘Be there to support us, not try to break us down’

Found July 19, 2012 on Larry Brown Sports: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Santonio Holmes
TEAMS: New York Jets
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Santonio Holmes is entering his third season with the Jets, but apparently he is still somewhat unfamiliar with the way things work in New York. The media are not your friend. Writers and reporters may try to build close relationships with the players so they can get quotes for their stories and successfully do their jobs, but they are just as happy with a locker room that is in shambles as their are with a team who is one win away from the Super Bowl. Both make for great reading. However, Holmes decided to lecture the media on Wednesday about being a part of the team. “If you guys want to be, and this is for the New York media, if you guys want to be a part of our team and want to feel so important, be there to support us, not to try to break us down,” he said during a podcast interview with NFL.com’s Dave Dameshek. “Because (there’s) not one day that we all step in that locker room and we try to break each other down, that we talk bad about the way that person played because it af...
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