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    OK Here It Is My Neg Tred of the Week

    in New York Giants

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    I don't care how bad the ground game is. 1.8 ypc is better than an incomplete pass. AND it keeps defenses honest.

     

    Oh and there is NO excuse for giving your pro bowl RB only 10 carries. That is simply retarded.

    We run Tiki less than 20, we lose. Then again, this is the same OC who uses the same gameplan each week, who somehow can't find a way to use his pro bowl TE, and gives a QB who is having protection issues 7 step drops.

    run, run, pass is how we should go.. then we have the option to throw short or long, cause after 2 runs it should be atleast 3rd and 6 or better

    Romo & Rivers

    in New York Giants

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    Romo will be an asterisk, and side arm quaterbacks don't last.

    A quarterback is only as good as thier O-line and RB.. in Rivers case he'll be fine for years to come.. as for Romo, he will fall apart in a year or too

    I love this.

    in New York Giants

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    I love when we're losing, and everyone jumps ship and complains about ANYTHING they can find.

     

    We lost the game because we were not the better team yesterday. This is still a good team, and they'll show you that when our players return healthy come playoff time. And if you're ranting and raving and jumping ship because of a little team slump, please never come back here, never root for this team again.

    I'm not upset that we lost... I'm upset the way we lost.. Tim Carter fumbles, Eli throws a horrible under-thrown pass to Plax, the lack of rushing attempts, and the horrible decisions Eli made... I saw 2 recievers open when he threw that int. in the first half... Gerrard flat out played hands down superiour football compared to Eli.. even the passes that were incomplete for Gerrard were nice passes

    Read between the lines of this article...

    in New York Giants

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    Now we all know the (Good) local beat reporters know the extent of the Giants injuries....the problem is if they write about it, all's they'll ever get from the team again would be who missed throwing thier coffee cup into the trash bin... :P

     

    So they shut up....but if ya read between the lines here & maybe I over exaggeratin here... but see section highlighted in red....Never ONCE heard any mention of broken hips... :cwy:

     

    It's (Ah achem) Painfully obvious who they're talking about with the mentioning of "Torn Pecs" Carlos, Pulled "Hammys & Muscles & QUADS" Moss, Madison, Concussions....But "BROKEN HIPS" Not in the last 3 years have I heard about ANY PLAYER on the giants having a broken hip....Unless they referring to OSI... :unsure: in a round about way!!! Why use those exact words....Why even sayt something like that???

    They can feel Giant pain

     

    Experts prescribe Big Blue flex time

     

    BY RALPH VACCHIANO

    DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

     

     

    From his spot in the tunnel behind the end zone, Ernie Accorsi has seen the pain in the faces of every one of his injured players this season. They walk or get carried right past him as they head for the trainers' room, and the GM always tries to look into their eyes.

    "Usually they'll reassure you," Accorsi says. "But you're around long enough that you can look at a guy's face and you just know its trouble."

     

    In the last four seasons, Accorsi and the Giants have seen more injury trouble than they ever could've imagined. They have placed 42 players on season-ending injured reserve since the start of the 2003 season - many of them key players. And that doesn't include another dozen who could have been placed on IR, and dozens more who have missed multiple games. An amazing 30 of those actually on the injured reserve list have come in Tom Coughlin's 2 � seasons, including four more (two of them starters) already this year.

     

    It was that kind of barrage of injuries that ruined Jim Fassel's final season (12 players on IR, a 4-12 record) and decimated the Giants late in 2005 (nine on IR, not including injured linebacker Antonio Pierce, and a first-round shutout loss in the playoffs).

     

    And with two defensive ends, two linebackers, a cornerback, a receiver and a left tackle currently out of their starting lineup, injuries are threatening to ruin what they hoped would be a Super Bowl run this year, too. "It's like being in a fight," Accorsi says, "and you just keep getting hit."

     

    That wasn't supposed to happen once Coughlin took over on Jan. 7, 2004. In his bold and forceful State of the Giants address to the media that day, he famously said injuries were "a cancer, let's face it. It's something that has to be corrected. It's a mental thing, I believe, as much as anything else."

     

    The implication was that he would fix what Fassel couldn't, and that maybe the Giants' players weren't tough enough to play through pain.

     

    Then, in Coughlin's first season at the helm, he placed 17 players on IR. Five more weren't healthy enough to play in the final game of the year.

     

    It's been enough to make even some of the Giants wonder what's going on at Giants Stadium. Why can't they stay healthy? Is it just bad luck? Or are the coaches, athletic trainers and medical staff doing something wrong?

     

    "I really think that you've got to look yourself in the mirror if you're the Giants and say 'Hey, we've got issues here,'" says Dr. Elton Strauss, the chief of orthopedic trauma and adult reconstruction at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. "It's not just in this season."

     

    Dr. Strauss, whose sports experience includes working with pro tennis players at the U.S. Open, is aware of the number and variety of injuries the Giants have had and they are "multi-factoral".

     

    He blamed some of them - most notably Michael Strahan's Lisfranc foot sprain - on the FieldTurf surface at Giants Stadium. And he chalked some up to the ferocity of the contact in football. "Though not that many guys get hurt by getting hit by another guy," he says. "It's usually something stupid."

     

    The biggest factor, according to Dr. Strauss, is likely the Giants' intense strength and conditioning program. He believes there is probably too much weight lifting, with not enough time off in between sessions. The players, he says "are so big and strong with their muscles, that their muscles don't have a chance to recover."

     

    "It's six months of constant playing, constant weight room," Dr. Strauss adds. "And then it's probably another five months of weight-room stuff. I think these muscles get too stiff, they just get too damn big, and they're just not flexible enough."

     

    That, of course, has been a growing problem for the NFL in this era of supplements - both legal and illegal - as players get bigger and more muscle-bound every year. The NFL insists it has a strong drug testing program and that illegal performance enhancers aren't a problem. But Dr. Strauss says even the legal ones the NFL doesn't test for - including some as mundane as caffeine, which can dilute a body's water content - that can lead to injury problems, too.

     

    "Who knows what supplements these guys are taking that are legal?" he says. "There are a lot of things you can't test for and everybody will take things to get a competitive edge."

     

    Jerry Palmieri, the Giants' strength and conditioning coach, was not available to discuss his strength programs or any supplements his players might be taking because Coughlin does not let his assistants talk to the media. Nor would the Giants make Ronnie Barnes, the Giants' VP of medical services, available, meaning that neither could address Dr. Strauss' recommendation of "more yoga and more pilates" in the Giants' training program.

     

    "I know that sounds like girly type of stuff," Dr. Strauss says. "But it's been proven. Something like that to try to get them a little more flexible might save them a hamstring or some other injury."

     

    Several Giants, however, are known to be involved in yoga and other flexibility-heavy programs. Amani Toomer is a yoga freak, yet that didn't prevent him from tearing the ACL in his right knee. And Luke Petitgout's extensive martial arts training during the offseason was of no help to him when another player rolled up the back of his now-fractured left leg.

     

    Al Green, a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame who currently serves as the head trainer and GM of the Lakeland Thunderbolts of the American Indoor Football Association, agrees with the need for more flexibility in any team's training program. But he also says when it comes to injuries, sometimes there's just nothing a team can do.

     

    "Part of it is a run of bad luck," says Green, who has also worked at the universities of Michigan and Kentucky. "You have good years and bad years, with absolutely no rhyme or reason. Sometimes you just unfortunately have those years."

     

    That's how the Giants see the issue, too. They have researched their training program, equipment, practice routines, and their field, and they've made changes to their routines that they thought might help. Yet a parade of players still heads to the trainers' room with concussions, torn ligaments in knees and ankles, broken bones, torn pecs, fractured hips, torn groins, fractured backs and pulled hamstrings and quads.

     

    "They're all over the place," Accorsi says. "If they were muscle tears, you'd say there's something wrong with the way we're stretching, or whatever. If it was all backs, then maybe it was something in the way we're lifting. But you're talking Lisfranc to a groin tear to a broken leg to a knee. And you're not talking about just on our field. It's on different fields.

     

    "It's not like we're just putting our head in the sand. We've looked at it and studied it and talked about it. We have a tremendous medical staff and absolutely the best trainer in the business. But there's no thread to it. There's just no pattern."

     

    So what about Coughlin's original proclamation, that this injury "cancer" is "mental as much as anything else"? Was that just an unfortunate choice of words - he backtracked when he was reminded of the quote on Monday, saying "That's not the case here" - or did he have a point?

     

    "Lombardi used to say that there's a difference between being hurt and being injured," Accorsi says. "The minor hurts, yeah a lot of those are mental. But not these things."

     

    "When you're hurt, you're hurt," Strahan adds. "The mental part of it, I don't know what that is. A lot of the things we've had over the last three years you just can't play with."

     

    Or, as Green puts it, "It's hard to mentally have a broken leg." ;)

     

    "Any good sports psychologist will tell you that if the person is upbeat, has a positive attitude, it may prevent some injuries," Green adds. "If you don't want to be there that day, you're not alert to what's going on, then you may be making the wrong step to where you cause that strain or sprain.

     

    "But there is no question, your No. 1 injury sport is football. Sometimes it amazes me dealing with a lot of football coaches that they're surprised when people get hurt. How come we're having injuries? Uh, we're playing football. Injuries are just a part of the game."

     

    Originally published on November 16, 2006

    RIP Giants of '07 :(

    we are on the verge of having one of the best teams on paper to get destroyed by injuries

    Giants Message Board Disappeared

    in New York Giants

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    i remember Floyd, NuttySack, Lockhart , Nosebleed etc .... were banned for life....but how do you keep them reappearing as Cronus, Deadalus, Disaster, Obrac .....like they do over at Giants.co. MB all the time when they get banned ? Do you have some superior technology here ?

    Anyway i have always liked Sportswrath boards and i always drop in most days so i hope it gets a bit more traffic.

    yes we do actually... we don't auto-validate, so all our global mods verify each account first... plus we banned the fab 4's IP's not names... so they can change thier name to horse shit for all we care... the same outcome will happen

    Giants Message Board Disappeared

    in New York Giants

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    if Jakk is already here ..... the SportsWrath Board will start to deteriorate into a mass of stupidity and nonsense very soon. ( lets replace Pierce with Blackburn etc etc. )

    .....and Lockhart wont be far behind !

    Lockhart and the rest of the Fag 4 were here... we banned them for life... don't worry about trolls... it won't happen here

    Endy Chavez Facts

    in New York Mets

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    Endy Chavez is so fast that when he goes after a fly ball, he has time to tie his shoes, shave, and call his mother while he waits for the ball to come down.

     

    Endy Chavez dropped a ball once. Once.

     

    70% of the earth's surface is covered by water. The rest is covered by Endy Chavez.

     

    Endy Chavez learned how to fly from Superman so he could dive for line drives.

     

    The Snow Cone is being renamed to the Endy Chavez.

     

    Endy Chavez doesn't climb over walls to catch the ball, he leaps over them in a single bound.

     

    Endy Chavez can play all three outfield positions. At the same time.

     

    Endy Chavez has to use a foam bat.

     

    Endy Chavez is so fast, he can steal first base.

     

    One time I saw Endy Chavez hop over the centerfield fence, hotwire a car, and drive 3 blocks to rob a home run from Andruw Jones.

     

    Endy Chavez can hit a five run homer.

     

    Endy Chavez was released by the Phillies 'cause he makes a better cheese steak than Pat.

     

    I saw Endy Chavez hit an inside the park home run. Running backwards.

     

    Endy Chavez taught Pedro his changeup.

     

    Endy Chavez doesn't cry.

     

    Endy Chavez can pitch with both hands.

     

    Albert Pujols keeps an Endy Chavez Topps rookie card in his locker for good luck.

     

    The new stadium for the Mets in 2009 will be called Endy Chavez Field.

     

    When the Expos moved to Washington, Endy Chavez carried the team on his back. The entire team. And the bat boy.

     

    Between innings, Endy Chavez dresses up as Mr. Met to entertain the fans.

     

    Endy Chavez is Willie's favorite player!

     

    Roger Clemens has a clause in his contract that he never has to face Endy Chavez.

    LOL :LMAO:

    Daisuke Matsuzaka...what are our chances?

    in New York Mets

    Posted

    The Japanese Nolan Ryan, where have we heard that before? :confused:

     

    I will keep the 25 mil, develop my own power arms(Pelfrey, Humber, to a lesser extent Perez) and go from there.

    we do need one vet as a starter though... this japanese guy has never hit against major league batters so I would be scared to purchase this guy

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