The Patriots planned to start him Thursday before he sliced his thumb trying to get something out of his shoe during pregame.
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Here’s a look at Friday’s National Football League preseason games.
Tom Brady is ready to play after cutting his right thumb with a pair of scissors in a silly accident before the Patriots preseason game against the Bears last week.
In Brady’s absence, Garoppolo and rookie Jacoby Brissett were the only quarterbacks at practice the past two days.
Needless to say, Brady will be OK.
Brady is making the trip to Carolina with the team, according to ESPN and multiple reports. Taking nothing away from Garoppolo, but Brady is a future Hall of Fame quarterback with more experience and would be a much better benchmark to have entering the regular season.
“Absolutely”, Brady said. “I’d like to be out there every time I get a chance to play”.
You are reading news and information on LongIsland.com, Long Island’s Most Popular Website, Since 1996. “I learned from it and hopefully won’t be operating any more scissors for a while”.
That’s what Brady is thinking?
New England Patriots temporary starting quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo is about to put his current employer in a bind. And it can’t be easy. He could suit up for the first quarter and hand the steering wheel over to Garoppolo in the second and third quarters, both likely against the Panthers top defensive unit. It’s one of things that if you start worrying about that, then you can’t focus on whatever it is, your reads, your checks, whatever it may be. I couldn’t believe it; I just went and got checked out. He’s very knowledgeable of the game, controls the offense totally, and that’s something I try to do.
There is, however, one thing he’s decided.
But whatever the decision, Brady is with the team in Carolina and he really, really wants to play.
“He works his tail off to prepare, and I know he has the respect of everybody”, Brady said. So I waited a week, at which time Colvin happily told me his old war stories about selling popcorn at the RCA Dome.
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Garoppolo is signed through next year where he’s scheduled to earn roughly $1.5 million combined for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Cannon filled Solders left tackle role when he went down last season, and he has started the first two preseason games at right tackle.
