Projo Pats Blog

With apologies for my tardiness, here are some notes from today's session:

** There was a scary moment about midway into the two-hour practice, when Tom Brady completed a pass to Jabar Gaffney and then immediately bent over and grabbed his lower left leg. He limped back to the line and completed another pass, but then removed his helmet and took a knee while Matt Cassel ran the offense. Though he was tended to by a trainer, Brady never left the field and did finish out the rest of his reps under center.

** The session was not a particularly crisp one for the offense, with at least a dozen passes dropped, by everyone from Randy Moss to Wes Welker to Chris Dunlap.

** Rookie linebacker Shawn Crable and tight end Stephen Spach got into a shoving match at one point and had to be separated by the coaching staff; no punches were thrown.

** First-round pick Jerod Mayo continues to improve, as he met Laurence Maroney in the hole during goal-line work and flattened the running back; yesterday he got his most extensive work yet with the first-team defense, alongside Tedy Bruschi at inside linebacker.

** One example of the offense's struggles: toward the end of practice, the coaches called out a scenario - 45 seconds to play, no timeouts, need a field goal. With Brady under center, the unit failed to complete a pass, as the first-down attempt for Benjamin Watson was off the helmet of Tank Williams (not Johnson as I initially wrote), a pass for Jabar Gaffney was underthrown, a third-down sideline pass for Gaffney was batted down by Fernando Bryant, and the fourth-down play likely would have been a sack. Brady threw across the field for Moss, and it fell incomplete.

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