But that would be a shame, if only because it took them all this time to get back together again. Their reunion, for all the mayhem it created in the upper-left row of the locker room, has proved huge in the Giants' run to the Super Bowl. One can credit the speed Barrow brought to the middle since his free-agent arrival this year, following stops in Houston and Carolina. One can credit Armstead's high level of play at weak-side linebacker that continued with his fourth straight Pro Bowl selection. But both Armstead and Barrow chalk it up to an attitude fostered at the University of Miami.
Hurricanes hate to lose.
Jimmy Johnson, the future two-time Super Bowl winning coach of Dallas who landed Armstead, looked for those types. Named to fourth straight Pro Bowl after recording 102 tackles and five sacks. They don't accept losing around there. We'd lose one game in a season and we' d consider it a bad season. If there's ever been a knock on me, it's that I hate losing.