Patriots Injury News DT Milton Williams coming back

[Real fan 02]

Health is more important than the final standings. We are in the playoffs and need to put a priority on health. Boutte and Henderson are likely out this week. Give Tonga two or three weeks off. Farmer's hamstring is probably an issue. Still need to rest Spillane. Just have to patch together a team to beat the JETE and Lolphins while the injured guys get healthy. Hopefully Williams is slowly worked back into the rotation.

Spot on. Also the Jets and dolphins have already admitted they are looking for draft positions by benching thier QBs.. ect. No style points here.. get the win and prioritize the health of the players..

 

[Patjew]

Barmore is prob more excited than anyone.

He will be relieved when some posters here stop criticizing him for being the one above average player on his squad when Williams is out.

 

[Haterproof]

This assumes the Bills won’t lose in the opening weekend against the Broncos or Jaguars…

Exactly. The Pats and Bills might not face each other until the 2026 season

 

[DaBruinz]

Spot on. Also the Jets and dolphins have already admitted they are looking for draft positions by benching thier QBs.. ect. No style points here.. get the win and prioritize the health of the players..

The Jets were 2 -8 with Fields at the helm. They went 1-1 with Taylor. Taylor started a 3rd game, but was pulled for Brady Cook after going 4-6 for 6 yards and an Interception.. Cook is 0-2 in his 2 starts. They admitted to looking for draft position by trading their best players on defense in Sauce Gardiner and Quinnen Williams.

As I pointed out above, the BEST Miami can hope for is to finish and get the 7th pick. But they'd have to get help to finish that high..

 

[Real fan 02]

The Jets were 2 -8 with Fields at the helm. They went 1-1 with Taylor. Taylor started a 3rd game, but was pulled for Brady Cook after going 4-6 for 6 yards and an Interception.. Cook is 0-2 in his 2 starts. They admitted to looking for draft position by trading their best players on defense in Sauce Gardiner and Quinnen Williams.

As I pointed out above, the BEST Miami can hope for is to finish and get the 7th pick. But they'd have to get help to finish that high..

Great post. Agreed here. As banged up as we are. We NEED to secure the win.. now question? If we win Sunday do we win the division or we have to beat Miami?

 

[Real fan 02]

This assumes the Bills won’t lose in the opening weekend against the Broncos or Jaguars…

Broncos would relish getting a shot at them.. bills knocked them out the postseason last year..

 

[Real fan 02]

Pitch count him depending on how the game goes. Let's get off to a fast start so they can rest some guys.

Agreed we are such a banged up team.. we could ILL afford to lose anymore key players..

 

[DaBruinz]

Great post. Agreed here. As banged up as we are. We NEED to secure the win.. now question? If we win Sunday do we win the division or we have to beat Miami?

The Pats win the Division with a win and a Buffalo loss. If Buffalo wins, the Pats have to win against the Dolphins to secure the Division.

 

[Steve102]

Just awful...

 

[Real fan 02]

He will be relieved when some posters here stop criticizing him for being the one above average player on his squad when Williams is out.

 

[mgteich]

Or perhaps a backup who can play guard and both tackles is more valuable than a backup who plays only RT?

And, talk about overthinking things, while not paying attention:

My bad.

I didn't notice that someone who has never played a rep in the NFL was active. I don't know whether he can backup at RT or RG. After all, in camp he was a LG.

So far this season, Bryant and Munford have been ahead of him and active while Wallace was inactive. Of course, Brown was sometimes the backup at RG, C, LG and TE with Wallace (and Bryant) inactive.
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But, as I said, my bad.

Congrats to Wallace if the team can finally count on him as a backup in an emergency. Maybe he'll get some garbage time reps in the next two weeks while they rest Onwenu.

 

[reflexblue]

Patriots star defender won’t be activated for Jets but feels “close” to playing​

FOXBOROUGH - Milton Williams was ruled out of Sunday’s game with the Jets, but the Patriots star, whose practice window opened for a return off IR, believes he’ll see game action soon.

Patriots star defender won’t be activated for Jets but feels “close” to playing

Milton Williams was ruled out of Sunday's Jets game, but the Patriots star says he's getting close to playing.

www.masslive.com

 

[Real fan 02]

Patriots star defender won’t be activated for Jets but feels “close” to playing​

FOXBOROUGH - Milton Williams was ruled out of Sunday’s game with the Jets, but the Patriots star, whose practice window opened for a return off IR, believes he’ll see game action soon.

Patriots star defender won’t be activated for Jets but feels “close” to playing

Milton Williams was ruled out of Sunday's Jets game, but the Patriots star says he's getting close to playing.

www.masslive.com

I'd imagine he plays next week in the regular season finale. I can't see him missing all this time and not having a ramp up game. Vrabel's been doing a excellent job of managing guys when they are injured.

 

[p8ryts]

I'd imagine he plays next week in the regular season finale. I can't see him missing all this time and not having a ramp up game. Vrabel's been doing a excellent job of managing guys when they are injured.

That might depend on if we need the game to win the Division

 

[Real fan 02]

That might depend on if we need the game to win the Division

Hopefully the eagles can best the bills and then that will give us the division..?

 

[mgteich]

I'm not sure why some think that players can come back to 100% in their first game back, especially when that game is a playoff game. I look for many of the injured to come back for half of the MIA game, no matter how much that game counts.

 

[mgteich]

Hopefully the eagles can best the bills and then that will give us the division..?

and then we'll be playing for the 1st round bye.

 

[rochrist]

That might depend on if we need the game to win the Division

I expect he'll play regardless. They'll want to give him a game to ramp up to postseason. Hoepfully he plays that game and then they have a bye so he can recover and be ready for postseason game one.