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Game inactives

The game scratches have just been announced.

For the Pats, the following players are not expected to play:
WR Chad Jackson
S Guss Scott
FB Patrick Pass
S Raymond Ventrone
LB Freddie Roach
LB Tedy Bruschi
DL LeKevin Smith
T Nick Kaczur
WR Deion Branch
TE David Thomas
DL Dan Klecko
DE Marquise Hill
DL Jarvis Green
LB Chad Brown

Junior Seau was just announced as a starter, as was Rodney Harrison.

For the Redskins:
CB Shawn Springs
RB Clinton Portis
LB Kevin Simon
LB Robert McCune
OL Jim Molinaro
TE Robert Johnson
DL Phillip Daniels
DT Cornelius Griffin

The game forecast: cloudy and cool with a game-time temperature of 67 degrees; humidity is 64 percent and winds are coming from the southeast at 5 MPH.

Posted by Shalise Manza Young  at 8:06 PM | Permalink | Comments 0

Meeting of the moneymen

Evening all --

As the players continue to prepare on the field, Patriots owner Bob Kraft walked across the field, nearly to the Redskins sideline, to greet Redskins owner Daniel Snyder. The men initally shook hands and then embraced and continued to chat for several minutes before once again hugging and parting ways.

Kraft also shook hands with a couple of the game officials as he headed back toward the New England sideline.

shalise

Posted by Shalise Manza Young  at 7:42 PM | Permalink | Comments 0

Harrison ready to go

FOXBORO - Rodney Harrison is on the field and IN UNIFORM for the Patriots. As they stretch, the captains out front are Larry Izzo, Harrison, Troy Brown and Tom Brady.

Posted by   at 7:24 PM | Permalink | Comments 0

Read with a trained eye...

Expect speculation.

With Deion Branch given the green light to negotiate with other teams over the next six days there will be musing about which teams would be interested in getting him.

This was in this morning's Minneapolis Star-Tribune..."With receiver Koren Robinson possibly facing a yearlong suspension for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy, the Vikings could be among the teams that inquire about disgruntled New England receiver Deion Branch"

Note the use of the word "could" instead of "are" or "will". There's nobody from the Vikes saying they're going to make an offer. So far, it's merely writers on the Star-Tribune staff doing their jobs by finding a situation that may impact their team and bringing it to their readers. Nothing wrong with that, we do it all the time ourselves.

Of course sometimes these things grow legs off a report and the readership reads "could" as "will". Then there's momentum to the story.

We'll keep monitoring the situation on our end. You keep reading carefully on yours.

Tom

Posted by   at 11:22 AM | Permalink | Comments 0