patchick

Several posters have said, in praise of Edelman, that he looks like our third-best receiver. And he certainly does -- but is that by default?

Galloway didn't look good vs. Philly, and to my eyes hasn't shown up well in practices either. As for Lewis, the only reason he didn't show up on anybody's "losers" list last night is that he was too invisible to notice.

Any thoughts on the presumed #3 & 4 receivers?

JaxPats

I can agree with that. Edelman reminded me of Welker right away, even before they said it. I liked Galloway, but I also think he needs a little more time with the book and the way things are done here. He should be fine. Lewis, well I'm still out on that.

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I'm not sure Galloway fits so well, though it's very, very early to tell. Tommy Boy gave Galloway a serious stare down when he dropped that TD pass Brady put right on his fingers. That's cool, Brady seemed to say a minute later, I'll just throw it to someone who will catch it like Baker.

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JD10367

Common sense tells us that, in 9 out of 10 situations, when a veteran like Galloway or Lewis is picked up by a team, that player sticks for at least the season. However, since we're talking about Belichick, who the hell knows what goes on in his head. We could see Galloway and Lewis do almost nothing all preseason, and still make the roster as the 3 and 4. Or he could cut them both at noon today. As fans we can only go by what we see, and we see guys like Edelman shine while guys like Galloway don't. Of course, as fans, most of us saw Cassel suck preseason after preseason and clamored for his release. And half of us still wanted Bledsoe over Brady once Drew got healthy.

The bottom line is, as long as the Holy Trinity stays healthy (Brady, Moss, Welker), it really won't matter who's on the depth chart. (As long as Edelman makes the team, I'm good.)

captain stone

To be fair, if Galloway didn't get his hands on the ball, it would've hit him in the crotch; plus, Brady threw that ball really, really hard.

However, realizing that it was their first pre-season game, I'm still disappointed in both Galloway & Lewis, the latter of whom I thought would've had closer to 4 catches/50 yards as a way of saying Hello to his former fans, who were generally overjoyed to receive a 5th-rounder for somebody who might've already been released by now, or at best would've been 8th on Philly's depth chart.

Not a good start by either - at all. But as I'm sure we'll be hearing, it's still early.

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Synovia

Yeah, that was a pretty poor pass.

He still should have caught it, but you don't throw a ball down and behind a receiver moving across the field.

Patriots2001

Galloway with his speed alone can stretch the field but he will get his shots.

PATSYLICIOUS

I'm betting that this year Galloway will be our 3rd best WR. Edelman has got to be ahead of Lewis though

spacecrime

By default? You mean Edelman wasn't that good but isn't as bad as Lewis and Galloway?

Edelman was as good as he was. I've liked him from when he was drafted. But it was one game and he may never play that good again, or he may get buried in the depth.

But you can look at his play without considering Welker, Galloway, etc and say he did damn good this one game.

More important than how he did in the game (has everyone forgotten what BB taught us with the Cassel situation) is how a player does in practice. Edelman has been doing well enough in practice day after day that when BB set up his game plan, Edelman played with the first team and sat down when the first team sat down. There is a sidelines shot early on with Edelman sitting next to Brady on the bench.

3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th, it doesn't matter. I think he will make the team unless he totally flops. I haven't felt this good about a player early on since Cassel, Womack and Lua. One out of three so far....

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BradyManny

Are you talking about the play in the 1st quarter or the should've-been-a-TD in the 2nd? For the latter, I'm guessing that if Galloway had been seeing what Brady was seeing, he would have turned earlier and caught it in stride for 6.

Like patchick, based on this game and practices, I'm disappointed in Galloway thus far - suffice to say, he doesn't seem to be on the same page as Brady,yet.