Stories of Skattebo: 'What you want me to do, tell him to be quiet?'

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- It was a Friday afternoon. The New York Giants were winless aft 2 weeks and manager Brian Daboll was successful the mediate of his mean Friday quality league earlier his squad played its location opener against the Kansas City Chiefs.

A newsman was asking Daboll a question erstwhile rookie moving backmost Cam Skattebo, football's mentation of the Tasmanian Devil, walked down the media pack. Skattebo stopped, smiled and gave a sarcastic sidearmed question to Daboll down the enactment of cameras.

Daboll closed his eyes, smirked and shook his head. He had mislaid his bid of thought.

"Sorry, Skattebo," Daboll said arsenic if this benignant of humorous enactment was a communal occurrence. "Can you repetition [that question], please."

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At that point, each anyone astatine the Quest Diagnostic Training Center could perceive was Skattebo's trademark call.

"Wooooooooooooooo!" the rookie shrieked arsenic helium ran onto the field.

This is Cam Skattebo, the energetic and unsocial Giants fourth-round prime who ne'er seems to speech with an wrong dependable and utilized to tally into telephone poles arsenic a young child. He sprints onto the tract with the enthusiasm of a 10-year-old fixed carte blanche successful a candy store.

This was his regular arsenic helium came onto the tract astatine grooming camp. It has extended into the regular season.

"It's a regular thing," Daboll said arsenic this each unfolded respective weeks back.

Skattebo inactive wasn't done.

"Wooooooooooooooo!" helium yelled again moments later.

"Let's f---ing go!" helium added.

This is the benignant of energy Skattebo brings to the team, some successful the gathering and connected the field.

Skattebo and rookie backmost Jaxson Dart person added a caller constituent to the Giants, who participate Thursday night's matchup with the rival Philadelphia Eagles (8:15 p.m. EST, Fox) disconnected a tough loss to the New Orleans Saints connected Sunday. After Skattebo and his caller backmost had beardown games successful Dart's archetypal start, an upset triumph implicit the Los Angeles Chargers, this past week was a world check. Dart had 3 turnovers, and Skattebo's fumble successful the reddish portion was returned for a touchdown successful the 26-14 nonaccomplishment to the Saints.

But these are the players the Giants are counting connected to pb them guardant offensively. Dart was a first-round prime retired of Ole Miss. Skattebo was a Heisman Trophy finalist who has proved doubters incorrect everyplace from precocious schoolhouse successful Northern California to Sacramento State to Arizona State earlier falling to the 4th round. Their youthful exuberance gives the squad a antithetic feel.

"[Skattebo's] similar that beauteous overmuch each the time," Daboll said aft the quality league interruption.

It's who Skattebo is arsenic a subordinate and teammate. It's evident from the stories told by his teammates and parents:

Becky Skattebo, mom:

"Cam has ever been capable to fig retired however to get up, implicit and done things. He would get retired of each car spot you tin find. That's however helium ended up with the 'Houdini' nickname due to the fact that if you didn't privation to beryllium somewhere, helium was getting retired of the concern helium was in. ... He would enactment his brother's enarthrosis pads connected and helium would tally into telephone poles. Once helium got onto the field, it was nary astonishment the punishment helium inflicted connected his ain assemblage and everybody else."

Leo Skattebo, dada

"So you guys lone spot the shot portion of it. He's not similar that successful his idiosyncratic life. He is precise quiet, [has a] precise quiescent ...