Osi Umenyiora is gone for the year and that leaves a huge hole on the Giants defense that already lost four players from the Super Bowl winning team. It didn’t take a genius to come to the idea that the Giants would be begging for Michael Strahan’s return. Brett Favre’s return certainly makes it easier for Strahan to flip flop in his retirement.

When the Giants called Strahan’s agent, they found out he was in Greece on vacation. Yeah….Vacationing in Greece to playing football for the Giants at age 36?? Hmmm.

The Giants had a bunch of surprising talent last year, most if it coming out in its injured secondary. But the loss of Umenyiora may be too much, and I am not sure an aged defensive end who was set on sipping Margaritas is going to make a huge difference for this team.

And speaking of injuries……..

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Although the Cowboys squeeked out their first pre seaosn win, the team overall still did not look good. Special teams is atrocious right now. The Cowboys were only lucky to win because a wide-open Texans reciever dropped a pass in the end zone for a 2-point conversion and the lead.

The final pre season game is against the Minnesota Vikings.

Tune in to The Landry Hat tomorrow for the Ed “Too Tall” Jones interview.

Last week, Kevin Burnett had a similar procedure. We are already aware that Terence Newman is not 100 percent, either.

All of this should be alarming if we measure the play of the backups in these first two pre season games, which has been downright awful. I’m not going to scream the sky is falling, and I am not even really that worried, because the Cowboys are stocked with good linebackers and the defense is stronger than the offense in my opinion.

But we really do have to pray that the injuries are limited this year because I do not have a ton of faith in the second team players. Do you?