Tiki Barber is fed up with the makeup of the New York Giants.
In a near-two-minute rant on his midday show on WFAN on Monday, Barber ripped his former team, from scouting to play calling.
“The one thing I noticed when I watch Giants wide receivers and DBs is that they’re not good enough athletes,” Barber said in a clip shared on Instagram. “There is a want to and a physicality that you have to have to play football. The Giants are not drafting those players, and it pisses me off, because how do you walk into a room and sit with a guy who can barely speak football and has zero desire to play football and say, ‘I want that guy? Yeah, I need that guy. I want that guy.’
“I’m as frustrated with the third round down scouting as I am with the play calling on Sundays, right? Because when I see these kids have to play and then they’re not football players, to me, those things are critical to success for any team, and the Giants don’t have enough of those guys.”
Barber pointed to a familiar name as an example of overlooked talent: Bengals wide receiver Andrei Iosivas, who played alongside his son AJ at Princeton.
A sixth-round pick out of the Ivy League, Iosivas grew up just 45 minutes from MetLife Stadium — practically in the Giants’ backyard — at a time when the team desperately needed receivers.
Barber noted that Iosivas wasn’t just another prospect; he was a standout decathlete, an “Uber athlete” with rare versatility and elite physical tools.
These are the types of players the Giants should be targeting, according to the former three-time Pro Bowler.
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