Jacobs heading under the knife

Ed called it too.

fall so outta favor with Coughlin…..i don’t buy that special teams excuse.

Anybody have a guess as to when he originally injured the knee and how long has he played with it? Although I thought most of his woes this year were due to poor OL play and poor game planning, maybe this is a more valid excuse. How would the Giant’s game plan have been different if he took care of this knee injury sooner and rested for a few games?

He just takes too much punishment. Could say the same thing about Bradshaw, frankly. Fortunately, there’s a bunch of RBs in this draft. Still, get well soon, big fella.

but what could we have done?

We couldn’t have rested Jacobs, because Bradshaw is going to break his foot at any moment, Ware was hurt/Coaches don’t trust him, and then we have Gartrell Johnson.
As cool as Gartrell was, he fumbled the ball on his 2nd or 3rd carry.

Also Ed, I’m going to put a Q&A post on the Vikings site, unless someone more senior on the site should do that. Last week, RolloT started it on the Panther’s site, so I just want to know if its alright that I can put it on the Daily Norseman

hope this doesnt linger with him in the offseason.. how long is the recovery for a partially torn miniscus??

smh… my first two names are Brandon Jacob …i kinda felt like it was me out there playing for the giants.. sniff.. lol

between this, AB’s foot, Seubert’s shoulder, Tuck’s shoulder, Osi’s knee, KP’s absense…

..Yea..definitely not the Giants year.

I was hoping the only offensive players they would draft this year or sign as FA’s would be an o-linemen the rest would be LBs, D-Tackles, and Safteys to replace our current JV unit out there.

I hate to say I told you so but I’ve always felt injuries would do the big guy in. You can’t be that big and Tall at the RB position in the NFL and not develop knee problems, you’re too exposed. Thats why compact guys like Tiki, Emmit, Curtis Martin, Walter Payton, Marshal Faulk last longer there stout and powerful but not very tall so they don’t take a lot of direct hits to the legs. 5-10 5-11 225 is the ideal size for a RB.

MG is reporting Chris Canty is hurt again, he has a sprained MCL and will undergo an MRI. I will bet a $1,000.00 he has a torn MCL and will be a non-factor next year.

JR’s 2009 FA signings have been the biggest front office disaster since George Young drafted Dave Brown in the 1992 supplemental draft.

Bernard – worthless has been a healthy scratch
CC Brown – won’t be in the NFL next year
Michael Boley – Wife beating injury prone soft LB who disrespected Harry Carson
CHris Canty – An absolute Joke, injured all year and ineffective when healthy.

If they don’t want to set the Franchise back and there is no cap in 2010 they’d save the franchise a lot of aggrevation if they just cut all four of those muts.

If JR has another offseason like last year he’ll be on the hotseat too becasue these moves have been Jet like in nature.

if he’s saying they just found it. We now know why Jacobs sucked this year.

problem? I’m not sure I buy it. They let him play through it. The thing with a scope it was possible it could have been done and he returned to play this season.

you just have to suck it up and deal with it. We were decimated with injuries at key positions (so it was harder to cover them up) and they played a large part in doing us in ultimately.
Jacobs, however, is injury prone anyway (and will continue to be), merely because he is looking for players to hit when he’s toting the rock; since he’s become known as a battering ram, players are looking to punish him. We’d better be looking at the available running back stash for 2010; hopefully JR can pull the rabbit out of the hat at the RB spot for next season.