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July 27th, 2007
Pats problems
Posted by Albert Breer at 7:57 pm
The big issue now will be how serious the injury to Chad Scott is, and how it will effect the rest of the team. There’s nothing definitive yet, but the cart coming out is never a good sign, nor is the way Scott was loaded into it. He tried to stand and stumbled a bit before the trainers grabbed hold to guide him to his seat.
The injury came in a skeleton drill, and appeared to happen as Scott jumped for a ball and landed awkwardly on his left leg. It quickly became clear that this was not a run-of-the-mill injury, and the team cleared out to give the staff room to work on the fallen corner.
Here’s some more from the workout:
– Rashad Baker was the only player that made it to the morning workout, but didn’t go in the afternoon. Baker suffered a back injury in the morning. Outside the PUP guys, newly-signed Brandon Meriweather and fellow DB Asante Samuel, DE Kareem Brown was the only one missing. Junior Seau, Eric Alexander and Laurence Maroney again wore the red non-contact injury.
– Maroney, even when being held back, was impressive this afternoon. On a one-on-one, short-area passing drill, Maroney threw a juke at Tedy Bruschi that sent the veteran linebacker to his knees. He went left, right, left, then Bruschi went down, and Maroney came free right. Maybe that’s revenge for the big hit Bruschi put on Maroney during last year’s training camp. In any case, the second-year tailback had a spectacular day catching the ball. On one drag, he ran underneath the coverage, caught the ball with his arms extended in stride, and accelerated into the secondary.
– Benjamin Watson also put a move on, using a hesitation move to send Rodney Harrison flying over his back in the one-on-ones. But Watson also had a bad drop in the middle of practice, and continues to struggle in catching the ball with his hands.
– Give credit to John for having this in the paper the other day: S James Sanders looks outstanding. The Patriots are moving him around to cover both deep and in the intermediate parts of the field, and there was a play in there where he blanketed Garrett Mills to the point where it seemed like Mills gave up on the route.
– Here’s your Moss minute. Chemistry’s building between he and Tom Brady, and you could see it on a simple timing route in a skeleton drill. On the play, Brady took a five-step drop, set and unloaded the ball to the sideline before Moss went into his break, an out-cut at about 8 yards. Moss turned, and instinctively laid his hands out on the sideline to haul it in. That said, Moss was, yes, last in every sprint at the end of practice.
– Couldn’t see why, but Adalius Thomas was forced to do a lap in the middle of the workout.
– During sprints, the Patriots ran their “opportunity period” where some of the guys on the fringe of the roster do 11-on-11s while the prime-timers run.
– As for a play of the afternoon, it’d have to be Jabar Gaffney’s catch on an absolute bomb from Matt Cassel. Cassel dropped the ball over Gaffney’s outside shoulder and, as it was in flight, the receiver tracked it in time to slide underneath it and pull it by the pylon.
We’ll wrap things up from here in a few.
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