1. Training camp intensity went up a notch in Cincinnati.
For the first time in a decade, coach Tom Coughlin’s Giants held their first of two joint practices against another team on Tuesday in Cincinnati. Over the offseason, he and Bengals coach Marvin Lewis, who took over his team one year before Coughlin in 2003, hammered out the details, which are coming to fruition this week.
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“It has to be someone you trust because obviously there is an awful lot at stake when you work [with another team],” Coughlin said on the practice field outside Paul Brown Stadium.