saw the photos. He was in agony whose as he was being carried
to the locker room on Sunday after suffering. The ankle
injury late in the loss to the Baltimore. Ravens,
he likely will miss multiple games
with a severe high, ankle sprain here. He is from Monday
saying, what you would expect to Patriots player to say
about his overall, health condition, at any given time.
Now, I'm just going to taking it day to day and
making sure everything's good.
And honestly, any injury questions, our coach
Belichick's thing. So
I'm not here to answer them. I appreciate
everyone kind of reaching out and looking after me, but it's
kind of just a day-to-day thing and
just try to get better.
Yeah. Bill Belichick's attitude is this. It's not your job to
talk about your health and well-being. It's my job to not
talk about your health and well-being because that's what
happened on Sunday when he was asked about it. He said
nothing Chris. I mean, that's just the way they are.
It's part of this military. Strategic secrecy.
You don't want your opponents to ever know anything
about who's injured.
How badly they're injured? What's injured? Could you imagine
if there wasn't an injury report requirement? We would
know nothing about anyone. Definitely, the Patriots,
organization, or any other team for that matter, but
the Patriots would protect it even more. And, and I,
you know, on Sundays,
when we're doing our thing, getting ready for football
night in America, and there are injuries. And I have people
that I try to Track down to get the information.
Some are easier than others. Know, I was wondering
the Patriots right for you, almost forget it. Block right? Good
luck. Although, although I was able and and some of
the information did get out on Sunday night and I was
able to get some of it,
but it's a it's a lot harder
to get information
on their players in that
Heat of the Moment late afternoon Sunday, who's
injured? How injured are? They, it's easier for others and for
the Patriots, it's virtually impossible. Especially when
you're on the record.
Press conference. Yeah. Right? That. They're all scared. And
for the most part they know you know how it goes down in New
England to your point. They're going to stay in their Lane and
in their Lane in New England. It's just, you know, basically
shut up and play football
and then we'll take care of the rest.
We'll talk about injuries. Will talk about Rob, will talk
about, who's doing good on the football. Team will talk about,
you know, contract situations. They don't want players ever
Crossing that line. They don't it's, you know, tactical
Warfare. Fair for for lesser, for lack of a better
way to say, but
it seems it's good that he's in good spirits. Especially after
seeing, you know, the agony was in, like, you talked about on
Sunday. I mean, it was like real acne, the fact that how he
hobbled off the
field, but, I mean the faces and the video clips, you saw
them being carried down the stairwell there behind
the bench. Now, that's where you just, you don't see players
like that with her screaming in agony as they're being the,
this is the
I was talking about. Yeah,
I you just you don't see that a whole lot
when he was obvious. An obvious pain in there, so it's a big
setback for team. Let's find in their way on the offensive side
of the ball. No Mac. Jones is a pretty damn good quarterback
than his ability to make plays and throws into Tight Windows
and all that for a team, that's not all that explosive on that
side of the ball. That's it's going to hurt them. So they're
going to have to have like a Dallas Cowboy like effort here,
the rest of the
teams and have to Rally around, Brian Hoyer and Company here.
And see where it goes, but
it's not going to be easy for this football team. We know
their offense was in the all that great to begin with.
I will say this too and I'm not trying to make light of his
injury because it is a serious condition. He was obviously as
we saw from that photo in agony, but as the people in our
business, try to get ahead of the curve and add to the story.
I thought it was mildly
humorous. When the reports were out there that the x-rays were
negative, then the reports are
there concerned that there's ligament or tendon damage in
the ankle. Yeah, there ain't much else there where, I mean,
his route wasn't set on fire, so,
I mean, unless it's the
ankle broken, which we know it isn't, of course, that's really
all that it can be in that area of the body. If the bone is
fine, it's ligaments or it's tendons and the high ankle
sprain. Obviously is the one that keeps a guy out even
longer.
And now Chris,
you got Bill. Belichick having to choose between Brian Hoyer
and Bailey's Abby. I mean under the depth chart. Next man up,
Is Brian Hoyer. Let's have a listen to. Yeah. Bill
Belichick. Hey,
not that. You're going to get anything out of it. Other than
maybe, maybe a little bit of a smile on a Tuesday Morning.
Here's Bella. Check on what both horror and zappy? Bring to
the offense.
What is Brian Hoyer? Bring to the office?
Brian's got a lot of experience in the offense.
And how would you describe Bailey's appease
progress since the time he was drafted to where we are now.
Who's going to log on
my gosh?
Yeah. So it is he doing that? Is mangers. Are the chair
making that noise is? He was going back and forth like he
was
an inpatient, teenager sitting there waiting to get out of
like homeroom class or get out of school there
and look, he's not that way all the time. So I've heard I've
never personally experienced but that is our window to Bill
Belichick and how he interacts with the world.
And this all gets back to what we were talking about earlier.
You don't show anything, you don't give anything, he grew
up, literally, on the grounds of the Naval Academy is dad was
a
scout for a long time with the football team there. He's had
that military secrecy, that mindset drilled into him and
that's how he approaches it and and that's how you
you have success, you know, nothing. It's Poker Face all
the time and we do get a kick out of it because you don't
have to be that way. I mean, everybody's got their own poker
face but there are Are different ways that you can
conceal your true intentions
and still come off as a normal human being.
It is possible other coaches have accomplished that they
have your right there. They have figured that out.
Certainly it's just weird. It's just makes you uncomfortable at
times. I'm not arguing with
you know, the overall tactic of it but
yeah you're right. I you don't have to take that approach.
I don't understand that ever. I don't I really don't but gonna
be interesting to see you know way to things here. Mike one
before we talk about
Who they should play or who are because I do think it should be
clearly horror. I'm just going to state that Bailey's Abby.
I know they like him what he did and they're they're excited.
The preseason wasn't all that impressive from Bailey's a p.
I mean
yes he knows how to run an offense, he threw the ball,
nine million times a year you know, coming in college and has
that experience. But I don't think by any stretch of
the imagination of that he'd do anything to where I would be
thinking about playing him
over Brian Hoyer. At least not yet.
So I'll be shocked if they don't go that direction second.
Thing. Mike,
I didn't love The Tackle by class Campbell on that play.
I know this is like borderline dirty,
you know, the fact that and I don't know if we could show it
one more time, especially the, you know, the angle of where we
see it from behind. But, you know, I
kind of has a chance to hit him Square, doesn't hit him Square.
Kind of does the deadweight thing. If we see the replay
here in a second and kind of just dead weight, some and
falls on his ankle and I didn't love that all together.
I really didn't, I I think it was really necessary. Actually, in
the moment, especially for a
big human, like, Clay is Kelly. Here you go? You see it? A
little, like, kind of just holds on, right? And then
deadweight sit on that left leg. Yeah, that's, that's where
I didn't love that from class,
Campbell, who, I think knows better than that right there
and and
we both know him, he doesn't seem like now we got. This
guy's trying to leak Rangers someone but and this gets back
to something. I say all the time
in that scrum of bodies at every level of football, it is
amazing. And that
ankles are sprained. Legs aren't broken
all the time. Like, how many times do you see that close
call? Where the leg just moves the last second or it's getting
caved in? I saw huge body to roll into it and shatter
the bones. It really is amazing. It doesn't have more often
and it is inevitable that those moments occur. So
the Patriots, go forward, presumably with Brian w****,
but remember the last time that I remember him in a big spot
was the
Cam Newton covid game. The chief that's right. And
the Patriots. Robbie Kansas City, everything, they can handle and
then Horror made some diamonds, really heart? Yes. Yes.
Yes. Right there was a there was, I think it was a few
mistakes, but one where, what are the? I can't even remember
what he did. He called a timeout when they didn't have
time outs, right? Like that he knows something I'm doing over.
So yeah,
that defies the kind of discipline right? And
clear-headed thought that Bill Belichick demands from his
players but he's still there. He's been there forever and
he's been a bunch of Other places too,
he's like Josh McCown. Who keeps coming back to the same nest,
like, I'll go here for a while. Come back to the Patriots, I'll
go play. And now come back to the patrons. I'll try that on,
come back to the Patriots. He's 36 years old
and he's been with the Patriots, I think more often
than not, but he's played for the Browns, he's played for
the Texans. He's, I mean, and he's played,
I know, played he's not, he's not a bad quarterback. He's had
some good moments 49ers. Question, is at this point?
What can he really do
for the For tour for anyone but he'll be thrust into service
and
I can't imagine Mac Jones not missing a few games Chris. I'm
gonna do there, I would think it's, you said it before. High
ankle sprain is very difficult to deal with, you know, it can
take a clearly a month at least three weeks. I don't expect to
see him at least in the next
two weeks, Green Bay Detroit, you know, maybe
October 16th when they play Cleveland,
maybe he's got a chance to make it back by then,
but I certainly don't expect to see him anytime,
you know here, The near future I don't and it's going to be
interesting because Heather
there on the ropes here
certainly you know they were kind of going toe-to-toe with
Baltimore. There's a lot to like their Mac Jones did not
play a good game. I mean his turnovers were bad
and the game was 31:26 and they were on the 9-yard line or
8-yard line going in and he got pressure
and threw the ball up in the air off his back foot and that
really changed the football game to wear that. You felt
like hey they're still in this and even if they have to settle
for a field goal there and be down 31 99.
Okay, we'll see where it goes
but yeah, that's going to leave a bad taste in Mac Jones mouth
until he gets back healthy and can erase that with with a good
game.
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