{"id":2156,"date":"2016-10-02T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycsn.weavers-web.com\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2016-10-02T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T18:16:08","slug":"giants-might-want-to-reduce-jpp-and-olivier-vernons-workloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycsn\/giants-might-want-to-reduce-jpp-and-olivier-vernons-workloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants might want to reduce JPP and Olivier Vernon&#8217;s workloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #48494a; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. &#8212; The<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/nyg\/new-york-giants\">New York Giants<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>are riding their front four hard. Maybe even too hard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #48494a; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Defensive end<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/13256\/jason-pierre-paul\">Jason Pierre-Paul<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>has played 196 out of 202 (97 percent) of the defensive snaps this season despite a banged-up shoulder.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/14982\/olivier-vernon\">Olivier Vernon<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>has been on the field for 188 snaps (93 percent) despite a problematic wrist. They\u2019ve barely come off the field during the Giants&#8217; first three games of the season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #48494a; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Defensive tackles<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/15380\/damon-harrison\">Damon Harrison<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/15841\/johnathan-hankins\">Johnathan Hankins<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>have also shouldered heavy workloads. Hankins has played 75 percent of the defensive snaps, a massive number for a 320-pound interior lineman. And Harrison has played 60 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #48494a; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">It\u2019s an approach defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo knows needs to be altered if those players are going to last and the Giants (2-1) are going to finish games strongly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #48494a; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u201cYeah, we need to take a few snaps off of those guys. Especially with the injuries they&#8217;re kind of dealing with,\u201d Spagnuolo said. \u201cIt&#8217;s a good point and it&#8217;s hard to take those guys out &#8212; and they don&#8217;t really want to be out. None of those guys do. But I think you make a really good point because when you get down to the end, we really need to step up and those guys need to be fresh. And we&#8217;ve talked about that because we&#8217;ve looked at the snaps that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/17296\/kerry-wynn\">Kerry Wynn<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2510866\/owa-odighizuwa\">Owa Odighizuwa<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.com\/nfl\/draft\/player?id=49533\">Romeo Okwara<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>had and they probably didn&#8217;t have enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #48494a; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Odighizuwa and Okwara are taking some snaps on the interior in pass-rushing situations, but they&#8217;ve rarely been used at defensive end. Wynn has been used sparingly this season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #48494a; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The Giants are leaning on their starters on the defensive line perhaps more than any team in the NFL. The<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-vikings\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a>, whom they face on the road Monday night, lead the league with 15 sacks. But they don\u2019t have a defensive lineman playing more than 85 percent of their snaps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #48494a; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Defensive ends<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/13373\/everson-griffen\">Everson Griffen<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/10546\/brian-robison\">Brian Robison<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>are playing 85 and 84 percent of the snaps, respectively. Defensive tackles<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/13281\/linval-joseph\">Linval Joseph<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/16695\/tom-johnson\">Tom Johnson<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>are playing 60 and 55 percent of the snaps, respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #48494a; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Even<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-broncos\">Denver Broncos<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>star<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/13976\/von-miller\">Von Miller<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>gets his fair share of rest. 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