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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.While Mayos injury is devistating for the team and him personally, we have to remember this team made it all the way to the AFCCG last year with out him and a lot of other starters and key players lost to injury including VW
Indeed. But do we know if this team is made up of the same character with better competition in the AFC?While Mayos injury is devistating for the team and him personally, we have to remember this team made it all the way to the AFCCG last year with out him and a lot of other starters and key players lost to injury including VW
Good post. I think there is enough defensive leadership to overcome the loss this season. Will they? That remains to be seen. McCourty, Chung has familiarity, Revis leads by example. My one concern is Wilfork cannot be asked to play high snap counts every game for the rest of the season. He's done it before, but he's getting up there in age and, although he has bounced back extremely well, he is still recovering from major injury.thought we would have heard something on this by now Still confident in our Front 7/8 -- Mayo is a massive blow to our core ... BUT Ninko/Wilfork/Siliga/Jones/Collins/Hightower is a pretty solid group..and our Defensive backfield is solid to strong (Revis/Mcourty/Browner/Fonzi/Ryan/Arrington) Overall im OK with our D going into the playoffs (as long as we dont lose another big peice..)
Trying to look at the big picture.. but im as gutted as anyone to lose mayo for a 2nd year in a row..
If Mayo I'd out 6-8 weeks I would definitely keep the spot open for him though since the IRDTR is given to Siligna. Mayo is just too valuable to shut down if there's any chance of him coming back later in the year.I dunno if I'd call it good news--my guess would be that they're waiting for the swelling to go down to do a final check before they make anything official--but it's still better than bad news I suppose. Holding out some faint hope still that this might be more of a 6-8 week type injury rather than a season-ender.
Side note: if that does turn out to be the case, this is why I don't like using the in-season IR spot on someone like Siliga. Siliga is a nice player, but you can roughly approximate his production by signing someone who's freely available. That's how he got here just last year. Using that spot on him doesn't make sense to me in the same way that using it on Shiancoe didn't make sense to me two years ago.
IMO, it's pretty reasonable to operate on the assumption that someone who's really, really important to the team--someone like Mayo, or maybe an Edelman or a McCourty or even Gronk or Vollmer--is going to go down with a 6+ week injury at some point during the season.
Bill Belichick said:So we will have to put multiple groups, multiple players to do some things that he did. I don’t think there’s one player that’s going to run this team and do all that Jerod did. We were lucky to have him, let alone a guy who can do all that too. It will come from a combination of guys somehow.”
Average score first five games 2013 with Mayo = 14.0
Average score last 10 games 2013 without Mayo = 24.1
Average score first five games 2013 with Mayo = 14.0
Average score last 10 games 2013 without Mayo = 24.1
Somehow a facepalm gif just falls short. This guy simply shouldn't be writing about football.Can this guy be run out of town after the season?
@BenVolin
IMO, losing Ridley is more significant than Mayo. Ridley is best/hardest running/most decisive RB. Need to find a between-the-tackles RB
he also was advocating a brady trade two weeks ago.Is Ben Volin for real? Just tweeted this nugget
Fan is short for fanatic. You guys love Mayo for what he has meant to the team over the years. The reality is he’s pretty average now.
Complete clown