Aaron Ross took snaps at practice today with the second unit, but not at corner. Ross was playing, the much maligned, safety position. Don’t expect any moves right away but it could be coming down the stretch, especially if Aaron Rouse struggles with his newly acquired starting spot. Remember Rouse didn’t really earn the spot, he fell into it after CC Brown proved he couldn’t handle the position. CC struggled so much in communication he admitted to playing his own coverage on a deep ball to DeSean Jackson. Ross has now practiced 4 days in a row, a couple at safety, but the Giants are limited at the spot so it’s not a definite indication that he is on the move, but with there recent struggles it certainly bares watching.
According to Ralph Vacchiano, Coughlin emphasized that Ross “is a corner”. And when he was asked if Ross could play another position in a game, he said “Not at this point in time. But you never know.” Meanwhile Ross had this to say: “I can (play safety),” Ross said. “I don’t know if I’m going to or not, but I can. We haven’t sat down and talked about it yet,” Ross said. Whatever he has planned for me, I’m all in.”
Ross is now into his third comeback attempt and would probably do anything to see the field, including moving to safety. While I don’t see the move happening this Sunday, it may come later in the season. With all the players now healthy the Giants will have to make some interesting decisions for there inactives. Most likely the usuals, WR Sinorice Moss, T Guy Whimper, G Adam Koets, WR Ramses Barden, and RB Gartrell Johnson will be on the list but they may now have to add DE Tollefson and one of the corners. With CB Bruce Johnson doing nicely at the nickel it’s likely to come down to Dockery/Ross, but for now Dockery is also gunner on special teams, although he has struggled lately.
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Here is an idea for the last inactive spot, C.C. Brown. If Ross is able to go and has been practicing at Safety then why not let him play it if something happens to Rouse this week. Even having only a couple of days playing the position he can’t possibly be any worse than Brown. Plus, if the game ends up getting out of hand (either way but preferably because we are destroying them), then Ross could come in and get some actual in-game experience at safety during garbage time. However, if they decide Ross is just not good to go, then by all means keep him inactive.
snowmanrt – your idea isn’t bad, but it’s just not gonna happen yet. Ross has simply not had enough time to adjust to the position, as noted in Coughlins qoute, so at the very least they will need CC as a backup. Often times when watching a player get torched (like cc did) we resort to the phrase “it can’t be worse” when shockingly it can. Give ross some time and rouse a chance, my vote is to put dockery on the inactives (he has now forced 1 fumble, on his own team, and run into a returner trying to call a fair catch in the last two games. He has struggled, but if Ross is not 100% he may sit one more…..we will soon see.
And now ProFootballTalk is reporting that AP is out indefinitely with a Bulging Disk in his neck….Awesome….