Jacobs could never make up his mind during the last two years, saying he wanted to be traded just as often as saying he wanted to retire in New York.

That has changed, and it looks like the Giants could be holding on to the bruising back.

“Well, I have spoken to my agent and I do expect to be fully back with the New York Giants next season,” Jacobs said. “These guys in the front office, they’ve been doing this for years. They know what they gotta do. I want to be back. But they actually know what has to be done if they want me back.”

The Giants cap situation is pretty murky. I’ve heard they are as much as $9 million over the cap, and Spotrac says they are $1.5 million under.

Any way you spin it, the Giants will have to make some tough decisions on their veteran players. They have some guys like Victor Cruz who deserve a raise, and they might want to make some moves in free agency.

Jacobs could think he’s going to remain a Giant, but with a $4.4 million base salary and a March $500,000 roster bonus, he’ll have to take a large pay decrease to do so.

“If they don’t want me back then that’s another story in itself, then nothing has to be done. But I got a feeling that they do. So, you know, things get worked out. I definitely plan on being [with] Big Blue for the 2012 season.”

On top of that, even if he does desire a trade, he promises Giants fans he will not be a distraction this off season. In terms of a trade or staying for the last year of his contract, he is good either way.

“No strategy, man. I’m just going to be really quiet, that’s for sure,” Umenyiora told Sirius XM radio on Monday.

This is a far cry from last off season, when he did a lot of talking, held out for an alleged promised raise from Jerry Reese, and ended up being labeled the bad guy when the Giants did not give in to his demands.

Osi ended up being a key factor in the Giants run to Super Bowl XLVI, and if they want to keep him around they will definitely try to make it work.

Last off season it seemed as if Osi could not wait to get out the door, but with this team being as good as it is now, he wants to stick around now. Who wouldn’t?

“I could see things going either way. Honestly I could see where they would want to keep me, I could see where they would want to trade me. I am going into the last year of my deal, so they might want to get some value back.”

“Hopefully I’ll be able to stay here and finish out my career, but it’s a business and they’re going to do what’s best for them, and I have to try to do what’s best for me.”

According to Ralph Vacchiano of the NY Daily News, Jones is going to join his teammates when the Giants report back for off season training on April 16.

Whether or not he sees the field is still up in the air—Jones has not yet passed a physical from Giants team doctors. He has been rehabbing like a maniac in Louisiana since his car accident in 2010, and he’ll begin rehabbing with the Giants in April.

Two months after Jones signed a four year, $2.615 million contract in 2010 his life took an unexpected turn. A car crash left his ability to ever walk again in doubt, and obviously his ability to return to football. The accident shattered the fibula, tibia and ankle in his left leg and punctured his femoral artery.

Even after he overcame all of that and began to walk again, he questioned whether or not he wanted to play football ever again. Football the more violent option than baseball, which he also excelled at while in college.

He made a commitment to football, saying last year he intended on playing football in 2012. Although that still remains to be seen, the fact that it is even a possibility in miraculous.

Cruz exploded on to the scene with his incredible Monday Night Football performance in the 2010 preseason, where he caught three touchdowns and made a ridiculous one handed grab, however he did not see much action in the regular season that year.

Though it was believed he could come back later in the season, a hamstring injury forced the Giants to place him on injured reserve. He played in just three games and did not record a single catch.

Fast forward to the insanity that was the 2011 free agency period. The NFL was locked out for pretty much the entire 2011 off season, giving teams only a two-week signing period before training camp.

One of the casualties for the Giants was Steve Smith, who was coming off a serious knee injury at the end of the 2010 season. The Giants did not think Smith would be ready for the start of the 2011 season, so they were unwilling to give him the amount of money he desired.

Who was? The Philadelphia Eagles.

They signed Smith to a better offer, meaning Cruz would have a chance to prove himself in camp. He did not impress as much as he had in the 2010 preseason, but he did enough to be named the fourth string receiver.

After injuries struck down Mario Manningham and Domenik Hixon in week 2, Cruz would step in to the starting lineup against who else? The Philadelphia Eagles.

Who knows if he would have gotten that opportunity had Steve Smith stuck around. In fact, and irony is all over the Week 3 matchup with the Eagles, Smith dropped a pass that was intercepted by Aaron Ross early in the game. It prevent the Eagles from scoring.

Not only that, but the Eagles game would prove to be Cruz’ coming out party, catching three passes for 110 yards and two touchdowns. A little over four months later, Cruz is the franchise leader in receiving yards in a season, and has a Super Bowl ring to boot.

The Giants should send the Eagles a nice thank you letter; if it weren’t for letting go of Steve Smith, we may never have heard of Victor Cruz.

Jacobs has a $500,000 roster bonus set to kick in if he is still with the team in March, on top of his $4.4 million salary he is set to collect in 2012. He obviously does not think the Giants will keep him making that kind of money.

The Giants franchise leader in rushing touchdowns says he is open to another pay cut, “as long as it’s fair.”

“I just want everything to be fair. I feel like I put a lot of hard work and dedication into what I do as well and whatever their plans are to try to keep me around here, hopefully we can get it discussed and get things figured out because this is where I want to be.”

“I wish things can go great to where I can continue to be a Giant. I started with the Giants, I would like to finish with them.”

“As an organization, they have been doing this stuff for years and they know what they have to do if they want to keep me around and indeed I want to be around. I want to retire as a Giant. Those guys have been working in the business long enough to know what they have to do to make it happen.”

Oddly, Jacobs listed one team he would like to play for if the Giants did not retain him, and it is the last team you would think—the New York Jets.

If you remember, after the Giants beat the Jets on Christmas he and Jets coach Rex Ryan had a heated verbal exchange on the field, but Jacobs still wouldn’t mind playing for the cross town rival.

“I wouldn’t count it out,” he told the New York Daily News. “I like the way Rex handles his business. I don’t hold a grudge. It was a situation. We were rivals then. There’s no apology needed.”

That said, Jacobs made it clear he wants to retire a member of the New York Giants.

“Whatever their idea is, I just want to hear it and get this show on the road,” Jacobs said. “It is kind of nerve-wracking, sitting here and waiting and getting to know what is going to happen. I have kids, it may be tough to pick them up and move them to another site.”

“I want to finish a Giant and my kids can finish going to school where they are going to school,” he added. “My wife loves it here. I want to finish up here. I don’t know what their plans are, I do know it is a business first. I am just waiting to hear what is going to happen.”

Teams place a target on the back of the champs, meaning they’ll get every team’s best shot.

It gets even worse knowing that they will be facing the AFC North and NFC South, along with the division winners from the other NFC divisions.

Depending on how the Giants do in free agency, the Giants can be even better next year. Remember, they lost a ton of players to injury before the season.

But basing their schedule off of last year’s records, 2012′s schedule is going to be even tougher than 2011′s. They play the Eagles (2), Cowboys (2), Redskins (2), Packers, 49ers, Saints, Panthers, Falcons, Buccaneers, Steelers, Ravens, Bengals, and Browns.

The average number of 2011 wins per team for the Giants’ 13 2012 opponents is 9.15. For all 16 games in the 2012 season, the Giants’ opponents went a combined 140-116 in 2011, which is an average of about a 9-7 record.

There are only four teams the Giants will face in 2012 that had less than a .500 record. Even the easy games on the schedule look like they could be tough next season.

The Redskins are in the market for Peyton Manning (not to mention beat the Giants twice this season), and the Panthers could be getting better with Cam Newton in his second year.

The Browns and Bucs could be pushovers, but you never know with them each having high draft choices.

Next year is going to be brutal, but if this year taught us anything, you can never count out Big Blue.

The Giants got away with all of their trash talk because, well, they were winning. It is hard to keep quiet when you are silencing all your doubters.

“You know what, man, I don’t see it happening,” Bradshaw said. “I don’t think they believe it, and they’re America’s Team. It all comes in together. If the fans don’t believe it, the team doesn’t. They’re kinda doubtful with Romo.”

He couldn’t be more right about some of the Dallas Cowboys fans not believing in Tony Romo. Despite the fact that much of the blame this season falls on other aspects of the team, Romo took the brunt of the blame for a couple bad losses that were his fault.

Living in Texas, I have a ton of friends who are Cowboys fans, and it couldn’t be more down the middle in terms of support for Romo. You either hate him or love him.

It probably didn’t help Bradshaw stay quiet on the matter considering the Giants beat the Cowboys twice in the final month of the season, the last of which was a winner take all for the NFC East title.

When you beat your rivals, you tend to talk about it. I definitely do not blame Bradshaw for saying what he said either, most people would agree with him. It should be interesting the first time these two teams meet in the 2012 regular season.

Sullivan will become the offensive coordinator for new head coach Greg Schiano. The Bucs fired Raheem Morris after a sub par 4-12 season, and this hire may be what Tampa Bay needs to dispel some of the questions surrounding the Schiano hire.

Schiano, the former Rutgers head coach, has very little NFL experience. His only time in the NFL came as a defensive assistant for the Bears for two years, and then one year as their defensive backs coach.

Sullivan will be a popular hire considering the work he has done with Eli Manning. After spending six years as the Giants wide receivers coach, he spent the last two as Eli’s coach.

Eli has seen two of the better years of his career under Sullivan’s tutelage. Although he had 25 interceptions in 2010, Eli did post the highest two touchdown totals of his career the past two seasons and nearly hit the 5,000 yard mark in 2011.

Sullivan is a big loss for the Giants.