The New York Giants traveled to Ohio on Sunday to face the Cleveland Browns and earned a much-needed and season-changing win.
Part of their struggle this season is not having a reliable kicker for the second year in a row after placing Graham Gano on injured reserve (IR) with a groin injury.
In Gano’s place, the Giants brought in kicker Greg Joesph.
Joseph is in his sixth year in the NFL and has played for the Browns, Tennessee Titans, and Minnesota Vikings before joining the Giants. He managed to make three extra points but missed a 48-yard field goal in the fourth quarter on Sunday.
Gano was injured midway through last season as well and the kicking game was a huge struggle. Right now, the Giants want to avoid a repeat of that, but head coach Brian Daboll is noncommittal on who will kick this week.
“We’ll sit down and talk personnel stuff later today,” he told reporters on Monday. “You’d like him obviously to make that kick, he didn’t. But he’s done a good job when he was here in practice and we’ll talk about what we’re going to do here.”
When asked to clarify that Joseph would be the kicker on Thursday, Daboll said, “I didn’t say that.”
It’s not ideal to be in an unknown situation with kickers. We’ll see how this unfolds over the next couple of days, but it’s a short week so Daboll and his staff need to nail this down as soon as possible.
