Pierre-Paul practiced with the team last Wednesday and Thursday for the first time since last December, when the Giants had a different defensive coordinator and he hadn’t been through a traumatic and damaging fireworks accident.
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Even with an amputated finger, Pierre-Paul could still be one of the premier pass rushers in football.
“I could never get a word out of them the whole game”, Coughlin said. “Obviously we’re all happy he is back in the fold”. “I just wish we could have come out on top of it”. I have admired him from afar. The two-time Pro Bowler has brought down the quarterback 42 times in five seasons and recorded 12.5 sacks last season alone. The trainers and people are just telling me to take it day-by-day. “But as far as going out there, I’m not going to put myself in jeopardy”.
Pierre-Paul’s conditioning doesn’t seem to be at the core of the problem, something he admitted when he shared how two weeks after his hospital stay, he was climbing 15 flights of stairs. The team said he plans to talk Friday. That’s when they re-instated the 15-yard penalty that set up Kai Forbath’s game-winning, 50-yard field goal.
“We knew going into the game it would be a big test for us, because they were a hot team, playing well, and this is a tough place to win”, said Coughlin.
TEXANS: J.J. Watt, who missed a practice this week with a minor back injury, is expected to play against Tennessee on Sunday.
Instead of protecting his chief asset, the athleticism that few in the world possess and all that comes with it, JPP chose to play with fireworks powerful enough to wreak havoc.
I couldn’t help thinking about an old college roommate of mine from Paulding, once a promising premedical student with an eye on a career as a surgeon, that is, before the summer when he chose to celebrate the Fourth of July by attempting to throw an M-80 out of a vehicle window, only to have it bounce off the window’s frame and land in his lap. Pierre-Paul returned on Monday.
“He is JPP for a reason”, Beason said.
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“When I’m ready, I’m going to be ready and I’m going to be able to fully go”. Cruz injured his knee last season against the Eagles and has not played a regular season game since. WR Odell Beckham (hamstring), G Geoff Schwartz (ankle), and LB Uani ‘Unga (neck) are probable….
