Post by prossman on Jun 17, 2009 10:55:28 GMT -7
Canty Might Have Been Giant Necessity
Posted by mickshot at 6/12/2009 5:02 PM CDT on truebluefanclub.com
Keep hearing how the New York Giants, with what they have done in free agency this off-season, might have the most stock-piled talent on a defensive line in decades.
Really?
Or were the Giants just busy filling in some huge holes?
We know only too well the Giants signed Cowboys 3-4 defensive end Chris Canty this off-season, but with the idea of playing Canty at defensive tackle in their 4-3 scheme. They also signed Seattle’s defensive tackle Rocky Bernard. Total of the two packages? Try $58 million.
Well, well, check this out. Starting defensive tackle Fred Robbins had microfracture knee surgery in February and supposedly starting defensive tackle cohort Barry Cofield had a simple knee scope a few days later. Seems as though Cofield’s surgery might not have been so “simple.”
Last week Giants head coach Tom Coughlin said Cofield’s surgery “was not the same procedure” as that of Robbins, you know, the one where doctors drill tiny holes in the damaged cartilage behind the kneecap to promote the re-growth of the deteriorating cartilage. That procedure has been known to keep guys out a good 9-12 months.
But when pressed by reporters last week about Cofield’s surgery, Coughlin has been quoted as curiously saying, “You know what? That's not going to come from me. (Cofield) had a 'scope’ and he's doing well. You see him running."
Hmmm. Sounds like the signings of Canty and Bernard might have been out of necessity, and it’s been reported up in New York that Robbins, not the Giants, some time after the surgery back in February pointed out his surgery was of the “microfracture” variety on his website.
Mickey Spagnola
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Posted by mickshot at 6/12/2009 5:02 PM CDT on truebluefanclub.com
Keep hearing how the New York Giants, with what they have done in free agency this off-season, might have the most stock-piled talent on a defensive line in decades.
Really?
Or were the Giants just busy filling in some huge holes?
We know only too well the Giants signed Cowboys 3-4 defensive end Chris Canty this off-season, but with the idea of playing Canty at defensive tackle in their 4-3 scheme. They also signed Seattle’s defensive tackle Rocky Bernard. Total of the two packages? Try $58 million.
Well, well, check this out. Starting defensive tackle Fred Robbins had microfracture knee surgery in February and supposedly starting defensive tackle cohort Barry Cofield had a simple knee scope a few days later. Seems as though Cofield’s surgery might not have been so “simple.”
Last week Giants head coach Tom Coughlin said Cofield’s surgery “was not the same procedure” as that of Robbins, you know, the one where doctors drill tiny holes in the damaged cartilage behind the kneecap to promote the re-growth of the deteriorating cartilage. That procedure has been known to keep guys out a good 9-12 months.
But when pressed by reporters last week about Cofield’s surgery, Coughlin has been quoted as curiously saying, “You know what? That's not going to come from me. (Cofield) had a 'scope’ and he's doing well. You see him running."
Hmmm. Sounds like the signings of Canty and Bernard might have been out of necessity, and it’s been reported up in New York that Robbins, not the Giants, some time after the surgery back in February pointed out his surgery was of the “microfracture” variety on his website.
Mickey Spagnola
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