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Giants Music Playlist vs. Cowboys

Every week, we’re asking a handful of Giants players what’s playing in their headphones. This is what they had to say before they take on the Dallas Cowboys this Sunday on the road:

LB Keith Rivers
DJ Drama (feat. 2 Chainz, Meek Mill & Jeremih) – ‘My Moment’

CB Prince Amukamara
Hillsong United – ‘Aftermath’ 

RB Andre Brown 
Drake – ‘Forever’

DE Adrian Tracy
KB – ‘Zone Out’

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Previous Weeks

Giants Music Playlist vs. Redskins

Giants Music Playlist vs. 49ers

Giants Music Playlist vs. Browns

Giants load up iPod for Philly trip

Giants choose pregame playlist

Adrian Tracy makes most of expanded role

Somewhere along the way in preparing for San Francisco, Adrian Tracy’s name came up among Tom Coughlin and his staff. So they wrote the defensive-end-turned-linebacker-turned-whatever-you-need into the script on Sunday.

The payoff was high as the Giants 2010 sixth round draft pick turned his dozen snaps into four tackles, including his first career sack. Hampered by injuries throughout his young career (which included spending all of 2010 on injured reserve), Tracy has played in every game this season and made the most of his opportunity against the 49ers.

“They asked Adrian to step up this week and play a different role than what he had over the last couple weeks,” Michael Boley said Monday on a conference call with Giants beat reporters. “And he stepped up and played pretty well. Hat off to him.”

Tracy saw the bulk of his action as an outside linebacker, and got his feet wet early with a tackle on running back Frank Gore for no gain. He finished the game as strong as he started and sacked backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick for a loss of six yards on the 49ers’ last offensive snap of the game.  Eli Manning and company took over in the victory formation and preserved the win.

Tracy was one of a handful of players asked to do more than usual in San Francisco.

“Guys played hard,” Coughlin said on a conference call. “Lots of people got to contribute and play. Adrian Tracy made a contribution in there, did a very nice job. We got to play a bunch of guys on special teams and they rose up and did a nice job of that. Michael Coe came back and was healthy and made a couple tackles on special teams, and Justin Tryon had three tackles on special teams. Lots of people played and contributed and we tried to be able to do some things with their personnel combinations. And we used lots of people on the field and they played well. So I was pleased to see that happen.”

Daily Blitz: Eli thinks he’s an “elite” dad

Does Eli Manning think he’s an E-L-I-T-E dad?

“I think I’m an elite dad, yes. I think so,” he told Steve Serby of the New York Post.

The two-time Super Bowl MVP is grasping the gifts of fatherhood, Serby writes, while he and his wife Abby raise their 16-month-old daughter, Ava.

“ ‘Dada’ is one of her favorites,” Manning said. “‘Ball’ was actually, I think, one of her first words. She’s big into any sort of football or basketball, baseball. She likes to pick ’em up, she’s got a pretty good arm so far, so she’s got a little coordination.”

QUICK HITS

>> WR Isaiah Stanback’s one-handed touchdown catch came in at No. 5 on NFL Network’s Top 10 plays of the preseason Week 1.

>> Q&A with Eli Manning: QB talks best Super Bowl catch and roughhousing with Peyton. [Jason Cole, Yahoo! Sports]

>> WR Hakeem Nicks passes physical and is eligible to practice for the first time since the Giants reported to training camp. [Giants.com]

>> DE Adrian Tracy dubbed ‘Young Os’ [Ryan Hayner, ESPNNewYork.com]