Meniscus tears are no joke. The “fix” is to go in and remove part of the meniscus. That means you have less of a meniscus and are one step closer to being bone on bone. If the meniscus removal does not go well there is constant pain. The modern approach is to try to heal the torn part of the meniscus rather than remove it. But this would mean Zach is out for the season which the Jets are not going to deal with.
Last year he really started to get “the Brady calls”, for example, at home against the Dolphins and many others. The extra off-the-field work has a tangible benefit.
Hopefully this will be a bad distant memory in a few years when Brown is entrenched as the starter. Similar to the Mitch Morse concussion scare when he first arrived in Buffalo.
This is like 2009. Offense could do not nothing in preseason, traded Hall of Fame left tackle, fired the OC. Then, somehow, when the season started we played great and almost beat the Pats week 1. The point is, it’s going to be okay.
For their last, Belichick basically hung Brady out to dry, loading up on D, leaving Brady to make the offense work all by himself, as he had done for many years. Finally Brady got sick of not being given substantial weapons.
The schedule is absolutely brutal but somehow I think the team is just too good to not go at least 11-6 with the 3 seed. Yet 13-4 seems too much with how tough the schedule is. So it all boils down to only two possible numbers being in play: 12-5 and the 1 seed, or 11-6 and the 3.
It was amazing how depleted the weeks seemed when they tried that two bye week season. No one expected it but there was a clear difference, and the Sundays were much less exciting with the reduced amount of games. The effect of adding one game last year was also surprising. It seemed more like 5 games were added.
The Saturday December game at the playoff-contending Bengals during the Drought, 2005. We were terrible but beat a playoff team the road. Made me realize how much I like winning even if winning does nothing but hurts your draft stock.