Jabaal Sheard has a sprained MCL

[RobertWeathers]

In the Preseason I Iove it when people we are actually depending on miss those meaningless games for them especially. Jabaal Sheard should be getting the Gronk treatment. Time for Geno Grissom and Rufus Johnson to show if they are worth keeping.

I agree 100%

Sheard gets damn good pressure on the pocket and hes very stout vs the run.

If they lose him then I think something close to panic is appropriate.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

I'm not sure how you can definitively say that in week three of the preseason.

H8er!
Another JETS fan just outed himself!

 

[WaterfallJumper]

If we are going to have a problem with signing both Collins and Hightower would it be prudent contract wise to offer the Chargers Hightower for Joey Bosa. Or is that a bit dumb!

IMO Bosa one step away from asking for a trade.

Why would we want Bosa after this holdout? It's ridiculous that he still isn't under contract. Besides, Hightower is ten times the player Bosa will ever be.

 

[long distance]

I wanted to say this after the Bears game:

H- is our tower of strength. He is a keeper. Till the end. He's the new captain of the D. No doubt.
I just loved the way he communicated with everybody on D against Bears.

 

[aluminum seats]

With regard to Brady? Sure. But they've actually gotten very lucky on the injury front so far.

Seriously. When are people going to get that there are serious/season-ending injuries vs. everything else. Sheard missing a couple of weeks in the preseason is not a "bummer." Whaddya kidding me? It's a freaking blessing when the injury gods are appeased by minor offerings.

Injuries WILL HAPPEN. Full stop. If they're not serious, it's a win.

 

[Deus Irae]

If we are going to have a problem with signing both Collins and Hightower would it be prudent contract wise to offer the Chargers Hightower for Joey Bosa. Or is that a bit dumb!

IMO Bosa one step away from asking for a trade.

The Chargers cannot trade Bosa. The deadline for that was August 9th.

 

[Deus Irae]

Seriously. When are people going to get that there are serious/season-ending injuries vs. everything else. Sheard missing a couple of weeks in the preseason is not a "bummer." Whaddya kidding me? It's a freaking blessing when the injury gods are appeased by minor offerings.

Injuries WILL HAPPEN. Full stop. If they're not serious, it's a win.

Players who'll reportedly miss at least a quarter of the NFL season:

Brady
Lewis
Vollmer


If that's not enough to be a "bummer" in your eyes, you might want to re-assess what you feel needs to be the minimum.

 

[aluminum seats]

Players who'll reportedly miss at least a quarter of the NFL season:

Brady
Lewis
Vollmer


If that's not enough to be a "bummer" in your eyes, you might want to re-assess what you feel needs to be the minimum.

Brady wasn't an injury.

 

[Deus Irae]

Brady wasn't an injury.

The guy who talked about this being a crappy offseson didn't call Brady's issue an injury. And losing the team's RB1 and best OL, especially when the team's QB1 is already out for a quarter of a season, is obviously a bummer.

You seem to be assuming that quantity of long-term injury is required. I find that an odd position, to put it mildly. Few people are going to care if roster players #80-90 all go down with season ending injuries. Most people are going to care, a great deal, when just a couple of roster players #1-10 go down, even if they have a shot to come back.

 

[IllegalContact]

If they lose him then I think something close to panic is appropriate.

I've seen this team go 1-15

there is no moment where panic is appropriate

 

[BradyFTW!]

Sheard wasn't particularly injury-prone in Cleveland, so hopefully this is just bad luck and not the start of a trend. Silver lining is that, unlike a few years ago, we may actually have the talent to hold down the fort at DE for a couple weeks if necessary. I'm intrigued to see what Flowers could do in the regular season.

 

[deters]

Players who'll reportedly miss at least a quarter of the NFL season:

Brady
Lewis
Vollmer


If that's not enough to be a "bummer" in your eyes, you might want to re-assess what you feel needs to be the minimum.

I'm with you. Not only is it a bummer to me, I'm also getting more worried about first 4 weeks and beyond...

 

[BradyFTW!]

I'm with you. Not only is it a bummer to me, I'm also getting more worried about first 4 weeks and beyond...

Silver lining: some of the teams we're playing in the first 4 weeks are getting reamed as hard as we are. Prior to the Lewis/Vollmer/Mason news I was entertaining the thought that we might go 4-0.

Now I'm hoping for 2-2, but if we can invert last year and start out undermanned then get healthy and ride a late surge to 12-4 I'll be happy.

 

[aluminum seats]

The guy who talked about this being a crappy offseson didn't call Brady's issue an injury. And losing the team's RB1 and best OL, especially when the team's QB1 is already out for a quarter of a season, is obviously a bummer.

You seem to be assuming that quantity of long-term injury is required. I find that an odd position, to put it mildly. Few people are going to care if roster players #80-90 all go down with season ending injuries. Most people are going to care, a great deal, when just a couple of roster players #1-10 go down, even if they have a shot to come back.

My post was clearly discussing injuries and the fact that their occurrence is inevitable. This is a thread about Sheard, whose injury is an example (like just recently, Edelman, Mitchell, Ninkovich) to be relieved about rather than bummed out. Obviously the importance of the player injured matters, never said otherwise.

The obvious point was to have a realistic view of the occurrence of injuries and how they impact a team. Correct, Lewis and Vollmer have longer-term injuries. That doesn’t mean that the Pats are undergoing some Jobian training camp. And as for Lewis and Vollmer, I wasn’t counting on Lewis for the first half of the season anyway, so if you were the latest news might make you sad. If you’d like to feel bummed out about Vollmer, motion granted. (Although until he goes on IR, he may be back when it most matters too.)

 

[Deus Irae]

My post was clearly discussing injuries and the fact that their occurrence is inevitable. This is a thread about Sheard, whose injury is an example (like just recently, Edelman, Mitchell, Ninkovich) to be relieved about rather than bummed out. Obviously the importance of the player injured matters, never said otherwise.

The obvious point was to have a realistic view of the occurrence of injuries and how they impact a team. Correct, Lewis and Vollmer have longer-term injuries. That doesn’t mean that the Pats are undergoing some Jobian training camp. And as for Lewis and Vollmer, I wasn’t counting on Lewis for the first half of the season anyway, so if you were the latest news might make you sad. If you’d like to feel bummed out about Vollmer, motion granted. (Although until he goes on IR, he may be back when it most matters too.)

 

[aluminum seats]

Yikes. You're slipping, brother.

 

[RobertWeathers]

I've seen this team go 1-15

there is no moment where panic is appropriate

So have I and it's all relative.

Sheard goes down this team is hurting on the edge.

 

[NewFeep]

SeaBass being out for an extended time worries me the most! Godspeed, Herr Vollmer!

 

[Crazy Patriot Guy]

Players who'll reportedly miss at least a quarter of the NFL season:

Brady
Lewis
Vollmer


If that's not enough to be a "bummer" in your eyes, you might want to re-assess what you feel needs to be the minimum.

If that's all the news from the entire offseason, yes that would be a bummer. But once you add in Edelman possibly re-injuring his foot, Ninkovich being lost for the season and Mitchell's rookie year ending before it started, not to mention Sheard mysteriously being absent, knowing all those guys will be ok changes the outlook of being without the three players you mentioned.

 

[Deus Irae]

If that's all the news from the entire offseason, yes that would be a bummer. But once you add in Edelman possibly re-injuring his foot, Ninkovich being lost for the season and Mitchell's rookie year ending before it started, not to mention Sheard mysteriously being absent, knowing all those guys will be ok changes the outlook of being without the three players you mentioned.

Even outside of Lewis/Vollmer, we don't currently know how Ninkovich's arm will hold up and we don't currently know if Sheard will get back to 100% (remember Mayo struggling pretty much all year after an MCL injury?).

Look, I get that some here want to play the part of Kevin Bacon in Animal House, and insist that all is well even under the most dire of conditions. I also get that just missing those two players for an undisclosed amount of time is not the most dire of conditions, so there's no need for anyone to go full Chicken Little. However, for people who prefer to take a rational, reasonable, approach to following the Patriots, losing Vollmer and Lewis in a year where Brady's missing at least 4 games is a legitimate bummer, particularly given the depth questions at those two positions.