Feagles helps inspire team

Dec/31/06 09:37 AM

LANDOVER, Md. - Jeff Feagles would seem to be an unlikely inspiration, but he delivered a moving speech to his teammates Friday night.

Giants coach Tom Coughlin asked the punter, a 19-year veteran who has played in only five playoff games in four seasons, to speak to the team about the fleeting nature of postseason chances.

"I don't think it was talk that did it, but the guys responded this week," Feagles said.

"What he said meant a lot to me, definitely," Gibril Wilson said. "You never really think about that stuff, but hearing Jeff talk about how long he's played and how few times he's been to the playoffs, I think we all heard it."

Johnson, Feagles await reunion

Dec/17/06 01:17 PM

Jeff Feagles was a veteran punter when he and Dirk Johnson first met in 1998 during the training camp of the Seattle Seahawks.

Johnson, who now punts for the Eagles, was there essentially to try to beat out Feagles for a job. But Feagles, who now punts for the New York Giants, wasn't exactly intimidated.

"I was wearing these three-quarter top shoes, with mud all over them and held together by Velcro," Johnson said. "He just kind of laughed at me, and he said, 'What's that?' "

Johnson learned a lot from Feagles

Dec/15/06 07:12 AM

Jeff Feagles already was a veteran punter when he and Dirk Johnson first met in 1998 at Seattle Seahawks training camp.

Johnson, who now punts for the Eagles, was there essentially trying to beat out Feagles for a job. But Feagles, who now punts for the Giants, wasn't exactly intimidated.

"I was wearing these three-quarter top shoes, with mud all over them and held together by Velcro," Johnson recalled. "He just kind of laughed at me, and he said, "What's that?"

Jeff Feagles Update

Dec/13/06 09:51 AM

Jeff Feagles became the first punter to put six kicks down inside the 20-yard line since Carolina's Todd Sauerbrun did it on Dec. 22, 2002 against Chicago.

(nypost.com)

With Jeff Feagles

Dec/03/06 12:24 PM

Giants punter Jeff Feagles has never missed a game in his 19 N.F.L. seasons and could play in his 300th consecutive game today. But he reported soreness in his knee Friday, a flare-up of degenerative arthritis. Feagles said he would play, but the Giants signed the veteran Sean Landeta just in case. Feagles, 40, has also been a holder for place-kicker.

DOES THE HOLDER NORMALLY HAVE TO SPIN THE BALL TO KEEP THE LACES OUT SO THE KICKER CAN MAKE A STRAIGHT KICK? We don’t really have to spin it anymore. Our snappers have come a long ways from when I used to do it a long time ago. I used to have to spin the ball a lot. Our snappers are so good now, when I catch it now the laces are already out.

Jeff Feagles Update

Nov/25/06 10:52 AM

298 - Consecutive games Giants punter Jeff Feagles has started, beginning in 1988 with the Patriots.

(pittsburghlive.com)

Wind is a breeze for Feagles

Oct/30/06 08:15 AM

Jeff Feagles and the Buccaneers' Josh Bidwell each punted nine times yesterday, into and with the wind. Feagles showed his 19 seasons of experience with some excellent kicks at both ends of Giants Stadium.

With the wind in the first quarter, Feagles dropped a perfect short punt at the Bucs' 5. After Tampa Bay went three and out, the Giants produced their first scoring drive. In the second quarter, into the wind, Feagles dropped an even better one inside the 5 -- the ball landed at the 2 and bounced back to the 4, where it was downed.

"It's mental gymnastics," Feagles said. "Every one is different. You can't get in a groove because of the conditions."

Feagles' retirement kick ricochets

Sep/03/06 06:13 PM

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Jeff Feagles was so sure last season would be his 18th and final year that he conducted an unofficial countdown of how many punts were left in his weary leg.

He advised New York Giants coaches and management of his decision, emptied his locker, sold his family's house in New Jersey and moved with his wife and four sons to their retirement home in Phoenix.

So how is it that Feagles will drive from Ridgewood, N.J., to Giants Stadium to compete in his NFL-record 289th consecutive game when New York opens the regular season with a Sept. 10 game against the Indianapolis Colts?

Well, the strange story has everything to do with a veteran's love of football, the unpredictability of youth and more cardboard boxes than any family would ever care to pack again.

Homesick Punter Rejoins Giants (Jeff Feagles)

Aug/23/06 10:08 AM

ALBANY, Aug. 22 — Roughly an hour after the Giants’ playoff loss to the Carolina Panthers last season, punter Jeff Feagles was sizing up his next career move. He was two months from his 40th birthday. He had recently set N.F.L. records for most punts (1,437) and most consecutive games played (288). In the rolling-stone existence of a punter, he had played for five teams in 18 seasons.
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