'Looking Like Poop!' Giants Legend Goes on Viral Rant

On ESPN Radio, Giants legend Amani Toomer sounded off on the state of affairs in a brutal rant. Reacting to Michael Strahan waving a Philadelphia Eagles flag in support of running back Saquon Barkley, Toomer ripped New York.

“That’s a shot across the bow,” Toomer began. “Because you know what? When we played, if we didn’t perform, we’d be out, right? So now when players – I’m not just gonna be your fan because I played there. You gotta prove something to us!”

While Eli Manning and Victor Cruz have supported both Barkley and the Giants as they watched their rival win the Super Bowl, others have directed more energy toward criticizing the organization – justifiably so.

“We are Giants, through and through,” Toomer continued. “But you can’t just say, ‘Oh, you’re a Giant, you just shut up and sit in the corner.’ No, we want results. We want to be proud of the organization that we shed blood, sweat, and tears (for). So we’re not going to wave the pom-poms if we don’t feel like it’s a product worth waving the pom-poms for.

“When is the last time that we can sit back and be like, ‘Yeah, we’re Giants fans,’ and say it with our chests out. Instead of saying it, and then kicking some dirt, and then giving some excuse, and then showing our rabbit’s foot – we might be, and this should’a, could’a, would’a, maybe – we are tired of it.”

Only three teams had a lesser point differential than New York’s -142. No team threw fewer touchdowns, and it was hard to find a team that had a more embarrassing season.

That, of course, was headlined by Barkley. After leaving in free agency, a Schoen-led decision, Barkley ran for 2,005 yards en route to the Super Bowl. In his return to MetLife Stadium he ran for 176 yards and a score. At every step, New York was outright embarrassed by Philadelphia’s success, stumbling over itself as quarterback drama, hot seats, and ugly losses mounted.

“I don’t know who’s listening or whatever but if we were playing and we were performing like our team is performing now, out there on the field, looking like poop, we’d be off the team,” Toomer said. “That’s why we’re holding them accountable like they held us accountable for 13 of my years and for 16 or 15 of Strahan’s years. So don’t be mad at that.”

For Toomer – a Super Bowl champion and a member of the team’s Ring of Honor – this is a matter of accountability. The standard has fallen, and the current regime is sticking around more for the sake of continuity than the proof of concept they’ve put forth.

The Giants seem as far as ever from the kind of meaningful football Toomer and his teammates had grown used to.

“Don’t let the anger fall away from where it should be. Which it should be with what we’re doing as the Giants and how we’re not being competitive. That’s where the anger should be.”