There is only one thing that people can agree upon as they watch the #New England Patriots get ready for the AFC Championship game this weekend against Jacksonville. X-rays revealed no structural damage, the NFL Network reported.
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A Carson Wentz-led Eagles team clinched the No 1 seed before a season-ending injury to their star QB forced Nick Foles into the starting job. Seeing a potentially injured Brady is like a lion finding a wounded gazelle [VIDEO].
New England had four other players listed as questionable: Defensive lineman Alan Branch (knee), running backs Rex Burkhead (knee) and Mike Gillislee (knee) and offensive lineman LaAdrian Waddle.
CH: “Vikings have lost five NFC Championship Games in a row, four in punch-you-in-the-gut fashion”.
Q: How confident are you that you’ll be playing on Sunday? .
From the hat, to the gloves, to the Belichick-style question dodging, it all seemed like Brady had something to hide. That’s why Lane Johnson, Philadelphia’s all-pro tackle, was at his locker after beating the Falcons on Saturday wearing a German Shepherd mask.
Q: Has not having Tom on the practice field limited your preparation at all for Jacksonville? The only issue is potential soreness from where the thumb was bent back and his ability grip. But I felt that was my team. Talk of the Jaguars pulling off an unlikely victory was so pervasive that the Vegas line dropped a full two points in Jacksonville’s favor in a matter of days. Both teams are good but not great in the middle, and the Vikings rate a clear edge in the secondary. “They are the top-ranked defense in the league, some great players at all levels and really well coached, scoring a lot of points, so we’re going to have to play really well”. He was a one-read quarterback. “This has the answers that maybe I’m looking for on how we can stop the Patriots”, he said.
“With Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills making an Instagram appearance on Thursday, Mayfield chimed in with the following hashtag: “#GetMeToMiami”. Or can Blake Bortles take the Jaguars to their first ever Super Bowl?
“I don’t know what to say about that”. He was mum about whether he’d play Sunday, and said, “We’ll see”.
“I’m not talking about it …” We had a very good week in the Divisional Round. It is possible to give an injection that blocks the nerves to the thumb area, but quarterbacks generally don’t like not being able to feel the ball with the tip of the thumb. The Jaguars can run the ball. Or at least outside Amendola. His last playoff start was the antithesis of a Brady performance.
The upset over the Broncos and John Elway in the 1996 playoffs is part of NFL lore, but coming up short that year – then again in 1999 after a 14-2 season – sowed the seeds of Coughlin’s undoing.
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-Former quarterback Drew Bledsoe will serve as the New England Patriots’ honorary captain for Sunday’s AFC Championship Game against the visiting Jacksonville Jaguars.
