Giants great Victor Cruz speaks highly of Saquon Barkley's drive for greatness despite being on Eagles

New York Giants large and Super Bowl champion Victor Cruz has to springiness recognition wherever recognition is owed – adjacent if it means to idiosyncratic wearing a greenish uniform. 

"Obviously, it’s precise hard for maine to basal for thing successful greenish connected an NFL shot field," Cruz told Fox News Digital connected Radio Row astatine Super Bowl LIX successful New Orleans. 

Of course, Cruz is referring to the Philadelphia Eagles, who volition beryllium playing against the Kansas City Chiefs connected Sunday successful the "Big Game."

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But there’s 1 subordinate that Cruz can’t assistance but springiness props to, and that’s Saquon Barkley. He’s idiosyncratic who near the Giants to caput southbound to a part rival, and though he’s nary longer connected the team, his champion vocation play to day successful his archetypal twelvemonth successful Philadelphia has led Barkley’s sanction to continuously beryllium tied to the Giants. 

Barkley said this week successful New Orleans that each the Giants talk, whether it’s trolling oregon not, is starting to get played out. 

Cruz evidently wishes Barkley were inactive wearing blue, but helium knows that Barkley’s pursuit for greatness blocks retired immoderate extracurricular noise. 

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"I deliberation it’s conscionable a testament to who helium is and his character," Cruz said portion highlighting his concern with Captain Morgan. "Ever since I met the guy, he’s been conscionable the same. Just focused connected being the champion imaginable moving back, the champion idiosyncratic that helium could beryllium retired determination connected that shot field, due to the fact that helium knows if helium does good retired there, the bequest volition instrumentality attraction of itself. He’s a steadfast believer successful that, and I deliberation helium does a phenomenal occupation of being a phenomenal teammate and adjacent amended person."

Barkley has been a difference-maker for the Eagles each season, and the squad and its instrumentality basal each anticipation that remains the lawsuit for 1 much game, arsenic the NFL’s starring rusher with implicit 2,000 yards needs to play good connected Sunday to acceptable the code against the Chiefs. 

Now, portion Cruz whitethorn beryllium giving his flowers to a erstwhile Giant similar himself, that doesn’t mean helium wants to spot the Eagles lifting the Lombardi Trophy astatine the extremity of the day. 

"Is determination a mode that Saquon tin win, but the Eagles lose? Is that possible? That’s not possible," Cruz said, jokingly. "So, yeah, I’m rooting for the legacy. I’m rooting for Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. I conscionable privation to spot if they tin bash it. 

"I privation Saquon to execute well, but I’m rooting for the guys successful reddish to spot if they tin implicit the trifecta and bash thing we haven’t seen before."

TURNING BOURBON STREET INTO "RUM STREET"

Cruz is helping Captain Morgan propulsion 1 of the biggest parties for Super Bowl week successful New Orleans, arsenic the eventual ‘Rum Street’ solemnisation begins connected Saturday with a enactment that includes a show from nary different than T-Pain. 

"Having T-Pain connected Rum Street is going to beryllium beauteous insane and beauteous intense, truthful I’m excited for that," Cruz said. "I’ve been a T-Pain instrumentality for years, and obviously, giving backmost to the fans. That’s ever a large woody for myself, and Captain Morgan feels the aforesaid way. It’s conscionable ever dope to springiness backmost to the fans. They’re the existent prima successful each of this."

"Rum Street" volition besides beryllium a mode to toast each fans, arsenic they volition get handed $10 successful "Captain’s Cash" to walk astatine their favourite barroom connected Bourbon Street during the week. Captain Morgan slapped QR codes passim the city, and fans tin conscionable scan and get their $10 to usage arsenic they please. 

"It conscionable goes manus successful manus erstwhile you’re successful a metropolis similar New Orleans, and you got Captain Morgan, the authoritative rum of the NFL. So, having parties with them and having their vigor down present conscionable makes sense," Cruz said. 

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