Find Out Why The NFL NEEDS Victor Cruz Back
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Think back to 2011. He was one of the most dominant forces in the sport. He was impossible to cover, a combination of speed and precision deep-route running. Remember the 99-yard touchdown? In the second-to-last game of the season, with the Giants needing every point as they pushed for the playoffs? He had 164 yards in that game. Remember what he did the next game? Against Dallas? With the playoffs at stake? He had 178 yards.
Cruz finished that year with nine touchdowns and 1,536 yards on just 82 catches and was a catalyst yet again in the NFC title game, with 10 catches for 142 yards.
He was that good. He was better than good. Great.
Then, the injuries came, and this is a common story in the long history of a violent sport. A hot start, a promising career and then the body fails. There was the torn right knee tendon last year in Week 6 that ended his season. Then a strained left calf that has led to Cruz not playing this season. We’re in Week 8, and still no sign of him.
f somehow Cruz can piece his body back together, and even be 80 percent of what he was, he can transform that Giants offense. He can take the pressure off Odell Beckham Jr. and give Eli Manning another viable target.
He can, literally, also transform the division. The NFC East is awful, and the Giants can still win it if Cruz can be Cruz again. Yeah, he was that good.
It’s abysmal in the NFC East right now, which is why whatever team can put together some kind of offensive run can capture it.
Who knows if Cruz will play again this season, but if the Giants can get maybe the last five or six games of the year out of him, they would have that extra offensive piece no other team in the NFC East has.
By Mike Freeman,
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