Hightower out for the year with a torn pec

[TeamFirst]

 

[brdmaverick]

It sucks but every team goes through this every year, we just don't pay attention to the other teams.

Right, certainly the Packers, Texans, Cardinals and Giants have no sympathy for us (to name a few).

 

[Kontradiction]

d%#*!@t....

Do we pull off a trade? I think Mychal Kendricks is out of the question with Jordan Hicks out for the year.

This is survivable, but very unideal.

I think they’re just going to activate McClellin and roll with what they have. Anyone they bring in would have to learn the defense on the fly. Unfortunately, the current LB situation leaves a lot to be desired. Harris will see increased snaps as a result.

 

[New England Pride]

Horrible extension.

You should have told Bill he was gonna tear his pec if you saw it in your crystal ball...

 

[CheekyDave]

Maybe an unpopular take, but makes me incredibly grateful for 5 rings for the pats, and the insane amount of good luck you have to have every single year not to lose integral parts of your team.

 

[primetime]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooof

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

 

[Wheelman]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooof

Look at this loser. ****ing hate that guy. Somebody needs to slap him across his face.

 

[PatsFan2]

I think they’re just going to activate McClellin and roll with what they have. Anyone they bring in would have to learn the defense on the fly. Unfortunately, the current LB situation leaves a lot to be desired. Harris will see increased snaps as a result.

BB always says regarding our Team our strength is in the pack. IF we have to use two guys ie...McClellin and Harris to get even a poor mans Hightower we have to roll with it.

 

[XLIX]

Edelman and Hightower are two of our top 4 players. I don’t see another team going through that

Green Bay lost their #1 player and went instantly from NFC favorites to a team that probably won’t even make the playoffs.

 

[bormio]

Well at least David Harris is pretty fresh (and I think we see why he was kept).

 

[turkeyneck]

Van Noy looked overmatched in the early games when it came to lining everyone up.

That's why BB got Harris.

 

[patsinthesnow]

Brady’s backup - potential probowl level replacement
Edelman’s backup - starter level replacement
McCourty’s backup - starter level replacement

Gronk’s backup - nothing
Hightower’s backup - next to nothing

This team has some of the best depth at some positions in the league. This injury just blows it happened at one of the two spots we have barely anything. Ugh.

 

[Gronkowski123]

well that sucks...our linebackers are quite pedestrian now.

BRADY OR BUST!!!

 

[A Defiant Goose]

I am 100% all in for David Harris making a key Super Bowl clinching/winning play as yet another Revis-esque FU to the Jets and their fans.

 

[XLIX]

This just made a tough year even tougher but one thing we’ve all learned about this team is you just never know who is going to step up. I still have faith they’re the best team in the league.

 

[upstater1]

Draft a million linebackers next spring, please.

 

[GorBelSer]

Speedy recovery, but NE needs to move on from him. He is so injury-prone, almost every Friday marked as "questionable". He wont last much longer in this league.

 

[IllegalContact]

ya.....but Gilmore is back

 

[Whitt25]

And so continues this weird Madden curse where everyone around Tom Brady dies a horrible death.