The New York Giants traveled to Ohio on Sunday to face the Cleveland Browns and earned a much-needed and season-changing win.
A part of their wrestle this season will not be having a dependable kicker for the second yr in a row after putting Graham Gano on injured reserve (IR) with a groin harm.
In Gano’s place, the Giants introduced in kicker Greg Joesph.
Joseph is in his sixth yr within the NFL and has performed for the Browns, Tennessee Titans, and Minnesota Vikings earlier than becoming a member of the Giants. He managed to make three additional factors however missed a 48-yard discipline purpose within the fourth quarter on Sunday.
Gano was injured halfway by final season as properly and the kicking sport was an enormous wrestle. Proper now, the Giants wish to keep away from a repeat of that, however head coach Brian Daboll is noncommittal on who will kick this week.
“We’ll sit down and speak personnel stuff later immediately,” he advised reporters on Monday. “You’d like him clearly to make that kick, he didn’t. However he’s achieved an excellent job when he was right here in apply and we’ll speak about what we’re going to do right here.”
When requested to make clear that Joseph can be the kicker on Thursday, Daboll stated, “I didn’t say that.”
It’s not very best to be in an unknown scenario with kickers. We’ll see how this unfolds over the subsequent couple of days, but it surely’s a brief week so Daboll and his employees must nail this down as quickly as attainable.