Giants running back Brandon Jacobs is known for a couple things: weighing 265 pounds and, when he wants, absolutely trucking hapless defenders; and flapping his gums pretty much all the time. Part of it's bravado -- it goes hand in hand with being a football player -- but part of it, we think, is his personality.

Whatever, it's his shtick, it appears to work for him, and you know what? The Giants are Super Bowl champs for the second time in four years. He deserves the right to say just about anything he wants.  One exception: when you start telling other players' wives to shut their pie hole. Then things get awkward, even for Jacobs.

First, a quick recap: in the minutes following the Patriots loss to the Giants in Super Bowl XLVI, quarterback Tom Brady's supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen could be overheard saying: “You (have) to catch the ball when you’re supposed to catch the ball. “My husband cannot (bleeping) throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can’t believe they dropped the ball so many times.”

These comments were in response to taunts Gisele heard from Giants fans as she made her way from her Lucas Oil Stadium luxury box to the players' locker room. Two days later, the New York media asked Jacobs what he thought of Gisele's remarks and he said she should "stay cute and shut up."

Speaking on the Doug Gottlieb Show Wednesday, Jacobs backtracked.

"Given the fact that it's a colleague of mine's wife, I do apologize for saying that, because I shouldn't have said that," Jacobs said according to ESPNNewYork.com. "It's his wife and I should respect that just as much as anyone else."

As for calling Bundchen "cute," Jacobs has no issue with that. "No question, he should take that as a compliment," Jacobs said. "If he finds something wrong with that, then that's his problem."

It's hard to argue with that logic, particularly since Bundchen make roughly $45 million a year as a model.

Still, Jacobs could probably learn a lesson from teammates on the correct way to answer possibly controversial topics. Take Osi Umenyiora, for example.

"I mean, that is her husband," he said Tuesday. "She is supposed to stay out of things like that, but at the end of the day that is their relationship and she has the right to say whatever she wants to."

Inexplicably, someone asked Umenyioria if Gisele should apologize.

"Nah, she shouldn't," he said. Listen, man, we just won the Super Bowl. We are not saying nothing about no one, whatever her name is."

Welcome to the offseason. Only six more months until we have football again.

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