Posted on 01/19/2018 11:30:36 AM PST by Red Badger
There are many ways to respond to the rumors that Tom Brady might not be 100% healthy. After word circulated that the 40-year-old jammed his right hand and suffered a cut during a handoff Wednesday—and even more so after he missed practice Thursday—we saw just about all of those ways play out. From afar, Dr. David Chao suggested Brady may have an open finger dislocation. Riley McAtee investigated reports that Brady's thumb looked boxy in a glove during the open period of practice by looking at blown-up photos (then again, whose thumb doesn't look weird at 12x). Doug Kyed analyzed the humor in teammates' responses to questions about the hand and came away optimistic. Jaguars defensive tackle Malik Jackson also seemed to doubt the seriousness of Brady's condition.
Surely, we'll get many more suggestions, investigations, analyses, and doubts today as Brady is scheduled to put his hands on the podium and speak to the media. But this is far from the first instance of panic over Brady's health before a big game. Remember Brady's "flu-like" symptoms before the 2014 AFC championship game in Denver? Or the boot he was spotted in before Super Bowl XLII? In January 2005, he had a 103-degree fever the night before the AFC title game.
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I take your point and it's a good one. But, the defensive scheme is only as good as the players trying to execute it. The Jags seem pretty vulnerable to runs up the middle. If White is effective early, they will have to re-think doubling Gronk and that could be the beginning of the end.
Have they determined if the rest of Brady will make an appearance yet?
IF, and I grant you, that is a yuuuuuge IF, the Jags win, Calais Campbell will be the game MVP. And I agree that shutting down White and Lewis early are going to be important for the Jaguars. Belichick is not adverse to grinding out a win playing ole-timey smash mouth football and the if the Jags have a defensive weakness, it is to the running game.
Just so you remember, it took the miracle helmet catch on fourth down, and in the next game the miracle Manningham catch to beat the Pats for those two games. Before the helmet catch, one of the Pats defenders should have made an interception to ice the game. The normally steady Welker dropped a pass that would have iced the second game.
Brady had done enough to win in spite of the good D they played against him.
He got the same kind of luck returned to him in his next two SB wins.
Belichick/Brady is a combo we might never see again in any sport. Good luck to the Jags, they're gonna need it.
So did they deflate his hand?
The only scandal with less evidence than Trump colluding with Russia......
We should alert MSNBC and CNN how they can make money off resuscitating deflategate.
:-)
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