Golden Tate stood in the Giants fieldhouse and took his medicine like a man, a look of pain on his face as he offered his mea culpa.
“The tough thing I am dealing with is I’m letting down a lot of people,” he said softly. “My family, the guys in the locker room, the people in the organization that brought me here. That’s kind of what’s been crushing me with this whole situation.”
He faced the unpleasant music for a little more than eight minutes, and toward the end he said:
“I’ve lost a lot of sleep, and it has kinda hurt me to my core having to explain to the organization what’s going on.