When is KT back?

[SalemPats]

With Gronk out, he fills a need in the red zone. We don't have a physical or tall lanky guy to win the battles on a goal line pass.

 

[Archeryaddict12]

I would imagine him and AD are back in 1 week playing. They both practiced last week. I think bb gave them extra rest hoping they are good for a playoff run.

 

[English Patriot]

I would imagine him and AD are back in 1 week playing. They both practiced last week. I think bb gave them extra rest hoping they are good for a playoff run.

Even without Gronk if you give me those 2 on top of what we have i think it will be pretty good. People sleeping on Dob and KT

 

[SalemPats]

Even without Gronk if you give me those 2 on top of what we have i think it will be pretty good. People sleeping on Dob and KT

I feel like Boyce works better than AD, but KT fills that tall lanky need

 

[PATRlOT]

I feel like Boyce works better than AD, but KT fills that tall lanky need

I thought Dobson wold be considered the more "lanky" one...

 

[Archeryaddict12]

I feel like Boyce works better than AD, but KT fills that tall lanky need

Dobson is the tallest. KT is around 6' and so is Boyce.

 

[SVN]

they need to turn to ridley. He is their redzone playmaker. Gotta take a chance now. Cant worry about fumbling.

 

[supafly]

I would imagine him and AD are back in 1 week playing. They both practiced last week. I think bb gave them extra rest hoping they are good for a playoff run.

I think some of this thinking may be overly optimistic, but we'll have to see.

Doug Kyed reported this today at around 6:00 pm:

"Thompkins has practiced for two straight weeks, but he still appears to be moving gingerly on his hip."

That isn't exactly screaming "extra rest" to me. It should also be noted that Dobson has only returned for one practice, so I don't know that we can honestly feel extremely confident about seeing them this week, although it's certainly possible. Either way, they're both on the mend and we should be able to see them by the BUF game to knock some rust off if one or both don't play next weekend.

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[supafly]

they need to turn to ridley. He is their redzone playmaker. Gotta take a chance now. Cant worry about fumbling.

I'm with you in this thinking. Bring him back as the starting lead RB. We need to get the running game going again, and he is the straw that stirs the drink in my opinion.

 

[DarrylS]

You gotta use whoever is still standing at this point, now with the Boyce injury and the slow return of KT and AD... Ridley may keep other D's honest.

 

[RIpats88]

I think both will be back next week. To me Dobson can be a difference maker..he was really catching on as a target and red zone threat for brady due to his size

 

[Brady6]

With Gronk out, he fills a need in the red zone. We don't have a physical or tall lanky guy to win the battles on a goal line pass.

I am much more interested in Dobson returning than I am Thompkins. I don’t know why everyone views Thompkins as this big WR he is actually smaller than Austin Collie. The player we need back is Dobson he will help us in the red zone. It is a shame that the Gronkowski injury happen but also that it happened when it did because had it occurred a week or 2 earlier I am sure they would have considered activating Harrison from PUP.

 

[captain stone]

Thompkins has nobody but himself to blame for his hip injury. There was no reason why he had
to land the dumbass way he landed. He's Brandon Lloyd 2.0 without the season-long production.

 

[Kontradiction]

they need to turn to ridley. He is their redzone playmaker. Gotta take a chance now. Cant worry about fumbling.

Fully agree here. It was baffling how the team went away from him at times yesterday. I'm aware that they were running with a patchwork OL, but Ridley was ripping off some pretty nice runs on occasion yesterday and was approaching the LOS with two hands on the ball.

 

[RIpats88]

To me Dobson returning is big. He finally got chemistry down with brady was getting open deep and hitting that back shoulder throw. Hes much better for those jump contest balls than guys like edelman or amendola

Id him/thompkins come back I like our recieving core.

Also we need to go to the run game close to the endzone. Why we didnt run it on 3rd and 2 after blount was ripping off 8 ulyards a carry I dont know

 

[SVN]

dobson,kt are rookies, not randy moss incarnates who will suddenly come of the bench and become huge RZ threats . Good teams run the ball in the RZ and we dont. Loss of gronk also hurts in the run game but giving 7-10 snaps for ridley is kinda useless right now. They need to ride him. i love blount but he cant get going in the RZ without ample time.