Nicks in real danger of missing game today

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The snowball effect with regards to coverage on our other weapons is going to hurt the most. Not a good day to pass, let's pound it.

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

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having a useless contract year. Is the JPP of TEs going to play this game or is he taking off today?

When he plays hurt, he doesn't help the team and the injury just lingers.

Someone close to the Giants decided to leak that now? Doesn't seem like our style.

and we win, Randle for starter.

Game of the year, must win, he practiced, and now isnt sure he wants to play. Good riddance.

I'm not sure how much either team is going to be able to throw the ball downfield.

Dallas is allowing close to 5 YPC on the ground this year and more than any other team in football. Might be a good day to feed Dre and Big Jake and just pound the crap out of them.

and less 3 WR sets anyway

terrible interior OL is going to have to step up a bit too. Our ypc has still been terrible.

Nicks always wants to play. It's in his nature, he's ultra competitive.

He's a winner

Wont be throwing lot of deep passes
Jj and cruz and 82 and TEs can do it.
We need to run....put Murphy in..
Give him an easy post route...
D wins game if they sack Romo..
No excuses..

I'm just hoping we're more stable. Their defense is terrible.

I think Nicks is going to play, though.

Poetry by bossman

it might be alittle bit more up in the air than we thought. Or maybe they are playing mind games with Dallas, who knows. Either way, he practiced. So, I would think he would play. Guess we'll see.

Doesnt play hurt..rather have a fresh
Body in there...he may cause an
INT IF HE CANT MOVE.

Nicks will play and be more valuable than anyone else in his spot.Demarco Murray is a tough back. Jacobs has surprised me but he's still averaging under three yards. Hope Myers gets into the mix like last week. Is JPP really breaking out? Romo can throw a lot of dunks to his receivers as well as go long. Really gets the ball out quickly. Be great if we win..

they will throw the ball plenty and we need nicks. I think hell play hes a tough dude

Jernigan has a career day..

Nicks is clueless in his approach to his walk year. Look at him, compared to Cruz last year (Cruz was only approaching RFA, but was under similar pressure too). Polar opposites. IMO Nicks is playing afraid.

Is soft. Did he take himself out like he did last week for a few plays

we all in?

we're all in. If Eli steps up and JPP dominates, we can crush some skulls. I'm hoping it starts today.

wonder if A Robinson dresses? more of a short game needed today

Not.
I can't imagine they'll be much yards in the air anyway- with the wind.

It's the players and coaches who matter. Nicks playing as a decoy would be sufficient today, especially with regard to the weather conditions. He would help more as a decoy, than Jernigan or Murphy would helping to take his place.

There is no tomorrow if we don't win today. The Giants know they can do this.. just go out and execute. Just can't beat ourselves.

Let's fucking go.

victories will have been for naught. If they lose today, the Giants would be 4-7, and be two games back of the lead with 5 to play. If Dallas sweeps the season series with the Giants, then it would effectively be 3 games back due to head-to-head tie-breakers. Absolute must-win today if the Giants are serious about winning the division.

That's why they're going to take care of business today.

have an opportunity here, in front of the home-town fans, to do something great. We've had good games from the likes of Barden, in Nicks absence, and so this is time for the next guy to step up!!

Huge game today for the offense too.

In comment 11354884 Big Blue '56 said:

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Jernigan has a career day..

for a career day, that will take 3 catches?

Can't beat it!

Taking that away is a big loss. Can they win without him? Sure. But anyone who thinks this is no big deal is kidding himself.

abuse Nicks takes here is unreal. He is a warrior who has played through many injuries in the past. If he's hurt, he's hurt. His frustration is the realization that his injuries may already be catching up to him, and that he probably won't get the big FA contract he wanted, either from the Giants or someone else.

Today is a running day anyway. It's going to be no more than thirty degrees at game time, with twenty-five mile an hour winds. Nobody is throwing the ball down the field. Our running attack has come alive, and the Cowboys can't stop the run.

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one of the singular worst contract seasons for an upper tier player across all sports.

jesus christ.

situation reeks.

Agent told him to get an abdomen issue checked out. Not the trainers or doctors, but agent?

16-3 miami

to wonder if Nicks is simply shutting it down in preparation for free agency. If true, he's fucking his teammates.

I hope we let him go and make sure we let every GM in the league know what sort of player they're signing. It might not make a huge difference, but the smaller his market, the less lucrative his contract.

start a gimpy Nicks over Jernigan or Murphy. Nicks has not been getting it done when he was healthier. This is frustrating because Jernigan has looked good on some plays when given a shot. Then he f//ks up again and it back to the bench. Come on JJ you have the skill set to dust this Dallas secondary.

Jets 73 yards of offense in the first half

Conor Orr ‏@ConorTOrr 1m

Still don't see Nicks on the field. Just Cruz with the wideouts. #nyg

Patricia Traina ‏@Patricia_Traina 52s

Eli is throwing passes to Cruz. No sign of Nicks. I fear I'm going to be surprised afterall.

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Fuck sake. Good luck with this weather!

Then good riddance.

Piece of shit

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Eric from BBI : Admin : 2:30 pm : link : reply to wonder if Nicks is simply shutting it down in preparation for free agency.

How does that make any sense?

Seriously

He wasn't on Wednesday's pre-practice injury report. Not listed at all.

Then on Thursday, Nicks says his agent told him to get his stomach checked out.

Coughlin on Thursday: "They say it�s better to explain it as an abdominal, whatever that means."

Nicks on Friday, are you playing: "C'mon, it's Dallas."

With the shit production he has put forth this year his agent should be pleading with him to step up his game....... not sit on the bench

Coughlin on Nicks (Thursday): "I don�t know when it occurred. As far as I know, it came up and he reported in on Wednesday with something."

Eric are you saying heś pretending to be injured?

Not sure Coughlin isn't.

in preparation for free agency he isn't or didn't do himself any favors.

he has not looked good since the first Eagles game.

this is some wild speculation on your part.

Yup, but let's see how these last five games go with Hakeem.

My gut says he's checked out.

I think Nicks injury is real and he can't go. The Giants have been hiding it.

with the quarterback the worst offender. But the mob has decided to lynch Nicks.

which caused an INT.

Frankly, other than this season's opener, there isn't much he's done since getting stepped on last season by the Bucs that is going to help him in FA.

Something about this situation reeks, I agree, but if he has checked out, he's basically just pissing away more money at this point and certainly not saving or earning himself any.

because Eli doesn't sulk on the sidelines or sit out when his stomach has a boo-boo.

For Christ sake, he practiced on Thursday and Friday. This game is the season.

Wow Eric

Don't forget the lemmings follow your lead.

and that he quit on the route leading to the interception and that he hasn't gotten separation this year. You see what you want to see.

You are also making the determination that he's dogging it by not playing today without any medical report.

In comment 11355093 Reese's Pieces said:

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with the quarterback the worst offender. But the mob has decided to lynch Nicks.

Have you missed most of the discussions on this board? Giants fans outside of this place? The media, locally and nationally? He has his legion of excuse-makers sure, but by and large, the QB has and continues to take plenty (most) of blame for this mess.

People acting as though Nicks is getting singled out and scapegoated for the entire team's/offense's failures are honestly starting to venture into Diehl fanboy territory.

Isn't that usually the year they play light out. In an effort to, you know, get as big a contract as possible? (And then take it easy.)

I don't recall a player trying to string together a couple of underwhelming, injury plagued years as part of the whole strategy to get paid.

Another theory: the guy who had been plagued by injuries much of career is--get this--injured.

No, it's not, Coughlin was pissed at Nicks after the Eagles game. See his post-game press conferences. And there were plenty of articles this week about Nicks on the sidelines and Jacobs having to give him a pep talk.

year that he can have this year.

no one has singled out Nicks for the Giants problems this year. Almost everyone on this board has blamed Eli, the OL, and the coaches.

The articles? The people who create controversy for a living?

Yup, but Nicks skipped all of the offseason work, didn't he?

That would have helped him out this year, wouldn't have it?

Again, coaches and Eli talked this week about Nicks missing the offseason work.

Nicks 'shutting down' would be costing both of them money.

Makes no sense.

so you are saying that Nicks didn't quit running that route against Philly? Or he didn't take himself out of the game last Sunday? And you are saying the sideline stuff was made up by the reporters? OK.

is going to hurt his chances at a big payday, but I still wouldn't be surprised regardless. It could be that there's something psychological sticking to Nicks and he just figures that he's better off not taking the field than taking it and continuing to put up shitty numbers or not have the ball thrown to him.

Sucks, but Nicks hasn't been much of a producer thus far this year, and while taking him off the field is a negative I'm not sure how big a negative it is at this point, especially if he's just mentally not there.

The offense has sucked because of Baas, Snee and DD.

This includes the practices.

If you guys played football you would understand.

In comment 11355145 Rob_MTL said:

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The offense has sucked because of Baas, Snee and DD. This includes the practices. If you guys played football you would understand.

There's not a person on this board who's read your posts that has ever believed for a second that you've seen a football up close, let alone played it.

In comment 11355139 jcn56 said:

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is going to hurt his chances at a big payday, but I still wouldn't be surprised regardless. It could be that there's something psychological sticking to Nicks and he just figures that he's better off not taking the field than taking it and continuing to put up shitty numbers or not have the ball thrown to him. Sucks, but Nicks hasn't been much of a producer thus far this year, and while taking him off the field is a negative I'm not sure how big a negative it is at this point, especially if he's just mentally not there.

Right. If he just doesn't want to be out there, the Giants are better with him not out there. And they're better still with a full understanding of his mental status before considering off-season contract negotiations.

No one on this site has ever said the OL wasn't the main problem. Everyone also knows Eli has had a bad year, RBs got hurt/played poorly, TE's mediocre, et.

But Nicks hasn't been Nicks all year.

that he's lost a stop, that he should be traded for anything they can get for him, that he hasn't scored a TD, finds himself open again without the ball being thrown to him, and took off one play because of it, is that quitting on the team?

Is he the first receiver to do this? And we still don't know if he skipped the play for a legit reason: needed a breather or banged up something.

I think Nick's agent mind fucked him in the off season over getting injured. I think he is a ment mess right now, which is why he is having all sorts of issue.

Eric, he was gassed he couldn't go faster. It was on ELI, dont throw it to Nicks in that situation. Contrary to popular belief professional athletes get TIRED also. Myers was WIDE OPEN.

Players come in and out of the field on every play. Why is this time something evil?

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It's not like he was ignored and nothing good happened.

And I'm sorry, if he's that affected by people saying "mean" things about him (which haven't even been awful in reality, compared to what other players have gotten and get), he's a bit of a bitch. You're not actually defending him by bringing that stuff up; you're making him sound like he's mentally weak.

*I say allegedly because I still don't believe Nicks, based on his track record, would throw that type of selfish hissy fit. Maybe after the game, when his agent gets into his ear, but in-game, in the moment, no.

I played for 8 years. Coached for 2 years. Assisted during offseason programs for another 10+years. So I've been upclose for over 20 years.

You can belive me or not, I honesly dont care.

Have been defending this guy as a warrior and all this shit but I simply just do not see it that way at all. The guy is always hurt, there is always a reason he is not at his best, and no matter what the reason is, legit or not, it simply is not very good. He is not a dependable player, it does not matter if he is hurt or not, if he is a warrior, which I do not see at all, or if he is, it is always an issue with him ,and he simply has stunk this year and stunk last year and I do not want him back at all, why would we want him back, he is not dependable.

which could lead to the groin/abdominal discussion

In comment 11354864 Rob_MTL said:

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Nicks always wants to play. It's in his nature, he's ultra competitive. He's a winner

good call!