Getty ImagesThe Giants won Monday night’s game against the Rams, but they suffered a loss in the process.
Domenik Hixon, the team’s No. 3 wide receiver and top punt returner, is out for the season with a torn right ACL, the Giants announced today. It’s the second year in a row that he’s blown out his right knee; he missed the entire 2010 season.
Hixon appeared to suffer the injury when he came down awkwardly on a juggling touchdown catch against the Rams — making it that much more impressive that he held onto the ball.
The loss will be a big one for the Giants, who were counting on Hixon to be a key cog on the offense as well as a jack of all trades on special teams.
As the Giants now prepare to play the Eagles without Hixon, they’re probably wishing they hadn’t let Steve Smith go to Philadelphia.
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Out for the season huh? Now THAT’S selling a faked injury….Bravo!
Hey there’s always next year…and this is why you can’t predict who will win what each year as teams get hit by the injury bug and teams draft and bring in the right FA things change quickly…
its over, sorry dude
Hi Randy, Tom Coughlin here….We need you.
Guess you can’t fake that one.
Just another day:
The sun rises.
A Jet player/ coach says something stupid.
A Giants Player gets injured.
Not so fake….
Badass that he held on to that catch.
Wow. This is the snake bit team this year. But the lack of OTAs and training camps is really slamming all the teams this year. I don’t recall THIS many blown ACLs ever, especially on one team.
Football justice, you fake injuries and Karma bites you in the……
karma. dont fake injuries, g-men.
Don’t worry guys, he’s just trying to break up the no-huddle…
over-actor
Eagles should trade Smith to Giants for 2012 1st rd pick. After Kafka whoops up on Giants they can trade Kafka to NY for 2013 & 2014 1st rounders.
That was one hell of an effort on the play he injured himself, amazing stuff.
All the best to him.
anychance Coughlin might be calling T.O.?
hey kairn42: DUMMY…the two players that faked injury at the same exact time were on DEFENSE you moron!!
Hey Rolle, I don’t want any excuses OK?
TO is getting his popcorn ready.
Too bad they will still crush those Awful, terrible, 31st ranked basement dwelling Redskins in the NFC east standings…………
All Jokes aside..badass catch. HTTR
This just in, the Giants said they won’t resign Hixon for next season because he wont be ready by the start of the season.
cue the packer trolls
wow!! this is amazing i almost am starting to feel bad for the giants and their fans. Not!!!. If they can salvage this season with all their injuries it will be amazing to me. Especially since their schedule gets harder and harder.
Wow, the New York Football Giants, this years Green Bay Packers, minus the Super Bowl run.
Randy Moss and Terrell Owens are available.
Giants Karma I guess.
There have been a ton of injuries this season. More than I can remember. I’m having a hard time fielding my fantasy football team this week. I don’t like seeing anyone get hurt, not even a Giants player… NOT EVEN a Jets player!
If torn ACL’s equated to wins the Giants just might go 16-0 this year.
Next man up!
Wouldn’t be a week without another member of the Giants suffering a season-ending injury anyways.
People are butt heads on here. Get well Hixon. Giants will beat the Eagles and the arrogant eagles fans will make up some stupid excuse why they lost.
Randy moss won’t play for a crappy tram like the Ji-ants. That’s right….come to Philly on Sunday. Lol. Giants are getting smashed!
Paging Bill cowher!
New York……..Big City of ACL Tears
Thanks Dahl for running into the receiver while never looking back. Thanks refs for blowing an obvious pass interference call!
“As the Giants now prepare to play the Eagles without Hixon, they’re probably wishing they hadn’t let Steve Smith go to Philadelphia.”
Thats only because Smith was heading for the #3 spot when he got the contract offer he said he never got.
Not a giants fan, but this is a lot of injuries for one team to go through… It looks like a one-dimensional rushing attack is in store for my birds’ defense this Sunday. I just don’t see them passing much against our secondary…
Cue the “T.O. To The Giants” rumors.
You sure he not faking it? Plax back in a Giants uni would have been huge right now. Oh well the league goes on.
Rex’s prediction is looking a little like reality now, Giants done, Cowbitches on life support, and the Eagles are 50 50.
Hail Em Up!!!
Sunday’s game final Giants 35 Eagles 21. Eli threws for 3 tds and have over 270 yards. Eagles will lose their qb for a few weeks because that weak over rated o line will be way over matched. Jacobs will blow up little Matthews afew times.
haw, eli doesnt need another receiver for the eagles, already has assante as his main #1 receiver.
Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if the Giants made a Super bowl run with all these injuries and the Eagles don’t even make the playoffs even with all the money they wasted in FA.
Someone should remind Coughlin that all those injuries are his fault.
After all, that’s what he announced at the press conference when he was hired … that all those injuries on Fassel’s watch were the coaching staff’s fault.
These are the Giants we are talking about, so we’re going to have to suffer through another miserable season, with no changes until after the season. Hopefully, at that point, they’ll ask Coughlin and Gilbride what they plan to do after they’re done coaching, they’ll relieve Reese of his GM responsibilities (he’s a good scouting director, but a terrible GM, he can’t build a team), and they’ll hire a real GM and a new coach.
Until then, I’ll just have to grit my teeth and try to keep myself from throwing heavy objects at the screen.
bigpara, i beleive your spending to much time with your hand on your bigpara. the Giants were not and will not beat the Eagles this year they have 2 facets of the game in hand, D line and runningback. Tuck and company might get a few sacks, but for the most part he will be handled by Herramans and J.P.P. will be handled by Jason Peters. the inside of the Eagle line although not great do not have a 2008 version of Winston Justice for Osi to pad his stats on. although the Giants backs are good there is no team easier for the Eagles to put 8 in the box to stop the run. the Giant secondary is putred, I am 6′ 245 and i could run pass routes against Aarron Ross. the Giant O line is even more maligned than the Eagle line and will be beaten up by the so called wide 9. almost all the Giant fans want to blame the coaching staff but the truth is they mishandled the salary cap and don’t have the horses.
More proof that T.O. will be playing for someone this year. Guys are dropping like flies.
Oh, what a life I lead. I root for the Knicks, long time kings of the inexplicable injury. I root for the Mets, home of Jose Reyes’ hamstring and David Wright’s back. And I choose the Giants over the Jets. I expect injury in football, but the past month has been something far beyond anything I expected. There must be some serious (lockout-related?) conditioning failures at play here, as well as just bad luck.
I need some aspirin.
Sucks, hope he’s healthy next year. At least he went out on a highlight reel catch.
Uhmm.. @orakpownd I think the skins just beat them by 2 touchdowns last week. Dont think its going to be better the next time
Hey rodgers12rocks,
Sorry, it seems with the new rule changes this year they’ve done away with the ability of your coach to be able to review a comment for comedy.
Whatever you do, don’t make a circus catch for the Giants. You’ll never be heard from again.
All the best,
David Tyree
That sucks. He is truly fun to watch.
Well since the fans were booing Eli, maybe this is their opportunity to get in the Andrew Luck sweepstakes…the two teams with a Manning vying for the worst record to get Andrew Luck hmmmm how compelling…
Rolle has now rescinded his statement, plans to use Hixon as excuse for Sunday.
But they still have Devin Thomas!! Hail!
Time to give Moss and T.O a call
hate to see the injuries. to anyone. best of luck to you hixon. that catch was a great catch.
That wide 9 is a joke and reason they play it is because offensive line coach is now your d coach and that d line is a joke and ain’t good enough to get to qb one on one. A good rb will destroy that scheme. Eagles leave the middle wide open for the rb to run over the lber
Wish Rolle would injure his tongue.
bigparra The Eagles have 10 sacks in the first 2 games all by front four, no blitzes, obviously you don’t know anything about the Eagles
For all the haters, Steve Smith has had 2 catches in 1 game and Plax has had 4. Not ground breaking numbers and both are still not 100% up to speed. If you watch both games you could see that horrible play calling is still killing us.
Very few runs in the 2nd half of the Redskins game gave us no chance to win. In the Rams game the Giants kept trying to run the same old tired plays that have never worked. Sweeps, quick throws to the sidelines, and the worst, short throws on 3rd down that will never pickup the needed yardage. The last is the worst, and we also have gotten away from play action, which has been Eli’s bread and butter.
There is bad luck, and then there is BAD luck. At this pace the giants may have to use the entire practice squad just to get a full lineup.
Can we stop with the “Giants should not have let go of Steve Smith” meme? He’s had one catch for six yards in Philly. Big f’in deal. He’s out there, but he’s a lot more dinged up than anyone is letting on.
Just stop.
Eagles lose and yes the eagles are blitzing
this is a bummer for the gmen, they have had so many injuries this year i dont think there going to go deep into the playoffs(thats if they even make it there)!
And kaaabooooom down he goes….lol. Too bad it wasn’t one of their better WRs, though.
Either way, the road to two peat got a little easier.
You can thank Mr. “accurate” Manning for that injury.
running out of ACL’s over there…
What’s the big deal with all the smack talk?
The Eagles and Giants have one win each.
To the same lightweight NFC West team no less.
The only difference between the two is that the Eagles lost to a good team, not the Redskins.
Hail!
Steve Smith the best offensive pick up of the season. Hes going to get 15 snaps and I bet he tears them a new sphincter.