Day 3 Training Camp (Real practice begins)

TommyBrady12 said:

I only worry about it hurting his ability to get some preseason reps with Brady. If he doesn't play a single preseason game, I would imagine it'll take a couple of weeks in the regular season for Edelman to be Edelman. But Edelman has torn his ACL during the preseason before, which IMO wrecked our 2017 season, so this may be a blessing to have him sit.

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AndyJohnson said:

If Gordon is suspended and Thomas can’t play then you cut dorsett you have a rookie and a bunch of scrubs.
I’m shocked you feel like depth and quality at we and te isn’t a tremendous issue.

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robertweathers said:

They said he's only gonna miss a couple of weeks, Andy.

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AndyJohnson said:

We should know better at this point than to put faith in injury analysis coming out of Foxboro.
Regardless of how long he is out it’s a broken thumb for a wr. You have to be at least a little concerned it will affect him when he gets back.

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robertweathers said:

I'm concerned about depth. I'm not concerned about losing Dorsett and have faith the FO will make the right decisions

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robertweathers said:

I bet it'll be sore. I expect a full recovery and he'll be 100% Week 1

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AndyJohnson said:

Given that you know absolutely zero details of the injury hoe can you say you have an expectation with any confidence?

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robertweathers said:

They said a couple of weeks. Not 10

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fnordcircle said:

You're underestimating because I think he was a top 5 all time DL for the Patriots.

Winovich is an unknown - I am super excited about him and think he'll be like a Bruschi-esque fan favorite.

Pennel will probably do well for us - I'm thinking his ceiling is Branch on a good day.

Bennett is old let's hope he's able to perform up to snuff.

Flowers was as good of a DL as we could hope for, there's a lot of question marks in the list above. Don't get me wrong - I want you to be right and will be rooting for it. I'm not rooting against these guys but Flowers was amazing let's not understate that.

How many times have we lost an all pro and then hoped that guys like Dobson and Thompkins would replace the productivity and been let down?

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AndyJohnson said:

We aren’t expecting an unproven guy to replace flowers we got Bennett for that.

Am I the only one concerned that 33 year old Bennett hasn’t shown up yet?

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AndyJohnson said:

Again, trusting injury reports out of Foxboro is risky business.

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robertweathers said:

Not really for TC. If players are healthy they play. If they aren't they don't.

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Jimke said:

I wonder if this is connected to his earlier legal problems with the person in
the wheelchair?

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JMC00 said:

F**cking nfl network

"Ranked outside of the top 10 in pass defense 11 straight seasons"

Last year they were #7 in passer rating against which says more about the pass defense than yards allowed.

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AndyJohnson said:

And he isn’t playing.

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robertweathers said:

Not really for TC. If players are healthy they play. If they aren't they don't.

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robertweathers said:

Who cares if he has a 4.3 speed. Hes not a deep threat.

Hes plateaued and as a WR4 who can't return kicks and punts hes mediocre.

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robertweathers said:

Yes we know that. He has a broken thumb and is expected to be back in a couple of weeks

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AndyJohnson said:

You are talking in circles.
You already said this, and my response was you can’t seriously trust injury reports from Foxboro.
Your response was you can in the preseason because they practice when they are healthy.
I said yeah, he isn’t practicing and you circled back to the reports that we agree aren’t reliable.
I hope he is back and ready to play week 1 but I am skeptical which brings us back to the discussion, do you really want to face Pitt with Harry, berrios, Meyers and Kendrick as your receiving corps?

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