Former UM safety Stevie Brown out for season
August 25th, 2013 at 3:38 PM ^
Man, that sucks. Stevie was one of my favorite UM success stories in the NFL.
August 25th, 2013 at 3:43 PM ^
Wow, that does really suck. Here's to hoping he has a swift and full recovery.
August 25th, 2013 at 3:50 PM ^
August 25th, 2013 at 4:45 PM ^
This. I don't care, but if a safety is tearing it up in the league as a 6th -7th round pick, and is one of the brightest young players on the Giants' defense it tells me that Ron English and Greg Robinson couldn't outcoach a goddamn stuffed animal
August 25th, 2013 at 4:55 PM ^
When he played under English (few snaps at that). I wouldn't put much on him for Brown not being productive at that point. You can complain about some other safeties, but Brown isn't a great example.
August 25th, 2013 at 7:27 PM ^
I won't take much time defending GERG, but Stevie was (and is) the sort of tweeter that often takes time to find his stride even on better coached defenses.
August 25th, 2013 at 10:16 PM ^
August 25th, 2013 at 3:56 PM ^
August 25th, 2013 at 4:05 PM ^
Here's a brief write-up from Gregg Rosenthal at NFL.com (LINK).
According to this, it happened on an interception of a Geno Smith pass, the second one Smith had thrown in the first quarter in the Giants' loss to the Jets.
Hopefully, Stevie's recovery is full and speedy.
August 25th, 2013 at 5:45 PM ^
and it really looked like an ACL tear to me (and I've torn my own not too long ago). Non-contact, as most of these injuries are. He just plants his left leg to juke a defender and goes down (the play starts at 0:42):
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap2000000234071/Pre-Week-3-Jets-vs-Giants
August 25th, 2013 at 8:27 PM ^
The Jets just can't stop hurting people.
August 26th, 2013 at 12:12 AM ^
Beautiful interception and terrific return. Picking up from where he left off last season.
Don't think I'll bother watching any more Giants games this year.
August 25th, 2013 at 4:09 PM ^
Get well soon Stevie.
August 25th, 2013 at 5:13 PM ^
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August 25th, 2013 at 4:39 PM ^
So glad the NFL's crackdown on head injuries has lead to open season on knees. Ask any player and they would trade 100 shots to the head over 1 to the knee.
""They are concerned about long-term concussions, but immediately they're not concerned about your knees or your ankles or anything like that. I think that should be an issue..." -Brian Urlacher
August 25th, 2013 at 4:40 PM ^
August 25th, 2013 at 4:42 PM ^
Sorry, just thought this was the right thread to vent my frustrations. I tried to keep it general.
August 25th, 2013 at 7:29 PM ^
This is dumb. I'd rather need a cane than not be able to recognize my grandkids at 60.
August 25th, 2013 at 8:52 PM ^
Players historically haven't been great on judging the impact of head injuries. That and no one is crucifying the NFL for people's career's ending due to leg injuries. But, in his defense, I bet the list of people who lost their ability to make a livlihood due to knee and ankle injuries is a lot longer than the list of people with severe head trauma damage.
August 25th, 2013 at 4:41 PM ^
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August 25th, 2013 at 7:04 PM ^
August 25th, 2013 at 7:37 PM ^
...he was playing on a one year restricted free agent tender and would have been in line for a nice contract extension from the G-men or in unrestricted free agency after this year.
He is only making around $2M (yeah, only but who knows what his shelf life is) this year so this could cost him dearly.
Here's hoping for a strong recovery and an awesome 2014 season that finally leads to that big pay day.
August 25th, 2013 at 8:16 PM ^
As a Giants fan this is a gut punch. Will Hill is the backup and he's suspended for the first 4 weeks. We'll either have to use Tyler Sash or see if Terrell Thomas can play safety. God I hate preseason football.
August 26th, 2013 at 11:02 AM ^
Training camp injuries are the worst! You work all off-season and then it's snatched away before you get to play a single down... and all you have to look forward to is a long rehab that will hopefully allow you to play in a year. Pre-season games are absolutely useless and should be eliminated altogether or cut down to a max of two.
Best of luck to Stevie in his recovery!