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Giants’ Victor Cruz has firm grip on success

It would have been easy for Giants receiver Victor Cruz to fall into the same trap that a lot of young athletes do when they go from anonymity to stardom seemingly overnight.

Undrafted in 2010, the University of Massachusetts product barely made the Giants out of camp in 2011 as the fourth receiver. Then he exploded for 82 catches, 1,536 yards, and 9 touchdowns in the regular season. Cruz had another 21 catches in the postseason, including a touchdown against the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

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After the Red Sox trade I wrote in this paper's column, that the baseball first columnists and even some Patriot beat writers would go overboard and deep down under to find something to criticize about the Patriots. Ya know, balence the field, as if the Sox and Patriots are comparable organizations. Did these football mavens give Bill until Monday to make roster deals and maximize the options he had. No, according to the experts, some of whom could not even name a top teams' backup quarterback, Bill screwed up on the reciever, back up quarterback, and o line positions and then made a mistake by hiding a 2013 asset (Demps), instead of placing him on the new IR, which Bill saved for Shiancothe, who will be the third TE with Hernandez moving to full time WR when he returns in six weeks. When you look at all the Patriot material Mike Reiss has accumulated since yesterday and then you read in this column that Greg Bedarddis embarrasingly now the PR man for player agents in firing blanks at Bill and finding nothing else to criticize, blasts the decision to let Koppen go late, which in reality gave him a chance to find work by showcasing him for a half Wednesday night you just have to laugh. And I pay for my paper. But, if you want a real laugh on football, listen to Mustard and Johnson, the Amos Alonzo Staggs of weekend radio.