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If you recall, Brady's security blanket late in that game was Austin Collie.
I dont think you know what the word security blanket means.
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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.If you recall, Brady's security blanket late in that game was Austin Collie.
Not exactly reassuring.
May see the team line James White in the slot to flesh out that receiver Corps and use Burkhead as the third down back. Pulling from our deep receiving back pool to cover our suddenly vulnerable receiver depth seems like the way to go.So looks like it's gonna be Hogan, Cooks, Dorsett, SLATER and no 5th wr for the foreseeable future. No one in that group is a third down security blanket for Brady....I remember one year the Pats were so banged up at receiver they had to sign and activate the corpse of Henry Ellard...I'm afraid this season is headed that way
Thomas and chancellor. I put berry in the conversation with those guys. And matchup wise berry matches up much better against Gronk than both those guys. He's bigger than Thomas and faster than chancellor. Plus Thomas wasn't 100% in that game.See SB 49
May see the team line James White in the slot to flesh out that receiver Corps and use Burkhead as the third down back. Pulling from our deep receiving back pool to cover our suddenly vulnerable receiver depth seems like the way to go.
Yes, he is also likely a NYG season ticket holder from Manhattan....And? MGH doctors aren't magic paragons of virtue. The doctor was assigned to NE by the NFL.
According to MMQB and SI, before the player can RETURN to practices or games he must be evaluated and cleared by BOTH the team doctor and the "independent" doctor during the week....there must be consensus. People are crazy if they think for ONE second that this "independent" doctor would never, ever, get direction from Goodell, Maras, Rooneys, or anyone else from the NFL establishment. The Patriots "independent" doctor is about as "independent" as Ted Wells...It looks like the team runs the after-the-game-is-over concussion protocol except that the "independent" neurologist has to sign off on the player before he can play in games.
So if Amendola isn't practicing, that's because the team has decided he's not at a stage where he can practice yet. Any "fix" wouldn't come into play until the final step -- when the "independent" neurologist has to clear the player to return to games.
I, for one, don't trust the "independent" neurologists. Nothing that the NFL's hand touches can be assumed to be clean, fair, unrigged, or on the up-and-up.
2013 New England Patriots Roster | The Football DatabaseCan't be any worse than the WR lineup for 2013 haha.
Tommy Gill was from MGH too.The Patriots "independent" neurologist is a neurosurgeon from Mass. General.
I think of him every time Gronk straps on that mechanical arm.Tommy Gill was from MGH too.
Actually, that will depend on your personal perspective as to which WR positions can be considered to be more important to the team. For instance, Julian Edelman still played in all 16 regular season games and ended up catching 105 balls. Danny Amendola played in 12 regular season games and caught 54 balls.
The weak parts of the WR corps were Aaron Dobson and Kenbrell Thompkins, so our vertical game (not that there was really one post-2010 Moss) was weakened, but the Tom Brady security blankets and quick timing routes were most definitely still there.
2013 New England Patriots Roster | The Football Database
Yeah…that was pretty bad.
And the TE position, after Gronk was IRed vs Cleveland & TJ Ward, was a Marianas Trench of Suck.
Good point on that one, you're very right. Let's hope with Cooks we try to line him up in those security routes and it works. Is his speed strictly vertical or does he have a pretty good bolt off a cut?
Cooks 20 yard shuttle time 3.81 is the fifth fastest in combine history