SHOCKEY SPEAKS

The "I want to be traded" playbook has developed a new wrinkle. If a players asks to be traded and isn't traded, then he acts like he never made the request. The latest example? Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey, who clearly wanted (wants) out of New York and who wasn't traded because the Giants and the Saints couldn't agree on terms. "Everybody said that I agreed to get traded and that I would welcome a trade or that I'm unhappy," Shockey said, according to the New York Post. "But you can't find one article that had my direct quote, except from an anonymous source or from this person or from that person, OK?" So the absence of a direct quote from Shockey means it wasn't true? If anything, Shockey's comments about the Giants strongly imply that there's a problem between the two parties, and that the Giants were yapping about it to the media even though Shockey chose not to do so. "Unlike the Giants, I...