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Mired in another season of double-digit losses, Burns hasn’t become numb to the pain of defeat. If anything, the mounting frustration only drives him more. That’s why he’s managed to have his most successful individual year despite another lost season.
“The individual success is cool,” Burns said. “But at the end of the day, you still want to win. I’ll never get used to losing, so that’s just the most aggravating part about my career so far….It takes a toll on you because it’s like, ‘I’ve been putting in all this work; I’m having success at my job, but at the end of the day, I still can’t get the end result, which is what I want. The toughest part is keeping that edge. Once you get to a point where it feels like you’re not playing for nothing, it’s easy for it to slip away.”
Veteran cornerback Paulson Adebo, who is in his first year with the team, told reporters on Monday that “tanking” is not on the Giants’ minds at all. They want to win.
“Yeah, I just approach every game the same way, whether it’s first game of the season, last game of the season, so that’s nothing that we really think about,” he said.
Jermaine Eluemunor is is the Giants’ highest-rated pass blocker on the starting line (min. 500 pass blocking snaps) outside of Andrew Thomas. While it hasn’t been a perfect showing at times for Eluemunor, he has been more than serviceable, and he has been pretty much durable, missing just three games since donning the Big Blue jersey.
The Giants drafted Marcus Mbow this past year, perhaps with the intention of plugging him in at right tackle once Eluemunor’s contract expired. But there is no reason why the Giants can’t have both players in the starting lineup next year if they consider moving Mbow to right guard to replace Greg Van Roten and let the young man cut his teeth next to Eluemunor on that right side. Spotrac projects a two-year, $17.787 million...
