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Your claim may or may not be true. The term "injury prone" seems to lie largely in the eye of the beholder. Edelman was injury prone but healthy, while Mayo was not injury prone and injured. So it is not obvious to me that past injuries are good predictors of future injuries. Perhaps you are better able to foresee injuries and which players the team can and cannot count on. But did you in fact predict any of the injuries you claim were predictable? Did you point out before the fact that BB should not rely on the TEs or DA because of injuries? I am simply asking for evidence that we can predict who will be injured. Surely you will appreciate the value of such evidence. It would be a rather interesting exercise, I suggest, if you (or others) would list the players who we can and cannot count on in 2014.
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There are now two or more stars at all offensive skill positions...
Conveniently forgotten is that BB tried to get Emanuel Sanders.
Conveniently forgotten is that most of the WRs had injuries most of the season, including all three rookies, causing them to miss significant playing time.
Conveniently forgotten is that there were really no other talented WRs readily available, except in return for a King's ransom.
Conveniently forgotten is the cap hit the Pats took in the Hernandez Murder Incorporated debacle.
Conveniently forgotten is that the Pats lost the AFC Championship in the trenches as much or more than anywhere else.
Frankly, Reiss was being kind in his tepid criticism of Angelo.
How did BB try to get Sanders? They offered him a bag of dirt
maybe you need to define "star" for me.
Dobson?
free agent Edelman?
part-time benched fumbler Ridley?
free agent Blount?
injury-plagued Vereen?
I'd think that we can't really count a free agent as being a star, in place, on the roster going forward.
I don't think we have any WRs remotely of star quality, except possibbly JE. I'm for sure not seeing them two deep
Donald Jones sucked in Buffalo as well as NE. He was never going to be the answer.
But they are, and history shows this. It shows it in sport after sport, and it shows it in regular life. Some people, for whatever reason(s), are more likely to suffer injury than others, just as some people are more likely to become ill than others. There's a study showing that girls are much more prone to concussions than boys, for example.
I agree with you here. However, a few things. Athletes can go from being injury prone to no longer injury prone. A great example is Fred Taylor, who went from "Fragile Freddy" early in his career to a stretch of 7 years where he had about as good of a health record as could be expected from a running back.
How did BB try to get Sanders? They offered him a bag of dirt
you're nuts. He was a restricted free agent, the Pats made an offer and Pittsburgh MATCHED IT. Moron.
JE would probably have signed a deal somewhere in the range of a 3 year / 6 million type deal this past off season.
Now if the Pats want to keep him they are going to have to pay big time.