Another day of rest
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- October
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Maybe the extra day off is exactly what the Giants needed.
It’s more fun than a quarantine.
Mario Manningham spent a couple of days last week dealing with a nasty bug that forced him to visit a local hospital when breakfast, lunch and dinner kept reappearing. Justin Tuck complained of a stomach virus after the win over Seattle, too. He doesn’t know whether it came from the locker just across the room.
“I don’t know. I hope not,” he said afterward. “I hope I’m getting over it right now. Obviously, I didn’t feel 100 percent, but our defense played pretty good and we got a win, so I’m starting to feel a little better.”
Tom Coughlin expects the players to go easy with a short week coming after Monday’s visit to Cleveland.
“I think that I do understand our team,” he said. “And our team understands what their responsibilities are. And not only that, they are being trusted to obviously utilize the extra day as best they can to rest and to regroup and to get some of the soreness out and just come back in fresh because the next two weeks are going to be very difficult weeks and I want them to have the time they need to recover.”
When practice resumes tomorrow, I’m bringing Purell.
And before I forget again, go visit our columnists. Sam and Rick have been talking Giants for the last couple of days. Check ‘em out.
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on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 11:24 am by Mike Dougherty. 
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Ernie Palladino
Dear Scribe:
Does anyone (you included) ever proofread your blog entries? “Quarrantine”? “Breakfust”? This is not an unusual instance.
Upstate
The copy editors here wanted you to know they do not get to check the blog copy. It’s all my fault. Every thought goes straight into cyberspace warts and all.
Thanks for fixing it. As a former newspaper type, I find such things derail me in the midst of an otherwise pleasant read.