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If Mornhinweg is base level competent then we've got a shot to win this one

I say there's a pretty good chance that Turner is about to take the PS spot that Onwuasor's promotion just left open. Right now we're desperately trying find a ST coverage unit that meshes well together, I like Onwuasor as a STer, he's got the prototypical traits. Turner should be on a teams practice squad, he does have plenty of potential if we can develop him correctly.

12 minutes ago, usmccharles said:

Im extremely disappointed with this Stanley ordeal.   The whole reason why I was happy with him was his durability.  With these important injuries already happening, im starting to get worried. 

it's one injury...

That's a painful injury report

Good news is it sounds like Wagner will be able to go so we'll probably roll with the same line as last week except Jensen in Yanda's place

10 hours ago, Militant X 1 said:

You don't?  Really?  Then you must not have been following the Ravens and their offense in particular too much this season?  The Giants may not have played to their potential and dropped 3 games straight but now they are at home as the Ravens (who dropped 2 homes games) comes to town with a new O.C.  C'mon now! 

I didn't say "I don't get how people can have us losing! We're going to destroy them!" I said I don't see how people can say we have no chance. It's reasonable to say we clearly have a chance against another team that is also underperforming. Acting as if this is an L no matter what is ridiculous. I have seen how our offense has been this season, and the main culprit - the one calling the idiotic plays - is now out of town, at very least Mornhinweg, whether he's good or not, is better than Trestman if he can just grasp the simple idea that you do what's working, rather than abandoning what's working. Have you not been following our defense? If our offense can do literally anything then we have a chance because our defense is clearly good enough to hold a Giants offense that hasn't played well this year at all and has no run game whatsoever and relies entirely on Eli and OBJ having a good day. The Redskins had more offensive weapons than they do.

9 minutes ago, allblackraven said:

Hopefully he sorts out our offense but I must say, I'm not looking forward to watch more of his pressers.

I didn't think it was that bad, first presser as OC the questions were pretty garbage honestly. Not much to ask about without seeing his offense in action

I don't understand how some people can act as if we have no shot against the Giants. They have pieces but the haven't been playing to their potential anymore than we have. Jimmy on OBJ (hopefully he's following him, I hate allowing opposing offenses to line up their best against Shareece and we just let them do it) is a matchup that I like, I don't hate Shareece on Shepard either. They have no run game just like the Redskins so I'm not too worried about that. 

After watching Mornhinweg's first presser I sort of excited about our prospects moving forward. He seems like the kind of guy that players love to play for, upbeat and cracking jokes. Curious what sort of changes we're going to see Sunday, hopefully more focus on the run game against a Giants team that struggled with Lacey and McKinnon the past two weeks. I don't think this weeks gameplan should be that much different than last weeks - or what last week's should have been anyway. Run it and then open things up with some play action.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dixon is inactive this game so we can have both Judon and Correa active now that 1) Carter was cut so we need ST bodies, and 2) We still haven't gotten word on Mosley's injury. With that knee brace it was plainly obvious that he just is not ready to come back and contribute, he was hesitant and didn't have the quickness to find the hole. Give him another couple weeks to heal up to 100% and we can bring him back to the active roster on game day. Right now I'm happy rolling with West as the starter and Buck pulling backup duties.

1 hour ago, Cillmatic said:

I though Lewis did pretty good, he's a legit MAULER in the run game. He might actually be pretty good at RT.

Lewis isn't a good run blocker at all...he's a good pass blocker, but when he's at guard you can't run it behind him.

5 hours ago, Sami84 said:

was webb worth his money? was jimmy worth his money ? was Joe worth his money?

 

Was Webb worth his money? when we re-signed him yeah he was, sorry Ozzie can't predict the future and tell us he'd have another bad injury.

Was Jimmy worth his money? yep

Was Joe worth his money? yep

Might as well give him a shot, our interior oline has been thin even before injuries started happening. With Carter being cut I think we're doing a complete shakeup of our ST coverage unit, won't be surprised if Judon is active this week and playing ST.

19 hours ago, January J said:

If Hester has another bad or two he may get cut. They are finally losing their patience with  players (and coaches) not producing ex. Forsett, shareece, trest

I seriously doubt we're even considering cutting Hester, we have literally no one better to return kicks, Steve is too old to be pulling double duty, Webb has a lost a step with all those injuries, and no one else on the team really has any experience there. Hester hasn't been Hester but he hasn't been anywhere near as bad as some make him out to be, he had a great return vs. the Redskins only to have it called back on a penalty.

Oft injured - and the last time he played he wasn't very good either way - and refused to sign an injury waiver. Would've been better than Hurst probably but you can't blame the FO for not wanting to sign him without an injury waiver, If the Vikes weren't beyond desperate he would have remained unsigned until he accepted he needed to sign one.

27 minutes ago, Edug27 said:

Jimmy and Young on Odell. Keep Wright off the field.

Young is staying in the slot, he's not an outside corner. Like him or not Wright is the best option we have at #2. He's fine against receivers like Shepard, it's the big strong guys like Robinson and Crabtree that you have to worry about. He'll be fine this week.

9 minutes ago, Inqui said:

Weeks four and five are where seasons are won and lost. If you pick any other two weeks to define our season, especially this early, you look like a complete moron. But weeks four and five are the litmus test for how good your team really is.

I'm not so sure about that, I don't think you can realistically pick a two week span and say they define an entire 16 game season, really that should be reserved for the quality of opponents rather than the timing of a couple games. And especially that can hardly be said when a major coaching change is made. But seriously I think the entire idea of defining an entire season based on 2 games is ridiculous as it is, especially during a season - in hindsight it may be fair but week to week anything can happen.

I don't hate this matchup as much as some people clearly do. I'm not making a scoring prediction this week since a new OC can really go either way but if Mornhinweg can be half decent then I think we'll be monumentally better than with Trestman. As long as he doesn't make idiotic decisions like Trestman did I think we'll be good. I think we can handle the Giants offense, they are like the Redskins offense that our defense had no problem dealing with and only surrendered 9 pts too - and could have been less if our coverage team could just not be so terrible. They have no real run game, Paul Perkins doesn't strike fear in me and who knows if Jennings will be healthy, and will be relying on the pass to beat us. Sure they've got 1 better receiver than the Redskins have in Beckham but I think Garcon and Jackson are both better than Shepard at this point in their careers. I completely trust our defense to be able to hold this Giants offense as well as can be realistically asked for, maybe even better if our offense is able to give them some rest for the first time in forever - maybe then we can have any sort of pass rush.

Like I said, I'm not making any score prediction this game but whether or not we have a shot will depend entirely on how Mornhinweg does in his first game - and what a first game it will be, this Giants D can be darn good when it wants to be, solid secondary, great dline. Hopefully with Stanley back we will have an easier time holding them back, not sure if Lewis will be playing LG or RT, depends on where Wagner is right now. I think our game plan will be simple, run it early and often, then start trying to get the play action involved, along with the TEs against the Giants' weak LBs, and it's a guarantee that Mornhinweg's decision making - whether we like it or not - will be better than Trestman's. He'll make the adjustments and go with what's working at the very least, something Trestman was obviously not interested in doing. This is pretty much the same game plan as we should have had against the Redskins, and I think this game is definitely winable if we play our cards right, people are too easily calling this one, at the very least we will be fielding a team on par with the last 5 weeks and in my opinion it could only be improved with the firing of Trestman no matter how Mornhinweg does. Defense will still be very strong, offense will obviously be a wild card but baseline pretty okay, ST needs to be improved badly - that past two weeks the Raiders and Redskins' starting positions have been downright unacceptable.

The trolls are coming out in force

4 minutes ago, harfordravenfan said:

Only read a little on Wikipedia about Marty Mornhinweg, it did say he ran a more balanced offense while on eagles.

What do you guys think about him?

Anything is better than Trestman, it doesn't take a great - or even good - OC to know that you need to do what's working, passing 40+ times with a struggling line and the run game working is just plain moronic.

Glad it didn't take forever like Cameron

No, with a half decent OC this team is 5-0

Not sure what you expect really. Stanley is injured, Correa is a project and we reshuffled some of the ST guys this week - and it didn't help in the slightest, Kaufusi is on IR, Moore was disappointing last week and again with the ST reshuffle, Young has played and done well, Henry is both a project and plays at a deep position, Lewis is playing pretty darn well, Dixon did play today but he's still not 100% and couldn't do much without his cutting ability, Judon doens't provide help on ST so there's no room for him at the moment, Reynolds is on the PS and Canady is on IR.

And the Defense is definitely not the problem with this team, if the offense gave them any time to rest they wouldn't be worn out by the end.

Just now, rmcjacket23 said:

Injury updates from Zrebiec on Twitter...

Mosley to have MRI on Hamstring, Steve Smith has ankle injury. Will come down to pain tolerance.

So in other words Smith will be ready to go by next week

1 minute ago, Cillmatic said:

So because he's playing in his fifth game it's ok if he drops an uncontested ball?

In what universe was either of his catches "uncontested?" He should have made both but saying they were uncontested is just plane disingenuous