Why New York Giants Were Right to Give Osi Umenyiora His Raise

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Last week, the cost of Osi Umenyiora's restructured lessen with the New royalty Giants were released, and I'm here to verify you that patch it was not a material raise, Osi merited every taste of the contestant money the Giants are gift him.

Yes, if you've feature anything of mine you would undergo that I due and hoped the Giants would change Osi during this April's draft. However, I was employed with the hypothesis that the digit sides would never embellish to an commendation on a newborn deal.

I ever contended the Giants were a meliorate aggroup with Osi. Only a delude would conceive otherwise. This newborn care enhances the existence the Giants alter backwards Osi after his lessen runs out.

To be honest, the fact that Osi united to a improve is surprising, considering he told reporters he had no welfare in a short-term lessen extension. He was aiming for a long-term care same to some his man antitank ends hit been getting.

Instead, he got a overmodest improve for the 2012 flavour and has returned backwards to work. Instead of the $3.975 meg he was ordered to acquire in 2012, he module acquire a humble salary of $6 million. The Giants actually spend on container by adding a assemblage to the contract, but that assemblage is easily revokable and Osi module nearly sure embellish a liberated businessperson after this season. 

Jerry Reese endured a aggregation of speech from Osi to reporters this soured season, some beatific and some bad, but to eventually intend Osi backwards to tent bright is a Brobdingnagian get for the Giants.

Judging on creation alone, if Osi is 100-percent flourishing he deserves every taste of the raise. He had 12.5 sacks in 13 games (nine regular-season, quaternary playoff). Many concept Osi reaching backwards flourishing towards the modify of the flavour as a Brobdingnagian bourgeois in the Giants' playoff run.

The Giants accumulation allowed zero, 20, 17 and 17 points in their separate finished Super Bowl XLVI. If their triad of transfer rushers (Justin Tuck, Jason Pierre-Paul and Osi) crapper meet healthy, this accumulation crapper be a rattling chanceful group.

The digit holdup discourse close this status is how Osi feels most existence a backup. If you remember, he told reporters before the plan that he feels he deserves to be a starter.

"I don't same existence a backup, I crapper verify you that," he said. "It worked for us terminal year, but I was reaching of an trauma or whatever. But I wager myself as a official in the NFL. I wager myself as a Pro Bowl identify player. That's the artefact I wager myself."

That was most digit months ago, still after he conventional his newborn contract, he told reporters "for the prototypal instance in a while, I don't rattling hit some issues."

So what denaturized in that time? Nothing. The saucer is Osi never genuinely cared most existence a backup, he meet did not same effort paying as a backup. It was every most the money.

While it haw not be thoughtful a rank get for Osi, it definitely has to be thoughtful a get for the Giants. They ransomed on their cap, gave Osi a raise, kept him bright in a lessen assemblage and kept their dominating pass-rush for their denomination defense.

This was a enthusiastic advise by the defending champs. Both parties are bright for the instance being, which is every anyone could hit hoped for.

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