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The last thing the New York Giants needed was to sustain more injuries on Sunday, but early on in the first quarter that's exactly what happened. While returning a kickoff, running back Andre Brown suffered a possible concussion when the back of his head bounced off the MetLife Stadium turf. He was promptly brought to the locker-room and would not return to the game.
Already this season, the Giants have seen wide receivers Domenik Hixon and Ramses Barden miss games due to concussions, but the young running back promptly tweeted that he was "OK."
Unfortunately, tweeting during games is a violation of the NFL's Twitter policy, and although the tweet has since been removed, Brown is likely facing a stiff fine.
"Players, coaches and football operations personnel can use Twitter, Facebook and other social media up to 90 minutes before kickoff, and after the game following traditional media interviews. During games, no updates will be permitted by the individual himself or anyone representing him on his personal Twitter, Facebook or any other social media account," said the NFL when they implemented their policy.
The original timestamp showed Brown's tweet went through at 2:12 PM EST.
By comparison, the NFL fined Chad Johnson $25,000 in 2010 for violating the Twitter policy. And with Brown earning only $465,000 this season, a fine of that significance would really hurt him financially … especially since he was already fined $15,750 for a horse collar tackle made during a week two win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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MY LAST POST EVER ON RAMSES BARDEN
To be a WR in the our offense you need to do 1 of these two things.
1. Make a catch while being covered. Check out Eli’s career highlights and see how many times his WR’s make plays on the ball. That’s part of our offense.
2. Run incredible routes and find soft spots in the zones. For examples, see Steve Smith pre knee injury, Ike Hilliard.
- Ramses Barden posses neither of these two skills.
- These are facts. The Barden supporters offer a week 3 game @ Carolina. 1 game in a 3 plus year career, while playing for the best QB in football!!!!! Pathetic.
- Perhaps in the 80′s when teams rarely put 3 WR on the field at once, Barden could pass as a #3 WR. Unfortunately it’s 2012, and offenses, including ours, routinely line up with 3-5 wide. In this sense Barden is not even a #5 WR.
- 4TH Q Eagles game. The one time Barden gets a step on a DB in his life, the safety bites on a play fake and Eli lays the ball in perfectly. For most WR’s they’re looking at house work or at least 20-30 YAC. Barden almost drops the ball and stumbles all over himself. That plays says all you need to know about the kid.
- He is not an NFL caliber WR. And the sooner he is off our team, the sooner we can give his reps to a WR that actually has some ability to be developed.
Now onto things that are actually relevant to this team.
And yes I realize the facts I offered above have a liberal bias.
I can’t imagine a more physical, angry defense than the one we will see next Sunday. Once the game starts, the only thing I will care about is winning. But right now, on monday morning, the only thing I really care about is Eli getting out of there in one piece.
Will Beatty has looked great so far this season. Going 4 Q’s against Justin Smith will be the toughest test of his career. I’ll consider it a passing grade as long as Eli doesn’t get hurt. Right now that’s my only concern for next week, just getting the team out relatively healthy. Especially #10. I may complain about Barden, but the one thing I really don’t want to ever see is David Carr taking meaningful snap for us.
I bet they don’t hammer Brown too bad for that tweet, since it was about his health status.
He was also concussed.
I wonder if Brown wouldn’t be better off implying he had a concussion BEFORE the kickoff return. It might explain why he decided to take a kick from 8-yards deep in the end zone out in an attempt to make a big play (and get tackled around the 10-yard line). I love the kid, but that was a dumb move. Some blame may also belong to Wilson for not insisting he down the ball, but I couldn’t tell from where I was sitting what it was Wilson said to him as Brown fielded the ball.
Bradshaw must have been sent a memo that said “Hit the damned hole hard and then worry about the extra yardage”. He ran yesterday much like he did in his rookie season and seemed rejuvenated. It was great to see. I remember wondering what was going on that next year when both he and Jacobs seemed to be trying to “read” the defense in an effort to break big plays when the year before they had played with less “sophistication”. They had a great year on the ground in 2008 and it seemed to me that in 2009 they started hesitating as they approached the line, which was never going to work for BJ, who was getting stopped before gaining the momentum that had made him a scary prospect for all defensive backs in the league who had to think about taking him on once he got past the LOS, and started Bradshaw’s clear decline in productivity. By 2010 I attributed it to his injuries and constant refusal to just take the 3-5 yards that were there in an effort to get 20 yards. By last season I was just about convinced he had become just an ordinary running back, and had remained so this season, until yesterday. Now, this Browns’ defense is not a great one, but they HAVE been effective at stopping the run, even doing a pretty good job against Ray Rice. So having a 200-yard game against them is meaningful. Mr. Bradshaw looked rejuvenated (and just a bit like he’d seen Andre Brown run and realized that Brown’s style should be his and that his job was at least somewhat in question).
Next Sunday will be a huge test for Ahmad. And whomever is the Giants #2 running back next week needs to get more touches, because if Bradshaw runs the ball 30 times per game for much longer we’d all better hope that Andre Brown and David Wilson can carry the team because Bradshaw won’t last into December.
Now, there was NOTHING not to like about the running game yesterday. Bradshaw was great, and we saw the first great play by David Wilson whom, I think, is going to be a Pro Bowl running back and among the league’s elite. His acceleration through that gap was something no one can be taught. You either have it or you don’t. There may be 3-4 running backs in the league who have that burst, and most of them aren’t nearly as powerful as is Wilson. Reese/Ross & Co. got us an absolute blue-chipper. But, I sure hope Andre brown does not have a concussion and that he can contribute mightily against the Niners on Sunday.