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Giants lose DE Osi Umenyoria for the year

It's really the nightmare scenario for any fan. One of your important players lost for the season... in a meaningless preseason game. Giants fans are living that nightmare with the news that pro bowl DE Osi Umenyoria is done for the year.

New York Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora will have season-ending surgery on his injured left knee Tuesday.

Umenyiora was hurt in the second quarter of Saturday's preseason game against the New York Jets, and Dr. Russell Warren told the team on Sunday that an MRI found a tear in his lateral meniscus.

"It was obviously the news that I did not want to hear," coach Tom Coughlin said. "But after listening to the explanation and Dr. Warren's thoughts on it, I am convinced that this is the right procedure and the right way to go."

That makes 2 pro bowl defensive ends that the Giants have lost this season,  Umenyoria to injury and Michael Strahan to retirement. The word is that the Giants may try to lure the 36 year old Strahan, who now works for Fox Sports, out of retirement. Either way, the Giants' pass rush went from a tremendous strength to a major question mark before the season has even begun. I want to beat the Giants twice this year in the worst way... but I'd like to do it with all hands on deck. You never want to see guys get hurt.

It was actually a tough day all around for pro bowl DEs... Shawne Merriman found out that he's been playing with two torn ligaments in his left knee.  Doctors were surprised that he had been able to play on such an injury before they discovered it. I have an idea how he may have played through the pain... how about a butt full of steroids?

It's never good to see a guy get injured, but if there's one guy that deserves to be an example of what happens when you cheat and pump your body full of steroids... it's Merriman. Steroids aren't magic cure alls. When you artificially strenghten yourself one place, it can weaken you in others.

Rant over.

Redskins DE Jason Taylor sprained his knee and may not be ready to play the Skins season opener. Not a major injury, but definitely a concern when it happens to a guy that's 34. By the way, Taylor was injured in a 47-3 loss to the Panthers. 47-3?

Speaking of old guys getting hurt, Brian Dawkins' ankle seems fine and he is likely to be ready to go by the season opener.

“Just from my past experiences with things like this, I didn’t feel anything different than what I was thinking that it was just a sprain,” said Dawkins, who said the ankle has improved significantly. “It’s just one of those things that, when you have an injury after the game, you get a little sore. After that, it starts feeling a lot better.”

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Every year the Preseason claims someone

as it’s victim by injuring a key player. They’ve lost 4 key starters now, Osi, Strahan, Gibril Wilson, and Kawika Mitchell. That’s pretty tough to rebound from when your D was such as huge part of their success.

It’s not too unrealistic now to see the Giants as the potential odd team out if the East has 3 teams in again.

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by MrNFL on Aug 24, 2008 7:37 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Good thing

weapon X is all set to go. The man’s a natural leader, and hes only one year removed from one of the best seasons of his career.

by CMax on Aug 24, 2008 8:11 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Jason

Most of the players in the NFL and other professional, and olympic athletes use steroids. Don’t be so naive that just because merrimane got caught that no one else is doing it. so to insinuate he deserves it is quite wrong especially when there are guys on the eagles that use or have used steroids or hgh.

When Ben Johnson got his medal taken away carl rove failed for 4 substances and 2000 other olympians failed also. however they put in an “inadvertant use rule” to allow them to get away with it.

There are such things as drug tested events but not drug free events.

by Joe_D on Aug 24, 2008 8:33 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

u talk too much shit dude

by Remis on Aug 24, 2008 9:20 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

shut up.

i wasnt talking shit.

by Joe_D on Aug 24, 2008 10:58 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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exhibit ‘a’

by Remis on Aug 25, 2008 1:26 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I’m sure there are other guys who use and I never said otherwise. In fact we know that half of the panthers team that beat us in the nfccg were on the juice. But the fact is that merriman got caught under the same testing system that every player in the NFL is subjected to. Merriman is definetly guilty, it’s not fair to paint everyone with that brush. Just because he may not be the only guy doesn’t make what he did any less wrong.

by JasonB on Aug 24, 2008 9:53 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

my point is

most professional athletes are using some sort of drugs. drugs in sports are here to stay whether the fans like it or not. Trust me, I’ve met a lot of strength coaches, a few players in the NFL and a few olympic athletes. There is a lot more going on then what the public thinks or knows about steroids.

Like I said, drug testing is bull shit. It can be passed, and it’s not very strict. Ever since the steroid scandals broke out sports revenue has increased, so why would any of the officials change anything?

by Joe_D on Aug 24, 2008 11:01 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

That’s all fine. It doesn’t change the fact that Shawne Merriman was caught and he’s guilty. If he was going to be an example of how good steroids can make you, he should also be an example of how badly they can mess you up. That’s my whole point.

by JasonB on Aug 25, 2008 8:45 AM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Preach on JasonB!!! I agree 100%. He was caught, guilty and is now being punished for it. We all know steroids is all over professional sports, but maybe with a few “injuries” like this people will think twice before taking them again.

by slandog on Aug 25, 2008 11:12 AM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

This is too funny.
When Ben Johnson got his medal taken away carl rove failed for 4 substances and 2000 other olympians failed

Whats soo funny about this?

carl rove

Read about him in Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rove

Wasn’t he accused of outing some covert spies.
HaaHaa, I didn’t know that Carl Rove used steroids. Maybe George Bush will play WR, as long as he isn’t juicing, right?

Dallas Sucks

by yophillybro on Aug 26, 2008 1:06 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

How did this get to the topic of steroids??

This was supposed to be about Osi being out for the year. I can honestly say that me and Winston Justice are as happy as can be. Osi might be a nice guy but i am truly happy he is injured. That seems like a mean thing to say but we never got any sympathy when mcnabb or one of our stars went down. F the giants. Time to re occupy the seat at the bottom of the NFC east again.

by andyb on Aug 25, 2008 6:51 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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