Giants guard Shane Lemieux eats one thing known as ‘Monster Mash’ for lunch each day.
He mixes floor beef, rice, peppers and bone broth right into a thermos.
“It keeps warm, and then you can just eat it,” Lemieux mentioned Friday. “I’ll put a little spinach in there. It’s good.”
Lemieux additionally mentioned he additionally drinks greater than a gallon of entire milk a day: three pints per meal.
“Yeah, like ‘Beef, it’s what’s for dinner? It’s like milk, it’s what’s for dinner,” Lemieux joked. “I love milk. All the guys give me a hard time, too. People think I’m a psycho.”
This is the mauler that the Giants are doubtless welcoming again into Sunday’s beginning lineup at left guard for his season debut towards the Detroit Lions at MetLife Stadium.
Lemieux, 25, is gregarious off the sphere however nasty on it. He simply hasn’t been on it since 2020.
He performed solely 17 snaps final season as a consequence of {a partially} torn patellar tendon in his knee that required surgical procedure. Then he opened this 12 months’s coaching camp because the Giants’ beginning left guard, solely to undergo a mix turf toe/fracture to his left huge toe in August that required surgical procedure.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Lemieux mentioned. “I assumed I dislocated my toe they usually’d pop it again and I’d be advantageous. But the imaging mentioned I wanted surgical procedure. I hoped for a damaged toe and it turned out to be worse. I went to Green Bay, had surgical procedure and simply began rehabbing once more.
Ben Bredeson (seven begins) and rookie Josh Ezeudu (two begins) held down the left guard place in Lemieux’s absence. But Bredeson is on injured reserve with a knee damage. Ezeudu is listed as questionable with a neck damage for Sunday.
Lemieux, who has been designated for return from IR, took the first-team left guard reps at apply on Thursday and Friday. And offensive line coach Bobby Johnson mentioned he’s not obsessing over continuity amongst his beginning 5. He is enjoying the very best 5.
“Compete. Come to work to compete,” Johnson mentioned Friday. “The five guys that go out there earned the opportunity to go out there in the spots that they’re in.”
Lemieux is very keen as a result of he mentioned he’s manner smarter than he was in 2020, when he performed 504 snaps with 9 begins as a fifth-round pick of Oregon.
“I’m more confident,’ he said. “All this time on IR, I’ve game-planned like I’m playing the game. It has, mentally, put me in a spot where I’m more mature and I have a better football IQ than I did my rookie year.”
Lemieux additionally mentioned he saved his thoughts busy by diving into the worlds of diet and weight lifting to maximise his physique sort for soccer. The result’s he’s “in the best shape I’ve been in in a while” — as much as a “healthy” 310 kilos from his 295-pound enjoying weight as a rookie.
He mentioned he hasn’t weighed this a lot since his junior 12 months at Oregon.
“All this time I’ve tried four different diet plans,” Lemieux mentioned. “I’ve just been experimenting with stuff. I’m a weight room junkie. I got a whole weight room [at home in Arizona], and I read all these different books about diets.”
Lemieux mentioned his favourite is a guide known as “The Vertical Diet” by bodybuilder Stan Efferding. He mentioned the weight loss plan pushes “a lot of easily digestible whole foods” like purple meat, rice, spinach, carrots, broccoli and kale.
“I drink a lot of green shakes,” he mentioned with a smile.
The milk is Lemieux’s private twist as a result of he mentioned “naturally I’m a skinny guy.” He solely weighed 190 kilos as a highschool junior in Washington state earlier than exhibiting as much as Oregon at 300.
“It was crazy,” he mentioned. “I’m not a scientist, but it works for me.”
Mentally, he has struggled coping with not being on the sphere. But Sunday, it seems like he’ll get his likelihood to impose his will — and additional weight — on opposing defensive linemen once more.
“It was tough,” he mentioned of this summer time’s setback. “Going on IR once more, not having the ability to present the crew and everybody what I’ve been engaged on since my rookie 12 months. It was actually laborious.
“I’ve been through a lot this last year, and I’m glad I’m on the healthy side again,” he added. “Obviously the team’s having a lot of success. I want to do everything I can to help the team in every way they need me.”
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GIANTS GAME STATUSES: Out: TE Daniel Bellinger (eye). Doubtful: OT Evan Neal (knee). Questionable: DL Dexter Lawrence (again), WR Kenny Golladay (hamstring), WR Wan’Dale Robinson (hamstring), S Dane Belton (clavicle), OL Josh Ezeudu (neck) … Kicker Graham Gano (sickness) missed Friday’s apply however wasn’t on the ultimate damage report. Safety Julian Love appeared to injure his proper leg early in Friday’s particular groups interval, however he continued working towards and didn’t present on the report … Edges Kayvon Thibodeaux (sickness) and Jihad Ward (thumb) had been upgraded to full from early week limitations and can play … It is believed Golladay will play. He ran as the highest ‘X’ receiver throughout particular person drills. Brian Daboll mentioned he’s “optimistic” Robinson will play after being upgraded to restricted on Friday from his DNP Thursday.
LIONS INJURY REPORT: Out: DL Josh Pascal (knee), DL Charles Harris (groin). Questionable: C Frank Ragnow (foot), WR Josh Reynolds (again), S DeShon Elliott (concussion protocol), LB Malcolm Rodriguez (elbow).
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