Antrel Rolle says Giants players need more fight, accountability

The season began with Antrel Rolle saying some unspecified things need to change.

It ended the same way.

“There are a couple of other things that maybe need to be stirred up a little bit,” the Giants’ safety said after Sunday’s victory over the Redskins in his weekly interview with The Star-Ledger and SNY. “But that’s something we need to fix within the organization, which we can fix, which is very fixable. As players, we need to hold ourselves accountable a little bit more, have a little more fight, especially when opportunities present themselves, those big games come up, we get our opportunities to close it out and put yourself in a position to go into the playoffs. But we didn’t capture those.

“It is what it is at this point. But we will be a better team next year.”

Rolle will take an active part in that. Just how active remains to be seen.

Asked if he’ll be the one to “stir things up,” he replied with a laugh, “I don’t know. I don’t want to stir things up too much. But I definitely will hang a responsibility on my part as a teammate and be the best player I can be for the team. And hopefully, it’ll be a domino effect.”

Rolle has just completed the first of five seasons in the contract he signed last May. If he wants things to change so much, perhaps he should figure out this offseason how he could be a team leader.

In fact, he’s already considered it.

“That’s something I’ve thought about on several occasions. I just have to find the right way to approach it and the right way to go about things,” he said. “We’ll see what happens come next season. But my goals are big. My goals are extremely big. And my expectations for this team are even bigger than that.

“We’re the fighting Giants. That’s what we are. We’re going to continue to fight and we’re only going to get better.”

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