Tommy DeVito isn’t letting his Giants folk hero status change him
Applause from his Giants teammates washed over Tommy DeVito on Wednesday morning at the team meeting when Brian Daboll announced that Tommy Cutlets himself had won NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors.
Isaiah Hodgins looked over at DeVito. It was just kinda like a head nod, it was kinda like Thank you guys, Hodgins told The Post.
A humbled DeVito wore his familiar smile.
Many times you see him, hes always walking around smiling, Hodgins said. You cant even like hate him or dislike him as a person, hes just like a good guy.
During a month when most Giants fans and most Italian-Americans toast Tommy DeVito, here were his Giants teammates celebrating the folk hero among them.
Everybody was just cheering for him, Justin Pugh told The Post. Guys were excited for him. Hes a rookie still, so we gotta keep him level-headed. Let him know you dont win that award without the defense playing unbelievable, without the O-line playing their part, the running backs, receivers its a team award. As a rookie, you cant let him get too high or too low, you gotta keep him level-headed. You gotta take your shots and give him a couple of jabs when you can.
DeVito may have an unpleasant surprise waiting for him when the quarterbacks join the offensive linemen for their weekly dinner.
5Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito (15) when the New York Giants practiced Wednesday. Robert Sabo for NY PostHes gonna pay this week, Pugh announced loud enough for DeVito, who was walking past his locker, to hear. Hes NFC Player of the Week, so you know hes figuring out his tax situation right now, with the Medicare, and union dues
DeVito stopped for a minute to listen.
Im just trying to have more meetings with you to understand all of the shenanigans. All I know is, they takin too much, DeVito said with a smile.
5DeVito’s performance against the Packers earned him NFC Player of the Week honors. Corey Sipkin for the NY POSTAnother example indeed of the Everyman.
Uncle Sam, that is, Pugh said.
DeVito much like Eli Manning, much like Daniel Jones, much like Tyrod Taylor would much prefer to talk about others than himself, or his NFC Player of the Week award.
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Its cool, I guess, I dont know, he said quietly at his locker. I didnt really think anything of it. Kinda just outside stuff.
So much outside stuff to deal with, so little time when you are quarterback of the New York Football Giants. Daboll, thanks to his time with the Bills, thanks to growing up in a suburb 13 minutes from Buffalo, has talked to DeVito about the potential pitfalls of being the Local Boy Makes Good. Of course, no one ever called the coach Brian Cutlets.
Just trying to continue to be me, DeVito said. Im gonna let my personality show. Thats it.
DeVito understands the New York market better than, say, Bobby Bonilla did, and so dont expect DeVito to offer to show anybody The Bronx.
When everythings going good, everybody loves you, and when you dont win, everything is people dont like you, right? DeVito said. Its always somebodys talking this and that about you. So, staying even-keeled through it all.
He mentioned that he had dealt with the New York crowd when he played at Syracuse. No offense to the New York crowd in Syracuse, this is a New York crowd on steroids by comparison.
5DeVito hasn’t let his meteoric rise change him thus far. Charles Wenzelberg / New York PostThey can love you or they can be the complete opposite quick, depending on how certain things are going, DeVito said. I know how it is. People are tough, but they expect the best. Thats what were going to try to give them.
Thats what he has been giving them, with his arm, his legs, his instincts to get the ball out quick and avoid sacks, his poise, his moxie. A $10 bet on DeVito to win Offensive Rookie of the Year on DraftKings would pay $2,510. Who woulda thunk it?
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When I first got into the huddle, we were both on the practice squad the first day that I got here, Pugh said, and he had that confidence and demeanor when he was just running the practice-squad offense, so that demeanor hasnt changed since hes moved up the ranks and has grown in that capacity. Maybe its a product of how he was brought up, how he was raised, his own confidence in his ability. Like he always had that quarterback demeanor, and its showing now.
Isaiah Simmons walked up to DeVito during his media session and stuck his iPhone toward him and asked: Whats the definition of Italian Stallion?
Isaiah Simmons, DeVito said quickly. Simmons walked off and DeVito said: Next question.
Nothing rattles Tommy DeVito.
The agent sartorially splendored Sean Stellato really threw me for a loop after the game, Pugh said, smiling again. And then seeing NFC Player of the Week, it just goes to show that no matter how you start, no matter how you come into a situation, if youre prepared and you do things the right way and you have the confidence, you can succeed.
Pugh married into an Italian family.
5New York Post cover for Wednesday, December 13, 2023. rfaraino
5DeVito Robert Sabo for NY PostI get this Italian hand gesture emoji from all of em, aunts and uncles and cousins, so its good, he said.
Its good to be Tommy DeVito. Inside 1925 Giants Drive and beyond.
Lets go back to the Jets game he didnt throw a pass in the second half, Pugh said. To now, NFC Player of the Week, like that progression is I mean, there should be a movie about it.
I dont know how this thing is gonna end, but Ill be excited to watch, and be a part of it.
Cheers to, and for, Tommy DeVito.
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