Patriots Super Bowl week Thread: Practice Notes, Injury Updates, etc.

[SHOWTIME15]

Tom Brady: Injured hand still 'not quite where I want it to be'

 

[RobertWeathers]

Tom Brady: Injured hand still 'not quite where I want it to be'

He'll be fine.

 

[patfanken]

Yikes. Wish we had known that about him prior to the trade. Ah well. It happens. This is a tough place to play, but he definitely didn't have what it takes.

Marsh like most guys. would rather just rush the passer than do the dirty, and hard work, of setting the edge. IF he had been a great pass rusher, Bill would have kept him around and play him where he was good at. But he was just a JAG as a pass rusher and didn't do enough else to keep his roster spot.

BTW- Just because he didn't love his experience here in NE doesn't mean he's a bad player or person. Bill has often said that his program isn't for everyone.

 

[SammyBlueCat]

Marsh appeared to be noticeably smaller than the 6'-4 245lbs he was billed as. He also did not possess much quickness and his lack of discipline led to him being sent away. I agree that he is not necessarily a bad guy. He blocked a kick or a punt too.

 

[Clonamery]

Marsh appeared to be noticeably smaller than the 6'-4 245lbs he was billed as. He also did not possess much quickness and his lack of discipline led to him being sent away. I agree that he is not necessarily a bad guy. He blocked a kick or a punt too.

Definitely not a Top Cat.

 

[captain stone]

OT

Cassius Marsh is now in line to be a free agent but he’s hoping to return to the 49ers for the 2018 season.

“From the moment I got here I felt at home,” Marsh said, via the Sacramento Bee. “And I was coming from something that, for the first time, really felt like I was away from home and turned the game I love into true work.”

What the **** did the FO see in this deliberately undisciplined, piece of sh!t JAGoff in the first place?

Yet another wasted draft pick by the GM.

 

[Huckleberry1]

What the **** did the FO see in this deliberately undisciplined, piece of sh!t JAGoff in the first place?

Yet another wasted draft pick by the GM.

Yeah, Belichick sucks. I’m tired as sh.t of all this winning. I’d rather lose with my binkies than keep winning with all of these losers. This sucks. Another sh.tty assed SB season.


I can’t wait till we start drafting top five in every round every year, that’ll be awesome.

 

[TomPatriot]

Marsh appeared to be noticeably smaller than the 6'-4 245lbs he was billed as. He also did not possess much quickness and his lack of discipline led to him being sent away. I agree that he is not necessarily a bad guy. He blocked a kick or a punt too.

Freakin’ kitten.

 

[RobertWeathers]

What the **** did the FO see in this deliberately undisciplined, piece of sh!t JAGoff in the first place?

Yet another wasted draft pick by the GM.

Name another team that takes more chances and is more successful.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Name another team that takes more chances and is more successful.

The Lions

Hear me

The feckin Lions

Their feckin awesome

They draft everyone I feckin love

Hear that

I feckin love them

 

[cmasspatsfan]

Marsh like most guys. would rather just rush the passer than do the dirty, and hard work, of setting the edge. IF he had been a great pass rusher, Bill would have kept him around and play him where he was good at. But he was just a JAG as a pass rusher and didn't do enough else to keep his roster spot.

BTW- Just because he didn't love his experience here in NE doesn't mean he's a bad player or person. Bill has often said that his program isn't for everyone.

It's not ju st the game itself but the amount of prep work involved during the week. On inside the NFL Phil Simms said, you know why more teams don't copy what the Pats Do? It's hard.
They study hard, it's physically hard and you have to be disciplined in game.

 

[BUSTAMOVE]

Did he go back to the Animal Hospital that supposedly stitched him up...I hope the Pats splurged for microchipping. Ain’t no stopping us now

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

What the **** did the FO see in this deliberately undisciplined, piece of sh!t JAGoff in the first place?

Yet another wasted draft pick by the GM.

Welcome to the wacky world of NFL drafting. Bill seems to have his peaks and valleys season to season (no doubt he has some whiffs) but is there any team that strikes it rich every season/is immune to the peaks, valleys. whiffs of draft gambling? How he stacks up against others if a difficult metric to quantify.

At the end of the day -- take away the fails and the successes in preseason team building -- when the Patriots get to the SB, Bill always seems to have put together a D (sometimes with glue and duct tape) and an O that at minimum keeps the Patriots in the game on both sides of the ball. That's not perfection but it's still fine as wine...

As a side note: keep the crash cart charged and ready. I have no reason to think his Sunday's game won't again come down to either Brady/the O needs to make that final two minute scoring drive or the D needs to make that final 2 minute stop. My prediction is 2 seconds on the clock, tied 24-24, Gostkowski makes a 55 yard FG last second to pull off the 27-24 win

 

[SHOWTIME15]

 

[Deus Irae]

Name another team that takes more chances and is more successful.

Marsh was always a dubious choice. It seems logical that people would point to his failure as an issue.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Marsh was always a dubious choice. It seems logical that people would point to his failure as an issue.

I get it. However the same people refuse to acknowledge success is being right a little more than being wrong.

 

[maineman209]

Belichick has said before that his program isn't for everyone. Looks like we found one of those people - and glad to see that Belichick was willing to swallow his pride and risk the embarrassment of everyone acknowledging he made a bad trade, rather than continue to carry a guy like this on the roster.

Ealy, also.

 

[Huckleberry1]

For some reason I thought they traded for Marsh because they had lost Rivers and McClellin to injury and gave up a whopping 8 spots in the draft to check Ealy out, and he was useless here. So unless they wanted to go into the season really short in the edge they would try a guy with ST experience who could possibly help on the edge, and iirc he actually did contribute early in the season. Unfortunately you don’t actually get to know a player until they play for you, so they didn’t know Marsh was aversive to hard work until they had him here, then the cut him.

Only Captain Stone truly knows every player in the draft personally, and how hard they will work or work out in your scheme. He’s been building undefeated teams in his mind for years and years, and Belichick can never hope to match his success.

 

[Mack Herron]

 

[Bobsyouruncle]

Does the concussion protocol require avoiding media?