Let's be thankful that the Pats are HEALTHY

Made it through the AFC Championship game with some guys dinged up but it appears everyone who played yesterday will be available for the Super Bowl.

This is a big part of the equation most time, very grateful we'll get to see our boys at full strength (even though we're without the greatest tight-end of all-time, which is a pretty big deal.....regardless)

its incredible how healthy we've been this year

really shows you what each teams achilles is (or ours anyways)

Pessimistic Pete said:

Made it through the AFC Championship game with some guys dinged up but it appears everyone who played yesterday will be available for the Super Bowl.

This is a big part of the equation most time, very grateful we'll get to see our boys at full strength (even though we're without the greatest tight-end of all-time, which is a pretty big deal.....regardless)

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None of the inactives yesterday were due to injury.

Much better than in the past, but still some lesser issues. Ebner in concussion protocol. Second time in 3 months, and return is uncertain. Hightower and Mitchell saw limited snaps due to injury and to my eyes neither is performing as they did when healthy. Bennett is hobbled and toughing it out, but performance has been degraded. So pretty good for the end of the year, but "healthy" is relative.

Pessimistic Pete said:

Made it through the AFC Championship game with some guys dinged up but it appears everyone who played yesterday will be available for the Super Bowl.

This is a big part of the equation most time, very grateful we'll get to see our boys at full strength (even though we're without the greatest tight-end of all-time, which is a pretty big deal.....regardless)

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Good post...you should consider adjusting your forum name

What a difference from last year - Does new strength and conditioning coach Moses Cabrera gets some credit?

TheFlyingWedge said:

What a difference from last year - Does new strength and conditioning coach Moses Cabrera gets some credit?

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Great question. I think Cabrera probably gets a lot of the credit. And I'm equally sure we will never find out the answer to the question - at least from BB!

Those two weeks are going to do wonders to Mitchell, Bennett, Hightower and the rest who are banged up.

I was thinking about it last night. We are fortunate (except for Gronk, ofcourse) to have most, if not all of the players healthy this late in the season. That was not the case last year and in 2011 when we made it to SB. I hope the players rest well, prepare well and are ready to go in 2 weeks. We need their best effort one more time. This team is very resilient and I like our chances if team as a whole continues to play the way they did recently in all phases of the game.

Hopefully Hogan gets a lot of rest, we are gonna need him full throttle in Houston, this is good the dinged up guys get some rest before the big game, I wonder if Bennett will benefit from this break even tho he needs surgery supposedly, maybe he can be a little more effective in Houston