This is what happens to me when I'm faced with 45 minutes in a locker room devoid of LaVar Arrington, Michael Strahan, Eli Manning or Tiki Barber. Yes, I did get some work done, and yes, my job is really the greatest job on earth, but sometimes the mind wanders... Like when the Giants' wide receivers coach walks through the locker room after a workout with his IPod on.
Sullivan is, like a lot of Tom Coughlin's assistants, an extremely gracious and friendly guy with a military background. He's also the sole reason Plaxico Burress hasn't done a Shockey on the head coach. So, after posing the title question to fellow beat guy and blogger Mike G. from one of the Jersey rags, we headed over to Burress' locker and asked the same question.
"I know he's got the 'Rocky' theme," Burress said. "Maybe some salsa, since he's from San Diego."
I tossed in something Army-related -- maybe "Reveille." We also decided on some audio clips from great war movies, inspirational stuff... The Robert Duvall "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning" speech from Apocalypse Now, maybe something from Patton.
Anyway... There's a game on Sunday, so there is plenty of other stuff to discuss. Like Santana Moss, who tied his career high with three TD catches last week. The first time he did that was against the Giants when Moss was a Jet in 2003.
"A lot of these speed guys, it's not about how fast you are, it's the vision," Sam Madison said. "They've got Moss, (Antwaan) Randle-El, these guys have been punt returners before. When they get the ball, sometimes they're not even looking at the first wave of guys coming at them."
Which is good, because the way the Giants have defended the pass, they won't see a first wave. Or a second. Or any waves.
But the Redskins have been getting it done on the ground and through the air, with the third-best offense in the league, right behind the Giants. If they try to establish the run on Sunday, the Giants might be able to figure things out, since their run defense hasn't been all that bad, to be honest.
Madison said the defense would be viewing the cut-ups of the Redskins' third-down situations tomorrow, so he'd have something to say about it then. The Giants have allowed 27 of 46 (58.7 percent) third-down conversions, which is astonishing and worst in the league.
And I will find out what's on Sully's IPod tomorrow.