Our Full Injury Report (Guess Who Plays/Doesn't)

Damn lol.



My Guesses

Will Play

• Amendola
• Brady
• Chandler
• Coleman
• Edelman
• Kline
• Gronk
• Hightower
• Jones
• LaFell
• McCourty
• Nink
• Vollmer
• Waddle

Won't Play

• Ebner
• Freeny

What's Freeney's non-injury hand problem?

Jackson is already out, so you think only 3 of the inactives will come from the injury list? Who are your other inactives?

Out of that list, I hope Scott Chandler is one of those that don't play

Not sure Chandler will play...but if Gronk is really banged up...he will be in IMO

Brady_to_Moss said:

Not sure Chandler will play...but if Gronk is really banged up...he will be in IMO

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Sounds like Chandler has been banged up worse than Gronk for over 5 weeks now. At least if you believe the beat reporters.

Chandler is the biggest disappointment for me this season........I thought he was going to be very very good based on what I saw of him in Beefalo......no wonder Bills fans weren't too disappointed at his loss.

I am less interested in WHO plays, as I figure a playoff game is close to "all hands on deck"... I am more concerned about "how limited are the active, yet hurting players". If all the most important players are 70% this could be a long day.

luuked said:

Sounds like Chandler has been banged up worse than Gronk for over 5 weeks now. At least if you believe the beat reporters.

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That sounds about right. In one of Bradys WEEI weekly interviews he sort of let the cat out of the bag about Chandler. Part of a longer answer to a question about Chandler he said Scott has been fighting through something for most of the year.

Not popular, but if Gronk is hurting badly, I hope they hold him out tonight.

They can get by this Chiefs team without Gronk better than they can get by Denver in Denver with a badly compromised Gronk.

Need to play the WHOLE WAR strategy instead of the NYJets WINTHEBATTLE strategy.

However, if he feels OK, then play him.

shmessy said:

Not popular, but if Gronk is hurting badly, I hope they hold him out tonight.

They can get by this Chiefs team without Gronk better than they can get by Denver in Denver with a badly compromised Gronk.

Need to play the WHOLE WAR strategy instead of the NYJets WINTHEBATTLE strategy.

However, if he feels OK, then play him.

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Of course you can't win the war without winning each battle.

shmessy said:

Not popular, but if Gronk is hurting badly, I hope they hold him out tonight.

They can get by this Chiefs team without Gronk better than they can get by Denver in Denver with a badly compromised Gronk.

Need to play the WHOLE WAR strategy instead of the NYJets WINTHEBATTLE strategy.

However, if he feels OK, then play him.

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War isn't single elimination.

I have a feeling a bombshell is going to be announced and one really good player we thought was going to play won't play.

Some reason I'm worrying it's Hightower.

shmessy said:

Not popular, but if Gronk is hurting badly, I hope they hold him out tonight.

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The problem is they keep talking about him "playing in pain" but we have no relative feel for how much pain he, or any other player, often plays with. It could mean he looks like Scott Chandler out there or it could mean we won't notice the difference from Super Gronk.

That said, I actually agree that we should be more conservative than I'd like with a few guys, Gronk and Vollmer specifically. Hope to win here and have more left for next week. And, yes, I know, if we dumb it down too much there's no next week but we'll need a healthier team heading to Denver.

CISGS said:

Damn lol.

My Guesses

Will Play

• Amendola
• Brady
• Chandler
• Coleman
• Edelman
• Kline
• Gronk
• Hightower
• Jones
• LaFell
• McCourty
• Nink
• Vollmer
• Waddle

Won't Play

• Ebner
• Freeny

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Based on the numbers I think more than 2 Qs will be inactive. Maybe Ebner, Freeny, Coleman, Chandler?

It would royally suck if anyone important was out. I've been spending two weeks thinking about seeing all the key players healthy. IMO the Gronk stuff is total smokescreen, he's near 100%, he was just having some maintenance work done to keep ahead of the nagging injuries. Not worried about him one bit.

JJDChE said:

It would royally suck if anyone important was out. I've been spending two weeks thinking about seeing all the key players healthy. IMO the Gronk stuff is total smokescreen, he's near 100%, he was just having some maintenance work done to keep ahead of the nagging injuries. Not worried about him one bit.

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So he missed 2 practices during a playoffs week? OK........that's going the extra yard for that "smokescreen".

turkeyneck said:

What's Freeney's non-injury hand problem?

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The listing covers the reasons for the entire week.. His Hand/Wrist is what had him limited.. His DNP was Not Injury related..

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So he missed 2 practices during a playoffs week? OK........that's going the extra yard for that "smokescreen".

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Getting injury treatment takes priority over practice. Gronk knows what to do when he gets on the field.

Btw, the injury report said he only missed one practice.

JJDChE said:

Getting injury treatment takes priority over practice. Gronk knows what to do when he gets on the field.

Btw, the injury report said he only missed one practice.

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Agreed.

And that's NOT a "smokescreen".

BTW, he missed Tuesday and Thursday.

Rob Gronkowski back to practice, among 12 'questionable' Patriots

I guess it's not really a smokescreen. I'm just not worried about the guy. He's been playing through this for a month. It hasn't had a noticeable impact on his play. I don't see why people are freaking out. There hasn't been any additional reports of injury so its all just speculation to fill time.