“It’s tough,” said veteran inside linebacker Kevin Pierre-Louis, another core special teams player. “Without it being publicly known, he’s the captain of special teams. There is a reason why we were doing fairly well, for the most part, on punts with CP (Cordarrelle Patterson) on one side and Sherrick on the other. You’e got two dogs and now they can’t load the box as much. They gotta make sure they’re covered because if they single one of those guys, he’s probably going to force the fair catch. It’s going to be next-man-up mentality and the next man up is going to have to do his job, but yeah, the presence of McManis out there is going to be missed if he’s out. He just plays with his heart. If you play special teams in the NFL, you know about him.”