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Winston suggested the Giants will bless their fans with wins for Christmas.
“I heard there’s a possibility that the East Coast is going to experience one of the coldest winters we’ve had. The New York Football Giants have a possibility to win four games in a row after this bye,” he said.
Rookie tight end Thomas Fidone II is done for the season because he had surgery for a sprain in between his first and second metatarsal on his left foot. Fidone, 23, had a screw put in for an injury that sounds like a much less serious Lisfranc-type injury than what linebacker Micah McFadden sustained this season.
Fidone’s injury was something he initially was able to play through but that kept getting worse. He had the option of rehabbing it without surgery, but he got multiple medical opinions, and he preferred to just take care of the lingering issue now so he could reduce the chances of it jeopardizing his availability for next season.
Darius Alexander’s Development. Third-round pick Darius Alexander, who got off to a slow start due to his having missed all of the spring and some of the summer, is being counted on to become the Robin to Lawrence’s Batman moving forward. The youngster out of Toledo has been in on 81 run defensive snaps this season, posting 13 total tackles and three tackles for a loss. That needs to improve.
Perhaps with a full offseason of NFL-quality weight training and the chance to start over in a defensive scheme that has to be better than what former defensive coordinator Shane Bowen ran, maybe come this time next year, we’ll be talking about how this rookie defender is among the most improved players on the team.
If they lose out, they almost certainly will. (They’ve picked first just twice, in 1951 and 1965.) That’s because their strength of schedule right now (using every opponent they have or will face this year) is .537, while the Raiders are at .551...
