New York Giants Discussion

[Giantsfan1080]

Originally Posted by bigbluedefense

....it has begun.

Terrell Thomas has a swollen knee and was sent for further testing.

[Jughead10]

Originally Posted by Giantsfan1080

Terrell Thomas has a swollen knee and was sent for further testing.

His knee worries the crap out of me. If he isn't 100% we automatically become thin at CB especially if Hosley is hurt.

In other knee news, I was cleared to jog lightly today :) I'm hoping to be doing change of direction drills by the time the season starts. You never know. The Giants might need bodies by December.

[bigbluedefense]

He's not ready yet. Knees swell whenever you rush back from ligament tears. When I tore my MCL my knee swelled up when I first pushed it after I thought I was recovered.

I just hope he's ready by the regular season. They really need to baby him and be careful.

Let's hope he didn't reinjure it.

[Giantsfan1080]

Good thing we built up all that depth at CB.

[Giantsfan1080]

Hosley just had a cut and needed stitches so that's good. Two reporters have said that Coughlin sounds concerned in regards to Thomas though.

[NY+Giants=NYG]

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HAHA!

[Rosebud]

Man, and I was really excited for Hosley to.

EDIT: At least he'll be back. Provided Fewell minimizes the retardation I think he could have a very positive impact as a rookie NB.

[Giantsfan1080]

Sounds like the Thomas injury is bad.

[bigbluedefense]

Crap. Well...this is why we drafted Prince. Time to step up.

[Big_Pete]

Originally Posted by bigbluedefense

I know I'm being unfair. But I just don't like his game. He's a shrimp. A shrimp that can't go over the middle, and in our offense, if you're gonna be a small WR, you are best suited in the slot, and the slot in our offense goes over the middle a lot.

I just don't see a place for him in our offense.

Couldn't you make a simlar argument about Steve Smith?

I think Jernigan could fill a similar role as Manningham as that downfield threat. I think it is only fair to give Jernigan a chance to show what he can do.

As far as fitting our offense, I thnk you have to give the front office the benefit of the doubt at this stage. They have proven that they know what they are doing, even if it isn't obvious or the popular consensus.

[BamaFalcon59]

Hosley is about to step up!

[bigbluedefense]

We hope so! I don't think he's ready though. When in off coverage, he gives up too much space, and he doesn't have much press man experience so we don't know what he brings there.

And he kind of sucks at tackling.

He's a little raw to me, he needs a year to hone in on his skills. The raw talent is there though.

[BamaFalcon59]

He's so bad at tackling.

It depends on his attitude IMO as to what he will be in the league.

[BigBlueNorwegian]

Yeah, so T2 reinjured his ACL. He's probably done in the NFL now. Such a shame. Dude was a real player when healthy. Wish him the best of luck in his recovery, but no player has ever come back from three ACL tears before.

[OSUGiants17]

This is his 3rd ACL tear? Hasn't Hixon had 3 anyways?

[Giantsfan1080]

Yeah sounds like a partial tear so Thomas career is probably over. Such a shame.

[Forenci]

So lame. He was really good and a sure fire replacement to Webster. Now Prince needs to be that guy and we might be in the market for a CB next draft. It shot up the list in terms of priority because of this.

[Big_Pete]

With Thomas it all depends on how bad the "acl damage" is.

Hopefully it is not too serious and we can put him on PUP and get him back over the back half of the season.

If it is severe, do we look at an injury settlement or even cut outright? (we have a bit of money invested in Thomas which we could use elsewhere$
Or should we look at putting him on IR and hope he is right for next year?

Do we need to consider other moves?

[Jughead10]

You can't put him on PUP once he has participated in a practice.

[Giantsfan1080]

It's a partial tear which is what Hixon had last year. 99.5% that he's done for the year and probably career. Good thing we only gave him $2 million guaranteed.

[Jughead10]

I just hope he can get past the mental part of it and doesn't become depressed or anything like that. The guy basically just wasted a year of his life rehabbing.

[Giantsfan1080]

Originally Posted by Jughead10

I just hope he can get past the mental part of it and doesn't become depressed or anything like that. The guy basically just wasted a year of his life rehabbing.

It's going to be tough. The Giants will treat him well though. I wonder why it seems all our guys who tear their ACL's always re-tear them? Thomas, Hixon, Goff, Witherspoon. Something is weird.

[Jughead10]

Originally Posted by Giantsfan1080

It's going to be tough. The Giants will treat him well though. I wonder why it seems all our guys who tear their ACL's always re-tear them? Thomas, Hixon, Goff, Witherspoon. Something is weird.

Who knows. Although I'd separate Thomas from that list as his first one was at USC and not handled by our doctors or under our supervision.

[NY+Giants=NYG]

I really would like to see where we rank in the ACL injury dept. Also, like to see the routine the S&C coach has for these guys and compare it to a team who is consistently healthy, specifically knee injuries.

[bigbluedefense]

I guess its safe to say we're gonna sign Grant back very soon.

Unless Chris Horton tears it up. Even then we need Grant for depth.