I couldn’t help it. My three-year old was sitting right next to me and the comment received quite the dirty look from my wife, but thankfully little Megan was immersed enough in her Duplo blocks that she either didn’t hear it or didn’t care enough to repeat it (for once).
I heard Dan Dierdorf say “He’s down…he’s grabbing his knee” and that was the first thing that came out of my mouth, I just couldn’t help it.
I know there are tons of Patriots anti-fans out there…there always are when teams are successful over a long period of time (see New York Yankees, The), so to some this might come as good news that Tom Brady went to the turf in the first quarter of the game against the Chiefs today, clutching his knee. The infamous “Tom Terrific” is quite simply the cornerstone of this entire team, and whether or not you think he’s the best QB of the current generation, that point cannot be argued. If he is out for more than 6 weeks this season, the Patriots will NOT repeat as AFC Champions.
Maybe I’m totally jumping the gun…maybe it was a ligament strain and he’ll be back next week, humiliating the Jets as he has for the past 7 years. Maybe. But I doubt it. This certainly doesn’t look like a knee strain to me:
So I say again. Oh, sh*t.
What’s weird is, if he is hurt as badly as that looks, if the Patriots don’t win the AFC East, the team that does will still be seen as a second place since they didn’t have to “beat Brady.” Sort of like how if the Red Sox can be the world champions, but people act like if they don’t beat the Yankees and go in as AL East champs, the win won’t matter.
Anyway, do you think it was a dirty hit? I saw it and it looked like the guy was almost blocked into him to me, but I’m not sure, and admittedly, I’m quite biased.
Justin, if our man Brady is out for any considerable length of time, we can kiss this season good-bye.
🙁
Well, I’m pretty biased the other way, and no I do not think it was a dirty hit. The defender did pretty much what every defender would do in that position, and yeah he looked like he was kind of blocked into him. As much as I’d love to start pointing fingers, I think it’s just one of those things.
Oh, and I don’t blame you for uttering some foul language either. I’m sure there was a collective Oh S*** throughout New England today.
Well, even moreso now. Reports from Yahoo Sports are that it’s a torn ACL, and he’s out for the season.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=ArkmlYrI3Y5ulotIpSFFdZ5NC5kB?slug=ms-bradyoutforyear090708&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
It was nice while it lasted. :/
Ugh! I can’t believe this….
Brutal. Just brutal.
Hey you guys still won they game right? Actually I didn’t hear any of it until I realized that the KC radio station back home that runs the games should be online so I only caught the second half. And our boy Brody got beat up a little too. Looks like even though it was a relatively clean game we both took a good hit. Not that Brody’s anywhere near a Tom Brady but still…
Just keep saying like we do in KC. There’s always next season. 🙁
Stranger, yeah, we won the game, but I don’t expect that to continue. It’s not that we have a bad team without Brady, not at all…I think we have the potential to still be in the mix in the AFC East and possibly even squeak into the playoffs. But Brady is more than just a QB…he’s the leader of the clubhouse, the leader of the team, and the single most important player on the Patriots. Losing him is a bad, BAD thing.
But hey, takes some pressure off of us this year, and it makes the rest of the league a whole lot more interesting. I’ll still be right there watching every Sunday.