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  JPP: "Come this Sunday, I'm rushing the passer, stopping the run. I’m gonna be all over that field."

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  JPP said he's at about 90 percent. Said he feels "great" and "awesome"

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    JPP says he used to strike fear in defenders. Thinks he will again this Sunday.

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  JPP on Raiders d vs him this wk: they better bring their a game.

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    Stark difference in JPP today. Asked if he's back to being Superman, he said no ... "I might be Iron Man. I’m getting there.”

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    Excerpt: "After two straight years of fracturing his left leg, it’s probably a good idea for Andre Brown to take precautionary measures when he is expected returns to the field this week to face the Oakland Raiders. Brown will wear a specially designed carbon fiber plate to protect his now twice-shattered fibula.

    “They said I would probably be wearing that for the rest of my career,” Brown said. “It is what it is.”

    Brown, 26, was injured in the Giants’ fourth preseason game. He returned to practice three weeks ago, and doesn’t expect this newly designed pad to affect his performance.

    “I don’t even feel it on my leg,” he said. “It’s basically part of my leg. That’s it.” Read more...

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The Giants running game may get another set of fresh legs this week.

Second-year tight end Adrien Robinson, who has missed the entire season with a sprained foot, is close to returning and may be activated this week to play against the Raiders on Sunday. He has been practicing for the past two weeks.

Running back Andre Brown, who has spent the entire season on the short-term injured reserve list with a fractured fibula, has been given a package of plays and will return this week.

Robinson, 6-foot-4, 264 pounds, was expected to handle the bulk of the team’s blocking at the position. Instead, Brandon Myers, who is more of a pass catcher, has been forced to be more of a blocker.

“It’ll be up to the coaches,” said Robinson, a fourth-round pick out of Cincinnati in 2012. “I’ve been practicing. I feel better. I’m ready to go. I’m real excited to be back.”

Robinson, who general manager Jerry Reese said could be the Jason Pierre-Paul of tight ends, was hurt in the preseason. He said the injury just needed time to heal and there was little that could be done to speed up the healing process.

“It was tough because I wasn’t expecting to be out this long,” said Robinson, who played in just two games last season. “It just took time.”

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It's been a very slow start to the 2013 season for New York Giants star defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul, who currently has 19 total tackles and only one sack through the team's first eight games.

JPP's one lone sack was all the way back in the Giants Week 1 loss against the Dallas Cowboys as the defensive end is still on the road to recovery and getting back into the swing of things since having surgery in the summer to repair a herniated disc in his back.

When JPP first entered the league, he was viewed as the un-guardable defensive end who had to be double and triple-teamed by opposing offensive lineman, but this season, you've seen some of the league's starting left tackles not only handle JPP one-on-one, but flat-out dominate him into the ground and have kept him away from their quarterbacks.

But during the team's bye week and heading into their Week 10 matchup with the Oakland Raiders this Sunday at MetLife Stadium, JPP told Steve Serby of the New York Post on Wednesday how he's feeling much better and is getting back to where he feels like his old self, which could be trouble for the Oakland quarterbacks and in particular, Terrelle Pryor.

    “I’m ready, bro. I’m ready to turn this corner,” Pierre-Paul said Wednesday as the Giants prepared for Sunday’s home game against the Raiders. ”For the past three years I’ve been rushing the passer, you could see fear in quarterback’s eyes, you see fear in the tackle’s eyes. They respect me. … They know when they hit the field, that they got a problem. And this week, they’re gonna have a problem. They better bring their ‘A’ game. That’s all I can tell you, man.”

Not only did JPP feel that he was completely over the back surgery and recovery needed to get over the herniated disc; something that started to bother him last season and again, limited his production, but felt that the practice on Wednesday was one of his best all year and evaluated his back at being 90 percent healthy.

    “I say I feel like 90 percent now,” Pierre-Paul said. “For those eight games I’ve been thinking how my back is gonna take this, how I was gonna feel. I can’t think about being hurt. I didn’t get hurt by thinking. So I gotta go out and play this game like I know I can. … I went out there today and I’m turning the edge pretty good now. I’m getting there. For eight games, I’ve been thinking too much and didn’t want to get hurt. Can’t think about if I turn the corner too quick if my back’s gonna give out on me. I think this is the best practice I had by far,” he said. ”I feel great. I went out there and had a great practice, and I’m starting to build that confidence back in myself. I’m anxious,” he said. “I wish the game was right now.”

After getting five sacks in his rookie season in 2010 and then 16.5 sacks in 2011, JPP was held to just 6.5 sacks last year and some people around football thought that the league had figured out the pass-rusher, but as it turns out, he was really playing through pain with the back injury and never told anyone and could only deal with the pain for only so long before getting his back fixed.

If JPP's back really is feeling better and he is back to feeling like his old self, then Pryor could be in for a long day on Sunday with a rejuvenated defense that has not allowed an offensive touchdown in its last 10 quarters played.