Umenyiora In Filing: Giants Lied To Me

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From:realgm

Adam Schefter/ESPN.com - In a filing as part of the antitrust suit filed by the players against the NFL, Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora spells out why he has wanted out of New York.

Umenyiora states Giants general manager Jerry Reese did not follow through on promises to renegotiate his contract.

"In early April 2008, approximately two weeks before the start of the New York Giants offseason conditioning program, I, Osi Umenyiora, had a meeting with the general manager of the New York Giants, Mr. Jerry Reese," Umenyiora testified this past April.

"After about an hour of discussing my current contract, as well as the contracts of other defensive ends currently playing in the National Football League, Mr. Reese told me that two years from the start of the 2008 league year, if I was currently playing at a high level, we'd either renegotiate my current contract so that it would be equal to that of the top five defensive ends playing or I would be traded to a team that would do that.

"Before leaving the meeting, I asked Mr. Reese twice if he was absolutely sure that would be the case. He then told me that he was an honest and church-going man and that he would not lie, which I believed to be the case. Under the penalty of perjury these statements are true and accurate."

 

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"Before leaving the meeting, I asked Mr. Reese twice if he was absolutely sure that would be the case. He then told me that he was an honest and church-going man and that he would not lie.

This part is true, no doubt. I actually go to the same church as Reese, he's a very religious man.

If Osi didn't always vanish when we needed him most, then maybe he would've received the deal.