was struggling on OL and moved him around so much:
“We were struggling up front and they moved me to a position I hadn’t played in two years,” Pugh said. “I’m out there playing right tackle and then they were like, ‘we need you to play left guard’ and then next week it’s back to right tackle. That’s not good for your body. You can’t get used to it that fast and there was some anxiety because I hadn’t played the position in two years, going to right tackle. … I just put one on the back for the team, no pun intended, and it ended up not helping me too much. It would have been a totally different story this past year if I wasn’t in that situation.” |
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It may have been the most me first locker room in Giants history.
Pugh has every right to voice his concerns about being moved around positions, it messes with the rhythm/chemistry you're trying to build and with all the struggles the line faced Pugh most likely played hurt all the time for the sake of the team.
The reason Pugh became injury prone is because he was asked to play injured all the time. He never healed and that has a long term effect.
show some fucking class or at least some intelligence.
Then look at Zack Martin who is in a different stratosphere as a player and hasn't missed a game. That's what you want from your Oline.
2 games missed with a quad injury
2015
2 games missed with a concussion
2016
5 games missed with a sprained mcl
2017
8 games missed with his excused back injury
When was he not injured? Sounds to me he spent more time in the training room than the practice field
Seubert came back from that terrible injury better than before and was a team player. Tough as nails and nasty as hell didn't whine just did his job
just seems like being the best football player possible was never his # 1 priority. hundreds if not thousands of fringe NFLers or prospects would love to be put in his position, to be able to prove their versatility. but he avoids that title like the plague. now i hope he never has the chance to extend his career as a backup at both G/T.
Yes. And started every game of his 1st 7 seasons.
The true attitude of a person is not judged by when things are going well. It's easy to give max effort when things are going your way. If you want to see a man's real attitude look to when things are going in the crapper. Does he rise up, put his head down and work through it? Or does he crumble and start with the excuses?
In the end, most people have bosses who make them do things that they would prefer not to do. Stay late, come in on weekends, etc. That's life. My message to Justin would be this....
Do you want to go home to your hot instagram model girlfriend (who surely loves Pugh for his great personality) and complain about the Giants? Go for it. Want to call your friends at that dumb shirt company you pimp out and bitch to them? Knock yourself out. WHY- oh WHY would you even think it would be a good idea to badmouth the Giants to the media. What good does that serve you?
Pugh was a big locker room politician. Good Riddance.
JPP was the same way. Little effort on a losing team.
If the Giants went 0-16 but the guys they had were flying around with max effort I'd deal with that, but you can't let these guys rule the roost.
It takes away incentive, especially for a more savvy guy like Pugh. At the end of the day, his pride is probably hurt when he's not playing, but he still knew $50M was waiting for him, regardless.
Good luck
Glad DG is bringing in adults.
Anyway, it’s crazy Reese didn’t draft Long. The guy is an All-Pro and has proven to be more effectively versatile than Pugh can dream of being.
Ditto on your 'versatility ' point; and he knew that. IDK for sure, but I Have to believe that JR made the youretheone phone call on draft day he would have mentioned we picked you because of your versatility.
About getting hurt: imagine! Getting hurt playing football. Whoda thunk it☺
Pugh has every right to voice his concerns about being moved around positions, it messes with the rhythm/chemistry you're trying to build and with all the struggles the line faced Pugh most likely played hurt all the time for the sake of the team.
The reason Pugh became injury prone is because he was asked to play injured all the time. He never healed and that has a long term effect.
show some fucking class or at least some intelligence.
Youre a joke. Your posts suck and your name sucks.
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Thank you @JustinPugh for saying this. I got injured twice in NYG playing LG when I shouldn’t have. The final time I got hurt I was moved to LG after starting 10 straight at RG to “help” Flowers. All it did was get my ankle broken again because I couldn’t feel anything behind me
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Thank you @JustinPugh for saying this. I got injured twice in NYG playing LG when I shouldn’t have. The final time I got hurt I was moved to LG after starting 10 straight at RG to “help” Flowers. All it did was get my ankle broken again because I couldn’t feel anything behind me
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Wonder if Giants fans will blast Pugh like they blasted me when I’ve made these comments before.
Just shut the fuck up and be glad somebody like Jerry Reese was dumb enough and desperate enough to insanely overpay you.
I'm not going to completely throw out what these guys are saying. You could definitely argue that we didn't bring in guys with the right mentality, but it's not like we set them up for success either.
Just shut the fuck up and be glad somebody like Jerry Reese was dumb enough and desperate enough to insanely overpay you.
Reese and Mara sure instilled a throw somebody under the bus culture. Pathetic.
I'm surprised McAdoo never threw his hair stylist and tailor under the bus.
I dont think moving from one side to the other is what got Schwartz' ankle broken. I think it was more of poor preparation and becoming too fat a fuck to do anything athletic.
Reese and Mara sure instilled a throw somebody under the bus culture. Pathetic.
I'm surprised McAdoo never threw his hair stylist and tailor under the bus.
Are you sure it wasn't Coughlin? Pretty sure he was the coach for most of Schwartz's tenure here.
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Reese and Mara sure instilled a throw somebody under the bus culture. Pathetic.
I'm surprised McAdoo never threw his hair stylist and tailor under the bus.
Are you sure it wasn't Coughlin? Pretty sure he was the coach for most of Schwartz's tenure here.
(just stirring the pot...)
I think Schwartz came on the same year that Mac became OC. He may not have played the first year Mac was HC
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I played left guard, center, right guard, TE, and even Fullback a few plays, I was always the guy that would do anything for my team to win, team above self was the way I played, I broke my leg and blew my knee out and wouldn’t change my thinking ever. No excuses, just playThank you @JustinPugh for saying this. I got injured twice in NYG playing LG when I shouldn’t have. The final time I got hurt I was moved to LG after starting 10 straight at RG to “help” Flowers. All it did was get my ankle broken again because I couldn’t feel anything behind me
Schwartz loves blaming others for being a complete bust for the Giants. Bottom line was he got overpaid and didn’t suit up and when he did he wasn’t any good. He was soft just like Pugh. No coincidence they were both on losing teams.
Here’s Seuberts response on twitter:
“I played left guard, center, right guard, TE, and even Fullback a few plays, I was always the guy that would do anything for my team to win, team above self was the way I played, I broke my leg and blew my knee out and wouldn’t change my thinking ever. No excuses, just play”
Looks like the staging of the place was nicely done. If you want to see how it looked when Pugh lived there, google the barstool report on his place. It was a pig sty.