Giants Defensive Line Must Find a Way to Be Great Without Jason Pierre-Paul

December 8, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Jason Pierre-Paul slipped quietly through the Giants locker room after a walkthrough practice last week. He stopped at his corner locker, posed for some promotional photographs holding a newspaper announcing his NFC Defensive Player of the Week selection, then vanished as stealthily as he had arrived. No interviews. No brouhaha. 
The Giants were on a six-game winning streak. JPP earned his Player of the Week award with three sacks and a snatch-and-score fumble recovery against the Browns. With 11 sacks in two weeks, the Giants pass rush was beating opponents almost single-handedly. It was time to coronate the 2016 Giants defensive line as rightful heirs to the 2007 and 2011 lines, the ones that propelled otherwise-unimpressive Giants teams to the Super Bowl and proved to be Tom Brady Kryptonite.
But JPP, less boisterous with the media this year than he was before the 2015 injury which cost him two fingers and the often-invasive coverage that followed it, would not be par...

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