December 30th, 2009 
Peaco Todd 
Posted in As the year winds down, the Pats are – happily – bringing it up. They played superbly against the Jags on Sunday: Brady nearly perfect, Moss present and accounted for, Welker impossible to catch, the D coming up Big, and on and on: lots of presents under the Christmas tree. Best of all, they played [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Belichick Says Pats Won’t Rest Starters Sunday vs Texans
Patriots Coach Bill Belichick suggested Tuesday that the Patriots will not be resting healthy starters against the Texans this week. “That’s not really something we’ve done, and in all honesty I wouldn’t even anticipate doing it,” Belichick said. The Pats under Belichick have been loathe to mess with potential playoff implications around the league, and [...]
Five Pats Listed as Questionable for Sundays Game vs Jags
Patriots running back Fred Taylor is listed as questionable for Sunday’s game against his former team, the Jacksonville Jaguars. Taylor has missed the last 10 games with an ankle injury. He participated fully in practices Wednesday and Thursday and on a limited basis Friday. Taylor spent 11 seasons in Jacksonville and is the Jaguars’ all-time [...]
Brady Wins the Teams Ed Block Courage Award
The Boston Herald reports that Tom Brady has been named as the teams winner of the Ed Block Courage Award: The quarterback was named as his team’s Ed Block Courage Award winner, an honor handed out via a player vote. Brady, who missed most of last season because of torn knee ligaments sustained in the [...]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Wide Receiver
Last Sunday’s post-game shows were full of holiday cheering: The Pats finally won an away game (for some reason, away-away in Wembley doesn’t seem to count)! The defense, although missing some key players like Wilfork, Pryor and Warren, showed up, mixed it up and befuddled the Bills! And Randy Moss, suffering for weeks the slings [...]
Taylor 50-50 to Play on Sunday vs Jags
The Florida Times-Union reports that Fred Taylor has called himself 50-50 for this weekend’s game against the Jaguars and he is dealing with an ankle injury. Even if Taylor does suit up, don’t expect him to see much action. Laurence Maroney remains the starting running back, though Taylor could still make an impact in the [...]
Six Patriots Out vs. Bills Sunday
It has been awhile when anyone – including yours truly – has said that the New England Patriots will be short-handed as they usually don’t have a shopping list of injured players. Yet Sunday will find the team without the services of six (yes, six!) players when they take on the Buffalo Bills Sunday. The [...]
Tags: Teaminess
They won on Sunday. This is good. And they did it despite the previous high-schoolesque detention of several delinquent superstars (although I can’t totally blame Adalius Thomas, who at least phoned ahead, for being in a snit) and Brady’s obviously battered state (ribs, finger, the perennial shoulder, possibly the demands of brand-new fatherhood?). Wes Welker, [...]
