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    disappointing season Youth Deandre Baker Jersey , there’s been talk in New York that he could be replaced as the Giants’ starting quarterback by rookie Kyle Lauletta. But Lauletta isn’t helping make his case that he should be the face of the franchise.The Jersey Journal reports that Lauletta was arrested Tuesday morning while driving to the team’s practice facility after he failed to obey a police officer’s directions and came close to striking the officer with his vehicle.“We are aware of the situation and are in contact with Kyle,” a Giants official said. “We are still gathering information.”Although Lauletta has been the third-string quarterback behind both Manning and Alex Tanney, the Giants liked him enough coming out of Richmond that they chose him in the fourth round of the draft, and there’s increasing talk that he should be given a shot to show what he can do before the season is over.Given that the Giants are 1-7 and their offense couldn’t get much worse, it’s easy to picture Lauletta getting a chance at some point this season. But it’s also easy to picture the Giants concluding that if Lauletta can’t keep himself out of trouble when he knows he’s being considered for the starting job, that means he isn’t mature enough to be their starting quarterback. Wide receiver says he is ready for leadership role"Sterling Shepard admitted Monday that he was “a little shocked” when the New York Giants traded Odell Beckham Jr. to the Cleveland Browns Womens Deandre Baker Jersey , but that it was also a reality check for him.“I think, but you sit back and you look at it, it’s kind of the nature of the business,” Shepard said. “That was a point for me to really sit back and realize that this is a business, and that’s just how things go sometimes.” The business was recently kind to Shepard as he is received a four-year, $41 million contract extension to remain with the Giants.“It came up kind of quickly. We got it done fairly fast. I think we went back and forth maybe three or four times Authentic Deandre Baker Jersey , but it was all worth it -- about a month and a half, two months. It was done fairly quickly,” Shepard said.“I knew it was a possibility. I didn’t know how quickly it was going to go, or what the starting point was going to be, but I knew it was a possibility after the season. My agent contacted me. I had spoken with him, and they were pretty sure that it would get done before camp started. It was an exciting moment.”A few other takeaways from Shepard’s conference call with media Deandre Baker Jersey Boys , held the first day of the teams’ offseason workouts.He will miss Beckham “I will miss him in a lot of ways. I learned a lot from him on the field. That’s like a brother to me. That’ll never be lost, but just being able to talk to him on game days on what we see. That’s something that we did all the time. Just different things that we saw on the field, and how to go about handling them. He’s one of the best receivers in the game, in my opinion. It’s great to have that type of guy on your team that you could bounce ideas off of and share what’s going on through their eyes.”On new wide receiver Golden Tate“We definitely are similar when it comes to our game. I was pretty excited, to be honest. To have a veteran like that to be able to -- Odell is gone and that was the guy that I bounced ideas off of. To have a guy that’s been in the league that long, and to have been around Infant Deandre Baker Jersey , it’s great to have people like that that you can talk to about the game. I was pretty excited, and I have no doubt in my mind that we will be successful. We’re both the type of guys that can play inside and outside, and I think coach will use us in a similar way that he used (Vikings WR Adam) Thielen and (Vikings WR Stefon) Diggs, and them. So, I don’t see that being an issue at all.”On becoming a veteran team leader “I think Odell going down kind of helped me with the leadership part of that. Being able to handle guys coming to me for some help on the playbook, or whatever it may be. I think that kind of helped me out the past 10 games with that aspect. It’s kind of different. You go from having a guy like Odell and having a guy like (former Giants WR) Brandon Marshall and those types of guys in the room Deandre Baker Jersey Draft , and now you’re the only one that’s kind of looked at for advice. Like I said, I feel like I have been prepped for that, and I’m ready for that.”