The Giants can all exhale now that they finally found a way to win their first game of the season. There is no doubt there was a palpable sense of relief filling their locker room after Monday night's 23-7 victory over the Vikings.
Earlier in the week, several Giants expressed hope and confidence if they finally got their first win, it would take the pressure off and allow this season to begin anew after a horrible 0-6 start.
Antrel Rolle does not sense any pressure has been alleviated. Quite the opposite.
"I think the pressure is on now more than ever," Rolle said Tuesday during his weekly WFAN spot. "In my eyes, we have to win out. That's the way I look at it. I'm sure that's the way our team looks at it. We have to win out. We dug a pretty big hole for ourselves and we have to fight like hell to get out of it.
"Is the pressure off? Absolutely not. This is football. We live and die for pressure. This is why we play the game. We love this feeling, we love this intense feeling. As far as pressure being off, I really don't see it that way. I'm never going to see it that way."
The "win out'' decree is nothing new for Rolle, a team captain who has done all he can to keep his teammates motivated and the fans believing the Giants can make something out of this season. He stared his belief the Giants could go 12-0 after their 0-4 start, a belief that was easy to dismiss or ridicule after a 36-21 loss to the Eagles. A loss in Chicago ensued.
"I take a lot of heat for the things that I say or me expressing myself as a player, but I've never ever been the type of guy who worries about what anyone else says or what they think," Rolle said. "I go with my gut, I go with what I feel I need to say, I go with what I feel is right. I have all the trust in the world in this team. I've been on a losing team before in Arizona and I never acted this way.
"When I was in Arizona, I knew we just weren't that good of a team my first couple of years there. I knew that, so I didn't expect too much of us. But I expect a whole lot from this team because I believe in this team and I know the type of talent that we have here on this team. I just know that we haven't been going out there and displaying it.
"People are going to criticize me, they're going to say what they want. They're going to say, 'Antrel, shut the hell up. What are you smoking?' I couldn't care less because I know who I am and I know what we have in our locker room and I'm here to win games. I'm here to motivate, I'm here to go out there and play with my actions and my thinking ability and I'm going to continue to do that. I don't care who has anything to say about it."
Rolle said the feeling of finally winning a game was "wonderful.'' Where others critiqued the way the Giants played in beating the woeful Vikings, Rolle added, "Words can't express how proud I am of my teammates."
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