Saturday, August 29, 2009

Relax, he'll be fine

How many of you held your breath when Albert Haynesworth smushed Tom Brady in the first half of Friday night’s preseason game? If I were a Patriots fan, I’d have a nervous breakdown anytime a player not wearing red, white and blue came near Tommy Boy.

Stunningly, coach Bill Belichick was less than forthcoming about the nature of what the team called, a “sore shoulder.”

“He’s got some bumps and bruises just like everybody else who played in the game,” Belichick was quoted as saying.

While it might be easy for me to say, I wouldn’t get too worked up about Brady’s achy shoulder.

Sure, if it’s serious, it could affect Brady all season to the point that he can’t play at the level to which we’ve grown accustomed and another Pats’ season could be ruined.

My guess, and it’s only a guess, is that Brady won’t play in the final preseason game, but will be ship-shape for the season opener on Sept. 14 against the Bills.

Then again, with Belichick’s penchant for withholding information, one never knows.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

gee...that was great, so you just told us nothing at all....where else can you get late breaking news like that?.....jeesh, thanks for wasting 15 seconds of my time

Scott Barrett said...

Those who have followed the Patriots closely the past decade know there's rarely "late-breaking news" when Bill Belichick is involved, so I'd hate to say it, but you're not going to find it anywhere.

johnny vereker said...

don't bother leaving a message if you are not going to leave your name. oh i am sorry you did "coward"

Scott Barrett said...

I agree, but that also means that if someone leaves a name, they'll have to come with more than useless drivel about how poor of a job we're doing.