Don't call it a comeback.Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul had been reported lately to not be as close to returning to the gridiron as was previously believed, and it looks like those reports are coming true.
Head coach Tom Coughlin said on Wednesday that, while Pierre-Paul is in a good place mentally, he is not ready to take the field and has returned to his native Florida, via the New York Daily News.
The Giants, Coughlin said, will "monitor" his progress while he's there.
One presumes the team will have closer access to him than they had following the July 4th weekend, when Pierre-Paul had to have his right index finger amputated after an accident involving an amateur fireworks display. Team officials tried to see him in the hospital, but went back to New York after spending a week without so much as laying an eye on him.
The geographical distance between player and team may also illustrate a financial distance.
Pierre-Paul is yet to put his name to a $14.8 million franchise tender, a number that will still count against the Giants' salary cap despite the man not being present.
As the 53-man rosters have already been submitted, the Giants can't place him on the Non-Football Injury list and activate him after six games as they could have previously.
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