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Seems like a pretty big topic and no one has started a thread on this...so what the heck.
I was wondering people's thoughts on this. He could miss all of next season as a result of this infection! Karma anyone?
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I was wondering people's thoughts on this. He could miss all of next season as a result of this infection! Karma anyone?
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PATS NOT HAPPY WITH BRADY SITUATION?
Posted by Mike Florio on October 23, 2008, 12:11 p.m. EDT
For those of you who scoffed at the report from the Boston Herald of a total of three surgeries to address an infection in Tom Brady’s knee following ACL replacement, ESPN is now confirming the story.
(And so it must be true. Because if ESPN had learned that the story wasn’t accurate, ESPN simply would have never mentioned it.)
Per Wendi Nix of ESPN, the Patriots are upset that Brady opted not to have the surgery under the supervision of doctors of the team’s choosing. Brady, per ESPN, instead chose to have the surgery performed by a doctor selected by his family.
Wow.
The potential significance of this one can’t be overstated. (But we’ll nevertheless give it a whirl.) Brady is the consummate team player. Based on his performance in 2007, he’s arguably the most underpaid player in league history. Surely, the Patriots are going to be willing to give him some leeway regarding how he goes about reconstructing a fairly important aspect of his anatomy.
Even more surely, they’re not going to rub his face in his selection of Nick Riviera to perform the procedure at a time when Brady is facing six weeks of IV antibiotics and ongoing uncertainty about whether he’ll need a new ACL. If anything, the Pats would be hoping that he’ll choose to rely on their doctors if the current ACL needs to come out and a new one needs to be installed.
So we’re skeptical that the Pats would be upset with anything Brady is doing or has done. Besides, how would anyone at ESPN be in a position to know whether anyone in the Patriots’ organization is unhappy about anything? Given the manner in which ESPN.com piled onto the debunked Spygate II story from earlier in the year (which surely has been resurrected internally this week given the manner in which ESPN gave Favre a pass), our guess is that folks in Foxborough who truly know what’s going on would be more likely to talk to Ron Borges about their feelings regarding Brady’s surgery than anyone from ESPN.
Let’s put this situation in context. When it came to the Brett Favre story, Chris Mortensen was unable to access his batphone to Brett for anything that merited discussion on the air. Now, within hours after the Herald reporting on the number of surgeries Brady has had, ESPN not only confirms that fact but also is able to divine the beliefs of an organization full of people who presumably hate ESPN as much or more than Tom Jackson once said the players hate Bill Belichick.
Yeah, it all makes perfect sense to us.
Posted by Mike Florio on October 23, 2008, 12:11 p.m. EDT
For those of you who scoffed at the report from the Boston Herald of a total of three surgeries to address an infection in Tom Brady’s knee following ACL replacement, ESPN is now confirming the story.
(And so it must be true. Because if ESPN had learned that the story wasn’t accurate, ESPN simply would have never mentioned it.)
Per Wendi Nix of ESPN, the Patriots are upset that Brady opted not to have the surgery under the supervision of doctors of the team’s choosing. Brady, per ESPN, instead chose to have the surgery performed by a doctor selected by his family.
Wow.
The potential significance of this one can’t be overstated. (But we’ll nevertheless give it a whirl.) Brady is the consummate team player. Based on his performance in 2007, he’s arguably the most underpaid player in league history. Surely, the Patriots are going to be willing to give him some leeway regarding how he goes about reconstructing a fairly important aspect of his anatomy.
Even more surely, they’re not going to rub his face in his selection of Nick Riviera to perform the procedure at a time when Brady is facing six weeks of IV antibiotics and ongoing uncertainty about whether he’ll need a new ACL. If anything, the Pats would be hoping that he’ll choose to rely on their doctors if the current ACL needs to come out and a new one needs to be installed.
So we’re skeptical that the Pats would be upset with anything Brady is doing or has done. Besides, how would anyone at ESPN be in a position to know whether anyone in the Patriots’ organization is unhappy about anything? Given the manner in which ESPN.com piled onto the debunked Spygate II story from earlier in the year (which surely has been resurrected internally this week given the manner in which ESPN gave Favre a pass), our guess is that folks in Foxborough who truly know what’s going on would be more likely to talk to Ron Borges about their feelings regarding Brady’s surgery than anyone from ESPN.
Let’s put this situation in context. When it came to the Brett Favre story, Chris Mortensen was unable to access his batphone to Brett for anything that merited discussion on the air. Now, within hours after the Herald reporting on the number of surgeries Brady has had, ESPN not only confirms that fact but also is able to divine the beliefs of an organization full of people who presumably hate ESPN as much or more than Tom Jackson once said the players hate Bill Belichick.
Yeah, it all makes perfect sense to us.
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