As expected, Koppen was put on IR today, though it was a separated shoulder rather than a broken arm. A quasi-surprise addition to the IR list was Gay. The decimation of the defensive backfield continues.
Looks more and more like Koppen broke his arm. It had that look during the game, was rumored after the game, and when someone today asked Koppen point blank if his arm was broken, he started to answer, then stopped himself, then said “you’ll find out on Wednesday.”
Not good…not good.
Brady hasn’t been pleased with the level of intensity the team has been displaying:
They played much better than we did in our own stadium, that’s the most disappointing part. I wish we would have showed a little more fight last night…
[re: injuries]
We’ve dealt with those in the past. We’ve dealt with plenty of injuries. We’ve dealt with plenty of tough situations. I think a lot has to do with the character and toughness of the team. I think we need to show more character…I believe in the guys we’ve got, I think we can play better than we did last night. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be very frustrated. I’d just say, ‘You know what, we’ll never beat those guys.’ But I don’t really feel like that. We weren’t going to beat them last night the way we played, but I thought wholeheartedly we would win that game. I don’t care about injuries. We talk about ourselves as a team. When you talk about yourselves as a team, you mean it, and I mean it. There’s not one guy that makes up the team.
I think it’s a general malaise, we look at the scoreboard and we’re losing and things aren’t going our way. We need to take that as a challenge, (not) go into that funk. We’ve been down in several games this year and come back and fought hard. We all know we’re capable of it. There’s nothing that says we can’t score every time we touch the ball. There’s no rule that says we can’t. But sometimes I think we score and say, ‘Wow, that wasn’t too bad. Let’s go out there again.’ And it’s not the same, and there’s not that same sense of urgency. As a captain, I will stress to the team that we have to start playing with higher expectations for ourselves.
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Halberstam’s new book – The Education of a Coach – has been released. It’s getting good reviews and the except of it in SI was very interesting.
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Today’s Globe has a very good article on Don Davis’s comeback from almost considering suicide after being cut by New Orleans in 1998.
The Herald reports that Seymour has a sprained MCL and will be out 4-6 weeks from the date of the injury (the Chargers game). 30 October is the 4-week mark. Let’s hope he can go then, or if not then, than 7 November vs. Indy.
And today the Pats put Guss Scott on IR, release Wesley Mallard, and re-signed Hank Poteat and André Davis.
Jackie McMullan (she and Ryan are probably the Globe‘s best in-print writers these days) has the story.
The bad news keeps on coming, this time with this distressing bit in Felger’s notebook column in today’s Herald:
According to sources with knowledge of the injury, the broken foot suffered by running back Kevin Faulk is very serious and could potentially affect his career.
Faulk suffered a broken bone in his heel. He still hasn’t been placed on injured reserve, which would officially knock him out for the season, but the expectation is Faulk will take longer to come back than Light.