Osi Gone For the Year

The Superbowl champs lost a major piece of the puzzle today when they discovered their only pro-bowler, Osi Umenyiora, will be lost for the season with knee surgery. Osi's knee was injured on a non-contact play where he tripped on the Giant Stadium turf.

The injury will force Matthias Kiwanuka back to his natural DE position. Gerris Wilkinson will probably move to SAM. The problems will come in dialing the exotic blitzes the Giants depend on. Until now, they have always had at least 3 premiere passrushers to use at all times in the Steve Spagnuolo era. Now they are down to two, and will have to use Wynn or Tollefson or Gilberry to play LDE and let Tuck slide to DT on passing down. Hopefully one of them will step up and produce.

Beyond that, the DT's, LB and DB's will all have to contribute more to the passrush.

It's sort of a shame that the Giants waited to trade Shockey, if they had made the deal during the draft, they were going to take Quentin Groves and would be in much better shape right now.