"Keith Bulluck knows his new team has something to prove after last year's disaster. He just can't believe how so many people are dismissing it as a potential contender in the NFC East.

"The (Giants) have talent, and they brought in talent," Bulluck, the newest Giant, said Monday on a conference call. "I know this team as a whole has something to prove. (But) for everyone to be talking about Dallas, Washington, and Philadelphia and not talking about Big Blue is absurd."

It seems a little bit more so now that the Giants finally filled their most gaping hole on defense when they signed the 33-year-old Bulluck to be their middle linebacker. Bulluck, though, has a few things to prove himself, too - like whether his surgically repaired left ACL will hold up, and whether he can play in the middle after spending the last 10 years in Tennessee playing the outside."