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Bobby Hart: My time with Giants ended with a bunch of lies

One team’s trash is another team’s tackle.

So it goes with Bobby Hart, a Giants castoff who signed Wednesday with the Bengals.

When Dave Gettleman took over as general manager, one of his first moves was to part ways with Hart, waiving him injured before the final game of the season. The Giants officially waived Hart off injured reserve last week and he landed with the Bengals, adding a player who is only 23 years old, started 20 games the past two seasons and was ultimately viewed by the Giants as a poor player with a bad attitude.

“Bobby is a young player with three years of NFL experience and has very good upside and tools,” Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis said in a statement released by the team. “We are excited to add him to the team as we improve our offensive line. The offensive line is a focus area for us and this is one of various steps we are taking to improve our performance.”





Hart was a 2015 seventh-round pick out of Florida State. Last summer, he declared he was “the best tight tackle in the league.” Hart started seven games in 2017 before he was benched, and the Giants coaching staff believed he quit on the team in the final week, showing no interest in playing the season finale against the Redskins.

“It’s frustrating seeing all those things about you that you know are not true,” Hart told the Bengals website. “The main thing I took from [Lewis] is he’s not just blowing smoke. You can just feel the genuine aspect coming from him. When you get labelled those things, you kind of start to develop a wall, a shield where you block people out and don’t let people in. But when you talk to him and you feel how genuine he is, that wall just comes down. You just listen to him and you can feel he cares.”





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