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Veterans, coaches must not let youngsters get down

Alec Ogletree’s confidence in the Giants’ defense is not shaken, even after Sunday’s dreadful performance against the Cowboys. He still thinks they can be a top 10 unit in the NFL, even though by some metrics they were dead last following the weekend’s games.

But Ogletree is a veteran. He’s seen enough football to know how these things work after a Week 1 disappointment, and more importantly, to know how to handle it. He basically went down the quotability checklist that is issued to nearly every player after a certain amount of time in the league while he was on a conference call on Monday.