Loading ...Just when you think the injury news can't get any worse … it does. The New York Giants released their final injury report for Sunday's game against the Cleveland Browns, and it wasn't pretty. In addition to wide receiver Hakeem Nicks (knee/foot), who was ruled out on Thursday, defensive tackle Rocky Bernard (hip), cornerback Jayron Hosley (hamstring), wide receiver Ramses Barden (concussion) and safety Kenny Phillips (knee) have all been officially ruled out.
The hemorrhaging doesn't stop there. Oh no. Offensive tackle David Diehl (knee) and linebacker Keith Rivers (hamstring) are both listed as doubtful and unlikely to play.
Had enough yet? Too bad. There's more.
Cornerback Corey Webster (hamstring/hand), guard Chris Snee (hip) and safety Antrel Rolle (knee) are all listed as questionable and will likely be game-time decisions.
If there's any good news to be had, it's that cornerback Michael Coe (hamstring) and center David Baas (hand) are probable.
With Bernard out, rookie Markus Kuhn and second-year player Marvin Austin become extremely important to the Giants' interior defensive line. Meanwhile, rookie Rueben Randle will also be relied on to step up at wide receiver, while Mitch Petrus may get the start for Snee if he's unable to play on Sunday.
With what will be seven injury-related inactives, it means rookie tight end Adrien Robinson will be active for the first time this season and that defensive end Adewale Ojomo, assuming he doesn't get released to make room for safety Tyler Sash, will also be active for the first time in his young career.
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If they release Ojomo in order to keep Scott they are absolutely crazy.
Trent Richardson must be really excited today. Probably hopes he can get 30 touches, both runs and short passes.
We do need a good game from Kuhn and Austin. And while I’ve been hoping they would displace Blackburn this looks like a game where he would be good. He’s far better against the run than the pass.
Well 55 I had the same first four (4) words come out of my mouth………
If one of the young DE’s had to go for Sash, I would have to pick Marshal.
But even he displayed solid fundemental skill. With both Tuck and Osi searching for rocking chairs, I would be hard pressed to let any of the kids go.
And I would be pushing Tracy (I think he’s hurt too) into the lineup.
Marshall is on PS. It would between Scott, Ojomo and Tracy.
Think about this:
With the Giants likely to have 7 injured inactives on Sunday and 3 others that may not be able to play, plus 2 QBs, 1 Punter, 1 Kicker and 1 Long Snapper, that leaves the team with 38 rotational guys.
Of those 38 guys, 2 (Robinson & Ojomo) have never taken an NFL snap. Meanwhile, Marvin Austin has played less than 15 NFL snaps and both David Wilson and Rueben Randle are rookies.
Ultimately, this leaves the Giants with only 33 rotational players with any legitimate NFL experience.
This is where a defensive coach who ROTATES his players well comes in handy. My fear is that the Browns may just keep running Richardson at us, that Fewell may prove dumb enough, once again, to play his starters to exhaustion, and that things could get ugly in the second half.
I think the “maybes” will play, mostly because they HAVE to. This could be a very weird game.
Yikes, Yikes, and double Yikes
Hey! Those are my lines ;-)
The silver lining is these kids will be ahead of the game come seasons end, and for sure next season. And we all know TC will not play a kid unless hell and high water are on the way. Well, the news is both hell and high water are HERE.
So the only good is experience for the kitty corps and hopefully the veteran’s man up and support these youngsters. It’s the only way the team gets through this plague. And it’s going to be three weeks of this at the very least.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls introducing the new look New York Giants.
Well that sucks to the upteenth degree. And out of those 33 with legitimate experience how many aren’t feeling sorry for themselves today? Bring on the rookies maybe they’ll bring some life back to this team. Somebody needs to shake them up and get them out of this funk. They’re only four games into the season. Now is not the time for them to feel sorry for themselves.
Yeah where is the swagger that most teams have after winning the Super Bowl? Green Bay came out last year and went 15-1. In 2008 we were the best team until Plax shot himself. You don’t want them to get complacent, but they are the defending champs. Maybe someone needs to remind them of that.
Whatever gypsy John Mara must have pissed off years ago placed one hell of a curse on us, riddling us with injuries year after year. There’s only one real solution to this – we need to find her and kill her, ASAP.
The better question is who is the gypsy the Baltimore Ravens have befriended and make friends with her for good health.
Well, in all fairness, the Ravens don’t have to worry about pissing off gypsies, not with Ray “what murder, lol?” Lewis making sure the gypsies keep their mouths shut.
Everybody is practicing for the Ravens. That’s all I was getting at.
I know, I know, I was just messing around :)
As far as I know, no outstanding gypsy curses currently effect any NFL teams :)
On the perception that Nicks is injury prone.
At first glance you look at the number of games he’s played his first 3 years and you wouldn’t even think it. I think the perception comes from the fact that he’s been on the injury report a lot throughout his young career. However, while this highlights his propensity to get banged up, it also highlights his toughness. He is able to play through a lot of dings and some more serious stuff. This shouldn’t be undervalued because a lot of guys can’t play with some of the stuff he’s played with.
As for his career outlook I expect that Nicks will continue to deal with some injuries. It’s just the way his body type is and the way he plays / runs. Reminds me a lot of Bradshaw and Marion Barber the way they stomp every step. And he doesn’t shy from contact either. But as long as he’s able to manage his injuries they shouldn’t be a problem going forward. So yes, it’s a fair statement that he’s injury prone. But you also have to mention how tough the kid is. And his injuries stem from his body type and running style I believe, not lack of conditioning.
The guys with the constant hamstring problems, that drives me nuts.
He plays hard and physical. That in its self leads to injuries. He’s tough and if and when he can back out there he will be.
Yeah I should have prefaced this message with “I love Hakeem Nicks”, or “Hakeem Nicks” is probably one of my favorite Giants ever” or “Hakeem Nicks is a top 5 WR in the NFL”
All by the way are true. The statement about his injuries wasn’t meant as a diss to him, just plain old un researched, off the top of my head analysis.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I didn’t take it as a dislike for him. I was merely agreeing. He is an awesome player and if it wasn’t for my families curse that when we buy a players Jersey they incur season and sometimes career ending injuries.
No I didn’t think you did. It’s just sometimes on here, well most of the time on here actually, I don’t articulate my points well. And people end up getting a different message entirely then what I was trying to convey.
That extra blurb was to make sure other people didn’t think I was hating on the guy because I wasn’t. I love the dude.
Stop.buying.jerseys. Seems simple enough.
This game could turn ugly, but if there’s a silver lining, it could be that someone unexpected steps up. Austin? Randle?
I’d be very tempted to start the Prince and Michael Coe at corner.
Stevie Brown and Will Hill. You heard it here first.
I’ll go there. I’d also give Ojomo some snaps. If Fewell is surprised that an NFL team has speed, he might look at his own with the same object in mind.
From “Being and Nothingness” by Jason Pierre Paul Sartre:
What are we then if we have the constant obligation to make ourselves what we are if our mode of being is having the obligation to be what we are? Let us consider this defensive end in the NFL. His movement is quick and forward, a little too precise, a little too rapid. He bends forward a little too eagerly; his voice, his eyes express an interest a little too keen to effectively deceive the opposing tackle.
All his behavior seems to us a game. He applies himself to changing his movements as if they were mechanisms, the one regulating the other; his gestures and even his voice seems to be mechanisms; he gives himself the quickness and pitiless rapidity of things. He is playing, he is amusing himself. But what is he playing? We need not watch long before we can explain it: he is playing at being a defensive end in the NFL. There is nothing there to surprise us.
Oy. Once we get to Kierkegaard you’ve lost me. The last good philosopher alive was Spinoza. After him the deluge.
From ‘Futility of Being’ by Justin Tuck:
Why do we continue living if….ah, screw this, I suck at writing.
Damn Norm, that was some real @s$ $h#.t you just wrote there.
- Angel Lugo
I was going to throw myself out the window with the doom and gloom but two things stoppped me – First , Im on the ground floor so the result would perhaps be a headache and not much more . Then Norm saved the day . Im hoping what he wrote was humorous and not a bitter diatribe against something we know not what .But Im still digesting it and I cant really tell yet .
Previously , I have oft opined (hey , if Norm can wax however he waxes then so can I ) that one of the strengths of the Giants has been the quality of its backups . We are about to have that straw clutched hard and we will find out soon enough if the Giants backups are not merely inferior substitutes but rookies who have a large upward potential and are awaiting their coming out party as Cruz did last year .