Who do you believe?
Victor Cruz still thinks he is an elite player and the Giants started to phase him out. Obviously the Giants don’t think much of him and cut him.
He aired his grievances on The Breakfast Club
Victor Cruz believes the Giants planned to cut him well before last season ended and says his paltry numbers are proof.
“Halfway through the year, you’re like, ‘OK, I’m balling,’ and then the other half I’m not getting the ball,” the wide receiver argued during an interview this week with 105.1 FM’s “The Breakfast Club.”
“And you’re just like, ‘What’s going on?’ It was like, ‘OK, I see what’s happening. They don’t want me here anymore.’”
“A lot of people probably don’t know this: Let’s say I played well, was a 1,000-yard receiver last year, it would have been more difficult from a fan perspective to cut me,” he said. “If I’m a 1,000-yard guy, they’re like, ‘Why are you cutting Cruz? He just had 1,000 yards and had five or six touchdowns. That doesn’t make sense.’
“But if I have 500 yards or whatever the case may be, it’s a little easier on the fans to be like, ‘Oh, he didn’t play well, so that’s why they cut him.’ And if I played well, they owed me a ton of money that next year so it was like, ‘Let’s get Cruz off the books.’”
One of the hosts suggested that would explain why Cruz was open and didn’t get the ball.
“I’m glad you see it,” he responded.
The other host asked if a quarterback — in this case Eli Manning — would really not throw to an open receiver, but Cruz didn’t back down.
“It’s hard to believe,” Cruz said. “Even just to think about someone coming up to the quarterback and saying, ‘Hey, don’t throw it here’ or ‘Don’t give it to this guy’ — it’s hard to even fathom that thought. Which I don’t even know or think happens. I doubt it. But when you look at the film and you look at how it goes down, that’s the only way.”
Cruz also thinks he was being blackballed because NFL teams thought he was more into fashion and Timberland Yacht parties than football.
The Bears are giving him a shot on a one year deal.
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