[Editor's note: Tom Curran is in the press box tonight at Gillette Stadium for the game between the Bills and Patriots. (Lucky bastard.) He'll post updates as events warrant.]
Before the first quarter was up in the 2008 season opener, the Patriots lost their best offensive player to a left knee injury.
Tonight, their best defensive player – linebacker Jerod Mayo — toddled to the locker room with a right knee injury before the first quarter had ended.
Mayo didn’t appear to suffer anything as catastrophic as Tom Brady had last year. He was able to walk to the sidelines, sit on the Patriots bench, and walk under his own power and without a limp to the locker room.
His return has been announced as “questionable.”
Still, with the turnover on the New England defense from last season to this (not to mention the early lethargy of their offense early on) the Patriots cannot afford to go without Mayo for long.
If they do, they won’t just be wearing those throwback jerseys. They’ll be more closely resembling those Pat Patriot Era teams.
dressing room? Seriously?
Karma.
I thought the Pats defense would be in complete disarray without Mayo. They came together though, and started to look pretty good by the end of the game. This could be a real good defense in the end.
Ocelot138 says: Karma.
You said it bro! PATRIOTS WIN!!!!
Ocelot138 says:
Karma.
^^^^^
Let’s see…you clearly take joy in others being injured. So if/when you run a stop sign and get killed by an 18 wheeler tomorrow…is that Karma too?
Just trying to figure out how this works. Later.
Translation of haywoodjablowtheentirepatsteam:
WAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Oh, when the headline said dressing room I thought they had left something off of your sandwich.