1. Prince Amukamara ‘Had to go’
This offseason former starting cornerback Prince Amukamara bolted to join the Jacksonville Jaguars, following the signing of Janoris Jenkins by New York. Amukamara signed a one year, six million dollar deal with the Jags, only three million of which was guaranteed. It seemed a bit odd that a player who can preform at a near Pro Bowl caliber level when healthy couldn’t get a similar offer from his former team, despite the Jenkins signing.
Well according to Armstead, Prince “had to go.” What that meant exactly was unclear, but Armstead did go on to site that Jenkins being a better man coverage corner than Amukamara as one of the reasons the team moved on former Nebraska Cornhusker.
However, neither Armstead nor Feagles sad anything else about any of the other offseason departures. Will Beatty, Geoff Schwartz, Robert Ayers, and Rueben Randle all started games for Big Blue over the past couple of years, but none of them were spoken about as needing to have been ridden of, let alone metioned at all.
It begs the question, was there something more going on with Amukamara behind the scenes? It would come as a shock, seeing as the one time Super Bowl Champion always carried himself like a true professional during his tenure in New York.
Sure, it could be the Giants just flat-out did not like Amukamara as a player and saw no value in bringing him back. He performed way below his typical standard after returning from injury during the second half of the 2015 season.
Yet, Armstead did touch upon the departure of former head coach Tom Coughlin, a man many would say definitely fell short often last season, but never said he “had to go.” He instead offered his deepest respects to the Giants’ former head man, saying nothing negative of Coughlin.
