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"I don't know this offense at all, so there's nothing I've been able to give our team," he said. "Everything about that team looks different than when I was there."
If the Falcons tried to pick Umenyiora's brain about what to expect from his old team, he wouldn't have much to offer.
Manning and the Giants struggled at first with the transition to a system that relies on quick reads and throws, losing their first two games. But they've scored 75 points the last two weeks, looking particularly impressive in last week's victory at Washington.
"To see Osi in a different uniform is unfortunate," Cruz said.
Oddly enough, their game of choice is FIFA soccer. Cruz usually takes Manchester United, while Umenyiora prefers either Chelsea or Man City.
Umenyiora was such a key and immensely popular member of the Giants for so long, helping the team to a pair of Super Bowl titles. He made the Pro Bowl twice and had 75 sacks during his tenure with New York, including a career-best 14.5 in 2005.
Even Tom Coughlin, the Giants' hardscrabble coach, sounded a bit moved by the thought of Umenyiora wearing red instead of blue.
The Giants still have Cruz,Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale, their flashy receiver. And offensive tackle Will Beatty, a player who still speaks fondly of Umenyiora (and vice versa). They all wish they could have stuck together a little longer.
Well, not everything.
This season, he's been demoted to a backup role. Umenyiora has six tackles through the first month of the season and is still looking for his first sack. He looks out of place in the Falcons' preferred 3-4 alignment, not quite mobile enough to handle an outside linebacker role, not quite big enough to take an inside spot.
Umenyiora, who turns 33 next months,NFL Jerseys Supply, hasn't made much of an impact in his two seasons with the Falcons (2-2). While he had a team-high 7.5 sacks last season, the Falcons struggled to get pressure on the quarterback.
He doesn't really recognized these Giants (2-2), who have gone through extensive turnover the last two seasons and this year brought in a new offensive coordinator, Ben McAdoo, to install a West Coast-style offense.
This certainly isn't a case like Steve Smith, who took such pleasure in beating his former team last week. The Baltimore Ravens receiver had 139 yards receiving and two touchdowns in a 38-10 rout of Carolina, then angrily spouted that the Panthers "stabbed me in the back."
There are no hard feelings for Umenyiora.
"I've never had a chance to get even close to him," Umenyiora said, trying to hold back a smile.

It seems downright surreal to everyone involved.
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Osi Umenyiora still goes online to play video games against his buddy Victor Cruz.
Umenyiora, who spent the first decade of his career with the New York Giants, will line up for the first time against his former team as a defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons.
"It's still a little bit sad to see ol' Osi over there," Coughlin said. "He was such an integral part of our team."
"I'm excited to see a lot of the familiar faces," Umenyiora said. "I was there for 10 years,Cheap NHL Jerseys, basically a third of my life,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, so I met a lot of people, have a lot of good friends there. Most of the good things in my life came from that organization."
Umenyiora hopes he'll get an opportunity to go after Giants quarterback Eli Manning, a player who was always hands-off to him in practice when he played for the Giants.
"I left there on really good terms with everybody," Umenyiora said. "So I don't have any of that, 'I want to come back and kick the Giants in the teeth,' stuff like that. I've got a job to do. We've got to get back to winning. We have a big one on the road this week. That's pretty much all I'm focused on."
"I'm not going to lie. He wins the majority of the time," Cruz said. "But I come back when it matters,Wholesale Jerseys USA, so I'm cool with that."
On Sunday, they'll be opponents in that other kind of football, in a game that really matters.