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"When you're coming back from an injury, especially where someone hit him low, you need to feel that pocket presence, need to feel it closing. It will be good for him the first few times to get hit. He'll realize, 'I can stand in the pocket, take the hit and everything will be OK. This is just work as usual.' "
- Trent Green who torn his ACL
You have to think that the hit and the injury has the potential to enter into Brady's head. I cut the quote from the article cause when he stratrts to get hit more, maybe with each hit the injury starts to fade even more.
See Brady step up must put the fear of god into the secondary. I can't wait to see him do that with the same confidence and authority as he always used to. I actually wouldn't mind having him hit a couple times in practice, not hard obviously, just get him used to some contact b4 September...
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"When you're coming back from an injury, especially where someone hit him low, you need to feel that pocket presence, need to feel it closing. It will be good for him the first few times to get hit. He'll realize, 'I can stand in the pocket, take the hit and everything will be OK. This is just work as usual.' "
- Trent Green who torn his ACL
You have to think that the hit and the injury has the potential to enter into Brady's head. I cut the quote from the article cause when he stratrts to get hit more, maybe with each hit the injury starts to fade even more.
See Brady step up must put the fear of god into the secondary. I can't wait to see him do that with the same confidence and authority as he always used to. I actually wouldn't mind having him hit a couple times in practice, not hard obviously, just get him used to some contact b4 September...
Tom Brady - We are talking about Tom F'n Brady folks.
Enough said.
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SB 42, sacked five times, pressured/hit numerous others.
Week# 1, 2008 Sammie Morris fails to hold his block on Pollard, allowing Brady to be hit low and go on IR.
Additionally, Cassel was sacked a league high 47 times.
I'm guessing Brady's mental health is directly proportionate to how well he's protected.
That said, I'm hoping the improved D will take the pressure off the O and that the Pats will run more and have Brady execute shorter drops with quick releases, like they did in 2001.
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SB 42, sacked five times, pressured/hit numerous others.
Week# 1, 2008 Sammie Morris fails to hold his block on Pollard, allowing Brady to be hit low and go on IR.
Additionally, Cassel was sacked a league high 47 times.
I'm guessing Brady's mental health is directly proportionate to how well he's protected.
That said, I'm hoping the improved D will take the pressure off the O and that the Pats will run more and have Brady execute shorter drops with quick releases, like they did in 2001.
Brady's mental health was fine in 2001-2003, when he was getting sacked 41, 31 and 32 times, the three highest totals of his career. People are beating a horse that was never alive.
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Its a valid point - but Brady will start facing contact August 13th - and I think it'll be good for him. I hope he plays in all 4 exhibition games.
I'm not sure that I'd want or expect him to play in all 4 pre-season games
I don't know about you, but watching starters/vets in preseason games for me is like having 'under the total' in games..meaning I just want the clock to tick away and the damn game to end
I'd expect to see him in maybe the 1st qt in the 3rd game, and maybe the 1st half in the 4th game. I think it's very important for KOC to see some game time too, particularly this year. We need snaps from O'Connell, we don't have the luxury of having a 4 yr backup this yr (even if most of us wanted Cassel cut last yr, I valued his knowledge of the playbook, reads, formations, etc)
I'm not sure that I'd want or expect him to play in all 4 pre-season games
I don't know about you, but watching starters/vets in preseason games for me is like having 'under the total' in games..meaning I just want the clock to tick away and the damn game to end
I'd expect to see him in maybe the 1st qt in the 3rd game, and maybe the 1st half in the 4th game. I think it's very important for KOC to see some game time too, particularly this year. We need snaps from O'Connell, we don't have the luxury of having a 4 yr backup this yr (even if most of us wanted Cassel cut last yr, I valued his knowledge of the playbook, reads, formations, etc)
But the Pats were willing to trust Cassel after one year in the system, inexperience and all. . . .
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But the Pats were willing to trust Cassel after one year in the system, inexperience and all. . . .
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4 yrs, right?
edit:unless maybe you're talking of garbage time in Dolphins game. My point was when TB went down, we at least had someone who had 4 yrs knowledge of the system. And FWIW--not trying to knock KOC in the least. Just saying Cassel at least had 4 yrs in the system, that certainly helped in camps, preseason games, formations, reads, etc, but probably most of all the playbook
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