The Giants practiced in full pads for the first time on Wednesday. Jon Beason said he was looking forward to it.
"I just want to get out there and get my nose bloody a little bit and get back in the swing of things," he said before the workout. "When you are doing something you feel like you were born to do, I tend to get excited about that."
But he also said he would have rather had it happen sooner that almost a week into training camp.
"I miss that," the veteran linebacker said of the days when teams would slug their way through these preseason camps.