Rivera: Panthers RB Stewart Won’t Play Against Giants

However, he is confident that the Giants will take that as a challenge and compete, it’s just up to the Giants if they can make enough plays to hand the Panthers their first loss of the season. Last season the Panthers were so abysmal on special teams that coach Richard Rodgers was canned, in favor of Bruce DeHaven.

Just not to the Giants, who don’t sound intimidated by the unbeaten Panthers at all. “I’ve been ready”, he said. “We are excited to host them this weekend”. “Stew is a proven running back”. “He’s going to get some opportunities for sure”.

With several players dealing with these nagging injuries, the key question for Carolina becomes whether the coaching staff decides to rest its players down the stretch as the team gears up for the playoffs, or whether the Panthers will aggressively pursue a flawless season.

The Giants’ safeties will have a tough task ahead of them on Sunday against the undefeated Panthers.

New York Daily News The Daily News back page for Wednesday, Dec. 16. But the NFL isn’t particularly advanced when it comes to doling out those awards, especially for special teams – Gano was honored mainly because he led the league in points last month with 62.

“We need the win”, he said.

“People are going to find something, ” fullback Mike Tolbert said. Let us know in the comment box below! We can compete and we can play with anyone. Stewart sprained his left foot in Carolina’s 38-0 win over the Atlanta Falcons last week.

Carolina has averaged 36 points over the last six games, and 31.6 for the season, best in the league.

On paper, there’s nearly no comparison between the teams.

Coming of such a great performance on Monday, Eli Manning talked about how it was a good win, but that has no bearing on how they will perform this week in a brand new game. With playoff spot secured, the only thing that could end the team’s season on a low note is injuries. Former St. Paul’s and Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron is scheduled to make his first National Football League start for Cincinnati.

“We’re going to try to rotate”. Against Kansas City, the Chiefs defense put together an incredible effort, limiting the Packers to just even points for most of the game. The Panthers sit at 13-0 and have a legitimate shot to go undefeated. Manning and Tom Coughlin obviously remember 2007, when they almost beat the 15-0 Patriots in the regular-season finale, then defeated the 18-0 Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. “And we have, for the most part”. Dickson, however, may not be needed to fill in for Olsen against the Giants. They have the ability to ignore their record and their dire situation. The Panthers rank highly in average field position stats, so it hasn’t hurt them there. Rivera deserves a lot of credit to where he has gotten as a coach. “If you look at this particular team on the defensive side of the ball, they do an excellent job of swarming to the ball carrier and gang tackling, open-field tackling, etc”. “But we’ll worry about that when we get there”. Everything’s still right in front of us.