Michael Strahan waving Eagles flag a warning shot to Giants as futility continues : Amani Toomer

Former Giants wide receiver Amani Toomer viewed Michael Strahan’s waving of an Eagles flag on the Fox pregame show of Super Bowl 2025 as a little more than just part of a pre-recorded segment with Saquon Barkley. It was a “shot across the bow” at the Giants after what was an abysmal 2024 season in which the team went 3-14 and watched Barkley – the team’s former star running back – dominate for one of the organization’s biggest rivals. “That’s a warning shot, ’cause when we played if we didn’t perform, we’d be out, right?” Toomer said on Monday during an appearance on ESPN New York’s “Bart & Carlin.”“Now as players, I’m not just gonna be a fan because I played there.You have to prove something to us.

We are Giants through and through, but you can’t just say, you’re a Giant you just shut up and sit in the corner.Babysit in the corner, No! We want results.

We want to be proud of the organization that we shed blood, sweat and tears [for].”The Giants 2024 season produced the fourth-lowest win percentage in franchise history (.176) and it was the second consecutive season Big Blue missed the postseason after the Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen administration led them to the playoffs in 2022, their first year in charge. The Giants have won just one playoff game since they won the Super Bowl during the 2010 season and have just two playoff appearances in that span. Barkley’s dominance in 2024, which culminated in a Super Bowl title on Sunday night after the Eagles routed the Chiefs 40-22, was the icing on the cake of the historically bad year for the Giants. “For all you Giants fans out there, I’ve been around a lot of guys who left the Giants and gone to other places that I did not like, and I never liked them.But he’s such a special man.

C’mon, we’re gonna ‘Fly, Eagles, Fly’ for Saquon Barkley because I respect and love this man so much.See we don’t have a flag in New York,” Strahan said during the seg...