Giants receiver Plaxico Burress is attending a mandatory minicamp.  But he claims he won’t be practicing unless and until he receives a new contract.

Of course, Burress rarely practiced in 2008, and it didn’t stop him from being effective.  So the team shouldn’t be worried, right?

Wrong.

Center Shaun O’Hara has made his displeasure with Burress known.

“Either you are with us or you are against us,” O’Hara said on Thursday.  “And I think the players are doing a good job of focusing in on their daily tasks and their jobs, and as long as we all continue to do that, this team will succeed.

“I think there is a right way to do things,” O’Hara added.  “I have always felt that as a player, you go out there and put your best foot forward and, as a long as you are giving 100 percent effort every time, you’ll be taken care of.”

Coach Tom Coughlin chimed in as well.  “Naturally I want everybody on the field,” Coughlin said.  “We anticipated the camp being the camp. We want everybody out here.  The quarterback wants everybody out here.  The quarterback wants to throw to people; he wants to work with people.  That is what a minicamp is for.”

But the Giants have options, as will be explained in a SportingNews.com item to be posted on Friday.  We can’t figure out why the Giants aren’t taking advantage of the devices at their disposal to deal with a player who refuses to do his job.

Meanwhile, the PFTV guys take a look at the new non-holdout holdout phenomenon, in which Burress and Bengals receiver Chad Johnson have engaged.