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Brandon Jacobs, who was inactive for Monday night's win over the Vikings, revealed some threatening tweets from a fantasy player in need of some points

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Giants running back Brandon Jacobs was inactive for Monday night's 23-7 victory over the Minnesota Vikings, so he should be looking over his shoulder, according to a Twitter knucklehead who posted a death threat.



Tuesday morning, Jacobs revealed the threats with the Twitter message "Look at what we deal with .."



In the tweets, from account @DMMeBoo, who apparently takes his fantasy football seriously, Jacobs was told that if he didn't rush for 50 yards and two touchdowns, "it's over for you and yo family nigga."



@DMMEBoo laughed off the reposting and called Jacobs "weak," but after receiving critical messages from fans, he then begged for Jacobs' forgiveness.

Below are Jacobs' tweeted response and more tweets by @DMMeBoo, including an abridged timeline showing increasingly desperate pleas for forgiveness before he eventually deleted the account.

The Giants said the tweets have been reported to NFL Security.

Tuesday afternoon, head coach Tom Coughlin said the team was "concerned" for the safety of Jacobs and his family.

"It has no business or no place in professional athletics, amateur athletics or whatever," Coughlin said. "You can extend the entertainment business and then you can begin to formulate questions about where this kind of stuff comes from. You’re always concerned about the player and his family.

"And for young people to have to worry about something like that, it’s not necessary. It’s not a part of what we do. I’m not going to speculate on social media. I’m just concerned about however this would be revealed, that it’s wrong and it has no business in our game."

Just last week, Jacobs discussed his love/hate relationship with fans on Twitter:

"I've heard nice things on Twitter and I've heard super bad things on Twitter," Jacobs said. "But Twitter is Twitter. You've got your little cyber-gangsters out there that try to be strong behind the keyboard. But it is what it is. Someone created that platform for people to, I guess, get their rocks off without getting punched in the mouth."

Jacobs took abuse from another Twitter twit who proclaimed on Monday night he was dropping Jacobs from his fantasy team because the running back didn't give fantasy owners a heads-up that he would be sidelined with a hamstring injury.

Jacobs responded: "F*** you and your fantasy team. This is my real life."