SBLII: The Brady Watch
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This is the part that passes me off the most. The marginal difference was never worth the loss of Jimmy insurance. The cruel irony is that Jimmy’s fine play made that second pick less valuable...which Bill might have expected, at least to to a degree, given his assessment of JG’s abilities.
Not surprised. Do you make anything of the picture of the right thumb? Chao’s early morning call plausible? And if it is the thumb, are we on to Hoyer?
Edit — Here is the Chao piece —
https://www.google.com/amp/www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/profootballdoc/sd-sp-pfd-brady-hand-finger-dislocation-0118-story,amp.html
Ralph Malph coming off the bench without his uniform under his warm ups.
Hoping this whole glove thing is just Pink Stripes.
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Co-sign. I was thinking this was all more or less fine, like that one time Brady missed a random practice a few years ago, we all thought it was serious with something unreported. Got to be a huge thread, wound up being nothing except good times for future trolling.
PLEASE tell me this is because of your thumb fear about how finicky they are DRS, oh god.
Personally, my reaction to this will be to read zero things about the Patriots until around Sept. 1.
To be fair, early second rounder in ‘18 vs. after the third in ‘19, but the point holds.
As well it should be (at least the part about the trade itself).
If (IF) the Pats lose Sunday, this goes down as one of the all-time what-ifs in Boston sports.
I also want to know what the hell happened yesterday. How is Brady even in a position to make hard contact with anyone in a practice at this point in the season?
DRS either is busy or composing his usual thoughtful answer.
One additional question for the bin. If he cannot play effectively this Sunday and the Pats survive that, is this the sort of thing whether an additional week of recovery could make a big difference?
Any writer/reporter who grappled with the Jimmy G trade and didn't question it because of a perceived loss of incremental Brady insurance until this week is precluded from raising the issue with any level of sanctimony.
I'd like to think he's working the phones, offering to take an old residency buddy out for a beer and, "oh, BTW, didn't you used to do some work for the Pats......?"
Talking ourselves into Brian Hoyer winning the two biggest games of the year is going to be challenging.
Vegas lines haven't moved a ton. Opened at -9 and over/under of 47. Now sitting between -7.5 and -8 with an over/under between 46 and 46.5.
http://www.vegasinsider.com/nfl/odds/las-vegas/
http://www.vegasinsider.com/nfl/odds/las-vegas/
So what's the point of dressing today? I'd be far more concerned if he hadn't dressed, but maybe that's irrational. If it's swollen and sore, or the cut is susceptible to re-opening then resting today makes sense.
Like I said yesterday, if the books thought that Brady wasn’t going to play in any seriousness, the line would be OTB. They don’t leave lines up to get hammered. The public moves are wrong more than they are right
That’s why I asked DRS whether a couple weeks can make a difference. I can see Hoyer playing the Bledsoe role, somehow getting past this game. SB — totally different, and if it’s Minnesota ...
While it opened at 9, it was up to at least 9.5 before these reports.
Edit: An intriguing bet right now is Brady not to win SB MVP at -153. I just cant bring myself to pull the trigger on something like that.
I'm choosing to believe this is just Brady, Kraft and Belichick fanning the flames of the Wickersham story by having people freak out about JG for a couple days when Brady is absolutely fine and maybe got a splinter or something.
I’ll put a full blog post up tonight, but based on how his thumb looks and the position of what looks like a brace under the glove, I’d go with a strained ulnar collateral ligament - same ligament Pedroia tore a couple years ago, and Trout this past year. If that’s what it is he would play this Sunday but might be a little hindered and it could get worse over the course of the game. If that is the case he would definitely benefit from the additional two weeks before the Super Bowl
Jacksonville would eat Hoyer alive...there is no way this team gets past Jax without TB.
It would be a pick em probably, so yeah there’s plenty a chance they could still win. Blake Bortles isn’t exactly Aaron Rodgers.
But Brady will play and would have played if Jimmy was still here, too.
Jesus, I nearly had a heart attack. This seems pretty close to a best case scenario.
The Pats defense is going to eat Bortles alive, too. Without Brady, this is a total rock fight, but the Pats still have a chance.
The scenario that worries me more is Brady playing a few series or a half, being ineffective and having to come out, and Hoyer taking the stage facing a deficit.
Keep in mind I’m working with absolutely no inside knowledge here.
Aside from the fact that I’m incredibly fucking smart, that’s gotta count for something
The Jags lost to Josh McCown and Blaine Gabbert this year, and two weeks ago the Bills held them to 10 points in Jacksonville. Obviously I'd rather have Brady, but it won't be hopeless without him.
That matters. It also matters that the rest of us are really desperate and uninformed. Keep on keepin' on.
Obviously there is much to learn but this is a ridiculous take. No way? So you're saying it's literally impossible? Ok.
Open finger dislocation. If it's the thumb, we've got issues. If the pinky, we don't. Other fingers, somewhere in between.
At this point, the glove may be the only thing holding his hand together in one piece.
There is currently no QB signed to the practice squad assuming this link is up to date.
http://www.patriots.com/team/roster
If Tom was not going to play, would the Pats go into the game with no backup for Hoyer?
http://www.patriots.com/team/roster
If Tom was not going to play, would the Pats go into the game with no backup for Hoyer?
So, just doing some research on this open finger dislocation thing...yuck:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/281635346_Injury-showing-open-finger-dislocation
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/281635346_Injury-showing-open-finger-dislocation
