I always laugh at this stuff. The scrutiny placed on the health and welfare of professional athletes, especially a team's stars, is nothing short of ridiculous. Remember how fast pictures of Brady's booted foot spread through the blogosphere? Here's the word straight from our record breaking wonder:
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady spoke on WEEI this morning, answering questions about the leg injury that kept him home while the Patriots traveled to Tampa Bay.
While he didn't give details, Brady said the current injury he has isn't the same ankle injury that dogged him in the Super Bowl. "Same side of the body, and same leg, but not the same injury," said Brady. He said it also wasn't related to an Aug. 2 bump during practice, when running back Sammy Morris accidentally kicked him during a drill.
"I spent some time this weekend getting treatment on it, and hoping that it responds quickly like it usually does," said Brady.
"The key is not to go out there and aggravate anything when I'm not ready to go," said Brady. Obviously I'd love to be out there with my teammates, but Coach made the decision that that's not the smartest thing to do right now."
The quarterback wasn't sure about his status for Friday's third preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
"I'm not sure," said Brady. "I'm trying to get treatment this week, and I'm feeling better every day. It's going to be up to Coach, what he wants to do. I think he's been coaching long enough to know that the first game in September is the most important game for us."
Given the abysmal performance of Cassel and the rookie mistakes by O'Connell, one could assume we're in serious trouble. Relax. If we go 0-4 in the preseason Tom can rest his foot for the really important stuff, you know, like the regular season, that's fine by me. We have 3 backup quarterbacks. Lambs to the slaughter.