New York Daily News

Marshall: No time to lose . . . or even

- BY JOHN HEALY

BRANDON Marshall says the Giants are onto San Diego.

Well, he means Los Angeles, but you get the point.

The Giants receiver, who was signed this offseason with hopes to help the team reach a Super Bowl, made it clear he was focused on the future and would not even acknowledg­e the team’s 0-4 start, refusing to take any questions on the matter.

“I don’t want to spend my time talking about what we did in Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4. If we do that we’re not going to get out of the hole that we’ve dug,” he said. “I’m moving on. So I respectful­ly decline any questions about culture, any questions about our losing streak, my playmy play hasn’t been where I wanted it to be, I need to pick it up, but I’m not going to waste time talking about a losing environmen­t.”

Marshall has certainly done his part to play a key role in contributi­ng to that environmen­t, struggling to catch on both literally and figurative­ly.

It took the 33-year-old veteran until Week 3 to register more than one catch in a game and, in the Giants’ 25-23 loss to the Buccaneers on Sunday, Marshall dropped two more passes, including a third-and-4 in the first quarter that halted a drive and resulted in a punt.

It has become a recurring problem for Marshall, who also cost the Giants in Week 2 by dropping a wide-open deep pass in the fourth quarter against the Lions in a one-possession game. Two plays after the drop, the Giants punted the ball, which was returned for a touchdown.

“I haven’t played the way I wanted to play,” Marshall said, caving to a question about his play. “I hold myself to a high standard. The guys around here hold me to a high standard. We have high expectatio­ns on all of us and looking at myself in the mirror, I want to pick up my play. I’ll do that. I don’t want to waste too much time thinking about the past. If I do that, the future is going to be really ugly.”

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