Loading ...The New York Giants held their annual Kickoff Luncheon at MetLife Stadium on Tuesday where Chris Canty was recognized not only for his work on the field, but especially within the community. Canty spoke to those present at the luncheon, encouraging them to become more active in assisting others around them.
Canty has a reputation for helping those who need it most, predominantly through the Chris Canty Foundation which states its goal is to "enhance the total development of youth by working with families and neighborhood programs synergistically to provide avenues for children to develop their talents and gifts."
A video played at the event showed several examples of Canty's kindness, including him dressed in Santa Claus attire handing out gifts to children, reading to kids in a classroom, passing out food at a soup kitchen, and coaching kids at a football camp.
Canty read off a list of people he wanted to thank including his parents Joseph and Reverend Shirley Canty, the Mara and Tisch families, his coaches, and his teammates. Chris' speech explained why he dedicates so much of his time to helping others.
“[People] ask me all the time why I do the things that I do. There’s nothing quite like it. Being able to see the smile on a kid’s face when you come into the school and you have an opportunity to read to them or just to be able to provide the spark that inspires them to dream and achieve – there’s nothing like it. It’s an awesome feeling and you don’t have to run a fast 40 time or you don’t have to bench 225 thirty times to be able to experience that feeling. Everybody has something to give, whether it is your resources, a specific skill or talent or simply your time. Everybody has something to give and we all can make our community a better place. We all can have a positive impact in the lives of others.”
Chris understands that with being a professional football player, someone who gets a lot of publicity and not to mention a hefty salary, comes a great deal of responsibility and opportunity.
“To have an opportunity to join the legacy that is the New York Football Giants is truly a blessing,” Canty said. “That blessing comes with tremendous responsibility, a responsibility to be in service to those around me. Not just the coaches and my teammates and the people over in the Timex (Performance Center, the Giants’ headquarters), but also to my community, a community that’s given us so much. So it’s only right and it’s only fitting that we take the opportunity to give back.
A large section of his speech talked about head coach Tom Coughlin's influence on him and his ability to motivate him and his teammates. Coughlin is also someone who is known for his charity work.
“Coach Coughlin does this thing in our team meetings in the morning; he’ll leave us with an inspirational quote or just a few words of wisdom, mostly from John Wooden (the late, great UCLA basketball coach). I felt it would be fitting this afternoon to close my remarks with a Wooden. Coach Wooden said that you can never live a perfect day until you do something for someone that will never be able to repay you. Thank you all. God Bless. Go Giants.
In a league whose players have recently earned a reputation for getting arrested for DUI's and assaults, it is refreshing to see a man like Chris Canty get recognized for being the opposite, a model citizen who doesn't take his opportunity in the NFL for granted. Chris is exactly the type of high character player the Giants organization prides themselves in employing. He was recently placed on the PUP list which will keep him from seeing the field till after week six of the regular season, though certainly his teammates and fans are looking forward to a healthy return to action for the Giants' Man of the Year.
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re-post, but first want to say that I’ve met Canty a few times at charity events (that were not sponsored by the Giants) and he’s a very fine young man. Guys like him make it easy to root for this team.
fanfor55years says:
August 29, 2012 at 6:00 AM
Umm, just back from a ridiculous night of clubbing in the city (let me tell you, there are some insane people out there and they all seem to be at the “underground” clubs at 4:00 AM….does anyone under 40 in the city work at a 9-5 job?) and going to the game tonight. I may not make sense here because my brain is addled, but here are a few views from someone who is sleep-deprived and not exactly in best form:
1) Again, the odds of them cutting Hixon are close to nil. In what universe would a team that looks to repeat as champions cut a proven player who is a pretty strong #3 receiver and is capable of handling both punt and kickoff returns in order to keep someone like Douglas (or even Jernigan, who has yet to prove much of anything outside of practice)?;
2) They cannot afford to lose Thomas if he gets a decent medical report (ie. 80% chance he can return at 90% effectiveness by the second half of the season or sooner). The combination of youth and inexperience, and inadequate bodies of work in the NFL, at the cornerback spot behind Webster are too glaring to allow that;
3) Paysinger vs. Jones is closer than many think because Paysinger is an OLB on a team that has Kiwi, Boley, Rivers, Williams, and Herzlich (who could play SAM) and Jones is an inside linebacker on a team that has Blackburn, Herzlich and, possibly, Boley. Muasau may have a real future here, but he’ll be on the practice squad if no one claims him. Both are excellent special teams players, and even there, Jones plays more “inside” on cover teams and that is a harder spot to easily find a replacement with the size/speed combination. I still think Paysinger should be, and will be, the choice, but I would not bet on it;
4) How did McCants go from a complete project to possibly on the roster? I doubt it, unless the prognosis for Beatty is really dim. Given the Giants’ reputation for having a weak O-line this season I cannot see anyone claiming a player who we won’t put on the roster. If we can get him there then Flaherty can coach him up just in case he’s needed on an emergency basis part-way through the season;
5) The battle for depth spots on the O-line chart is going to be decided tonight. I think Cordle is likely to make it unless Chris White has completely outplayed him on film (both have played center and guard and the Giants rightly like players who can play either spot). White will probably be cut unless the above is the case. I cannot see Petrus being cut unless Capers (who is practice squad-eligible) has outplayed him (I think for these two tonight is The Big Kahuna). Petrus is far better than his Giants 101 reputation. Both could, conceivably, make the roster. Goodin is almost certainly headed to the practice squad. So as of now (before the game) I see it as Beatty, Locklear, Boothe, Baas, Snee, Diehl, Petrus and Cordle, with McCants and Capers to the practice team and White cut. I also expect Reese to be looking hard at late cuts whom the team may feel are better players than Cordle or Petrus. I also think that when the smoke clears the judgment will be that acquiring Sean Locklear was a stroke of genius;
6) Was this Jerry Reese’s finest year as GM? Hard to argue otherwise when you take a preliminary look at this draft and add the free agent acquisitions (Locklear, Bennett, Rivers and Hill….quite a group right there) and the retention of a happy Osi.
I don’t see Cordle getting cut. I think he’s acquitted himself just fine thus far in the preseason. That’s a stronger statement than you can make about pretty much any of our backup linemen, and none of them play center.
No wonder Dallas let him walk … he clearly isn’t a sh1thead. There’s no way he’d fit in with the likes of Dez and Jerrah.
An oldie but a goodie … “Sights and Sounds” from the win at Green Bay last year:
http://www.giants.com/media-vault/videos/Giants-vs-Packers-Sights–Sounds/521e1a44-1326-4226-bac7-2ef341fe6908
“They caught us at our peak. No, let me change that. They caught us *peaking*.”
God, I love Deon Grant.
And since I’m heading down memory lane, when searching for that Grant clip, I also came across this … Jim Rome on Eli Manning:
“Eli Manning won’t say it…so Jim Rome will say it for him. How do you like the little brother now?? I’ve seen some ruthless Qb performances in my time…but Eli going into Lambeau and ripping hearts out…again….is right up there.
I expected him to play well. But I didn’t expect him to do that and honestly, I’m sure Green Bay didn’t either. Because there wasn’t a play he couldn’t make or a pass he couldn’t lace. And he had his most success when the Packers had set him up to fail: third and long. 3rd and 8? Easy. First down. 3rd and 11? Challenge me. First down. Sneak attack, Hail Mary to twist the knife at the end of the first half. Cake.
Make no mistake, after Tim Tebow, Eli Manning might be the nicest guy in America. But know this; he’s also one of the most vicious guys in the NFL. Yeah I said it.
And if you’re still clinging to the image of Eli Manning as an aww shucks, dopey little brother who lucked his way into a ring, you’re just not paying attention. Because when that down marker flips to ‘3’, E flips to kill mode. And the second he goes onto the frozen tundra, he owns it. That’s his house now.
He didn’t win Sunday because the Ol Gunslinger threw the game away. He won because he was the best player on the field. I didn’t clown him when he said he was elite. And if you did, he’s clowning you now. There’s no throw he can’t make. There’s no game he can’t win. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again right now: you can’t spell elite, without E-L-I….”
re: 5) When Coughlin goes out of his way to say Paysinger is the best special teams player we currently have, the argument of Paysinger vs Jones is over
Great column by Jorge Castillo on the young LBs in general and Paysinger in particular:
http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2012/08/toughest_roster_decison_come_a.html
Spencer Paysinger had zoned out. He knows he shouldn’t have, but when Tom Coughlin began announcing the Giants’ three captains for last Friday’s game against the Chicago Bears, he allowed himself to wonder: “What if he said Paysinger?”
It was a longshot, a second-year undrafted linebacker receiving such an honor for the third — and most important — preseason game. But at the team hotel last Thursday night, Coughlin announced that David Diehl (offense), Mathias Kiwanuka (defense) and Paysinger (special teams) were the team captains for the next night.
As he announced his name, the Giants coach smirked at Paysinger, who could barely conceal a smile. “Ohhs” and “Ahhs” resonated throughout the room. Victor Cruz, sitting behind Paysinger, gave him a point and wink. Veterans, in full support, told him that a player this young had never been named captain for a game during their time with the Giants.
Moral of the story? Paysinger is a lock.
I guess that means the battle with Greg Jones isn’t as close as most of us thought it was.
TOGM continues to hit it out of the park for the rest of us!
That video was a great reminder of how fabulous last season was.
I think Paysinger sticks, but I am sure that tonight’s game can affect the fortunes of all of these young players. One guy who needs to stand out tonight, btw, is Herzlich. We need him to dominate opponents who aren’t even starters on the Pats. He’d have no chance of supplanting Blackburn anytime this season if he doesn’t have a great game tonight.
given some of the tough cuts coming up, plus the walking wounded for whom space must be made while they heal, I would be looking at the roster and the final cuts as a bit of a risk reward proposition. What I mean is this:
1. we would like the luxury of 4 DBs but we don’t need 4 immediately. We need 2 and Bradshaw and Wilson are the 2 we need. We need a 3d just in case. Between Scott and Ware, Scott has upside, Ware has a degree of reliability. I vote for cutting Ware. He’s in his 6th season and has never done anything of note. No one will pick him up. If we are befelled with injuries down the road, he’ll be on his couch and available.
2. O-Line — same approach — we’d like to carry 9, but we probably only need 8 — Diehl, Snee, Baas, Booth, Beatty, Locklear, Petrus, Brewer — PS or release the rest; grab them back if you ever really need them
3. DT — this is a tough situation because of injury and inexperience We normally would keep 4, but 5 is probably necessary given the current state of things and 1 of the 5 will have to be released when Canty comes back — I think the 5 are Joseph, Thomas, Kuhn, Austin, Bernard – Rogers is released (no one will sign him), Hendricks to the PS if eligible – if not, good bye and good luck. If and when Canty returns, assuming no injury and the youngsters have performed, Rocky gets the boot; if Rocky is outperforming, one of the youngsters goes to IR.
4. CB is very very tough. TT can’t play until who knows when; Prince is down for at least a week or 2; Holesy hopefully is good day 1, but as we saw last year with Prince, expecting too much from a rookie day 1, especially when they’ve missed a fair amount of practice – and Holesy has now missed the final two weeks — is a tad unrealistic. So here is what we have: Webster, Prince, Coe, Hosley, Thomas, Tryon — in other words: Webster, Coe and Tyron is all we have that can reliably play on Wednesday against Dallas. Either we have to keep 7 DB’s, IR Terrell, or count Rolle as a DB/S
5. Speaking of safety, will we really enter the season with just Kenny, Antrell and Will Hill? and then release or IR someone when Sash finishes his suspension? With Rolle most likely playing a fair amount of nickel early, I would think 4 Safeties from the start. That puts Brown on the roster at someone else’s expense.
6. That someone has to come from either WR or LB. Looking at WR, we have 3 who are obvious locks in Nicks, Cruz and Randal. We have 1 who should be a lock based on age and draft status (Jernigan) but who has shown nothing that would leave you with seller’s remorse if he were cut. You have one – Barden – who has flashed once in a single preseason game (last week) and partially once in a regular season game (2010 – Dallas – where he broke his leg) that, coupled with his body makes you wistful for what might be – but his body of work today makes cutting him something very justifiable. You have another 1 – Hixon – who by all accounts is second only to Eli in saintliness; who at one time in 2007 looked like a potentially sensational kick returner; who has recently as ’09 looked like a solid punt returner, but who is coming off of back to back season ending ACL’s, has to be considered a bad slip, trip, or hit away from number 3, and was never anything more than an average receiver when perfectly healthy.
Releasing him is only difficult because he is so well liked and respected as a human being and that is important and can be beneficial to a locker room in ways impossible to empirically measure. Finally, we have David Douglas who has repeatedly flashed in practiced, showed apparent return skills last week, showed receiving skills as well, is young and healthy and has earned Coughlin’s praise throughout camp. He’s the guy you want to keep. We can only keep 6 this season; the DT and CB injuries have seen to that. The calculus will undoubtedly be can DD make to the PS? Maybe he gets IR’d. But I don’t see Coughlin letting him go. That means one of Hixon Barden or Jernigan. If it were me I’d cut Jernigan, Barden, Hixon in that order, but I think Hixon is the one who gets released. Again, with his injury situation, no one is going to sign him; should we need him down the road he likely will be available.
7. As for LB, we simply can’t keep them all and Jones I think gets the short straw. Again, Paysinger is a guy who TC constantly praises. I think that has to count for a lot.
8. Finally, I think 5 DE’s are necessary on this roster as Tracy’s health, let alone Tuck’s, is questionable. Starting the season with a nagging hamstring is never good. If Tracy goes down, it would be a shame not to have Ojomo waiting in the wings.
Even going 3 RB’s and 8 O-L’s, by “keeping” 5 DT’s and 5 DE’s, the only way to make it to 53 is to hold the Safties to 3 or the DB’s to 6. In the final analysis, there is simply no room for TT given his health.
I can see the NYG going with 3 RBs in order to help out at LB or DT. But if they go with 3, then Ware HAS to be the 3rd guy. He’s experienced and the coaches and Eli trust him.
but he’s so pedestrian
Paul Schwartz weighs in with his NYG roster observations:
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/giants/bubbleshooting_UrXR0F6FGUC4opilu8FETK
“Wide receiver – How many stick? Five? Possibly six? Four spots are set with Victor Cruz, Hakeem Nicks, Domenik Hixon and rookie Rueben Randle. Then it’s four players fighting for one or two spots. Most likely, diminutive Jerrel Jernigan stays, mainly because he’s a 2011 third-round pick and not for his work on the field, which has been spotty. Towering Ramses Barden, another slow-developing former third-rounder, needed to save his spot and he might have with his big performance against the Bears, but he doesn’t do much on special teams. Isaiah Stanback does, however, and he’s somewhat intriguing as a former college quarterback. The coaching staff seems to get a kick out of rookie free agent David Douglas, but he probably can be stashed away on the practice squad.”
I agree Hixon is a lock for the same reasons that Ware is … the coaches, and most importantly – Eli, trust him.
I disagree
how many perennially injured players can you carry on the roster, fingers crossed that they won’t get injured yet again?
I forgot Brewer in my post above (told you I was addled from lack of sleep and too much partying). He sticks for sure. Even more reason that McCants is going to be waived and they hope he makes it to the practice squad (which really should be the case).
So they have four tackles: Diehl, Beatty, Locklear and Brewer, three of whom could probably play guard if necessary.
They will have Baas, Snee and Boothe as their starting inside linemen. The eighth guy is either Petrus or Cordle, and I think tonight may have a lot to do with determining which of them gets that #8 spot which assures them of being on the team. The #9 guy is going to be discussed a lot when they cut down to 53 because every roster spot is precious and I don’t think they can afford 9 offensive linemen to begin the season. And neither is practice squad-eligible.