Loading ...After losing both Martin Parker (herniated disk) and Shaun Rogers (blood clot) for the 2012 season, the New York Giants were in desperate need of another defensive tackle. And as head coach Tom Coughlin indicated following the final training camp practice at the University at Albany, the team was quick to sign one, adding fifth-year veteran Carlton Powell.
Powell, a 2008 fifth-round pick of the Denver Broncos, suffered a ruptured Achilles during the offseason of his rookie year and was placed on the team's Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list before subsequently being waived in September of the same year.
After healing from his injury, Powell became a journeyman, spending time with the Cleveland Browns and the Broncos in 2009, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2010, the New York Jets and Atlanta Falcons in 2011, and finally the Carolina Panthers during mini-camp of this year.
Over his short NFL career, Powell has appeared in only three games -all with the Falcons in 2011- and has one tackle to his credit.
In addition to Powell, the Giants worked out two other (unidentified) defensive tackles on Tuesday and may be in the process of adding another. One name that is most frequently speculated is Jimmy Kennedy, who spent the 2011 season with the Giants and remains unsigned.
The team also attempted to claim defensive tackle Ronnie Cameron off of waivers from the Chicago Bears on Monday, but he was ultimately awarded to the Cleveland Browns, who had a worse 2011 regular season record than the other teams who put a claim in on him.
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Canty(PUP), LJ (starter), Austin (health ?), Bernard (starter), Hendricks (3d DT), Kuhn (4th DT), Powell (end of camp cut)
Lots of Tuck and JPP inside this year perhaps
At least that gets the big three on the field at the same time
I think Powell is just a preseason body.
If not, we’re in a lot of trouble.
Someone informed of Austin’s symptoms said his back locked up on him on Monday. The person, who requested anonymity because tests are ongoing and could continue tomorrow said the initial hope is it was merely a minor muscular injury and not a spinal condition.
http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2012/08/giants_sign_defensive_tackle_c.html
Starting to get worried about Austin, I mean hes a great “talent”. But he hasnt played in a while and cant seem to stay healthy. Not looking good
Agreed, I think we currently have to look at Simon’s boy Dwayne Hendricks as a possible starter. He was good enough to be active 3 games last year.
Any chance Fred Robbins comes out of retirement? He continued to play well in St Louis, think he is going on 35 now
I don’t like the sound of Austin’s back injury whatsoever. Back injuries always seem to linger and sap players of their strength. I hope Hendricks steps it up and fights for Shaun Rogers’ roster spot. And I wonder if Robbins really would come back for the minimum.
nothing as bad as being injury prone and unable to even give it a shot
let’s hope this one is minor and Austin will be able to go
I will say this, if these injuries push Kuhn into the rotation, let’s hope he plays well
just listening to him speak will be a treat
between him and Bennett, it could be a laugh a minute this season
I’m staying measured in my concern over Austin until we find out more. If it is indeed a muscular thing, it isn’t really surprising at all. The guy hasn’t played for two years and now in the last month has shocked his body with real football action. Even for a young guy going from nothing for two years to pushing against NFL caliber players is a shock to the system. It could very well be just his body adjusting. I remain optimistic until we hear reports otherwise.
Agreed. We’ve become conditioned to expect the worse for obvious reasons, but I’m not going to panic on him until we hear something.
Still, the DT situation kind of looks ugly. There’s basically no way we go into week 1 with three reliable options dressed.
Just keep your fingers crossed for Landfill. If he goes down we will have to call Jim Burt.
Think Eli Manning is good enough to be an NFL MVP? The oddsmakers put him in the Top 10. He’s the ninth-choice favorite to win that award, according to @BovadaLv (although he’s also behind six other QBs). The favorite is Packers QB Aaron Rodgers at 11-2 followed by Patriots QB Tom Brady (13-2), Saints QB Drew Brees (9-1), Eagles QB Michael Vick (10-1), Broncos QB Peyton Manning (10-1), Lions QB Matthew Staford (12-1), Texans RB Arian Foster (15-1), and Lions WR Calvin Johnson (15-1). Then comes Eli Manning and Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger at 18-1 each. … On the bright side, they do list Eli ahead of Tony Romo, who is tied for 11th at 22-1. #NYG
All I know is that Eli was the MVP in 2011, acknowledged or not. The Giants won the title and he carried them through most of the season until they clicked and then led them expertly through playoff games against very good teams that threw everything at him but still couldn’t beat him.
Six quarterbacks ahead of him? Arian Foster and Calvin Johnson ahead of him? Haha. Hey, at least it should keep a chip on his shoulder (and anyone who doesn’t think he has one, and wants to prove himself to all the millions of doubters, has never been around the very best athletes….Eli may come off as an “Aw Shucks” guy but he burns underneath the surface and has a need to prove himself even if he buries it under a veneer of casualness).
It sometimes seems as if there’s a conspiracy to help Coughlin keep the team edge thanks to their always feeling they get insufficient respect. I don’t know how or why this happened, but I love it.
This guy Powell is a camp body. But the kind of camp body who finds his way onto the back ends of rosters if enough other guys hit IR. Mostly, he’s just here to get the team through drills.
Any way you look at it now, Hendricks is going to be on this team out of the gate. It sounds like Canty won’t be ready, leaving only Linvall and Rocky as healthy DT’s. They could always find someone they like on the street (especially once the cuts start coming), but I’m not exactly sure you’ll find anyone as good as Hendricks at that point.
Besides, this is exactly what you develop young players for. The guy’s young, physically capable and has spent two years learning the system. He’ll be ready when called upon.
+1
Why I don’t hink my Hendricks confidence is where yours is given his familarity and his performance thus far finding someone better won’t be easy. Even if Austin is only out a short time hendricks right now is the favorite to man the 3rd DT spot.
The more I look at it I think 5 DT spots is very likely to man our openning 53.
One thing I think it’s safe to predict is that, just like last season, our opponents will start the season attacking our defensive middle. They will run between the tackles and throw into the middle zone. Any offensive coordinator is going to look at the defense and say “Let’s see what they’ve got at defensive tackle and MIKE, and let’s attack the young corners.”
So they’ll run, they’ll throw to the middle hoping to beat whomever is playing at MIKE, also expecting to draw Phillips and Rolle inside to help, and then throw at Amukamara and whomever is the #3 corner.
Before this spate of injuries at tackle I would have said “You aren’t going to be able to run on us, so that approach isn’t going to work since the MIKE will be able to drop enough that the safeties won’t have to cheat much toward the middle and will be able to help the corners a lot”. Now I’m not so sure. We are going to be awfully dependent on Linval Joseph playing great, Rocky Bernard holding up one more season, Chris Canty getting back to playing sooner rather than later, and Hendricks and whomever else starts the season in the rotation playing decently. We also have to hope that our MIKE plays at least as well as did Blackburn over the last six games last season. Of course, it would be a HUGE bonus if Prince and Hosley come on strong and we have a terrific trio of corners our there who don’t need a lot of help from the safeties. But even if we assume they will get there, it probably won’t be early in the season.
I figured we had a GREAT defense. We still might when players heal. But the first quarter of the season might be an adventure on defense once again. The defensive tackle position is much more critical than many realize.
I know we as fans believe we are always hit the worse by injury. I think in previous years that has been the case or at least we were in the ballpark. But looking the division the whole division is banged up. We just have to manage our injuries and hope there are few season ending ones. While guys like Canty, TT and Boley are concerning It apears as though they will be all back for our dreaded second half of the season and likely a sooner (much sooner hopefully for Boley).
I mentioned Boley could see time at MLB. Rightly, some responded that he’s not really a run stopper. I’d counter with neither is Blackburn, which is why he was sitting on his couch as rookie Greg Jones became the starting MLB last year.
I stand by my comment that if your DTs are garbagio, you can’t further handicap your team by taking even more good players off the field, which would be one of Boley and Williams. Boley’s already been responsible for calling plays on the defense, ostensibly he knows it enough to be where he needs to be.
Of course, if the coaches feel Herzlich is already a stud, then this goes away.