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The one opponent...

... you can't draw up a game plan to stop. It looks like the flu that kept Garrett Mills out of practice yesterday was the culprit that kept Rodney Harrison off the field for practice today. Harrison is now on the injury report for Sunday's game, as is safety Artrell Hawkins. Hawkins was not on the report at all yesterday and was on the field for the media access portion of practice, so I'm assuming he got hurt sometime during practice today.

The complete injury list for the Patriots:
QUESTIONABLE: Tedy Bruschi (wrist), Hawkins (thigh), Chad Jackson (hamstring), Nick Kaczur (shoulder), Garrett Mills (flu)
PROBABLE: Tom Brady (right shoulder), Doug Gabriel (hamstring), Harrison (flu)

All but Brady reportedly missed a portion of practice today.

For the Jets (no changes)
DOUBTFUL: C Trey Teague (ankle)
QUESTIONABLE: CB David Barrett (hip), WR Tim Dwight (thigh), G Pete Kendall (thigh)
PROBABLE: LB Matt Chatham (foot), LB Trevor Johnson (neck), S Kerry Rhodes (ankle), S Derrick Strait (chest)

Only Teague and Dwight missed a portion of practice.

shalise

Posted by Shalise Manza Young  at 7:00 PM | Permalink | Comments 0

Harrison (flu) added to injury list

PATRIOTS INJURY LIST

QUESTIONABLE
LB Tedy Bruschi (wrist)
S Artrell Hawkins (thigh)
WR Chad Jackson (hamstring)
T Nick Kaczur (shoulder)
HB/TE Garrett Mills (flu)

PROBABLE
QB Tom Brady (probable)
WR Doug Gabriel (hamstring)
S Rodney Harrison (flu)

JETS INJURY LIST

DOUBTFUL
C Trey Teague (ankle)

QUESTIONABLE
CB David Barrett (hip)
WR Tim Dwight (thigh)
G Pete Kendall (thigh)

PROBABLE
LB Matt Chatham (foot)
LB Trevor Johnson (neck)
S Kerry Rhodes (ankle)
S Derrick Strait (chest)

Posted by Art  at 5:28 PM | Permalink | Comments 0

Live from the bubble... practice

Practice is being held inside the Dana-Farber Field House today, as a slight rain has begun to fall here in Foxboro.

Everyone was accounted for at practice save Rodney Harrison. The safety wasn't seen during the media access session, though Richard Seymour wasn't yesterday, and it turned out that was to tend to personal matters.

We'll see at 4 p.m. if Harrison is on the injury report or not.

Rookie Garrett Mills, who was on yesterday's injury report as questionable due to the flu, must be doing better because he was out there today.

As we were leaving the bubble, we noticed Doug Gabriel heading to one of the outside practice fields with an assistant coach (not WRs coach Brian Daboll), likely for some one-on-one work.

shalise

Posted by Shalise Manza Young  at 1:07 PM | Permalink | Comments 2

Thursday at the Razor

Hey all --

Nothing earth-shattering to share about the day's events so far. Coach Belichick touched on a number of topics, of course, from Junior Seau to Ellis Hobbs to Ben Watson and Doug Gabriel.

Belichick did divulge that Seau received one of the game's balls after Sunday's win over the Bills, though Seau wouldn't say whether it had any significance to him: "I'm not looking back; I'm looking ahead to the Jets," he said.

But Belichick credited Seau with setting up Ty Warren's game-winning safety. It was Seau's downfield coverage on the tight end, he said, that put JP Losman in position to be taken down in the end zone.

Belichick noted that Hobbs made a huge leap from week one of last year to week 16 of last year. "At the end of the year, he was 800 times better than at the beginning of the year, maybe more," he said.

Hobbs, as he can be, was engaging in the locker room as he talked about his development, his me-against-the-world attitude on and off the field, and his four tattoos, all of which serve as visual motivation.

The locker room was unusually quiet. There were guys milling around, but the rookies can't talk and there's only so much you can write about the offensive line, so Hobbs was the star of the show for a while.

Interestingly, Rodney Harrison has yet to be seen in the locker room this week. He is generally one of the media's favorites for his pull-no-punches style. And Troy Brown has been scarce for much of the season.

It seems like Corey Dillon and Laurence Maroney have struck up quite a friendship. On the field at practice yesterday, as they waited their turn with the sled, they were joking and laughing, and today, as Dillon did his usual I-hope-you're-not-looking-for-a-quote-from-me routine with another media member, Maroney was right behind him, laughing all the while. When a photographer approached the pair to take a shot, Dillon ducked behind the curtain where we aren't allowed but Maroney posed like he was at the club with his boys.

Practice is indoors today; we'll post what we see (or don't see) in a bit.

shalise

Posted by Shalise Manza Young  at 11:58 AM | Permalink | Comments 0