Belichick: Most of the missing players are "relatively close" to returning - New England Patriots Forums

PatsChamp88 · 08-05-2009, 02:59 PM

Good news just saw on New England Patriots Training Camp Updates - CBSSports.com Rapid Reports figured would share.

signbabybrady · 08-05-2009, 03:01 PM

Thats encouraging.....hopefully the starters are the ones who are the "most"

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Bill Belichick said most of the players who have missed training camp so far are "relatively close" to returning. That includes Richard Seymour and Ty Warren.

This is kind of ambigious are they saying they are included in the most or are they saying they are included in the missing.

PatsChamp88 · 08-05-2009, 03:03 PM

Too add to this a bit from It Is What It Is Bill Belichick Q&A, 8/5

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Q: With Richard Seymour and Ty Warren having limited practice, are you concerned with the continuity of the defense?

BB: We’d like to have all the players out at practice for every practice. But realistically that’s not going to be the case in this training camp or probably any other training camp and probably for any other team in the league. That’s part of camp. Some guys are out there; some guys aren’t. People are in a lot of different situations and I think everybody that’s not out there — with very few exceptions — are in the day-to-day category. They are making progress. They are getting close. Whether that’s the next practice, two practices, three practices, we have to take that day by day and see how the players progress along. But I think — as a group — the guys that aren’t practicing are relatively close to getting back out there. Again, it varies from player to player and as we go through the rehab that might change. I think that a lot of these guys will be back out in a relatively short amount of time, although there’s no timeframe for that.

robertweathers · 08-05-2009, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by PatsChamp88

Too add to this a bit from It Is What It Is Bill Belichick Q&A, 8/5

I love BB. He never answers a question directly.

Mack Herron · 08-05-2009, 03:15 PM

That is TOTAL AWESOME!!!!!!

(I know I am following training camp WAY to closely when my mood oscillates wildly with the daily PUP reports.)

***Gwedd*** · 08-05-2009, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by robertweathers

I love BB. He never answers a question directly.

True fat. However, I completely agree with his approach in this case (and many others). So many times, there simply isn't a clear-cut yes or no answer, and if he were to give one, and then something changes that later on, the bottom-dwelling sports writers (and they KNOW who they are) would be all over him for "hiding the truth" or "lying" or whatever.

Better to respond like this then to toss any more chum to the sharks

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AzPatsFan · 08-05-2009, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Gwedd

True fat. However, I completely agree with his approach in this case (and many others). So many times, there simply isn't a clear-cut yes or no answer, and if he were to give one, and then something changes that later on, the bottom-dwelling sports writers (and they KNOW who they are) would be all over him for "hiding the truth" or "lying" or whatever.

Better to respond like this then to toss any more chum to the sharks

Worse than ragging on BB, they would start murmuring that the player in question, was supposed to be back by now. So he must be lazy and dogging it... Or alternatively that he is hurt much more seriously.

***Gwedd*** · 08-05-2009, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by AzPatsFan

Worse than ragging on BB, they would start murmuring that the player in question, was supposed to be back by now. So he must be lazy and dogging it... Or alternatively that he is hurt much more seriously.

Yup.... got that right!

rayyu882 · 08-05-2009, 04:01 PM

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Aug 5 2009 | 3:47:48 pm
NFL official Terry McCauley spoke to the media today and said low hits on the quarteback will be a point of emphasis. Hits like the one Kansas City Chiefs S Bernard Pollard made on the Patriots' Tom Brady will be illegal.

Really... Take them that long to realize it??? Sigh!!!