What are you talking about? The Patriots can snap the ball into the goalposts on every play against Denver and still have the inside track to the #1 seed.
I don't see this as a must win. Even with a loss, we're a game up and both Denver and Cincy, and they still have to play and both teams play a decent enough Steelers team. A win makes it easier, but we'd still be in driver's seat.
Pretty sure he's saying 'I'm lamenting that we pretty much have to try to win'. As in, if the game weren't so significant, we could better afford to rest key parts. Not that we must win the game.
Except when BB deliberately dropped a late season game to secure what he thought would be a more favorable playoff matchup ...
Not to mention, he's useless anyways.
The interesting thing is that Dobson was playing over LaFell last night.
As did I. Was a nice catch. But of course he hurt his foot because he's Aaron Dobson and that's what he does.
I recall BB seemingly going out of his way recently to say Dobson was having a good year.
I've been working on this hypothesis that LaFell is really not a great zone-beater receiver and his main strength is winning on the outside against man. Which is important against, say, Denver, but not when BUF is showing all kinds of exotic zone pressures and different looks.
This. As much as we like to think that any WR can play any WR spot, ultimately each one has certain responsibilities and routes to run, and they practice those routes, not all of them. In addition to knowing 'their' part of the playbook, they also have to get used to working with Brady on each route, where he is going to place the ball, which way to turn, how much to come back, etc.. WR is a high level designation, but they aren't completely fungible. We have lots of programmers at work, but some do JS, some do node, some are .NET guys, etc., even if they are all "developers."
I thought it was a very tough catch. But I also thought that he didn't catch it cleanly. I also thought that he broke his hip when he landed, but I am not DRS.
I'll have to go back and check the tape, but I think you're wrong on this. If LaFell was playing his typical role, that role was much smaller than it had been in previous weeks, until Dobson went out.
Have to feel like this is good news. If he's talking about the practice report then he's not talking about season ending IR. Which is unlikely for either, but with BB talking about the Wednesday report, prepare yourself for "Limited Participation - Leg" for Dola and "Limited Participation - Foot" for Dobson. No news is good news on a day we don't practice.
Or the team's got 2 bad medical reports in one hand and the phone numbers of 12 agents in the other - and BB doesn't want to torpedo the negotiations.
I don't think that's necessarily true.
He was also playing behind an OL that wasn't getting him killed every week. I'd think Bill would do the right thing and limit his snaps if they clinch everything early.
We're talking about fringe professional athletes who are desperate for jobs. There's no way any of them don't jump at the chance to play for anybody, even at the league minimum.
They still need a roster spot or two, because there's no way they go into a game with just two healthy WR.
We don't know how close Keshawn Martin is to returning; that would give them three if he can go. He hasn't missed a practice but has been limited / questionable with a hamstring since Week 7. Three still seems light. Slater might get some extra WR reps in practice this week.
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