Jake Ballard May Miss Some Time: TE Jake Ballard injured his knee against the Washington Redskins on Sunday and may miss some time. “We are going to look at this day-to-day but we expect that he will (miss some time),” said Head Coach Tom Coughlin. “It is a good medical guess right now but we hesitate to say if he is out and how long he is out or anything like that. I would think at this point in time he is going to miss some time…I am hoping it is not a season ender. No, it is not one of those. It depends on how fast the knee will come around and we are just going to have to wait and see…It is an old PCL injury that he has had before.”
The problem for the Giants is that H-Back Travis Beckum missed the last game with a chest injury and TE Bear Pascoe is also nursing a rib injury. “(Pascoe) does have a rib injury,” said Coughlin. “He’s going to have that checked out and we’ll see how much that affects him when we prepare to practice tomorrow.”
WR Devin Thomas suffered a burner in the game against the Redskins. “Devin…thank God has been cleared and it appears it was a burner and so hopefully he will be ready to practice this week,” said Coughlin.
Meanwhile, Coughlin is not optimistic that DE Osi Umenyiora (ankle) will be back. “I’m very concerned because we were hoping we’d have him back,” said Coughlin. “Again, we’re going to take it day to day, but we’d have to have some major improvement here to be able to say that he could go.”
Head Coach Tom Coughlin’s Monday Media Conference Call: The transcript of yesterday’s media conference call with Head Coach Tom Coughlin is available at Giants.com.
Player Media Q&As: The transcripts yesterday’s media conference call sessions with the following players are available at Giants.com:
Player Interviews on WFAN: Audio of yesterday’s interviews with the following players is available at CBSNewYork.com:
Article on the Giants-Redskins Game: Giants-Redskins Game Review: Questioning Coaching After Second Loss to Skins by Mike Garafolo of The Star-Ledger
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