kkr Posted September 3, 2011 Author Share Posted September 3, 2011 LB Phillip Dillard cut (yay!), QB Sage Rosenfels to IR, QB Ryan Perrilloux, T Jamon Meredith, T Jarriel King, WR Michael Clayton and C Chris White all cut. This means Paysinger, Williams, Jones and Herzlich all make the team. Thats some good young talent at LB, pleased they made it over Dilliard. Coughlin calls Clayton a "consummate pro ... When you have to let a guy like that go it eats away at you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 3, 2011 Author Share Posted September 3, 2011 Final 53: Offense (25) Quarterbacks (2): Eli Manning, David Carr Running Backs (4): Ahmad Bradshaw, Brandon Jacobs, D.J. Ware, Da’Rel Scott Fullbacks (2): Bear Pascoe, Henry Hynoski (Pascoe also plays tight end) Wide Receivers (6): Hakeem Nicks, Mario Manningham, Domenik Hixon, Devin Thomas, Victor Cruz, Jerrel Jernigan Tight Ends (2): Travis Beckum, Jake Ballard Offensive Linemen (9): David Diehl, Chris Snee, Kareem McKenzie, Will Beatty, David Bass, Stacy Andrews, Mitch Petrus, James Brewer, Kevin Boothe Defense (25) Defensive Linemen: [8]: Justin Tuck, Osi Umenyiora, Chris Canty, Linval Joseph, Jason Pierre-Paul, Rocky Bernard, Dave Tollefson, Jimmy Kennedy Linebackers (7): Mathias Kiwanuka, Jonathan Goff, Michael Boley, Jacquian Williams, Mark Herzlich, Greg Jones, Spencer Paysinger. Cornerbacks (5): Corey Webster, Aaron Ross, Michael Coe, Brian Williams, Prince Amukamara Safeties (5): Antrel Rolle, Deon Grant, Kenny Phillips, Tyler Sash, Derrick Martin Specialists (3) Kicker (1): Lawrence Tynes Punter (1): Steve Weatherford Long Snapper (1): Zak DeOssie I think we should seriously look at Donald Lee and Joselio Hanson, both would make us stronger and we could likely add both at the expense of a safety and corner. Pleased all the young LBers made it as well as D Scott, Weatherford and Carr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 3, 2011 Author Share Posted September 3, 2011 Oh and "Hynocerous" too, looking forward to seeing him develop and hopefully get involved in the passing game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Think we look a bit weak in TE/WR/CB, but otherwise it's a decent enouggh team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 4, 2011 Author Share Posted September 4, 2011 We also have Barden and Koets on PUP, so they will be available to be activated from week 6 onwards. Id like us to pick up TE Donald Lee who is an upgrade on what we have now and CB Joselio Hanson who would then start at nickel for us too. Interesting that Pascoe is listed as a FB first and then/also a TE. We made a play for FB John Kuhn from the pack in free agency so im wondering if we will see more full house sets with both our FB's in the backfield with Bradshaw or Jacobs. I like what Green Bay do out of their full house formation, especially with Kuhn so im hoping we can see something similar in our playbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 5, 2011 Author Share Posted September 5, 2011 Week 1 @ Skins and Week 3 @Philli are both live on Sky. Week 2 is MNF on ESPN vs St Louis. Dont have ESPN but always going to be a stream for MNF so that is the first three Giants games covered without too much hassle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 Jonathan Goff torn acl in practice. There are no words. Talk of bringin in Kawika Mitchell again which i would welcome, but to be honest id rather see Greg Jones take over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 8, 2011 Author Share Posted September 8, 2011 This is awesome: Looks like #53 is going to be the guy come sunday which i am most pleased about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 8, 2011 Author Share Posted September 8, 2011 Looks like Tuck could be out the weekend too with a neck injury. News just gets better doesnt it! Id move Kiwi from LBer to end and then get two of the young guys starting at LBer. Gotta be Herz and Jones if thats the case imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Not very confident, even if it is the Skins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 10, 2011 Author Share Posted September 10, 2011 Tuck practised Friday so hopefully he can go. Here is a nice article on Herzlich. Cancer survivor Herzlich overcomes odds to make New York Giants roster By Kate Fagan Inquirer Staff Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Earlier this week, Mark Herzlich walked off the Giants practice field drenched with sweat and fallen rain, wearing the dark blue synonymous with New York's oldest football team. A few minutes later, the Conestoga High graduate pulled off his No. 58 jersey - he wears the number formerly worn by Giants defensive captain Antonio Pierce - and pulled on a light-colored T-shirt with a neon slogan across the chest. Find Your Strong. Those three words, printed in bright yellow, popped off the shirt's blue-green background; an inch above Herzlich's heart seemed like an appropriate place for an inspiring message. Herzlich, 24, understands precisely what Saucony - the athletic company sponsoring the Giants rookie linebacker - means by Find Your Strong: Inside each of us exists a surprising strength; we need only find and harness it. You can run that last mile. You can work that second shift. You can battle the deadly cancer attacking your dream of playing in the NFL, attacking your entire existence. Which is exactly what Herzlich had to do. Herzlich has been Finding His Strong for a few years now. But this story isn't about Herzlich's fight with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. Dozens of stories, both in print and on TV, have documented that rocky road: the diagnosis in his left femur, the radiation, the chemotherapy, the insertion of a 12-inch rod into his left leg to strengthen the weakened bone, and his triumphant return to Boston College's football team in 2010 after missing the entire 2009 season. These torturous months have been covered so extensively that Herzlich's teammates - he officially made the Giants roster at 6 p.m. last Saturday - joke about the extra attention he receives, interest clearly not commensurate with a typical NFL rookie. "When ESPN was featuring him, I was joking around with him because I've gotten to know him pretty well," said rookie defensive back Tyler Sash. "We've hung out a lot during camp. Even though it's only been six weeks, it feels like it's been a lot longer than that. I always joke with him about him being on SportsCenter every day all of the time." And then Sash explained exactly what this story is about: "I think, honestly, I don't think he wants a feel-good story anymore. People know all about it. His goal was to make the team. He made the team, and after that, he just wants to go out and play football." Herzlich will play his first NFL game on Sunday when the Giants play at the Washington Redskins. He is one of four rookie linebackers kept by Giants coach Tom Coughlin, a tactical decision that will be immediately tested after Monday's season-ending injury to starting linebacker Jonathan Goff. Coughlin won't just depend upon Herzlich for a few hard-nosed plays on special teams - although all Eagles fans know Coughlin's Giants could use some help in that department - but he'll likely send No. 58 in as a linebacker, too. "I think I'm getting close," Herzlich said of his improvement. "I think to play at the dominating level that I did in college in the NFL is going to require improvement regardless. But I think I'm close to getting back to where I was." After the 2008 college football season, just before the pain began in his left leg, the 6-foot-4 Herzlich was a surefire, first-round draft pick. Two years later, after ridding his body of cancer and playing his senior season at Boston College, Herzlich went undrafted and become a free agent. Herzlich looked at the Giants roster and believed that with his abilities at multiple linebacker spots and also with his potential on special teams, he could carve out a spot on the team's 53-man roster. He signed with New York at the end of July. "When I signed I thought I was going to make it just because that kind of had to be my attitude going in," Herzlich said. "I had to believe that. Otherwise I wouldn't stand a chance." Giants co-owner John Mara, a graduate of Boston College, told reporters that he suggested the team sign Herzlich but not as a charity case. The franchise believed in him as a prospect, thinking that if Herzlich could return himself to pre-cancer form, the Giants would have snagged a first-round pick at a bargain-basement price. Herzlich approached training camp with a workmanlike attitude: He showed up early for treatment, watched all of the film he could, and spent his nights resting. "Herzlich didn't bat an eye the whole camp," Coughlin told reporters. "Physically, he did everything you asked and more. I saw him improve literally week by week." In the team's second preseason game, a win over the Chicago Bears, Herzlich intercepted a ball near the goal line. In the team's fourth preseason game, he recorded a sack. Although Herzlich said those two moments showed he can "make plays when they come to me," he believes he made the roster because the staff recognized his daily work in the film room and consistent improvement. "It's just such an inspiring story," said rookie fullback Henry Hynoski, who roomed with Herzlich during preseason camp. "When I found out I was rooming with him, I was excited to get to know him. And I was just as happy when I found out he made the final 53 as I was when I made it." All bubble players, Herzlich among them, knew if they didn't receive a phone call by 6 p.m. Saturday, they'd made the team. Herzlich went to breakfast with a few of his teammates at IHOP, watched from a local Chili's as Boston College lost its season-opening game, and then joined his parents, who had driven in from the family's home outside of Philly and arrived about an hour before the roster deadline. When his cellphone showed the time - 6:03 - he knew he'd made the team. "My mom cried a little bit, actually, because she's good at crying," Herzlich said. "I think my mom is also pretty good at looking at the big picture on things, and I live more in the moment. When she was crying, it made me think. It's been an emotional roller coaster for a long time now, and this is nearing the top of the climb." Hynoski has seen enough of his roommate to know he'll keep making each step forward: first beating cancer, then returning to the football field, now making an NFL roster, next making plays for an NFL team. "He's all desire and all heart," Hynoski said. "If he wants to get there, he'll get there; if he makes up his mind . . ." Hynoski paused to correct himself, and then finished the sentence. "His mind already is made up." Translation? Find Your Strong. link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Tuck out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claret75 Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 More news...giants get beaten by scrub team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Usually I don't like people trolling when their team wins. But I guess Skins fans aren't used to it, so I won't bother complaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 12, 2011 Author Share Posted September 12, 2011 More news...giants get beaten by scrub team. Spoken like a troll of a scrub team who pulled out a decent result for a change. Way to act like you knocked us out the playoffs or something in week 1. What an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Redskins wins over Giants since 2008: 1 Giants Super Bowl wins since 2008: 1 That's their first win over us in 7 attempts, so I can understand his excitment, it's like a Super Bowl win for them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 hahhaaaa, I love the way you lot bite :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 hahhaaaa, I love the way you lot bite :-) Very much. Skins played well, Eli sucked. Be interesting to see how each team does in the rest of the season, I can honestly see the Skins clinching second place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Last time we lost our opening game to a divisional rival we went all the way. Gotta stay positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted September 12, 2011 Author Share Posted September 12, 2011 I just want us to simplify the offense, the receivers we have dont have the smarts to make as many adjustments that is required from them in this system. If we ran a west coast offense then our passing game would be very good indeed. Its not going to happen though while we still have Gilbride and Coughlin, its Coughlins offense. He doesnt make it easy for himself. Even more important than that though, we need to run the ball! 6 touches for Jacobs yesterday, 19 rushes in total not counting Eli's blown play scramble for the score is not good enough. I would give Jacobs the first 10 carries in every game to pound the defense then mix and match with Bradshaw up to a total of 25-30 rushes a game. As every year we are coming out of a loss moaning about play calling. Now if the Skins had shutdown our running game i would understand but it was working so Kilbride needs to stick with it. Id also give Jacobs more carries against the 3-4 teams, Bradshaw doesnt run as well against solid 3-4 teams. Even with the depleted line we shutdown the skins running game which is pleasing, but we are going to need Tuck and Osi back to protect that very very weak back 7 in pass coverage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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