Corey Coleman Goes To Injured Reserve
Well I guess I went ahead and jinxed myself last Monday. If you put your bet down on Corey Coleman, congrats! You placed one hell of a bet. Also the Falcons version of Michael Bennett also died. AJ Green has an ankle injury but probably won’t miss the whole season. The Bengals, Giants, and Falcons are all off to a great start.
I feel pretty bad for Corey Coleman. He’s probably best known as the pick the Browns used after they traded back in the first round with the Eagles and Titans. Picks that became Carson Wentz and Jack Conklin, respectively. Obviously he did not work out in Cleveland, although who would with that crop of garbage throwing the ball. Even Eli Manning in his current form is a better QB than anything the Browns had prior to Baker last season. Coleman sucked, threw a fit in Cleveland, got traded to the Bills, got cut, ended up on the Pats practice squad, and then the Giants signed him and he eventually made the active roster, used mostly as a return specialist. He was actually doing pretty decent at it by the end of the season, too. Our special teams last season was probably one of the few things Giants fans can look back on 2018 and not cry about. We had a good kicker, we had a good running back, and we had a return game that wasn’t steaming garbage. Thanks, Corey!
With the objectionable trading of the diva Odell Beckham by the senile David Gettleman, the Giants wideout spots were suddenly a little bit more open. Sterling Shepard seemed primed to be the next main guy (I’m not thrilled about that, Sterling is an absolutely perfect #2). He broke his thumb and will likely miss preseason. Golden Tate, the Giants acquisition to “replace” the noise of Odell, is apparently now in an appeal battle due to getting a 4 game suspension for taking a banned substance. How that shakes out remains to be seen. But those two guys are the only two receivers who I would peg as “guaranteed” to make the team. The #3 spot and on is completely wide open.
Now the Giants may enter week 1 with a starting WR corps made up of things named “Russell Shepard” and “Cody Latimer”. You might know Cody Latimer as a guy who was a Bronco and has 4 touchdowns to his name. Russell has 2! We also have a…(squints at packaging) Bennie Fowler! We have about 6 total touchdowns between the rubbage currently left on the team. If any Giants fan thought this would be the year Eli finally reverted back to form because the O-line has finally been rebuilt into a respectable state and we have a run game to balance it again…I got some bad news. If you are a fantasy guy pick up Saquon and Evan Engram, because that’s where the action is going. Eli’s gonna look even more like trash and his final season is going to be a depressing mess.
Also Beckham is totally being an angry dumped girlfriend diva now and part of me is thankful I don’t have to defend his bullshit anymore. Have fun trying to justify all his behavior to yourself and others after every outburst, Browns fans. It gets very tiring.
Wait, Fowler’s on the Giants now? Good for him! I always wondered where he ended up.
(I’m a Broncos fan, so if you don’t know who that is: he was basically their #3 wideout in 2015, and caught the last pass Manning ever threw for a 2-point conversion in the Super Bowl. Never really the most talented guy, but he made a few plays, and I kinda liked him in the same way I like a lot of secondary characters in TV shows…and apparently, on football teams.)
Also, Dave, are you sure about that Engram thing? The ONE year I played fantasy (2016) was also the year that the top four Giants receivers went down, and I picked up Engram then. He didn’t do squat. Of course, you also follow the Giants more closely than I do, but are you sure I shouldn’t rely on the pass-catching abilities of the legendary Roger Lewis Jr.?
(I do agree with the Saquads suggestion though. I’d love to see him behind a good offensive line.)
Engram got more targets last season after OBJ went down. He will make some points simply due to volume and playing a bigger role in the offense now.
Roger Lewis isn’t even on the Giants currently. Instead we have *gestures at an open field full of trash*
I was hoping the news got out in time for you to add in RG3 breaking his thumb on a beer stein or something.
Came here this morning to mention AJ Green, greeted with the familiar site of RG3 behind the counter. I hope that even after he’s out of football (for whatever reason), RG3 stays on at our favorite football bar just because he loves the atmosphere.
The giants are getting exactly what they deserve
#CurseOfOdell
Actually, this could be the best thing to happen to Eli Manning, if he’s still attached to the notion of being the starter. Who can blame him for being dog shit if his top receiver is (looks back at the commentary) Russell Shepard? Who would even consider throwing Daniel Jones into the game if his #1 receiving option is (looks back at commentary again) Russell Shepard?
Eli will get the blame anyway because people love to hate Eli and he’s a QB and so many people are incapable of seeing football as the team sport it is.
Somebody has to get the blame, of course it’s gonna be Manning. But a dead season is more easily navigated by Manning than by Jones, because Manning has done it before. Basically I’m saying this is good for Manning, if not necessarily for the Giants, because of course he’s gonna be crap if he’s targeting (looks back at commentary a third time) Russell Shepard.
Plus I don’t think people have gotten over 2004 draft so there’s going to be some grudge to be held.
Referring back to the Falcons on Training camp day 1 we also lost J.J. Wilcox to an acl he was in prime position to be our backup Safety.
I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t recognize the bartender. Should I?
RG3, you can usually pick up on who the people in the comic are from the tags.
I just want to know if your description of the OBJ trade with a word that starts with “obj” was accidentally clever of intentionally clever.
RG3 as the bartender of Injured Reserve is life imitating art at this point. He fractured his thumb this weekend.
Not to take anything away from the foresight involved, but RG3 has been a walking health timebomb since he came into the league. I’m convinced that he’s a masochist, and secretly loves getting injured.
Do you remember back in 2015 when he tied two tires to his ankles via rope, dragged them down a gravel driveway, and then got blasted for being a total moron who was destroying his own body? *sigh* Good times!
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/look-kobe-bryants-former-trainer-not-a-fan-of-rg3s-recent-workout/
Small error, should be ‘throwing to’ instead of ‘throwing too’.
Coleman is good with the ball in his hand. He just can’t catch.
in time we won’t know Eli from Daniel
Safe to say our relationship with OBJ is…complicated.
I’m still waiting for a key man on the Chargers to go down. Maybe it’s already in front of my eyes and Gordon will holdout and leave the team. That would be a fat rip and I’d cry but I can’t say I didn’t see it coming.
I might be going into Injured Reserve for my Fall Bowling league, Summer league might have screwed up my hip. Can I get a Gin and Tonic?
The Saints were down to guys that looked like Madden generated names last year.